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

In South Africa a months long standoff between police and illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine comes to end, with close to 80 found dead in grim recovery operation.

An illegal miner lifted from an abandoned gold mine in Stilfontein has died in hospital, raising the death toll to 88 since last August.

Legalising artisanal mining offers a sustainable solution to crime-ridden gold mines while revitalising communities and reducing exploitation.

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

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

JOHANNESBURG - The health department in the North West has confirmed the death of another suspected illegal miner from Stilfontein. The man was part of a group of 33 suspected zama zamas admitted to ...

Police said zama zamas would appear before the Stilfontein Magistrates’ Court on charges of possessing gold dust, contravention of the Immigration Act (2002) and illicit mining. The post Preside ...

In total during the rescue operation, 246 illegal gold miners were brought to the surface alive. Seventy-eight more were brought up dead. Known here as “zama zamas” or “those who take a ...