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

Krugersdorp – The grim discovery of five decomposed bodies near Krugersdorp and Kagiso, Gauteng, on Sunday, 15 December, has once again highlighted the perilous conditions faced by zama zamas, illegal ...

Ten illegal artisanal miners remain trapped in a flooded mine ... to a scene where five decomposed bodies “that seem to be of zama zamas” were recovered at the old abandoned mine, situated ...

Krugersdorp has long been identified as a hotspot for illegal mining. Earlier this year, provincial police commissioner lieutenant-general Tommy Mthombeni acknowledged the prevalence of zama ...

Illegal miners — known locally as Zama Zama — are often men from neighboring countries who come to South Africa without the paperwork necessary to find legal work. Many say they have no choice ...

West Village, near Krugersdorp, on the West Rand ... said since Pan African Resources took over abandoned mines, zama zamas have been threatening to return. “We are scared that the zama ...

The rape charges against all 14 illegal miners were, however, subsequently dropped by the Krugersdorp Magistrate ... open cast mines and the resulting zama-zama operations. But the companies ...

with 840 zama zamas arrested and deported and almost 2 000 illegal miners removed from Boksburg, Dobsonville, Kagiso, Khutsong, and Krugersdorp. Hospitals for National Health Insurance Lesufi ...

I’m proud that almost 840 zama zamas have been arrested and deported and almost 2 000 miners have been removed from our region of Boksburg, Dobsonville, Kagiso, Khutsong, (and) Krugersdorp.” However, ...

there is no process for actually giving artisanal miners permits at the current moment." "The third challenge is we have police brutality because we are seen as zama zama miners. There is no way ...