The Minister for Lands and Natural Resources and Acting Minister for Environment, Science and Technology, Emmanuel Armah-Kofi ...

Chinese mining companies confront formidable challenges in South Africa's TAU Mine, where the depth and geology test their ...

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This policy provides a framework to formalise the sector and enable lawful economic participation, primarily for South ...

China and South Africa signed a framework agreement for a new trade deal on Friday as Africa's leading economy looks to other ...

Artisanal miners look on at others filling up a wheelbarrow of coal in a tunnel at the Golfview informal coal mine in Ermelo on September 25, 2025. [AFP] Growing up, Cyprial dreamed of being a lawyer.

The African National Congress (ANC) government has launched a mass police operation to arrest 1,000 migrant gold miners. The miners are working without permits near Barberton, a town in the northeast ...

Some of the resurfaced 260 employees stuck underground climb a bus as they leave the South Africa's Sibanye Stillwater's Kloof 7 sub-shaft in Westonaria on May 23, 2025. Damage to a mine shaft had ...

Johannesburg — More than 4,000 miners locked in a standoff with South African authorities over illegal mining were believed to be sick and increasingly weak inside an abandoned mine shaft Thursday.

Rescuers on Friday pulled out all 260 mine workers who had been stuck for more than 24 hours in an underground shaft in South Africa, the mine's operator said. The miners were trapped underground on ...

The corporate exodus is accelerating, propelled by a toxic cocktail of corruption, lawlessness and poor infrastructure.

JOHANNESBURG — A suspected illegal gold mining ringleader known as “Tiger” escaped from custody with help from police officers after resurfacing last week from a disused mine in South Africa where ...