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.

Families of illegal miners plan to sue the government for accountability following the tragic deaths of zama zamas in a North ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Family of the miner who brought the court action to get government to rescue them remain hopeful that he is still alive ...

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

Undocumented Zimbabwean nationals are among more than 80 zama zamas who died at the Buffelsfontein gold mine when police ...