When zama zamas go hungry deep underground in the abandoned mines where they illegally mine for gold, they sometimes resort ...

Ten days since mining experts first visited the abandoned shaft, there’s no indication how much longer it will take to start ...

Police in the North West have retracted earlier claims that extortion attempts had hindered efforts to rescue illegal miners ...

More than a week ago Police Minister Senzo Mchunu deployed a task team headed by local government to shut down an illegal ...

Surviving on a diet of toothpaste and toilet paper, South Africa's notorious "zama-zama" illegal miners continue a weeks-long ...

He was was arrested in 2015 by the Serious Organised Crime Investigation based in North West. The case against a 47-year-old ...

The Gauteng High Court dismissed the Society for the Protection of our Constitution's application for relief for illegal ...

South Africa's government says it will let thousands of illegal miners starve until they accept their fate and emerge from an ...

Officials at the Stilfontein site at first prevented ... What is shaft mining? Illegal mining for gold, diamonds or other minerals is deeply widespread in South Africa, and has gone on for decades ...

The police’s murderous tactics, dubbed “surrender or starve”, have caused outrage in South Africa where unemployment has ...

South African authorities are embroiled in a standoff with an unconfirmed number of illegal miners who remain underground at ...

He spoke to GroundUp in Stilfontein, the former mining town in the ... Deep-level industrial mining is enormously expensive and much of this gold was inaccessible without considerable further ...