The temperature can reach 45C underground and workers are at risk of heat stroke. They wear sleeveless vests and their bodies smeared with dirt.
The commission of inquiry’s terms of reference are far-reaching, its deadlines tight and its worth in doubt.
Eskom has come clean in Parliament on the costs of building the giant Medupi and Kusile power stations.
Tokyo Sexwale’s 2011 Cabinet declaration gives a glimpse of why he prefers not to make such reports, and the exotic riches behind his silence.
The Marikana massacre has exposed an increasingly tense relationship between the ANC leadership and its fractious members in North West.
Increased labour unrest in the face of stubborn unemployment levels was a key risk to South Africa’s economic outlook according to the IMF.
President Jacob Zuma has announced retired Supreme Court of Appeal judge Ian Farlam will chair the commission of inquiry into the Marikana tragedy.
Julius Malema has proved why he is the master of rhetoric when he stirred up a crowd of mourners and forced government ministers to flee to safety.
On Sunday August 19, members of the September National Imbizo set off for Marikana, the crime scene at which workers were shot and killed last week.
A week later there is still no consensus about what happened at Lonmin’s Marikana mine, and crucial questions are not being answered.