On a recent visit to Bapong in the North West province, South African Police Service (SAPS) National Commissioner Fannie ...

Five of the unlicensed miners were pulled out alive Wednesday, all of them appearing frail and weak after apparently being underground for several months. Illegal miners — known locally as Zama Zama — ...

Surviving on a diet of toothpaste and toilet paper, South Africa's notorious "zama-zama" illegal miners continue a weeks-long standoff with police... JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Sleeping next to ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Sleeping next to decomposing corpses and surviving on a foul mixture of toothpaste mixed with toilet paper. That's how an unknown number of unauthorized miners — believed ...

That’s how an unknown number of unauthorized miners — believed to be in the hundreds — have been surviving for weeks, possibly months, over a mile deep underground in a disused mine shaft in the South ...