At least 78 were dead when 324 miners were taken out of the shaft following months of ordeal as stand-ff between miners the ...

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

African Energy Ministers, National Oil Companies (NOCs) and Regulators Stand Out Among African Energy Chamber's (AEC) 2025 Movers and Shakers ...

More than 300 illegal gold miners were trapped in a gold mine in South Africa for months. Some of them became cannibals underground, as two men have ...

Workers trapped in a deep gold mine in South Africa for nearly nine months have told how they survived this time. The illegal miners at the Buffelsfontein gold mine were shut down in a mine last year ...

The solution to the problem of informal economies is not policing. Nor is it regulation. The solution must begin with massive regional economic repair.

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2025 list the top universities in Africa with countries like South ...

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 ...

Illegal mining in South Africa threatens the economy and worsens inequalities with incidents in Stilfontein and Sabie ...

Africa’s mining sector faces ongoing challenges in 2024, including political uncertainty, infrastructure issues, and safety ...

Illegal miners trapped nearly a mile below ground reportedly avoided dying of hunger by resorting to cannibalism.

Trapped nearly a mile beneath the earth after police blocked their food and water, one recalled how some of his colleagues ...