Seven months after a tsunami mudslide from a local mine swept through the township of Charlesville in the Free State – taking with it lives, house and people’s dreams – it has become a ghost town… and ...

(Reuters) - South African authorities shut down the Jagersfontein diamond tailings dam in 2020 due to high water levels before allowing it to reopen last year, a company official said on Monday, a day ...

A person who disappeared when a mine tailings dam wall collapsed at Jagersfontein in the Free State on September 11 is still missing. Free State premier Sefora Ntombela and MECs met representatives of ...

The disaster occurred in the diamond mining town of Jagersfontein, forcing officials to evacuate scores of residents to ...

Jagersfontein Developments, the owner of a mine waste dam that partially collapsed two weeks ago, denied on Wednesday that another dam wall had collapsed, contradicting a statement from the Free State ...

A new report into the 2022 Jagersfontein mine dam collapse suggests the mining company may have known about the dam’s instability as early as 2019. The collapse on 11 September 2022 claimed several ...

The Department of Water and Sanitation released its report into the devastating 2022 dam wall collapse on Friday, which showed that the operation’s management may have been aware of the impending ...

(Reuters) - A South African company is dumping the sludgy byproduct of mining into a historical diamond pit after the tailings dam that had stored the waste partially collapsed, killing one and ...

Charlesville residents are at an early stage of having their homes rebuilt after a mudslide from a local Jagersfontein mine dam burst on 11 September 2022. The now toxic-filled ghost town residents ...

Sept 28 (Reuters) - Jagersfontein Developments, the owner of a mine wastedam that partially collapsed two weeks ago, denied on Wednesday that another dam wall had collapsed, contradicting a statement ...