There are reportedly an estimated 6,000 zama zamas several miles underground at any given time. A disused shaft in Khuma on November 16, 2024, in Stilfontein, South Africa. Photo: Elizabeth Sejake ...

Declaring Stilfontein the ‘worst state-sponsored massacre’ since apartheid, socialist unions have fiercely challenged the ANC’s war on impoverished miners. For thousands of impoverished manual ...

Four police officers were arrested and appeared in court in connection with the escape of James Neo Tshoaeli, the Lesotho national known as Tiger.

An abandoned gold mine, where miners were rescued from below ground, in Stilfontein, South Africa. (AP) “They cut parts of legs, arms, and ribs for sustenance.

Mines Rescue Services (MRS), under the leadership of Mannas Fourie, recently saved 246 illegal miners (zama-zamas) who were trapped.

People were dying every minute. The sad part is when you attempt to tell people that miners are dying. No one would believe me,” he lamented. Another illegal miner, a 40-year-old man, corroborated the ...

Medical services assist an exhausted miner during rescue operations at the abandoned Buffelsfontein gold mine in Stilfontein, on 14 January. Image: Leon Sadiki/Bloomberg ...

Mzwandile Mkwayi volunteered to go down into the shaft to help save the lives of scores of South African miners.

STILFONTEIN, South Africa — Dozens of men sat and lay together in small caves, some so shallow they couldn’t stand up. The air was wet and stuffy, and wracking coughs echoed in the confined ...

A miner who spent six months in a disused mine in South Africa has spoken of the horror he experienced after a police operation cut off food and basic supplies to thousands who were illegally ...

Stilfontein, South Africa — Dozens of men sat and lay together in small caves, some so shallow they couldn’t stand up. The air was wet and stuffy, and wracking coughs echoed in the confined ...