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 ...

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 ...

South Africa's mining industry faces a crisis, with over 6,000 abandoned mines posing safety risks and economic challenges ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

The rescue operation in Sabie is separate from another illegal mining incident in Stilfontein in North West Province, where over 1,000 illegal miners have been underground for weeks. A court order ...