TW Kambule-NSTF Award: Researcher

Besides Sibanye’s internal investigations, it has held two safety summits and has formed a task team to tackle the causes of the fatalities

The controversial colliery is allegedly flouting safety standards, imperilling workers and reneging on payments.

The system is on its way out but its legacy endures – in low wages and dwindling union membership.

The mobility of miners and prevalence of HIV has rendered a large-scale drugs project ineffective.

AngloGold Ashanti has become the latest miner to report a surge in output-disrupting safety stops as it unveiled a fall in fourth quarter earnings.

South Africa is looking at revised safety regulations to help tackle rising mine deaths in the world’s top platinum and a major gold producer.

All 167 mine workers at a mine near Carletonville have been brought to the surface more than 24 hours after they were trapped on Saturday night.

Kumba Iron Ore remains committed to zero harm, chief executive Chris Griffith told a results presentation in Johannesburg on Thursday.

South African gold miner Gold Fields confirmed on Thursday that two employees have been killed at the group’s Kloof mine west of Johannesburg.