The government is trying to starve more than 1,000 informal prospectors out of a shaft of the Buffelsfontein mine, which ...

Illegal mining continues to be widespread in South Africa, where miners enter abandoned shafts to search for remaining ...

The miners in a mineshaft in Stilfontein are believed to be suffering from a lack of food, water and other basic necessities.

South Africa’s government has refused help to around 4,000 illegal miners trapped in a closed mine in as part of its ‘close ...

Authorities in South Africa have cut off supplies to nearly 4,000 illegal gold miners hiding underground, as the government ...

MWS was acquired by Harmony Gold in October 2020 and ... allow for the continued remining of old tailings in the region and extend MWS’s life-of-mine by 15 years to 2040. The broader expansion ...

More than 100 miners escaped from a gold mine in South Africa on Wednesday after being ... Bernadett 'Bett'” Szabó, a 19-year-old Hungarian sex worker, was murdered in the Dutch capital in ...

The 32-year-old ... Gold One bosses of colluding with NUM, an allegation the mine denies. NUM was founded in 1982 by former labour unionist Cyril Ramaphosa, who is currently South Africa's president.

SARS's attempts to clamp down on gold-based tax fraud has left a massive loophole. The tax agency has expressed concern that alleged roleplayers are now using pseudo gold mining operations to cover ...