Rights’ groups with interests in the 2012 Marikana massacre continue to ask why it took seven years to bring the police officers accused of killing mineworkers before the courts. The Socio Economic Rights Institutions (SERI) and Right to Know (R2K) mad…
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Rights’ groups with interests in the 2012 Marikana massacre continue to ask why it took seven years to bring the police officers accused of killing mineworkers before the courts. The Socio Economic Rights Institutions (SERI) and Right to Know (R2K) mad…
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Tanya Cohen is stepping down as chief executive of Business Unity South Africa after two-and-a-half years at the helm, the apex business organisation announced on Monday. Busa said that after careful consideration and in consultation with the board, Co…
Busa CEO Tanya Cohen steps down Read More »
Vladimir Putin has made no secret of his intention to return Russia to its previous glory as a world power by all means available to him, not least of which has been military aggression such as in Crimea. But on the African continent, where Russia has …
Russia’s latest great game in Africa: energy Read More »
A security company responsible for safeguarding a gold treatment plant belonging to Mintails on the West Rand withdrew last week, citing “financial constraints”. The evacuation, which follows the liquidation of the embattled mining company and its subs…
Unfolding environmental disaster Read More »
The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) confirmed on Wednesday night that all mineworkers who staged a sit-in underground at the Chinese African Precious Metal Company (CAPM) in Orkney, in the North West since last weekend, have resurfaced from undergr…
NUM members end underground sit-in at Chinese mine in NW after five days Read More »
Not all transactions at State-owned logistics company Transnet were handled in compliance with stipulated processes, acting CEO Mohammed Mahomedy told the commission probing graft on Wednesday. "What we found was that certain transactions were appr…
Not all deals at Transnet went through prescribed processes – acting CEO Read More »
At a small mining community in Battlefields near Kadoma, about 157 km south west of the capital, jobless people sit under trees to escape the burning sun. It is the same place where 26 artisanal gold miners perished underground when a dam upstream burs…
Abandoned gold mines a ‘deadly panacea’ for Zimbabwe’s jobless Read More »
Seventeen Marikana mineworkers briefly appeared in the North West High Court, sitting in Mogwase, on Monday. Their case was postponed to October 18, due to an application they made at the High Court in Pretoria to review former National Director of Pub…
Marikana mineworkers case postponed again Read More »
Emeralds from Zambia’s Kagem mine have captured the eye of some of the foremost gemstone buyers and jewellers around the world, helping boost revenue for the southern African country, parent company Gemfields has said. “We are excited because appreciat…
International Kagem emerald promotion boosts Zambia’s revenue – Gemfields Read More »
