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

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 ...

Police say the death toll in a monthslong standoff between authorities and miners trapped while working illegally underground at an abandoned gold mine in South Africa has risen to at ...

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

The volunteers risked their lives to venture thousands of feet underground and retrieve their neighbors. What they found was ...

Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold ...

Mzwandile Mkwayi volunteered to go down into the shaft to help save the lives of scores of South African miners.

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

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

They are among those arrested this week during a special government-led operation to shut down the underground operation at Bufflesfontein Gold Mine.