South Africa's government says it won't help a group of illegal miners inside a closed mine in the country's North West ...

Authorities in South Africa have cut off supplies to nearly 4,000 illegal gold miners hiding underground, as the government ...

Officials are hoping the strategy will force the workers out of the mineshaft and to the surface, where they will be arrested ...

Illegal miners are called "zama zama" ("take a chance" in Zulu) and operate in abandoned mines in the mineral-rich country.

Desperate families of illegal miners trapped in a closed mine in South Africa await their return. The miners, seeking gold, ...

The South African government says it has put together a team including mine rescue experts to come up with a plan to bring to ...

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The sentence was handed down by the Stilfontein Regional Court in the ... Independent Online, popularly known as IOL, is one of South Africa’s leading news and information websites bringing ...

Fifty-five of the more than 500 zama-zamas arrested this weekend were unable to attend court at the Stilfontein Magistrate’s Court in Klerksdorp on Monday. Sources indicated that the first group ...

Illegal mining continues to be widespread in South Africa, where miners enter abandoned shafts to search for remaining ...

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