In South Africa a months long stand-off between police and illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine comes to end, with close ...

Scores of zama zama's who were retrieved from the Stilfontein mine in North West is expected to appear before court.

Following the tragic Stilfontein mine disaster that claimed 78 lives, civil society and political parties demand ...

The government launched a rescue operation following a court-order mission that is focused on retrieving those trapped, ...

The South African Police Service revealed that only 26 out of the over 2000 illegal miners that resurfaced from Stilfontein ...

More than 240 survivors have been brought to the surface, many severely emaciated after being trapped since November.

Human rights lawyer Richard Spoor argues that government indecision and police actions led to the tragic deaths of 78 zama ...

Police have arrested suspected illegal mining kingpins who allegedly tortured, assaulted, starved and killed zama zamas at ...

Hundreds are still trapped at the Stilfontein gold mine, a rights group said. Authorities tried to flush out the miners by ...

The move to cut off food and water supply in a bid to force the zama zamas angered some activists, who labelled the operation a humanitarian crisis.

A police operation in Stilfontein will continue, despite initial reports that there are "no longer any illegal miners ...