Members of The Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union are continuing a three-month wage strike but are struggling to survive without pay. Read more »
Dali Mpofu has told the Farlam Commission that the South African Police Service had to prove the life of mystery witness Mr. X was in danger or his identity and personal details ... Read more »
The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, a global coalition of governments, companies and civil society seeking openness and accountability in the management of natural ... Read more »
Dali Mpofu SC, for arrested and wounded miners, put it to the Farlam Commission of Inquiry that protesting Marikana miners were not told why they were being arrested in August ... Read more »
Protesting Marikana miners were shot by police while they were fleeing on August 16, 2012, the Farlam Commission of Inquiry heard. Read more »
Mining in the country's Karamoja region could lead to human rights abuses and land disputes -- unless the government does more to protect the interests of the region's indigenous ... Read more »
More than twenty Zimbabwean illegal miners were killed after being trapped in a disused gold mine in South Africa. Read more »
France needs the country's uranium, while Niger needs French assistance. However, the relationship is and always has been unequal, with Niger's economy heavily dependent on its ... Read more »
A new report by Human Rights Watch accuses the government and a London-based mining company operating in the country of undermining villagers' access to food and preventing workers ... Read more »
Hundreds of miners are trapped underground at an abandoned mine in Benoni on the East Rand. They have refused to come out of the mine because they do not want to be arrested. Read more »
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