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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

President Ramaphosa clarified that illegal mining is a criminal offence that threatens economic stability, community safety, ...

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

Stilfontein gold mine shaft in the North West ... leaders have cast their eyes on a long-term solution to illegal mining in the area. Plans are currently underway to force hundreds of zama ...

Officials are blocking access to basic supplies for hundreds of people underground in a northwest mine shaft as part of a crackdown on miners.

Zama zamas search for gold in a vast and unmapped underground ... He spoke to GroundUp in Stilfontein, the former mining town in North-West province where zama zamas were recently cut off from ...