The private sector must continue working with government and strengthen public–private partnerships to not only fortify the ...

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

I am an anthropologist and I’ve been studying the social life and history of South African gold mining for nearly three decades. I’ve also made a film with and about informal miners.

Illegal miners in South Africa's Buffelsfontein Gold Mine have resorted to cannibalism to survive after authorities cut off ...

making it the largest gold reserve ever discovered in recorded history, surpassing the previous record of 900 metric tons, held by the South Deep mine in South Africa. For breaking news and live ...

O ver the last few months, the leading narrative in the national discourse about the mining and minerals sector, has ...

Illegal miners trapped in the depths of a South African gold mine resorted to cannibalism to survive after authorities cut off their food supply to force them out, it has been revealed.

Greyling is part of the Pistorius family’s inner circle and appears to have been quietly dating Pistorius for months – she also looks very similar to Pistorius’ ex, who he was convicted of ...

A cage set to retrieve hundreds of illegal miners from an abandoned gold mine in Stilfontein has been assembled. Picture: Nokukhanya Mntambo/EWN JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA - A second miner has ...

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. The man died on Thursday in a ...

In August 2024, South African police launched “Operation Vala Umgodi” (“Close the Hole” in Zulu) in Stilfontein to hunt down illegal miners in abandoned gold mines. These miners are part ...