The North West has registered a 3.9% drop in the number of criminal cases reported, although illegal mining remains a thorn ...

Four National Intervention Unit (NIU) officers, part of Operation Vala Umgodi at Stilfontein, appeared in court for aiding an ...

The highly specialised equipment of emergency preparedness and response organisation Mines Rescue Services South Africa ...

THE South African Police Service (SAPS) is struggling to identify 79 of the 88 bodies of illegal miners retrieved from the Stilfontein mine shaft last month.As a result, the SAPS, and the Lesotho ...

Illegal mining is not just the domain of zama zamas but extends to politically shielded elites who have looted billions from ...

North West police have dismissed reports that illegal mining kingpin James “Tiger” Tsoaeli, who escaped from custody in Stilfontein, has died. Tsoaeli resurfaced from a shaft at the Buffelsfontein ...

South Africa's mining industry faces a crisis, with over 6,000 abandoned mines posing safety risks and economic challenges ...

Since August 2024, more than 1,000 illegal miners surfaced from the abandoned shafts in Stilfontein and 87 bodies were also retrieved. The commission of inquiry will sit in May this year ...

ensuring the safety of artisanal miners, and preventing the humanitarian disaster at Stilfontein. Rutledge also wants the committee to summon the director-general of MPRDA to account for the ...

Gcina Lepheana had been working deep in the illegal mine for five months when, in October last year, deliveries ...