On Jan. 28, the Rwanda-backed rebel group M23 captured Goma, capital city of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s mineral-rich North Kivu province. The fall of Goma marks a shocking chapter in a ...

By Clyde Russell CAPE TOWN (Reuters) -Beyond the short-term volatility and uncertainty created by U.S. President Donald Trump ...

Beyond the short-term volatility and uncertainty created by U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff machinations, it's likely ...

Cyril Ramaphosa, the President of South Africa, has long been portrayed as a champion of economic transformation and a ...

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

Deep in the heart of a lush green forest, an excavator is hard at work, turning over the earth in search of gold. The ...

(AP Photo/Themba Hadebe) Rescuer workers assist an illegal miner who has been trapped deep in an abandoned gold mine for months, in Stilfontein, South Africa, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025. (AP Photo ...

The two survivors speak quietly as they recount how emaciated miners broke the ultimate taboo to avoid dying of hunger.

An all-formats team reported from the scene of a South Africa mine disaster where hundreds of men working illegally ...

The rescue of 246 surviving illegal miners from the Stilfontein shaft in less than three days was enabled by a locally designed and manufactured Mobile Mines Rescue Winder (MMRW), equipped with ...

Mineral and Petroleum Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe has described illegal mining in South Africa as a war being waged ...