ActionSA leader Herman Mashaba is set to take legal action against the government to retrieve the remains of three ...

ArcelorMittal SA’s South African unit said it is considering a rights issue to recapitalize the cash-strapped business, ...

Unregulated mining ... dey work for artisanal and small-scale gold mining. Dis figure include up to five million women and children. Di practice dey happun well-well for South Africa wia dem ...

An all-formats team reported from the scene of a South Africa mine disaster where hundreds of men working illegally underground had become trapped and were being pulled out by rescuers. Through ...

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Police officers and private security workers stand by a mine shaft in Stilfontein, South Africa, on Nov. 15, 2024. (Credit: Denis Parrell/AP.) Listen YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon – A South African bishop ...

South Africa was once the world's largest gold producer, but large-scale industrial mining became unprofitable and many mines have closed, laying off tens of thousands of workers. Samuel Sehebeng, 47, ...

In a statement, the South African Federation of Trade Unions asserted, “These miners, many of them undocumented and desperate workers ... Africa identifies the range of negative social and economic ...

South Africa’s violent criminal organizations reportedly control some of these mining operations, profiting from the exploitation of illegal miners who work under dangerous conditions. These groups ...

The death toll of illegal miners at an abandoned gold mine in South Africa rose to 78 on Wednesday, according to a workers union. The General Industries Workers Union of South Africa (GIWUSA ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A miner is transported on a stretcher by rescue workers after he was rescued from below ground in an ...