Alleged Stilfontein illegal mining ringleader James “Tiger” Neo Tshoaeli’s escape from police custody was likely facilitated ...
On the second day of the State-sponsored rescue mission, a total of 106 miners were brought to surface and arrested for ...
They say they are doing it because of the situation here at home, things are ... are benefitting from illegal mining," Mines Minister Gwede Mantashe said in Stilfontein this week.
In South Africa, more than thirty years after the end of apartheid, the lives of people who are black and poor are not counted as human lives. We are murdered with impunity and left to die with ...
The small town, once a thriving hub for gold mining, had been in decline since the early 2000s. As deposits dried up in Stilfontein ... of shacks and squat brick homes. Across South Africa ...
South Africa’s police have resorted to medieval military tactics against illegal miners. But the solution lies elsewhere: ...
The South African Police Service is investigating members who were on duty the day that an illegal mining kingpin escaped ...
Speaking to the media on Thursday, acting North West police commissioner Patrick Asaneng confirmed there were no illegal ...
STILFONTEIN -The autopsy results of some of the illegal miners who died in Stilfontein have been released as the death toll underground rises. Almost 60 dead bodies have been retrieved from a shaft at ...
About 6,100 closed mines are distributed across the country. Although closed, they are not sealed. Residual gold remains in ...