A gruesome situation in a South African gold mine underscores the problem of illegal mining and the risk people will take for ...

Existing economic reforms now in motion have the potential to lift South Africa’s economic growth rate to 3.5% a year by 2029 ...

The upcoming African Mining Week Summit, scheduled for October 1 - 3 in Cape Town, will highlight profitable opportunities ...

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

About 6,100 closed mines are distributed across the country. Although closed, they are not sealed. Residual gold remains in ...

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

The Coalbrook North Colliery disaster of January 21, 1960, remains one of the most catastrophic events in South African ...

South Africa’s mining industry reported 42 deaths last year, the lowest number to date and a 24% improvement on the previous ...

Over the last few months, the leading narrative in the national discourse about the mining and minerals sector, has unfortunately been centred around the illicit mining trade that has plagued this ...

South Africa’s Juwi Renewable Energies has announced plans to build three large-scale solar plants with a combined capacity ...

Illegal mining is waging war on the South African economy, with the illicit trade costing the economy at least R60 billion in ...

South Africa often uses its diplomatic heft to position itself as defender of the "global south" on the world stage, but the ...