South Africa’s fight to keep Agoa benefits and avoid new US tariffs has put raw materials exporters under a harsh spotlight.

A tragic standoff is unfolding in Stilfontein, South Africa, where thousands of illegal miners – known colloquially as zama zamas – are trapped underground. The crisis has brought South Africa’s ...

Illegal artisanal gold mining in South Africa is in the spotlight again. Under Operation Vala Umgodi ("plug the hole"), South African authorities have since December 2023 been trying to disrupt the ...

A seven-day multi-disciplinary operation along the Northern Cape West Coast targeted marine poaching, illegal plant harvesting, illicit mining, drug-related activities and liquor-trade ...

Dublin, Sept. 18, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Coal Mining Industry in South Africa 2025" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. This report on the coal mining industry in South ...

Four African billionaires lost a combined $300 million in estimated wealth on November 4, according to the Bloomberg ...

The police have cut off food and water to miners for weeks in a bid to force them out of an abandoned mine. Human rights advocates and community leaders call the tactics inhumane. By Lynsey Chutel ...

South Africa’s government is facing criticism for its clampdown on illegal mining that cut off food and water to hundreds of miners underground, after at least 78 bodies were pulled from a shaft this ...

Pan African Resources PLC is a mid-tier, under followed South African focused gold producer. The company is the market leader in extracting low-cost gold from tailings heaps. Management has an ...

Twenty-five years ago, to get to school in the morning, Godfrey Molwana would walk 2 miles from his home in Witrandjie, a small village in South Africa. His route passed through communal grazing lands ...