In a related article, the death of one of the Stilfontein illegal miners in hospital raised questions about the medical care they are receiving. Briefly News reported that SAPS denied claims that ...

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

has refuted claims that illegal miners rescued from a Stilfontein gold mine were not receiving adequate healthcare. SAPS national Spokesperson Brigadier Athlenda Mathe made the statement following ...

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 ...

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

"We have indicated that as the SAPS, we have to verify this ... The situation at the disused mine shafts in Stilfontein has been developing since August 2024, when small groups of illegal ...

According to Macua, the South African Police Service (Saps), acting on government orders ... “The lives lost in Stilfontein cannot be in vain. The time for passive observation has long passed ...

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 ...

The case against four police officers linked to the escape of an alleged illegal mining ringleader in Stilfontein has been ...

The organisations said the South African Police Service (SAPS), under government instruction ... and preventing the humanitarian disaster at Stilfontein. Rutledge also wants the committee to ...