Underage workers are being abused in illegal South African ... curb illegal mining, launching a major operation in December 2023 called Vala Umgodi - translated as 'seal the hole'.

Months after South Africa ... operation to shut down the illegal mine in Stilfontein is part of a national illegal-mining crackdown dubbed Operation “Vala Umgodi,” or “Close the Hole ...

They don't want you to get close to them, because they feel that they can no longer trust anyone." South Africa's illegal mining ... an operation called Vala Umgodi, or seal the hole, in December ...

Development finance institution the Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa (IDC) has extended a credit-approved ...

Mineral and Petroleum Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe has visited the project as it progresses towards becoming a copper ...

Nearly a third of the 260 miners stuck underground following an accident at a Sibanye-Stillwater SSWJ.J gold mine in South Africa were brought ... the first phase of an operation to extract ...

At least 300 workers are trapped underground in an "ultra-deep" gold mine without any food after a door malfunctioned. The miners have been stuck in Shaft 7 of Sibanye-Stillwater’s Kloof mine ...

Independent power producer (IPP) NOA Group has reached financial close on a 349MW solar PV project in South Africa.