Major global tyre manufacturer closes its Kariega factory in South Africa, sparking concerns over nearly 900 job losses… The ...

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 ...

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 ...

Police officers and private security workers stand by a mine shaft in Stilfontein, South Africa ... launched an operation in November called “Vala Umgodi” – or “close the hole ...

They blink like moles in the harsh South African sunlight. Some look painfully young. Operations to rescue hundreds of illegal miners at an abandoned gold mine in Stilfontein, a small mining town ...

As Mzwandile Mkwayi was lowered into the South African mine in ... the crackdown on illicit mining in December 2023 through Operation Vala Umgodi (meaning "close the hole" in isiZulu).

More than 17,000 alleged illegal miners, many from neighbouring countries, have surfaced in South Africa ... operations began there in August 2023 – around 17,000 have surfaced at mines countrywide ...

The police operation, "Vala Umgodi" ("close the hole ... South Africa maps ambitious G20 agenda Authorities said they were investigating the broader criminal networks that orchestrate the mining ...