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

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

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

The rescue operation for suspected illegal miners, both alive and deceased, at the Buffelsfontein gold mine's Shaft 11 in ...

Speaking to the media on Thursday, acting North West police commissioner Patrick Asaneng confirmed there were no illegal ...

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

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 ...

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

This is arguably the worst mass murder of miners due to state actions and a series of decisions since the dawn of democracy, ...

CAPE TOWN - As the death toll in Stilfontein in the North West mounts, so is the criticism. Trade Union Federation COSATU ...

STILFONTEIN - Mineral Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe has arrived in Stilfontein to get the latest on developments on a ...