An Indian company this week declared its intention to mine in a critical water catchment area in Mpumalanga, just one year after the area was proclaimed a protected area. Atha-Africa Ventures ...

Environmental groups attempting to block a controversial coal mining project on a protected area in Mpumalanga headed to the Pretoria High Court last week. On day one of the hearing, the state got ...

Nonprofit organisation (NPO), the Centre for Environmental Rights (CER) says coal mines in Mpumalanga are “significantly” noncompliant with their water use licence conditions. In a report ...

Mpumalanga is in a dilemma: it needs both agriculture and mining to realise exponential economic growth to meet its 2020 job targets, but the two sectors simply cannot co-exist. The newly released ...

Solar Mining's Charles Hurly discusses the company's product offerings and its growth plans, while CEO Desmond Pillay talks about the company's impact on the Mpumalanga economy. Video and editing ...

The men say they were forced to mine for rocks containing gold (stock photo) More than 150 illegal miners have been rescued from an abandoned mine in South Africa's eastern Mpumalanga province.