Residents of Khuma want the abandoned mine reopened to create jobs and boost the local economy, but mining expert Ingrid ...

As the risk of extreme flooding increases with climate change, an effort is underway to relocate hundreds of flood survivors ...

The leadership of the Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, an independent professional institute of international standing for over 130 years, notes with sadness the gravity of the ...

Survivors, rescuers and families of the dead and missing say they have been abandoned — branded as criminals for trying to ...

The South African Police Service is investigating members who were on duty the day that an illegal mining kingpin escaped ...

In mid-January 2024, over 1,000 hunger-weakened miners exited two abandoned mine shafts in Stilfontein, near Johannesburg in ...

South Africa’s police have resorted to medieval military tactics against illegal miners. But the solution lies elsewhere: ...

South African police say a suspected illegal gold mining ringleader escaped from custody with help from police officers after ...

South African police are searching for a Lesotho gang leader, known as 'Tiger', who escaped during a police operation at an ...

Mzwandile Mkwayi volunteered to go down into the shaft to help save the lives of scores of South African miners.

In South Africa a months long standoff between police and illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine comes to end, with close ...