Marikana was a precursor to Stifontein and show the lengths to which the state would go to punish people in protection of ...

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

A South African Police Services (Saps) vehicle is parked near the mine shaft in Stilfontein on 17 November 2024. Picture: ...

As Operation Vala Umgodi nears its end, the need for setting up a permanent, specialist police unit to combat illegal mining ...

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

Calling illegal immigration a 'huge problem', Senzo Mchunu told Parliament: 'The overall fundamental issue is border ...

At least 20 of the informal miners who died in Shaft 11 of the Buffelsfontein mine in Stilfontein died of starvation and ...

This was revealed during a Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Mineral Resources and Police session on Tuesday (18/3), where ...

Of the 1,826 "zama zamas" or illegal miners arrested in the Vala Umgodi operation at the Buffelsfontein gold mine in ...

A 66-year-old Stilfontein man has been handed a life sentence after he was convicted of raping his granddaughter over a period of five years. Police said the grandfather began raping the young ...

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

PRETORIA - Police say they've already spent over R30 million in the Stilfontein operation. That's according to North West police commissioner, Patrick Asaneng. He briefed a joint sitting of ...