The leadership of the Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, an independent professional institute of international standing for over 130 years, notes with sadness the gravity of the ...

Survivors, rescuers and families of the dead and missing say they have been abandoned — branded as criminals for trying to ...

Police records indicate that he was not booked into any police stations where other illegal miners were detained, nor was he hospitalised. The SAPS says investigations into Tshoeali 's escape ...

The kingpin of an allegedly illegal mining network in Stilfontein has managed to evade arrest. Police are searching for Lesotho national named James Neo Tshoaeli. He reportedly disappeared after ...

North West Acting Provincial Commissioner, Major General Patrick Asaneng, has ordered maximum resources to be mobilised in finding an alleged Stilfontein mining kingpin. This comes after James Neo ...

Police have promised tough action following the disappearance of an alleged Stilfontein zama zama kingpin and ringleader, known as 'Tiger,' who vanished without a trace after being rescued from ...

Extensive investigations and tracing operations are underway to find those officials who aided his escape between shaft 11 and the Stilfontein police holding cells. According to records ...

has launched a manhunt for an alleged illegal mining ringleader who is believed to have escaped after resurfacing from the Stilfontein gold mine in the North West Province of South Africa.

The Stilfontein mine shafts, long hotspots for illegal mining, have become a symbol of the desperation faced by thousands of miners seeking to make a living from disused mines. Many of these ...

The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) is pursuing legal options to hold the government accountable for the deaths The African Transformation Movement said Stilfontein was a man-made ...

The entrance shaft of an abandoned mine is seen in Stilfontein on January 14, 2025. More than two dozen illegal miners have been rescued and at least 15 bodies recovered from an abandoned gold ...