The Minister of Police Senzo Mchunu is expected to visit the Stilfontein Mine in the North West where thousands of zama zamas ...

The decomposing body of an illegal mine has been recovered at the Stilfontein mine, while more surfaced on Thursday. Police ...

Defence and Military Veterans Minister Angie Motshekga, together with Police Minister Senzo Mchunu, will this morning (Friday ...

Desperate families of illegal miners trapped in a closed mine in South Africa await their return. The miners, seeking gold, ...

Police, some on horseback, are patrolling the area, monitoring all the entry and exit points used by the illegal miners – ...

Khumbudzo Ntshavheni, a senior government official who holds the role of Minister in the Presidency, told journalists on ...

Community leader Thembile Botman says illegal miners, who are still stuck in a mine shaft in Stilfontein in the North West, cannot resurface on their own as there are no operators on top. This as he ...

The body of an illegal miner has been recovered from the Stilfontein mine in the North West. The decomposed body was ...

The SAPS task team in the North West has called on those illegal miners still underground in the Stilfontein area, to return ...

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

Desperate relatives of possibly hundreds of illegal miners stuck underground in a disused mine shaft in South Africa waited ...

SAPS and SANDF’s Operation Vala Umgodi has seen over 1,000 illegal miners surface at Stilfontein in the North West.