The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally in an abandoned gold ...

ANC Youth League President, Collen Malatji, has accused mining shareholders of being the real Zama Zamas benefiting from ...

South African authorities face growing anger over their handling of a standoff with illegal miners trapped in an abandoned ...

South African police say a suspected illegal gold mining ringleader escaped from custody with help from police officers about ...

Late last year, a specialized camera was lowered into an almost 1.6-mile-deep mineshaft in South Africa where hundreds of ...

New Okiep Mining Company comprises Orion Minerals (56.25%) and the Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa, or IDC ...

According to officials, South Africa lost more than $3 billion in gold to the illicit ... A group representing the miners ...

Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing to prevent what they call a “massacre” at the ...

Illegal miners in South Africa are known as “zama zamas ... what is the responsibility of the mine owners who leave these mines in the conditions that allow such activities to take place ...

Illegal miners said they had to eat cockroaches after police cut off their food supply. Rescue workers retrieved at least 78 bodies from an illegal gold mine in South Africa, where police cut off ...

South Africa police search for gold mine gangster 'Tiger' 01/20/2025 January 20, 2025 A gang leader suspected of running illegal gold mining operations in South Africa has escaped police custody.