The organisations called on the portfolio committee to immediately exercise its legislative oversight functions.
Gold built South Africa, and in no other country has it been pursued to greater depths. Thanks to the tremendous reserves of gold and diamonds beneath its surface, the land once considered “the least ...
Many mines are abandoned or liquidated without sufficient protection for rehabilitation funds, and the government does little ...
Police have called on members of the public who suspect their loved ones were working on abandoned mines in the Khuma, ...
Rescue operations were deployed to the disused mine in Florida on Saturday after the desperate cries of trapped zama zamas were heard echoing from the shaft.
The South African Human Rights Commission has escalated its investigation of an abandoned mine in Stilfontein into a national ...
The South African government’s approach - “smoking out” miners and branding them as criminals - fails to address the root ...
JOHANNESBURG - As an intense search for an alleged illegal mining ringleader continues in Stilfontein, some activists have accused police of using low-ranking officers as scapegoats. In January, James ...
In South Africa last month, 78 gold diggers died in an underground rescue effort. The illegal miners, locally referred to as ...
The bodies of almost 90 illegal miners were brought to the surface of an abandoned shaft when police intensified an operation ...
The North West Health Department was on Wednesday unable to give timelines for the start of preparations for the ...
Scientific advances, initiatives, and injustices in Sub–Saharan Africa shape the Black diaspora through ancestry, migration, ...