About 600 families of Sporong claim that heavily armed illegal miners (zama zamas) forced them to flee their homes.

Mpumalanga residents claim hundreds of zama zamas are operating an illegal mine and are polluting the Sabie River with ...

Hundreds spent two weeks in a Randfontein community hall after armed gangs terrorised the Sporong informal settlement.

Are zama zamas simply foreign criminals stealing South African gold, deserving only of being "smoked out"? Or are they dehumanised labourers exploited by mining kingpins under the banner of "illicit ...

South African police have been in a stand off outside an abandoned gold mine with hundreds of illegal miners who are holding out underground. The situation is getting desperate. In South Africa, ...