The bodies of 78 Zama Zama's were pulled from the Buffelsfontein gold mine this week during a government-led operation to ...

By A Correspondent A total of 33 Zimbabwean nationals are among 246 illegal miners who were retrieved and arrested during the South African government’s ongoing extraction operation at an ...

Spread This NewsBy Staff Reporter  THE Zimbabwean Embassy in South Africa has reportedly dispatched a team of forensic ...

David van Wyk sees transforming abandoned mines into development facilities as a solution to illegal mining, creating jobs ...

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

Over a hundred of the 246 illegal miners retrieved from a mine in Stilfontein, in the North West appeared before the ...

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

An illegal miner has detailed his desperate five-day crawl in the dark, on an empty stomach, to escape the living hell of ...

The Embassy is working closely with the South African government to identify and verify the nationalities of the individuals ...

A miner who spent six months in a disused mine in South Africa has spoken of the horror he experienced after a police operation cut off food and basic supplies to thousands who were illegally digging ...

The General Industries Workers Union has condemned what it called "the dehumanisation and criminalisation" of poor miners by ...