More than five months after Operation Vala Umgodi in Stilfontein, police confirm 156 cases involving 1 831 suspects remain pending. While over 1 000 miners have been found guilty on charges ranging ...

The South African government spent just over R30 million retrieving suspects involved in illegal mining at the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine in Stilfontein, North West. This was part of Operation Vala ...

Only 26 South Africans were part of the 2,000 artisanal miners who resurfaced alive from the Stilfontein illegal mining ...

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Mathe said the Mine Rescue Service, which has been responsible for the operation in Stilfontein, would send a cage underground on Thursday morning "to see if any illegal miners resurface with the ...

The government in South Africa says it will not help about 4,000 miners inside an illegal closed mine in the country's North West province as part of an official policy against illegal mining.

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Undocumented illegal miners in Mpumalanga are getting away with gender-based violence (GBV) and other crimes as law enforcement agencies fail to finalise cases due to the perpetrators’ lack of ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Rescuers and South African Police Service officers carry bodies during a rescue operation ...

This legislation could help unlock the potential of underused assets and abandoned properties, including mines, inner-city buildings and land ...