The solution to the problem of informal economies is not policing. Nor is it regulation. The solution must begin with massive regional economic repair.
Illegal miners trapped nearly a mile below ground reportedly avoided dying of hunger by resorting to cannibalism.
About 6,100 closed mines are distributed across the country. Although closed, they are not sealed. Residual gold remains in ...
Jan. 24, Step Afrika! brought the craft of step dancing to Athens at the University of Georgia Hodgson Concert Hall. Known ...
Benefiting from South Africa’s role as a global pioneer in proximity detection systems (PDS), other countries in the region ...
The mining industry recorded 42 fatalities this year, and no disaster-type accidents were reported in 2024 compared to one accident in 2023, where 13 mine employees lost their lives in a conveyance ...
In mid-January 2024, over 1,000 hunger-weakened miners exited two abandoned mine shafts in Stilfontein, near Johannesburg in ...
Just a few weeks into 2025 and multiple mining fatalities have been recorded around the globe. Dozens of people have died in ...
The Coalbrook North Colliery disaster of January 21, 1960, remains one of the most catastrophic events in South African mining history, where 435 miners tragically lost their lives due to a tunnel ...
Reliance on Russia’s military offerings has become increasingly prevalent in parts of Africa, amid an aggressive push by ...