The Afro-Asiatic wildcat (Felis lybica) is the world’s most widely distributed small wildcat, but it’s also one of the least ...

As the afternoon sun beats down on Gold Fields' sprawling Tarkwa gold mine in southwestern Ghana, three men launch a drone ...

Soviet anthropologist Michael Gerasimov opens the tomb of Timurid Empire founder Timur and allegedly finds the inscription ...

The tiny black-footed cat (Felis nigripes) is one of Africa’s rarest cats, only found in South Africa, Namibia and Botswana, with a total population size of fewer than 10,000 individuals.

A series of wildcat miners' strikes in South Africa spread to a new sector, iron ore, on Wednesday and hit another gold firm in an escalation of the labour unrest that is testing President Jacob ...

JOHANNESBURG -- Anglo American Platinum fired 12,000 wildcat strikers on Friday, a high-stakes attempt by the world's biggest platinum producer to push back at a wave of illegal stoppages sweeping ...

The rules of the game in South Africa's labour market have changed and the new players are workers such as Tshepo Modise and Thulani Soko, wildcat strikers at mining giant Anglo American Platinum ...

South Africa's National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) said it would protest the sacking of the workers and would ask Xstrata to re-hire them and call a strike to force the issue. "We are going to dispute ...

TotalEnergies’ plan to drill a wildcat in South Africa’s part of the prolific Orange basin has been given a boost after a key government ministry approved the drilling operation, albeit with ...

South Africa has long loomed large in the global imagination. ... when the police opened fire on platinum miners engaged in a wildcat strike in a town called Marikana, killing 34.