Zama Zamas test South African government's promise to crack down on illegal mining South African police have been in a stand off outside an abandoned gold mine with hundreds of illegal miners ...

Surviving on a diet of toothpaste and toilet paper, South Africa's notorious "zama-zama" illegal miners continue a weeks-long standoff with police in the darkness of a disused gold mine.

SwissAid's latest report reveals the alarming extent of corruption among officials in South Africa's gold trade, highlighting ...

On Tuesday (2/6), a coordinated operation led to the surprise discovery of four individuals actively engaged in illicit ...

Detained after being accused of controlling the illegal operations at an abandoned gold mine near Stilfontein in South Africa ...

Sandi Kwon Hoo THE ROODEPAN police are investigating an inquest case after the body of an unknown man was discovered in the veld near the Homevale Wastewater Treatment Plant in Kimberley this week.

Pfc. Franck Karel Penga Nkweya’s aspirations of Army service took root long before he set foot in America, and he attributes ...

In South Africa, police have spent weeks besieging an abandoned gold mine west of Johannesburg, waiting to arrest hundreds of illegal miners known locally as zama zamas. The miners are notorious ...