What should have been a routine shift change inside one of South Africa’s richest gold mines turned into a nightmare when a nearly 1000 KG train crashed into a packed elevator carrying 104 miners more ...

Diversity means that in order to have “equality,” you have to accept the practices of foreigners as equal to your own, which means that you have no standards after all. Some have mixed with the ...

Stronger collaboration, localisation and technology adoption are needed to help South Africa build a more competitive mining ...

On July 4, 2026, the United States will mark the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. To ...

Marlene MinopetrosA YOUNG man from the small Namaqualand settlement of Skietbank has earned a place among the country’s top contestants after finishing third overall at the 2026 Mr Gay World South ...

We trust that our memories are infallible—and then get into conflict with others whose remembrances of the same events are ...

As authoritarian policies, censorship, and anti-gender campaigns intensify worldwide, education unions are reaffirming a long ...

South Africa has regained competitiveness in mining because of partnerships between the public and private sector to tackle regulatory issues and structural bottlenecks, according to billionaire ...

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Nicholas Bariyo is a reporter covering East Africa and the Great Lakes Region for The Wall Street Journal’s Africa bureau.

A U.S.-backed project in South Africa aims to extract rare earth minerals from industrial waste as part of a Trump administration priority to reduce reliance on China.

The Council today adopted a decision supporting efforts to strengthen African capacities for mine action, contributing to the objective of a mine-free Africa. Through this decision, the EU will ...