After six months trapped underground, roughly 246 illegal miners were rescued at Buffelsfontein gold mine in Stilfontein, ...

South Africa certainly had abundance. There were seemingly endless tracts of fertile farmland; rich seams of precious gold, ...

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 to track or hold responsible parties accountable.

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 government’s approach - “smoking out” miners and branding them as criminals - fails to address the root ...

In South Africa last month, 78 gold diggers died in an underground rescue effort. The illegal miners, locally referred to as ...

Scientific advances, initiatives, and injustices in Sub–Saharan Africa shape the Black diaspora through ancestry, migration, ...

The Buffelsfontein mine disaster, marked by loss of life and political division, underscores South Africa’s failure to ...

The union says Tshoaeli is a red herring, conveniently used by the police to deflect from their own complicity in the deaths of hundreds of people.