Ahead of Mining Indaba 2026, a new Illegal Mining Compact could curb Zama Zama activity by formalising small-scale mining and ...
About 600 families of Sporong claim that heavily armed illegal miners (zama zamas) forced them to flee their homes.
PIGG’S PEAK – The Royal Eswatini Police Service (REPS) has intensified its high-tactical operation against illegal mining by diving deep into known mining hotspots. The REPS has launched a ...
About 600 families of Sporong claim that heavily armed illegal miners (zama zamas) forced them to flee their homes after they ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 — ...
Rescue workers look on as a cage is lifted from an abandoned gold shaft in Stilfontein, South Africa, on Thursday. They look like the walking dead. Dusty men, skin and hair caked in dirt, skeletal.
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 ...
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