The operation is an extension of Operation Vala Umgodi that began with the Stilfontein massacre in January, where 90 miners ...

The South African Police Service arrested 28 illegal miners after they resurfaced from the Sheba Gold Mine in Barberton, Mpumalanga, on 5 August 2025.

We cannot police our way out of a crisis rooted in poverty, neglect, and corruption. The current approach is both unsustainable and unjust. Without systemic reform and accountability, illegal mining ...

A video has surfaced on social media showing a police officer, believed to be on duty, engaged in a verbal altercation with a ...

Authorities said a week-long operation led to the arrests. Thousands of abandoned mines have become hotspots for illegal ...

South African police have arrested around 1 000 undocumented migrants working in gold mines in the northeast of the country.

South African police said they have arrested some 1,000 undocumented migrants working in gold mines in the northeast of the country.

South African police said Friday they have arrested some 1,000 undocumented migrants working in gold mines in the northeast of the country. A police spokesman for the Mpumalanga province, where the ...

A statement by the police said most of the suspects are foreigners without documents to support their stay in the country ...

FILE - South Africa's Police Minister Senzo Mchunu, center, visits an abandoned gold mine where miners are rescued from below ground, in Stilfontein, South Africa, Jan. 14, 2025. Ramaphosa, who came ...

The men are believed to have died of starvation after a police crackdown on illegal mining in Stilfontein last year. Only 25 of the 78 dead miners have been identified and collected by their ...