Trading informally is not a choice but a necessity in a country where the unemployment rate is at an alarming level ...

South Africa’s police have resorted to medieval military tactics against illegal miners. But the solution lies elsewhere: ...

JOHANNESBURG: The derelict Stilfontein shaft, which became a hell hole for hundreds of trapped miners, is just one of 6,000 ...

Following an estimated 4.8% output contraction in the agriculture sector in 2024, Bureau for Food and Agriculture Policy ...

In its heyday South Africa's mines employed nearly half a million people ... And an astonishing 80% of all the people who work in the gold sector worldwide do so as informal or artisanal mineworkers.

In the wake of the recent attacks on police who were raiding informal traders in Johannesburg’s inner city, the Minister of Small Business Development, Khumbudzo Ntshavheni, responded by saying that ...