Floyd Shivambu has been removed as secretary-general of the uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party barely six months into the job after ...

Nobody in South Africa seems to know where Tiger is. The 42-year-old from neighbouring Lesotho, whose real name is James Neo ...

The Society for the Protection of our Constitution withdraws its application against President Ramaphosa, facing potential ...

Livestock farmer Joe Kroon turned to saffron in desperation when drought threatened his livelihood and, as this season's ...

The 260 miners who were trapped underground at a Sibanye-Stillwater gold mine in South Africa were all safely brought to the ...

The BBC has just blown open a report on rampant sexual abuse of children in the illegal mines across South Africa. Under an alias to protect himself from the vicious criminal gangs that run the ...

The most shocking thing for Jonathan, who had endured six gruelling months living and working underground in an abandoned South African gold mine, was the abuse he witnessed being meted out to ...

Zimbabwe has released the names of nationals who died during South Africa’s Operation Vala Umgodi. The Zimbabwean government ...

Last week, rescuers recovered 78 bodies and 246 survivors — many of them weak and emaciated — from the Buffelsfontein mine in Stilfontein, in South Africa’s North West province, where police ...

Police officers and private security workers stand by a mine shaft in Stilfontein, South Africa, on Nov. 15, 2024. (Credit: Denis Parrell/AP.) Listen YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon – A South African bishop ...

Thousands of illegal miners, known as "zama zamas" ("those who try their luck" in Zulu), operate in mineral-rich South Africa. The mine in Stilfontein - some 145km (90 miles) south-west of ...