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

Late last year, a specialized camera was lowered into an almost 1.6-mile-deep mineshaft in South Africa where hundreds of ...

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

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

Police say the death toll in a monthslong standoff between authorities and miners trapped while working illegally underground ...

"Traditional financing of new ventures in the African mining sector has become increasingly challenging over the past decade," says Wildu du Plessis, a partner at Alchemy. “A variety of non-banking ...

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

The truth is, the mining and minerals sector remains key to the South African economy. In fact, one would be hard pressed to find any individual industry that doesn’t somehow intersect with mining – ...

Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing to prevent what they call a “massacre” at the ...

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

African infrastructure and investment. Trade is increasingly seen as the anchor to alleviating poverty through cross-border economic exchange, especially in the mining sector, during this era of the ...