The Minister of Police Senzo Mchunu is expected to visit the Stilfontein Mine in the North West where thousands of zama zamas ...

South Africa's government says it won't help a group of illegal miners inside a closed mine in the country's North West ...

The decomposing body of an illegal mine has been recovered at the Stilfontein mine, while more surfaced on Thursday. Police ...

"When they come out, we will arrest them." South African police and military forces leading the operation to detain the ...

Defence and Military Veterans Minister Angie Motshekga, together with Police Minister Senzo Mchunu, will this morning (Friday ...

The SAPS task team in the North West has called on those illegal miners still underground in the Stilfontein area, to return ...

Police have spent weeks working to clear the abandoned gold mine, as part of its Vala Umgodi (Close the Hole) operation to ...

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) said it will conduct a fact-finding mission on Thursday after receiving ...

The South African Police Service (SAPS) has announced, through Operation Vala Umgodi, that since 18 October 2024, 1 004 ...

North West police have confirmed the number of illegal miners who resurfaced from abandoned shafts in Stilfontein has reached ...

KIMBERLEY - Members of Operation Vala Umgodi in the Frances Baard District confiscated a significant amount of diesel at a house in Phuthanang in Kimberley.

Illegal mining continues to be widespread in South Africa, where miners enter abandoned shafts to search for remaining ...