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

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

Reportedly, the authorities adopted a hardline approach by cutting off the food and water supply of the illegal miners to ...

Illegal miners trapped nearly a mile below ground reportedly avoided dying of hunger by resorting to cannibalism.

As per a report by The Telegraph, two survivors revealed that miners resorted to cannibalism, eating the body parts of their fellow workers. A survivor said, "To stay alive, people ate their ...

Jan. 24, Step Afrika! brought the craft of step dancing to Athens at the University of Georgia Hodgson Concert Hall. Known ...

The Rwanda-backed M23 group is one of about 100 armed factions vying for a foothold in eastern Congo in one of Africa’s longest conflicts, displacing 4.5 million people and creating what the U.N.

Mr Bell was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Australian Mines Limited in November 2011 ... including the running of Rio Tinto’s Palabora copper smelter and refinery in South Africa, which produces ...

Survivors, rescuers and families of the dead and missing say they have been abandoned — branded as criminals for trying to ...

“Autonomous mining solutions can significantly address challenges in African mining operations by improving efficiency, safety and cost-effectiveness, particularly in remote and high-risk area ...