As scores of African National Congress (ANC ... The streets of Khayelitsha are painted green, black, and gold as the ANC flags can be seen from corner to corner. Dressed in full party regalia ...

A fresh clue to the lost colonists’ fate emerged when curators backlit this 16th-century map of what is now coastal ... arrived on Roanoke hoping to find gold, valuable pharmaceuticals, and ...

Rescuers have hoisted illegal miners and several bodies from an abandoned gold mine in South Africa, where reports emerge that hundreds may be trapped and at least 100 may have already died.

South African rescuers have pulled 36 bodies and 82 survivors from a gold mine in two days of operations, police say, adding that the survivors would face illegal mining and immigration charges.

Hence, African nations exported valuable minerals for westerns by cheap prices. Like diamonds, gold, and other minerals, processing them into high-value products. In contrast, Africa predominantly ...

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has proposed that African leaders adopt a gold-backed currency system to stabilize weakening local currencies against major international currencies. In ...

The government has been called upon to take immediate action to address the issue of illegal gold mining and smuggling ... AllAfrica is a voice of, by and about Africa - aggregating, producing ...

Across the West African Economic and Monetary Union, governments are tightening mining regulations to boost revenue for development. But as Côte d’Ivoire, Mali and Burkina Faso push reforms, investor ...

BAMAKO, Feb 1 (Reuters) - Thirteen artisanal miners, including women and three children, were killed in southwest Mali on Wednesday after a tunnel in which they were digging for gold flooded ...

Months after efforts began to remove people working in an abandoned gold mine in South Africa, rescuers removed 60 bodies and 106 survivors from the mine after two days of operations, police said ...

As It Happens6:10'Please pray for us,' says sister of missing South African miner as police halt ... of emaciated survivors from an abandoned gold mine this week, but Zinzi Tom's brother wasn ...