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

There are thought to be at least 50 000 informal miners working underground in South Africa. According to the auditor general ...

An illegal miner lifted from an abandoned gold mine in South Africa has died in hospital ... Locally known as “zama zamas” – “those who try” in the Zulu language – the miners frustrate ...

South Africa’s police have resorted to medieval military tactics against illegal miners. But the solution lies elsewhere: massive regional economic repair.

Illegal mining is common in many parts of South Africa. Typically, undocumented miners known as zama zamas - from an isiZulu expression for "taking a chance" - move into mines abandoned by commercial ...

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Rescue workers look on as a cage is lifted from an abandoned gold ... illegal mining, which they say cost the South African economy 60 billion rand ($3 billion) in 2024. They say the zama zamas ...

Johannesburg EMS and other search and rescuers called off a search at a Gauteng mine on Sunday, where alleged illegal miners ...

An operation to rescue suspected illegal miners trapped in the disused Rand Leases Gold Mine in Roodepoort has been ...

Emergency teams are gearing up to resume their search for illegal miners trapped in a disused mine in Florida, Johannesburg, following reports of their desperate cries for help.