The South African government has launched a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine in the country’s North West province, ...

A deadly shoot-out erupted between metro police and a group of illegal miners in Germiston during a crackdown on illicit ...

North West province's dam levels rise significantly as the Department of Water and Sanitation welcomes relief from recent ...

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is facing calls to order a national inquiry into a police operation that was meant to ...

Police exhumed the body of a 16-year-old teenage girl from a shallow grave at a village in Pudimoe near Taung in North West.

Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi visited the General De La Rey Hospital in the North West after heavy rains in the North ...

An operation to rescue illegal gold miners stranded in deep underground shafts in South Africa’s North West province got ...

A group representing informal miners in South Africa says at least 100 men who were mining illegally in an abandoned gold ...

An operation to rescue stranded illegal gold miners in South Africa's North West province has begun, following a months-long ...

Residents in the Ditsobotla Local Municipality resorted to protests to show their displeasure at the lack of water and ...

Rescuers recovered 51 additional bodies from an abandoned gold mine in South Africa on Tuesday, raising the death toll to 60 ...

In this article, Dr John Bristow of the Overberg Geoscientists Group writes about the centenary of diamond prospecting and ...