By: Sabine Dall’Omo - CEO of Siemens Sub-Saharan Africa As the global mining industry enters an era of rapidly evolving automation, Africa will emerge as a leader in embracing autonomous machinery, ...

About 6,100 closed mines are distributed across the country. Although closed, they are not sealed. Residual gold remains in ...

In South Africa a months long standoff between police and illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine comes to end, with close to 80 found dead in grim recovery operation.

Dis month, authorities rescue hundreds of illegal miners from one mine shaft for South Africa. Wetin be di dangers of working ...

Forensic service workers carry human remains in blue body ... Why police are in a standoff with people working an abandoned South African mine Tom, meanwhile, says she's heard some miners have ...

Labour unions are demanding increased safety measures after five Harmony Gold miners lost their lives in two separate incidents.

South Africa’s police have resorted to medieval military tactics against illegal miners. But the solution lies elsewhere: ...

South African police say a suspected illegal gold mining ringleader escaped from custody with help from police officers about a week after resurfacing from a disused mine in South Africa where 246 ...

In Zimbabwe it was believed that if a woman went underground the gold seam would vanish, but above ground women held ...

They came from Lesotho, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Malawi, as well as the Eastern Cape of South Africa. Some are former mine workers, now unemployed. Some are farmers or fishermen whose livelihoods have ...

South Africa’s economy is deeply intertwined with the US through trade, investment, and aid. With US-South Africa tensions ...

At least 78 dead bodies have been retrieved from a discontinued gold mine in South Africa where ... and desperate workers from Mozambique and other Southern African countries, were left to die ...