South African authorities face growing anger over their handling of a standoff with illegal miners trapped in an abandoned ...

The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally in an abandoned gold mine ...

The derelict Stilfontein shaft, which became a hell hole for hundreds of trapped miners, is just one of 6,000 that have been ...

The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally underground at an abandoned ...

An effort to rescue survivors in an illegal gold mine where at least 78 people died in South Africa was put an end on ...

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is facing calls to order a national inquiry into a police operation that was meant to ...

Ivory Coast is the sixth in a growing list of African nations cutting military ... and Orano, which mines uranium to power France’s nuclear power plants. French troops too have operated across ...

JOHANNESBURG, Jan 2 (Reuters) - South Africa's rand started the new year on a positive note on Thursday after a volatile end to 2024. At 0803 GMT, the rand traded at 18.7625 against the dollar ...

Russell is a Science Writer with IFLScience and has a PhD in the History of Science, Medicine and Technology.

The best-performing South African miner this year is defying the country’s contemporary reputation for ever-more costly and lower-grade gold production. Pan African Resources Plc extracts the ...

The South African government has launched a vehement critique of illegal miners, known locally as “zama zamas”, as many of them have voluntarily emerged from disused mines in Stilfontein ...