Nearly three years since the State Capture Report was released, the ANC has finally taken a step towards addressing the ...

Mineral and Petroleum Resources Minister, Gwede Mantashe, has hit back at accusations that the government is to blame for the ...

Mineral and Petroleum Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe has described illegal mining in South Africa as a war being waged ...

South Africa's mining industry reported 42 deaths last year, the lowest number to date and a 24% improvement on the previous year, official statistics showed on Thursday.

Mzwandile Mkwayi volunteered to go down into the shaft to help save the lives of scores of South African miners.

In South Africa a months long standoff between police and illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine comes to end, with close ...

A miner who spent six months in a disused mine in South Africa has spoken of the horror he experienced after a police ...

South Africa’s Mines Minister Gwede Mantashe defended the government’s heavy-handed measures, describing illegal mining as ...

“It’s a criminal activity. It’s an attack on our economy by foreign nationals in the main,” said Mining Minister Gwede Mantashe, speaking at the site on Jan 14. Police said 1,576 ...

Minister of Mineral and Petroleum Resources Gwede Mantashe, who also visited the Buffelsfontein mine on Tuesday to assess the progress of the rescue operations, highlighted the significant economic ...

The South African government said that the siege of the Stilfontein mine was necessary to fight illegal mining. Mining Minister Gwede Mantashe described it as “a war on the economy”. He estimated that ...