A miner who spent six months in a disused mine in South Africa has spoken of the horror he experienced after a police ...

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

More than 17,000 alleged illegal miners, many from neighbouring countries, have surfaced in South Africa during a police ...

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 ...

If Gwede Mantashe was once the central fulcrum around which the ANC revolved, Ramaphosa now plays that role. Of course, this is not healthy; no nation’s politics should revolve around one person.