The Southern African nation is heavily reliant on copper exports to fuel its economy, with the metal making up almost US$10bn ...
A second miner has died in hospital after being pulled alive from an illegal South African gold mine from which 87 bodies were extracted, the government said Friday.
South African police have launched a manhunt for a Lesotho gang member believed to have controlled operations at an illegal gold mine where 78 bodies were recovered last week during a police siege, ...
The ANC Youth League picketed outside the Mineral Council South Africa offices in Rosebank to demand reinstatements of mine ...
The rescue of 246 surviving illegal miners from the Stilfontein shaft in less than three days was enabled by a locally ...
Survivors, rescuers and families of the dead and missing say they have been abandoned — branded as criminals for trying to ...
Benefiting from South Africa’s role as a global pioneer in proximity detection systems (PDS), other countries in the region ...
Deaths of illegal miners reflects that country’s troubled circumstances and need for aid from Elon Musk and others.
Malawi is trying to bolster its mining and tourism sectors to help avoid chronic foreign exchange shortages that cripple its ...
South Africa’s police have resorted to medieval military tactics against illegal miners. But the solution lies elsewhere: ...
Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing to prevent what they call a “massacre” at the ...
Late last year, a specialized camera was lowered into an almost 1.6-mile-deep mineshaft in South Africa where hundreds of ...