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 ...

Police arrest 21 in a crackdown on illegal chrome mining in Bapong, North West. Authorities target rampant 'zama zama' operations draining the economy.

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 — ...

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

AFU and DPCI seized properties and vehicles belonging to key illegal mining syndicate members. Over R12 million in assets ...

STILFONTEIN, South Africa —They look like the walking dead. Dusty men, skin and hair caked in dirt, skeletal. Some struggle to walk and collapse. They blink like moles in the harsh South African ...

Tommy Trenchard for NPR Bracing against the vibrations of the jackhammer, illicit diamond miner Jefferson Ncube bores steadily into the rock face before him, sending chunks of dry stone clattering to ...

PARIS, March 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Zama has been named one of 10 finalists for the RSA Conference™ 2023 Innovation Sandbox contest for its work on Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE). Zama will ...

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 ...