By: Jacques Farmer - Managing Director of PRISMA Training Solutions South Africa's membership in the BRICS economic bloc, ...

In a staggering display of cruelty, South African police laid siege to an illegal gold mine near Johannesburg, leaving at least 78 workers dead by mid-January. Informal miners are the shadow of an ...

(Themba Hadebe/The Associated Press) Illegal mining is a common practice in South Africa, where more than ... some miners were trapped deep inside different parts of the mine, which is 2.5 ...

Illegal mining cost South Africa over $3 billion last year, according to the mining minister. Typically, undocumented miners move into mines abandoned by commercial miners and seek to extract ...