Reportedly, the authorities adopted a hardline approach by cutting off the food and water supply of the illegal miners to ...

In South Africa, more than thirty years after the end of apartheid, the lives of people who are black and poor are not counted as human lives. We are murdered with impunity and left to die with ...

In Stilfontein, the government’s crackdown on illegal mining was meant to restore order. But for residents like Rita de Sonsa ...

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 ...