Commodity trading giants such as Glencore, Vitol, and Trafigura are expanding their presence in South Africa through petrol ...
They come from the same places as did many of their forebears who worked in the formal industry. In its heyday South Africa’s ...
Late last year, a specialized camera was lowered into an almost 1.6-mile-deep mineshaft in South Africa where hundreds of ...
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The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally in an abandoned gold ...
In South Africa a months long standoff between police and illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine comes to end, with close ...
South Africa’s president is facing calls to order an inquiry into a police operation that was meant to combat illegal mining ...
South Africa's second biggest political party ... Africa and a major problem for authorities as large groups go into mines that have been shut down to extract any leftover deposits.
Elizabeth Economy is Co-Director of the US, China, and the World Project and Hargrove Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s ...