Ekapa Mining has made available about 400 hectares of land to the group, where they have dug deep furrows and holes in search for diamonds, using makeshift tools. “This is just one way of dealing with ...

In total, 78 corpses were recovered during an operation to get illegal miners - also known as zama zamas - out of a ...

The men are believed to have died of starvation after a police crackdown on illegal mining in Stilfontein last year. Only 25 of the 78 dead miners have been identified and collected by their families ...

STEADY_PAYWALL___ Suspicion immediately fell on zama-zamas, the miners who illegally work these old mines ... Shortly afterwards, about 80 suspects appeared in the Krugersdorp Magistrate’s Court in a ...