The South African government’s approach - “smoking out” miners and branding them as criminals - fails to address the root causes of the crisis. Instead, it exacerbates their suffering, reducing them ...

Read through quickly or listen to the articles via our customised text-to-speech feature. - James Neo Tshoaeli, a suspected zama zama ringleader known as "Tiger", escaped police custody while being ...

A man described as an illegal miner was killed, and his accomplice injured, during a shoot-out with the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Police Department’s (EMPD) Intervention Unit officers this morning ...

Legitimate mining companies are part of a syndicate that purchases minerals mined by illegal miners (known as Zama zamas) underground and uses them in the formal economy. A study conducted by ...

The mineworkers, colloquially referred to as zama zamas, have been holed up underground for months and reported that several of their colleagues died due to starvation. According to the General ...

Images: Ihsaan Haffejee/Anadolu via Getty Images and /AFP via Getty Images Source: Getty Images STILFONTEIN—The South African Police Service revealed that most of the zama zamas retrieved from the ...

Rescue operations are in full swing at the disused mine in Stilfontein in the North West. Over 50 frail zama zamas as well as several bodies were brought to the surface on Tuesday afternoon. Watching ...

The recovery of the remains comes as mine rescue teams kick off an intense operation to retrieve zama zamas occupying the abandoned shaft 11. The operation is the final phase of the government ...

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The withdrawal means CARB is now no longer seeking to enforce its ZEV mandate on fleets. The move comes just days before President-elect Donald Trump is sworn in for a second term on January 20.

This follows the rescue of 82 illegal miners, popularly known as Zama Zamas, from shaft 11, all of whom now face charges of illegal mining, trespassing, and contravention of the immigration act. Two ...

In his book The Mathematical Universe, mathematician William Dunham wrote of John Venn’s namesake legacy, the Venn diagram, “No one in the long history of mathematics ever became better known ...