Please confirm you are human
This browser or connection looks automated. Press and continuously hold the control for 3 seconds to enable Google-hosted web results and, when separately allowed, AI-assisted answers.
A successful check enables 100 search requests. Interactive access does not authorize scraping, systematic collection, or reuse of search output.
News
Landslide at Guinea landfill kills 30, government says
1+ hour, 31+ min ago (206+ words) The incident occurred at around 2 a.m. (0200 GMT) in the Gbessia commune of Conakry, according to a government statement. The death toll was 30, with six people seriously injured and 16 more lightly injured, the statement said. Rescue operations were continuing at the site…...
Regulatory failure, not criminality, lies at the heart of SA’s mining crisis
3+ day, 22+ hour ago (581+ words) Phyllia Ngoatje is an attorney at Lawyers for Human Rights, working in the Environmental Rights Programme. Fourteen miners were recently victims of a tragic incident in an improperly closed mine in Nkaneng, near Marikana, in North West. While the current…...
DRDGold pays dividends for 19th consecutive year, eyes expansion outside SA
3+ day, 23+ hour ago (575+ words) There is money to be made from Johannesburg’s old mine dumps, and DRDGold has now paid dividends for 19 consecutive years to prove that assertion. Now, the company that has helped transform the Johannesburg landscape and environment for the better while…...
Ignored by Parliament, mining communities continue organising to demand real constitutional justice
1+ week, 4+ day ago (751+ words) Christopher Rutledge is executive director of the Mining Affected Communities United in Action (Macua) and Women Affected by Mining United in Action (Wamua) Advice Office. It is not always a waiting born of despair. People often approach the state with…...
Aussie diggers target ‘world-class’ gas fields in Mpumalanga
2+ week, 5+ day ago (891+ words) An Australian energy group has set its sights on sinking dozens of natural gas wells in Mpumalanga province, aiming to provide “cleaner” fuel to at least one local power station and other industrial sites. But the plan also raises questions…...
SA mining is falling behind in the global technology race
3+ week, 6+ day ago (975+ words) As digitisation, automation and AI become ubiquitous in the global mining sector, South Africa is falling behind, especially when it comes to domestic research and development. South Africa has the world’s deepest mines, which is testimony to how its engineers…...
Illegal miners are undermining Joburg’s foundations, causing infrastructure collapse
1+ mon, 1+ day ago (1083+ words) With at least 100 years’ worth of gold still buried beneath Johannesburg, the City’s illegal mining crisis isn’t going away any time soon, and it threatens far more than just collapsing roads, sinkholes, and bridges. Beneath South Africa’s economic capital lies…...
Watch — Properties threatened by sinkholes as illegal mining hollows out Joburg
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (523+ words) Sinkholes are collapsing major arterial roads, opening inside upmarket residential estates and even beneath shops and factories as illegal miners tunnel under Johannesburg, forcing businesses and residents to spend small fortunes on emergency repairs and temporary infrastructure just to keep…...
Why lifting the Karoo fracking moratorium is a risky move
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (830+ words) South Africa needs energy. That much is beyond dispute. But the real question is whether unlocking shale gas in the Karoo is the right answer or whether it risks trading one crisis for another. In March 2026, the government announced its…...
South32’s $5.6bn aluminium sale to Alcoa includes Hillside, signalling investor confidence in SA
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (870+ words) When the Hillside Aluminium smelter in Richards Bay was launched in 1996, it was the largest private investment in South Africa at the time, signalling confidence in the economic trajectory of the Rainbow Nation under Nelson Mandela, who presided over the…...