The South African Police Service (SAPS) reports that over 1,500 illegal miners, known as zama zamas, have surfaced from the abandoned mines of...

Operation Vala Umgodi has made weekly arrests across the country as police continue their coordinated effort to fight illegal mining.

Handwritten letters have been sent up from the shafts in Stilfontein describing the conditions the illegal miners are facing.

Twenty-one illegal miners resurfaced at Margaret and Buffelsfontein No 10 shafts in the last two days. It brings the count for the week (since Monday)...

Several illegal miners have resurfaced over Christmas from the abandoned mineshafts in Stilfontein.

The Mining Affected Communities United in Action (MACUA) has escalated its fight to rescue illegal miners trapped in an abandoned gold mine in...

While the South African government claims that many illegal miners in Stilfontein have voluntarily emerged from abandoned shafts, the Stilfontein...

Bulelwa Hoala The Lawyers for Human Rights has confirmed that reports of illegal miners eating human flesh underground shaft 11 are indeed true. This...

An unspecified number of illegal miners have been hiding in mine shafts in South Africa for months in an attempt to avoid arrest Read Full Article at...