Tiger’, a Lesotho national, is implicated in several statements as one of the ringleaders who controlled operations ...

Mannas Fourie from Potchefstroom has rescued hundreds of zama zamas from mines. Over the past week in Stilfontein, his team ...

In Stilfontein, the government’s crackdown on illegal mining was meant to restore order. But for residents like Rita de Sonsa ...

A deadly shoot-out erupted between metro police and a group of illegal miners in Germiston during a crackdown on illicit ...

An illegal miner lifted from an abandoned gold mine in Stilfontein has died in hospital, raising the death toll to 88 since ...

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

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

The South African Police Service defended itself against claims that it arrested a volunteer, released information about ...

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

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

Survivors, rescuers and families of the dead and missing say they have been abandoned — branded as criminals for trying to ...

JOHANNESBURG - The health department in the North West has confirmed the death of another suspected illegal miner from Stilfontein. The man was part of a group of 33 suspected zama zamas admitted to ...