Across Africa, Russia is growing in influence. What might Moscow want?
Reliance on Russia’s military offerings has become increasingly prevalent in parts of Africa, amid an aggressive push by ...
A South African horror story: illegal mining stand-off draws to an end
In South Africa a months long stand-off between police and illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine comes to end, with close ...
Stilfontein disaster sparks outrage and demands for accountability
Following the tragic Stilfontein mine disaster that claimed 78 lives, civil society and political parties demand ...
News245h
Cannibalism, starvation and death: 2 illegal Stilfontein miners speak of hell underground
An illegal miner has detailed his desperate five-day crawl in the dark, on an empty stomach, to escape the living hell of ...
Trapped underground with decaying bodies, miners faced a dark reality
Allegations that the miners resorted to eating human flesh in order to survive were also made by other miners who were ...
Hundreds of Miners Were Trapped for Months —Until an Extraordinary Two-Man Rescue Mission
The volunteers risked their lives to venture thousands of feet underground and retrieve their neighbors. What they found was ...
Rescuers pull survivors and bodies from abandoned South Africa gold mine
A rescue team in South Africa has finished a recovery operation to find more than 200 miners trapped in an abandoned gold ...
Morning Star7h
Roger Sutton: a champion of workers who never let go of the banner
From anti-apartheid work to uniting migrant workers, Sutton showed us how to build worker power, keeping socialism’s flame burning bright, and leaving London’s mighty May Day parade as his legacy, wri ...
Money Metals Exchange10h
Axel Merk on Markets, Gold, and Global Dynamics
Axel Merk and Mike Maharrey discuss deregulation, global instability, fiscal policy, and strategic investment in gold and mining.
PBS10h
South African miner describes horrors endured by those who spent months underground
A miner who spent six months in a disused mine in South Africa has spoken of the horror he experienced after a police ...
What next for Glencore after failed Rio Tinto merger talks?
More consolidation is needed, he told a private conference hosted by Goldman Sachs at LME Week. As it happened, Jakob ...
Mozambique not looking to review terms of planned LNG projects, president says
Mozambique is not looking to review contract terms with energy majors like TotalEnergies and ExxonMobil who are planning ...