The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally underground at an abandoned ...

An effort to rescue survivors in an illegal gold mine where at least 78 people died in South Africa was put an end on ...

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is facing calls to order a national inquiry into a police operation that was meant to ...

The miners are suspected to have died of starvation and dehydration, although no causes of death have been released.

The recent Stilfontein disaster, claiming 78 lives, has exposed the devastating scale of South Africa's illegal gold mining ...

JOHANNESBURG, Jan 2 (Reuters) - South Africa's rand started the new year on a positive note on Thursday after a volatile end to 2024. At 0803 GMT, the rand traded at 18.7625 against the dollar ...

The best-performing South African miner this year is defying the country’s contemporary reputation for ever-more costly and lower-grade gold production. Pan African Resources Plc extracts the ...

The South African government has launched a vehement critique of illegal miners, known locally as “zama zamas”, as many of them have voluntarily emerged from disused mines in Stilfontein ...

Down a shaft that plunged more than a mile below the earth in South Africa’s old mining heartland, a man’s life hung in the balance. After weeks working – then later, trapped and starved by ...

South Africa 301 (Markram 89, Bosch 81*, Shahzad 3-75, Naseem 3-92) and 150 for 8 (Bavuma 40, Abbas 6-54) beat Pakistan 211 (Ghulam 54, Paterson 5-61, Bosch 4-63) and 237 (Shakeel 84, Babar 50 ...

South Africa’s national and provincial elections ... The MK Party’s calls for radical policies such as the nationalisation of mines and land expropriation resonated with a segment of the ...

Seventeen Chinese men have been arrested on suspicion of running an illegal gold mine in Democratic Republic ... the main town in strife-torn South Kivu province. They sat on chairs without ...