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

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

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.As a result, the SAPS, and the Lesotho ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

Despite its rhetoric, the CPM-K is a pro-capitalist, nationalist organisation articulating the interests of sections of the ...