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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...