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Ghanaian President John Mahama’s high-profile visit to London this week, designed to showcase Ghana as a premier destination for foreign investment, was overshadowed by controversy. Photo Jubilee House

Mahama’s UK visit overshadowed by controversy

At the centre of it is London mining investor INIHC’s arbitration battle over the billion-dollar Black Volta gold project

Degradation: Acid mine drainage (AMD) flows out of the Western mining basin on 12 April.  Photos: Trevor Brough

Witwatersrand goldfield acid mine drainage ‘with us for millennia’

Quick fixes are inadequate to prevent damage from gold mining’s legacy, but the long-term plan of treating AMD could relieve water shortages

West Rand: ‘These mine dumps are destroying us’

Mining areas on the West Rand are ecologically dead because of poor rehabilitation

Major problem: Maintaining social grants spending at the expense of reducing infrastructure investment will reduce poverty but not contribute much in terms of economic growth and employment. Photo: Madelene Cronjé

SA’s ‘welfare state’ is in trouble

The government has to make tough decisions about social grants in the face of poor economic performance

Lily Mine battles to pay workers’ wages, let alone compensation

Management remains committed to honouring the payouts in the wake of the accident but says what is owed to miners must be settled first.

Rescuers have been toiling around the clock

Seven days of hell and hope for trapped Lily miners

The chance that the miners trapped underground at Vantage Goldfields’s Lily Mine will be found alive has faded along with the miners’ tapped signals.

Mining bosses’ pay increases irk fund managers

Asset managers have advised mining companies to reign in the colossal salaries being awarded to chief executives.

As wildcat strikes consume the troubled mining sector

Sibanye Gold won’t pay above-inflation wage increase

Sibanye Gold says it will refuse to raise wages above the rate of inflation as gold producers and unions remain locked in talks over pay.

Goldfield’s Sibanye Gold decision pays off as profit soars

Goldfield’s decision to spin its SA operations off and create Sibanye Gold appears to be paying off after it reported a 63% profit increase.

Job cuts on the horizon at Sibanye Gold

Sibanye Gold says it has started talks that may lead to job cuts at its Beatrix West operation after an underground fire hit output and revenue.

Gold Fields spin-off company to test investor confidence

Gold Fields will list most of its local assets as a separate company, testing investor appetite for a mining industry battered by labour unrest.

Hard-core strikers not caving in

After nearly two months of wildcat strikes, mine workers are divided some are throwing in the towel, whereas others are sticking to high wage demands.

Workers have returned to Gold Fields’ Beatrix one

Caught in a web of violence and political inertia

The myriad problems confronting South Africa come at a highly inconvenient time for the African National Congress, writes Rapule Tabane.

Sacked Amplats mineworkers have marched to the regional office of the National Union of Mineworkers in Rustenburg to cancel their membership.

Amplats is ‘not like Marikana’

Widening talk of the dispute over pay issues escalating into a ‘crisis for capital’ is raising serious questions about who is behind it all.

Current events can be traced back to a strike at the end of last year.

Mangaung massacre: Conditions ripe for revolution

Julius Malema is being helped to foment his "mining revolution" by ANC backers, according to senior youth league figures who continue to support him.

The woman was “victimised

SABC news boss wants ‘nuanced’ news, not sensation

Acting head of the South African Broadcast Corporation’s news department Jimi Matthews says he would never "follow the herd" in his news coverage.

Workers at Goldfields’s KDC mine have been on strike since Sunday.

Malema: ‘You must intensify the struggle’

Julius Malema visited striking workers at the Westonaria Goldfields mine. He lambasted the ANC and told the workers to fight. Watch the video.

Civil case to take gold mines to court

An SA lawyer says he is preparing to sue leading gold miners on behalf of former miners who contracted respiratory ailments such as silicosis.

Gold Fields maintains output target, despite dip

Gold Fields is still on track to hit its quarterly gold output target of 1-million ounces, despite another expected dip in output this quarter.

Work resumes at mine following union violence

Work is to resume at Goldfield’s Beatrix mine in the Free State on Thursday following clashes between workers that saw four people die. ”Employee groups have been in discussions…