Regularised artisanal mining could also boost the security industry through protection services guarding these mines. It ...

Acting provincial police commissioner Major General Patrick Asaneng is furious and frustrated that suspected illegal mining ...

North West acting police commissioner, Patrick Asaneng, said while the purpose of Operation Vala Umgodi was to clamp down on ...

Survivors, rescuers and families of the dead and missing say they have been abandoned — branded as criminals for trying to ...

During a three-day national rescue operation, 246 suspected illegal miners were medically assessed by healthcare ...

Alleged Stilfontein illegal mining kingpin James “Tiger” Neo Tshoaeli resurfaced from shaft 11 in Stilfontein during a rescue ...

The South African Police Service is investigating members who were on duty the day that an illegal mining kingpin escaped ...

notes with sadness the gravity of the human tragedy that occurred at Stilfontein in the North West Province of South Africa over the last few weeks. The death of at least seventy-eight miners ...

In contrast, sympathy was lacking for the 109 artisanal miners who have lost their lives at Buffelsfontein Gold Mine in Stilfontein, North West, since August. Neither commentators on social media nor ...

Illegal miners trapped nearly a mile below ground reportedly avoided dying of hunger by resorting to cannibalism.