North West Police say investigations into the whereabouts of alleged illegal mining kingpin Neo 'Tiger' Tshoaeli are at an ...

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

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 ...

We are told that illegal mining is the crime of the desperate—the work of faceless shadows, scurrying underground like ghosts ...

The case against four police officers accused of aiding an alleged mining kingpin's escape has been postponed, as ...

The case against four police officers linked to the escape of an alleged illegal mining ringleader in Stilfontein, in the ...

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 ...

Highlights include a Stilfontein solidarity picket in Cape Town, a campaign for democracy in eSwatini, and a tribute to the late Professor Michelo Hansugule's legacy in human rights. Thursday ...