Late on Sunday night, 14 zama zamas surfaced from deep underground at a disused mine in Stilfontein, where a major operation ...

Late on Sunday night, 14 zama zamas surfaced from deep underground at a disused mine in Stilfontein, where a major operation ...

Late on Sunday night, 14 zama zamas surfaced from deep underground at a disused mine in Stilfontein, where a major operation ...

A mass of tangled, broken rope, formerly used for lowering zama zamas and food underground, hung over the edge ... In the ...

When zama zamas go hungry deep underground in the abandoned mines ... travelled up and out of the mines via a transport elevator at Margaret Shaft, one of the few operational shafts in the town.

IDF troops, using drones, located two Hamas terrorists who were entering an underground shaft in the northern Gaza Strip, the military said on Monday. The two terrorists were subsequently ...

He spoke to GroundUp in Stilfontein, the former mining town in North-West province where zama zamas were recently cut off from food for approximately two months as part of a national clampdown on ...

were unwilling or unable to get out of the shaft, which descends vertically for more than 2 km (1.2 miles) underground. Police and community members stood around the rocky entrance, where a pulley ...

where zama zamas sneak in via abandoned tunnels or bribe mineworkers to smuggle them inside — do not fully understand how the shafts link together. Many of the men were severely dehydrated and weak ...