Dozens of men sat and lay together in small caves, some so shallow they couldn’t stand up. The air was wet and stuffy, and ...

In South Africa a months long stand-off between police and illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine comes to end, with close ...

South Africa’s Mines Minister Gwede Mantashe defended the government’s heavy-handed measures, describing illegal mining as ...

Minister Gwede Mantashe has called for intensified efforts to combat illegal mining, describing it as a crime against the ...

Gwede Mantashe said losing the majority in 2024 was a massive setback which meant the ANC had to use its brain quicker, to ...

"It is deeply disappointing that the neo-liberal structural reform ideology and political direction driven by imperialist-controlled institutions and monopoly capital is increasingly being ...

The African National Congress has noted with concern reports of statements made by leaders of the organization pronouncing on a line up of comrades to be elected as Officials of the ANC at the 54th ...

Gwede Mantashe, the country’s mining minister who has long been an advocate of coal, had cited Komati as an example of an “unjust energy transition”. To ensure this lesson gained wider global traction ...

The Ministry of Minerals and Petroleum Resources has spent nearly R2 million on international travel in just four months, according to Minister Gwede Mantashe. Mantashe recently disclosed this in ...

The Department of Minerals and Petroleum Resources spent R1.9 million on international travel in four months Minister Gwede Mantashe spent over R306,000 in September on a trip to Australia for just ...