Illegal miners are called "zama zama" ("take a chance" in Zulu) and operate in abandoned mines in the mineral-rich country.
A standoff between police and illegal miners has gotten heated in South Africa. Reports say hundreds of illegal miners, who ...
Several hundred people are believed to remain in an illegal mine in South Africa after the government cut off vital supplies ...
Authorities in South Africa have cut off supplies to nearly 4,000 illegal gold miners hiding underground, as the government ...
Several hundred people are believed to remain in an illegal mine in South Africa after authorities cut off their supplies and ...
Illegal mining continues to be widespread in South Africa, where miners enter abandoned shafts to search for remaining ...
South Africa's government says it will let thousands of illegal miners starve until they accept their fate and emerge from an ...
Police in South Africa have forced 540 illegal miners out of an abandoned mine shaft and arrested them. Earlier this week, security forces blocked deliveries of food and water to the miners in a ...