In Zambia's Kabwe region, up to 200,000 people face devastating health consequences from decades of lead pollution, with 95% ...

Rosalind Morris digs deep via ethnography, history, personal testimony, and political thought to tell the story about the ...

Mineral and Petroleum Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe reports that discussions are under way withing government and with ...

After Alexander the Great conquered Egypt in 332 BC, a gold rush swept the kingdom, during which nearly 40 mines were ...

Operation Vala Umgodi leads to significant arrests of undocumented foreign nationals involved in illegal mining, showcasing ...

A rise in political tensions in South Sudan and an escalation of violence in the Upper Nile State have raised fears of a return to civil war in the world's youngest nation. In early March 2025, ...

The casual sadism on display is breathtaking in the staggeringly dangerous breadth of the harm inflicted – on our health and ...

Readers ask whether Australia should be weakening its ties with Britain at a time when our US relations are under threat, and ...

A woman was arrested for attempting to smuggle cocaine into the country, with South Africans now annoyed by the amount of ...

This brief presents an estimate of the functioning of the criminal justice system as a whole for the five years from 2014/15 to 2018/19, based on the stick-flow model presented in the first brief in ...

Groundwater can cause significant disruptions to mining activities, particularly during the rainy season, which varies across different regions of Africa. From heavy seasonal downpours to localised ...

(AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa, File) HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — African leaders on Thursday announced the withdrawal of thousands of troops from South Africa, Tanzania and Malawi who were sent to quell ...