PRETORIA - Police say they've already spent over R30 million in the Stilfontein operation. That's according to North West ...

The South African government spent just over R30 million retrieving suspects involved in illegal mining at the Buffelsfontein ...

Mineral and Petroleum Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe said it was false to claim government refused to rescue zama zamas ...

North West Police say investigations into the whereabouts of alleged illegal mining kingpin Neo 'Tiger' Tshoaeli are at an ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

Stilfontein (Afrikaans for quiet spring) is a former mining town which is located on the N12 (National Road) with 17,942 inhabitants, situated between Klerksdorp and Potchefstroom in North West ...

North West Police say investigations into the whereabouts of alleged illegal mining kingpin Neo 'Tiger' Tshoaeli are at an ...