Surviving on a diet of toothpaste and toilet paper, South Africa's notorious "zama-zama" illegal miners continue a weeks-long ...

Hundreds of workers are hiding in an abandoned gold mine in South Africa for a third week. Police cut off supplies to force ...

South Africa's government says it will let thousands of illegal miners starve until they accept their fate and emerge from an ...

South African authorities are embroiled in a standoff with an unconfirmed number of illegal miners who remain underground at ...

As It Happens7:33Why police are in a standoff with people working an abandoned South African mine For weeks, police have been stationed at the opening of an abandoned gold mine in South Africa ...

11/22/2024 November 22, 2024 South African police have cut off food supplies to illegal miners holed up in an abandoned gold mine. Relatives are calling on the government to show leniency. Illegal ...

The South African police intensified efforts to force hundreds of illegal gold miners holed up in underground shafts to the ...

A South African court ordered police to end a standoff with illegal miners to allow emergency workers to gain access to a ...

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

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

Many of these have gone on to become "zama zamas" at the abandoned mines. South Africa-based Benchmark Foundation researcher David van Wyk, who has studied the industry, said there were about ...