A Malian Islamist who helped run the police force imposing sharia law on Timbuktu after the city was captured by militants in 2012 was sentenced to 10 years in prison by the International Criminal ...

This man had a net worth of more than £315 billion in today's money, making him the richest person to have ever lived.

The economic hub Johannesburg was known as "egoli," meaning "city of gold," and for a long time South Africa was the world's biggest gold producer. But, while the country still has large gold ...

While he sleeps on sandbags after back-breaking days underground, his family lives in a house he has bought in a township of the main city ... no payment or gold. South Africa's mining industry ...

The wealthiest person in the world is a title that has been held by many people, but the richest of all time was Mansa Musa, ...

The estimations of his wealth eclipse those of modern magnates; for comparison, as of 2024, Elon Musk has a net worth just ...

For a bit of heart-pounding fun, families cannot pass up an opportunity to explore Gold Reef City. Influenced by the region's prominent gold mining industry, this Jozi amusement park includes ...

There are tens of thousands of illegal miners in South Africa, with Mr Van Wyk saying they number about 36,000 alone in Gauteng province - the country's economic heartland, where gold was first ...

South Africa experienced a gold rush in the 1880s, with prospectors coming from all over to try their luck in Africa's very own wild west. The economic hub Johannesburg was known as "egoli," meaning ...