HARARE - The Zimbabwean government has issued a call for assistance in identifying Zimbabwean nationals who died during ...

After six months trapped underground, roughly 246 illegal miners were rescued at Buffelsfontein gold mine in Stilfontein, ...

The organisations called on the portfolio committee to immediately exercise its legislative oversight functions.

These individuals were among 93 suspected illegal miners, known as zama zamas, whose bodies were retrieved from the mine ...

Survivors, rescuers and families of the dead and missing say they have been abandoned — branded as criminals for trying to survive, then left to starve.

“The absence of parliamentary oversight, condemnation, or intervention in response to this atrocity raises serious concerns ...

The committee has been called on to immediately exercise its legislative oversight functions and convene an urgent public ...

Illegal mining is rife at some of South Africa’s approximately 6,000 disused ... hunger and illnesses after police arrived at the Stilfontein mine last August and cut off supplies for a time.

(AP Photo/Themba Hadebe) Mmastona Mbizana, left, a community member of Khumo township, speaks to The Associated Press while her son, Lucky Mbizana, watches in Stilfontein, South Africa, Wednesday ...

Gold built South Africa, and in no other country has it been pursued to greater depths. Thanks to the tremendous reserves of gold and diamonds beneath its surface, the land once considered “the least ...