A group of 48, national and foreign citizens, who were engaged in illegal gold exploration, in the municipality of Songo, in the province of Uíge, were arrested, in recent days, by the local National ...

Illegal mining is common in many parts of South Africa. Typically, undocumented miners known as zama zamas – from an isiZulu ...

There are thought to be at least 50 000 informal miners working underground in South Africa. According to the auditor general ...

The South African government’s approach - “smoking out” miners and branding them as criminals - fails to address the root ...

Under the banner of the Stilfontein Solidarity Committee, over 100 protesters gathered outside the offices of the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy in Pretoria on Wednesday. They called for ...

Under the banner of the Stilfontein Solidarity Committee, over 100 protesters gathered outside the offices of the Department ...

Horrendous images of the emaciated figures of the living and the dead as they were brought to the surface at Stilfontein show ...

Saftu condemns government failures in the mining sector and calls for a full commission of inquiry into recent zama zama ...

Police allege that aid provided to the miners has indirectly supported continued illegal mining operations.78 corpses and 246 ...

The escape of James Neo "Tiger" Tshoaeli, a notorious illegal mining kingpin, from police custody in Stilfontein, North West, ...

A gruesome situation in a South African gold mine underscores the problem of illegal mining and the risk people will take for ...