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Mining

SA’s unemployment rate edges closer to 35% as mining strikes gold

8 Jul 2026

How informal businesses are reduced to rubble

Entrepreneurship

How informal businesses are reduced to rubble

27 Jan 2026

Lesotho’s coat of arms at Makoanyane Square in Maseru. Tariff changes could halve the country’s exports to the United States, the International Monetary Fund has warned. Photo: Sechaba Mokhethi / GroundUp

HR & Management

Trump’s tariffs could cost Lesotho 30,000 jobs, the IMF warns

Sechaba Mokhethi 26 Sep 2025

Image credit: De Beers

Mining

Diamond discovery: De Beers unearths new kimberlite field in Angola

13 Aug 2025

Image credit: Akhilesh Sharma on Unsplash

Mining

South Africa's natural diamonds must gain global appeal amid US tariffs crisis

6 Aug 2025

Image credit: Dapur Melodi on Pexels

Mining

Mining records 1.1% increase in MCI cost index for May

31 Jul 2025

Lesotho’s largest diamond mine, Letšeng Diamonds blame a weakening US dollar and uncertainty over US trade tariffs for its latest bid to cut hundreds of jobs as a cost-saving measure. Photo: Sechaba Mokhethi

Mining

Hundreds of Lesotho diamond mining jobs to be axed following US tariff threats

Sechaba Mokhethi 30 Jul 2025

Activists from the Vaal region protested outside the Department of Mineral Resources in Pretoria against Glubay’s proposed mine. Residents are concerned about water, soil and air pollution from the proposed mine. Photos: Ihsaan Haffejee / GroundUp

Environment & Natural Resources

Opposition to open cast coal mining in Midvaal

Ihsaan Haffejee 29 Oct 2024

Lack of mining jobs spurs protest in Kagiso

Mining

Lack of mining jobs spurs protest in Kagiso

Chris Gilili 10 Aug 2023

Source: ©Jakub Jirsák

Science & Engineering

Digital to speed up change in mining industry

17 Sep 2021

Roger Baxter, CEO, SA Minerals Council

Markets & Investment

Issues facing mining and impeding economic potential

18 Sep 2020

Artyom Korshunov via

Mining

Minerals Council elaborates on support for B4SA initiative

6 Aug 2020

Chinese, black and white labourers in a South African gold mine probably taken between 1904 to 1910. Source: Carptenter/Library of Congress via pingnews (public domain)

Mining

Stats SA's confusing mining employment statistics

GroundUp staff 27 Feb 2019

AP Photo/David Goldman

Mining

Do climate policies 'kill jobs'? An economist on why they don't cause massive unemployment

Garth Heutel 28 Dec 2018

Grové Steyn, managing director of Meridian Economics

Renewables & Energy Efficiency

Energy transition's impact on jobs needs standardised metrics

Nicci Botha 20 Jul 2018

Are robots stealing our jobs?

HR & Management

Are robots stealing our jobs?

Brian Timperley 6 Apr 2018

Thuthukani Ndebele, head of research at the South African Institute of Race Relations

Mining

Mining could play a critical role in growing jobs

Thuthukani Ndebele 13 Feb 2018

Deputy president, Cyril Ramaphosa

Mining

Mining jobs losses on the decline

7 Sep 2017

AngloGold warns of headlines losses

Mining

AngloGold warns of headlines losses

3 Aug 2017

Mining

Charter gives short shrift to mining jobs

27 Jun 2017

Annelize van Rensburg

Management & Leadership

Leadership in a crisis... have you got what it takes?

Annelize van Rensburg 8 Mar 2016

Mining groups invested in South Africa

Energy & Mining

Mining groups invested in South Africa

3 Feb 2015

Centre of excellence to guide growth in SA mining

Mining

Centre of excellence to guide growth in SA mining

Ray Maota 12 May 2014

Middlemen preying on desperate mine pensioners

Insurance & Actuarial

Middlemen preying on desperate mine pensioners

26 Nov 2013

Labour

Worker productivity plummets

16 Aug 2012

Recruitment

Job losses as diamonds lose their lustre

12 Feb 2009