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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

People from Pakistan, Ethiopia, and the DRC are the latest nationalities to join the illegal mining activities in the North West province.

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

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.

STILFONTEIN - North West Police say investigations into the whereabouts of alleged illegal mining kingpin Neo 'Tiger' Tshoaeli are at an advanced stage. Tiger is believed to have fled an abandoned ...