Survivors, rescuers and families of the dead and missing say they have been abandoned — branded as criminals for trying to ...
In mid-January 2024 over 1 000 hunger-weakened miners exited two abandoned mine shafts in Stilfontein, near Johannesburg in ...
The rescue of 246 surviving illegal miners from the Stilfontein shaft in less than three days was enabled by a locally ...
Dis month, authorities rescue hundreds of illegal miners from one mine shaft for South Africa. Wetin be di dangers of working ...
The leadership of the Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, an independent professional institute of international standing for over 130 years, notes with sadness the gravity of the ...
Mineral and Petroleum Resources Minister, Gwede Mantashe, has hit back at accusations that the government is to blame for the ...
Mines Rescue Services (MRS), under the leadership of Mannas Fourie, recently saved 246 illegal miners (zama-zamas) who were trapped.
Illegal mining is waging war on the South African economy, with the illicit trade costing the economy at least R60 billion in ...
South African police have launched a manhunt for a Lesotho gang member believed to have controlled operations at an illegal gold mine where 78 bodies were recovered last week during a police siege, ...
Mineral and Petroleum Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe estimates that illegal mining, cost the South African economy R60 ...