Residents of Khuma want the abandoned mine reopened to create jobs and boost the local economy, but mining expert Ingrid ...

Residents and businesses in Klerksdorp say service delivery failures are forcing businesses to close down and are hurting residents’ quality of life.

The tragedy, which left South Africa divided, and left many illegal miners dead in its wake, unfolded last year after the ...

As the risk of extreme flooding increases with climate change, an effort is underway to relocate hundreds of flood survivors ...

In South Africa, more than thirty years after the end of apartheid, the lives of people who are black and poor are not counted as human lives. We are murdered with impunity and left to die with ...

The solution to the problem of informal economies is not policing. Nor is it regulation. The solution must begin with massive regional economic repair.

In Stilfontein, the government’s crackdown on illegal mining was meant to restore order. But for residents like Rita de Sonsa ...

Illegal miners trapped nearly a mile below ground reportedly avoided dying of hunger by resorting to cannibalism.

Trapped nearly a mile beneath the earth after police blocked their food and water, one recalled how some of his colleagues ...

The two survivors speak quietly as they recount how emaciated miners broke the ultimate taboo to avoid dying of hunger.

An illegal miner who was at Stilfontein described James Neo Tshoaeli, also known as Tiger, as a brutal henchman, but ...