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

South Africa’s police have resorted to medieval military tactics against illegal miners. But the solution lies elsewhere: ...

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

STILFONTEIN, South Africa ... take up the life of the zama zama. There are thousands of abandoned mine shafts where they can search for a tiny fraction of the gold that made this country ...

South African police say a suspected illegal gold mining ringleader escaped from custody with help from police officers about ...

Zama zamas operate in some of the more than 6 000 abandoned mines that helped power South Africa’s gold rush a century ago. Many are desperate South Africans seeking a way out of poverty ...

A South African bishop has described in detail what he saw and heard as the bodies were being taken from an abandoned gold ...

Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold mine STILFONTEIN, South Africa ... are known as zama zamas ...

The South African government has taken a hard-line approach to the groups, who are known as zama zamas ... South Africa of more than $1 billion a year in gold. Authorities said that more than 1,500 ...