Police in the North West have retracted earlier claims that extortion attempts had hindered efforts to rescue illegal miners ...

Surviving on a diet of toothpaste and toilet paper, South Africa's notorious "zama-zama" illegal miners continue a weeks-long ...

He spoke to GroundUp in Stilfontein, the former mining town in the ... Deep-level industrial mining is enormously expensive and much of this gold was inaccessible without considerable further ...

President Ramaphosa clarified that illegal mining is a criminal offence that threatens economic stability, community safety, ...

South Africa's government says it will let thousands of illegal miners starve until they accept their fate and emerge from an ...

Stilfontein gold mine shaft in the North West ... leaders have cast their eyes on a long-term solution to illegal mining in the area. Plans are currently underway to force hundreds of zama ...

Officials at the Stilfontein site at first prevented ... What is shaft mining? Illegal mining for gold, diamonds or other minerals is deeply widespread in South Africa, and has gone on for decades ...

Zama zamas search for gold in a vast and unmapped underground ... He spoke to GroundUp in Stilfontein, the former mining town in North-West province where zama zamas were recently cut off from ...

He spoke to GroundUp in Stilfontein ... Deep-level industrial mining is enormously expensive and much of this gold was inaccessible without considerable further investment. Nevertheless, vast ...

A crane at the site of an abandoned mine in Stilfontein where a mission to rescue ... underground at a shaft at the old Buffelsfontein gold mine. A week ago, a task team was deployed by Police ...

Johannesburg — More than 4,000 miners locked in a standoff with South African authorities over illegal mining were believed ... to the surface from inside the Stilfontein mine in the country's ...

The Gauteng High Court dismissed the Society for the Protection of our Constitution's application for relief for illegal ...