After six months trapped underground, roughly 246 illegal miners were rescued at Buffelsfontein gold mine in Stilfontein, ...
South Africa certainly had abundance. There were seemingly endless tracts of fertile farmland; rich seams of precious gold, ...
Surviving the Washington vs Pretoria diplomatic storm – which is increasingly beyond the protagonists on each side to manage ...
The issue gained public attention when police launched Operation Vala Umgodi, an effort to remove illegal miners from ...
“The absence of parliamentary oversight, condemnation, or intervention in response to this atrocity raises serious concerns ...
A total of 78 bodies were recovered during a comprehensive four-day rescue operation from Monday, 13 January. Meanwhile, 246 ...
Postal workers in Belgium strike over restructuring with fewer workers doing more work; protests break out in Aden, Yemen against humanitarian crisis due to imperialist-stoked civil war; around 100 wo ...
In a staggering display of cruelty, South African police laid siege to an illegal gold mine near Johannesburg, leaving at ...
Many mines are abandoned or liquidated without sufficient protection for rehabilitation funds, and the government does little to track or hold responsible parties accountable.
In the cases where landownership was transferred to the claimants, 80% of the existing agricultural projects on the land ...
With illegal mining and illicit financial flows on the rise, the World Gold Council is leading efforts to create a database of gold bars that will reflect whether they were responsibly mined and ...