Name of the Project Mine Waste Solutions (MWS) extension project. Location Stilfontein/Orkney area, in the North West, in ...

James Neo Tshwaeli, also known as “Tiger,” reportedly escaped from custody after being rescued from an abandoned mine shaft ...

North West Police say investigations into the whereabouts of alleged illegal mining kingpin Neo 'Tiger' Tshoaeli are at an ...

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.

People from Pakistan, Ethiopia, and the DRC are the latest nationalities to join the illegal mining activities in the North West province.

Gcina Lepheana had been working deep in the illegal mine for five months when, in October last year, deliveries ...

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 ...

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

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

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

Illegal mining is not just the domain of zama zamas but extends to politically shielded elites who have looted billions from ...