More than 13,000 illegal miners have emerged from various shafts across the country since the police operation began in ...

Mining Affected Communities United in Action has been granted an interim order allowing it to send emergency food and relief ...

STILFONTEIN - Two weeks after appointing a task team to take down an illegal mining ring in North West, Minister of Police ...

The face behind illegal gold mining in South Africa is that of a black man covered in dust. He is known as a zama-zama – a ...

Police Minister Senzo Mchunu made the revelation during a roundtable discussion with community leaders in Stilfontein a short ...

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

In an interview with Al Jazeera, Senzo Mchunu says they don’t know how many people remain trapped in Stilfontein mine.

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

Over the past few months, a joint police and military operation in Stilfontein has attempted to force zama zamas out from underground by blocking their supply of food. To date, more than 1 300 miners ...

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

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

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 ...