Spread This NewsBy Darlington Gatsi ZIMBABWEAN authorities in South Africa are hesitant to confront the government about its ...
More than 300 illegal gold miners were trapped in a gold mine in South Africa for months. Some of them became cannibals underground, as two men have ...
North West police have confirmed the death of yet another suspected illegal miner at Margaret Shaft in Stilfontein.
The solution to the problem of informal economies is not policing. Nor is it regulation. The solution must begin with massive regional economic repair.
In South Africa, more than thirty years after the end of apartheid, the lives of people who are black and poor are not counted as human lives. We are murdered with impunity and left to die with ...
Illegal mining in South Africa threatens the economy and worsens inequalities with incidents in Stilfontein and Sabie ...
In Stilfontein, the government’s crackdown on illegal mining was meant to restore order. But for residents like Rita de Sonsa ...
Regularised artisanal mining could also boost the security industry through protection services guarding these mines. It ...
The two survivors speak quietly as they recount how emaciated miners broke the ultimate taboo to avoid dying of hunger.
An illegal miner who was at Stilfontein described James Neo Tshoaeli, also known as Tiger, as a brutal henchman, but ...
The government has confirmed the death of 20 Zimbabweans after they were trapped in the abandoned Stilfontein gold mine in South Africa. The 20 were holed up in the mine for weeks ...
During a three-day national rescue operation, 246 suspected illegal miners were medically assessed by healthcare ...