An illegal miner lifted from an abandoned gold mine in Stilfontein has died in hospital, raising the death toll to 88 since ...
In South Africa a months long standoff between police and illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine comes to end, with close ...
South Africa’s police have resorted to medieval military tactics against illegal miners. But the solution lies elsewhere: ...
STILFONTEIN, South Africa ... take up the life of the zama zama. There are thousands of abandoned mine shafts where they can search for a tiny fraction of the gold that made this country ...
Zama zamas operate in some of the more than 6 000 abandoned mines that helped power South Africa’s gold rush a century ago. Many are desperate South Africans seeking a way out of poverty ...
Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold mine STILFONTEIN, South Africa ... are known as zama zamas ...
A South African bishop has described in detail what he saw and heard as the bodies were being taken from an abandoned gold ...
South Africa's police have launched a manhunt for an alleged "kingpin", who is accused of controlling operations at an ...
In this article, Dr John Bristow of the Overberg Geoscientists Group writes about a centenary of diamond prospecting and mining along the West Coast of South Africa and the legends that shaped the ...