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Illegal mining clampdown in South Africa: treating desperate people like criminals is an injustice – legal scholar
Updated 5 hours ago Illegal artisanal gold mining in South Africa is in the spotlight again. Under Operation Vala Umgodi (“plug the hole”), South African authorities... →
Witness To Power: A Political Memoir – Mathews Phosa
Updated 6 hours ago Mathews Phosa has been an eyewitness to the dramatic shifts of political power in South Africa. He was involved in the Black Consciousness... →
DA welcomes urgent action taken in Stilfontein mining crisis
19th November 2024 The country has been gripped by the unfolding crisis in Stilfontein, which has required critical intervention from the South African Police... →
Apartheid Spies and the Revolutionary Underground – Billy Keniston
19th November 2024 An in-depth study of the assassination of Jeanette and Katryn Schoon at the hands of apartheid spy Craig Williamson explores how the lives of a... →
Operation Vala Umgodi should strike a balance between right to life and duty to fight crime in Stilfontein – Committee chair
19th November 2024 The Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Mineral and Petroleum Resources, Mr Mikateko Mahlaule, has called on the roleplayers in Operation... →
Ramaphosa calls for peaceful resolution to police standoff with illegal miners 
By: Sashnee Moodley 18th November 2024 President Cyril Ramaphosa described the Stilfontein mine as a “crime scene”, on Monday, as he called for a peaceful resolution to the standoff at... →
Daily Podcast – November 15, 2024
15th November 2024 Making headlines: Families gather at mine shaft where hundreds are feared underground Poll shows Reserve Bank to cut rates to 7.75% And, South... →
Families gather at mine shaft where hundreds are feared underground
By: Reuters 15th November 2024 Desperate family members of illegal miners believed to number in the hundreds waited outside a disused mine shaft in South Africa on Friday in the... →
