Shaft 11 in the small town of Stilfontein took more than 100 lives. Bloomberg Investigates uncovers how the catastrophe was ...

South Africa's membership in the BRICS economic bloc, comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, offers a ...

A tragic standoff is unfolding in Stilfontein, South Africa, where thousands of illegal miners – known colloquially as zama zamas – are trapped underground. The crisis has brought South Africa’s ...

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The police have cut off food and water to miners for weeks in a bid to force them out of an abandoned mine. Human rights advocates and community leaders call the tactics inhumane. By Lynsey Chutel ...

This research was funded by the Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford. Globally, coal mines are generally concentrated in certain areas. This means that the labour market effects of the ...

Johannesburg — More than 4,000 miners locked in a standoff with South African authorities over illegal mining were believed to be sick and increasingly weak inside an abandoned mine shaft Thursday.

South Africa’s government is facing criticism for its clampdown on illegal mining that cut off food and water to hundreds of miners underground, after at least 78 bodies were pulled from a shaft this ...

STILFONTEIN, South Africa — Months after South African authorities initially cut off supplies to miners working illegally in an abandoned gold mine, rescuers brought dozens of bodies and emaciated ...