A community rescue effort to help illegal miners trapped in a mine shaft in South Africa emerged after police said they ...

Dozens of volunteers don enta one abandoned gold mine for South Africa to help thousands of illegal miners wey don dey ...

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

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

There is still at least 4 000 illegal miners still trapped inside one of the abandoned mine shaft which is the centre of ...

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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 decomposed body of an illegal miner has been recovered from the Stilfontein mine in North West. Local volunteers helped ...

Rescue operations have been halted due to heavy rains. Thembile Botman, the leader of the Stilfontein community, told the ...