Late last year, a specialized camera was lowered into an almost 1.6-mile-deep mineshaft in South Africa where hundreds of ...

"Traditional financing of new ventures in the African mining sector has become increasingly challenging over the past decade," says Wildu du Plessis, a partner at Alchemy. “A variety of non-banking ...

South African police say a suspected illegal gold mining ringleader escaped from custody with help from police officers about ...

African infrastructure and investment. Trade is increasingly seen as the anchor to alleviating poverty through cross-border economic exchange, especially in the mining sector, during this era of the ...

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

South African authorities have come under intense scrutiny for their response after civic groups said hundreds of miners have been trapped deep in an abandoned gold mine for months.

A critical area in which the mining industry can drive meaningful change is by establishing itself as a strategic partner to ...

Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing to prevent what they call a “massacre” at the ...

South Africa's mining industry reported 42 deaths last year, the lowest number to date and a 24% improvement on the previous year, official statistics showed on Thursday.

A South African bishop has described in detail what he saw and heard as the bodies were being taken from an abandoned gold ...

South African police say there's nobody left in the mine after they removed 78 bodies and 246 survivors over the last two days. They declared the court-ordered rescue operation over on Wednesday ...

South Africa's police have launched a manhunt for an alleged "kingpin", who is accused of controlling operations at an ...