At least 14 bodies have been found in Benoni, east of Johannesburg. Preliminary investigations suggest that the illegal miners were killed with sharp objects or shot before their ... Read more »
A Sky News investigation and Amnesty International report has found that children as young as four are working in dangerous and squalid conditions in mines, and the cobalt that is ... Read more »
President Yoweri Museveni has launched a newly-built $20 million African Gold Refinery, the first of its kind in the region, which has the capacity of processing up to 300kg of ... Read more »
Rwanda hopes U.S. President Donald Trump will remove the Dodd Frank Act, as this will mark the lifting of an unwanted legislation that has reportedly led to a sharp increase in the ... Read more »
The miners were buried in the rubble 38 metres underground after a shaft at the Chinese-owned RZ Goldmine collapsed. Read more »
Despite the high number of gold panners losing their lives daily in Africa, several Ugandans are ignoring health and safety in search of the precious metal. Read more »
Mbada Diamonds could have denied Zimbabwe of millions of dollars in revenue by under-declaring its diamond sales over the years after it emerged that its average price per carat ... Read more »
Former Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi has said that President Jacob Zuma's collusion with Secret Service agencies to establish a rival trade union to the Association of ... Read more »
President Jacob Zuma has said the the government is ready to provide compensation to families of the victims of the 2012 Marikana shooting that left 17 people dead. Additionally, ... Read more »
The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa will hold its national congress next week. At its last congress it voted for a split from the alliance between the Congress of ... Read more »
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