In Stilfontein, the government’s crackdown on illegal mining was meant to restore order. But for residents like Rita de Sonsa ...

In South Africa, more than thirty years after the end of apartheid, the lives of people who are black and poor are not counted as human lives. We are murdered with impunity and left to die with ...

Regularised artisanal mining could also boost the security industry through protection services guarding these mines. It ...

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

Alleged Stilfontein illegal mining ringleader James “Tiger” Neo Tshoaeli’s escape from police custody was likely facilitated ...

An illegal miner who was at Stilfontein described James Neo Tshoaeli, also known as Tiger, as a brutal henchman, but ...

Acting provincial police commissioner Major General Patrick Asaneng is furious and frustrated that suspected illegal mining ...

Mineral and Petroleum Resources Minister, Gwede Mantashe, has hit back at accusations that the government is to blame for the ...

Muhammad Hussain asked Portfolio Committee on Police chairperson Ian Cameron of the DA his thoughts on Stilfontein.

The South African Police Service is investigating members who were on duty the day that an illegal mining kingpin escaped ...

During a three-day national rescue operation, 246 suspected illegal miners were medically assessed by healthcare ...