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

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.

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 ...

Stories of desperation and survival have emerged from survivors of the several months long standoff between miners and police ...

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.

Cape Town: 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 ...

Southeast Asian nations’ interest in joining the grouping is consistent with the region’s geopolitical hedging and may well strengthen Asean’s clout. The growing bloc, which seeks ...

South African engineering innovation was put on the map after world-first rescue technology was used to save 246 lives in the ...

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 ...

Diplomatic sources say the bloc is facing calls to suspend its wide-ranging minerals agreement with Rwanda amid fears it is ...