The spat between police and labour union, the General Industries Workers Union of South Africa (Giwusa), over allegations ...

Rescue workers retrieved at least 78 bodies from an illegal gold mine in South Africa, where police cut off food and water ...

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

The government launched a rescue operation following a court-order mission that is focused on retrieving those trapped, ...

The tragedy at the abandoned gold mine near the town of Stilfontein began to unfold in August, when police cut off food ...

The miner, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity out of fear of reprisals, said he surfaced on ...

More than 17,000 alleged illegal miners, many from neighbouring countries, have surfaced in South Africa during a police ...

(photo: SACBC / Courtesy ) Silas Isenjia/CNA/ACI Africa World January 7, 2025 The hundreds of illegal miners stuck in a disused mine in Stilfontein in South Africa’s North West Province are ...

Rescued Stilfontein illegal miner, now out on R500 bail, gives harrowing details of what he witnessed underground, saying many miners succumb to the unrelenting hunger – not illness. Rescue mission at ...

“From Monday, 30 December 2024, until today, 12 illegal miners have been placed under arrest for illegal mining, trespassing, and contravention of the Immigration Act in Stilfontein,” the SAPS said in ...

[Business Day] Zama standoff backlash: The South African government claims many illegal miners in Stilfontein have voluntarily left abandoned shafts. However, the Stilfontein Crisis Committee ...

Zama Zamas emerge Recent developments have seen several illegal miners, known as zama zamas, voluntarily emerging from the disused mine shafts in Stilfontein. The South African government has noted ...