Ed Stoddard

Mining firms faced the logistical challenge of contacting 70 000 miners around the country when they decided to sidestep Amcu in wage negotiations.

Attackers have gunned down a former NUM official at Lonmin, stoking political and industrial tensions on South Africa’s volatile platinum belt.

Africa’s rhinos and elephants have been poached in near record numbers in 2012, with surging demand for horn and ivory driving the slaughter.

Mourners in Newtown, Connecticut, headed for the first two of 20 funerals of the schoolchildren shot dead by 20-year-old Adam Lanza.

Anglo American will face a hearing next year to determine if it’s liable for miners who contracted silicosis while working in its gold shafts.

Our mining industry is being sucked into a vicious cycle as labour unrest spreads, with steep wage demands that the industry cannot afford.

Amplats has signalled it plans to trim loss-making shafts as producers of the metal grapple with depressed prices and a rise in union militancy.

A decade ago, doomsday forecasts asserted the Aids pandemic would sharply curtail African economic growth but two countries have forced a rethink.

Riot police fired tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannon at striking miners who went on the rampage at Impala Platinum’s Rustenburg plant.

NUM workers at Eskom are preparing to strike after wage talks failed, but Eskom says it is protected by its status as an essential service provider.

Mining Minister Susan Shabangu is confident a government-set ownership target for blacks in the mining sector will be exceeded.

Striking coal and gold miners will meet the Chamber of Mines in a bid to end strikes that have cost the country tens of millions of dollars.

SA gold miners will down tools on Thursday, intensifying a wave of strikes and potentially costing the sector $25-million a day.

Frederick Chiluba, Zambia’s first democratically elected president who fought off corruption charges after standing down, has died aged 68.

Robot submarines wielding powerful cutting tools went to work on BP’s latest bid to curtail the flow of oil spewing from its ruptured wellhead.