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

The kingpin of an allegedly illegal mining network in Stilfontein has managed to evade arrest. Police are searching for Lesotho national named James Neo Tshoaeli. He reportedly disappeared after ...

Stilfontein: The end of ubuntu? At the start of hearings concerning the Life Esidimeni tragedy, 144 crosses appeared outside a Johannesburg nursery. The nursery's owner expressed to a local newspaper ...

The government-led operation to retrieve illegal miners from Stilfontein concluded. Picture: EWN STILFONTEIN, North West - The community of Stilfontein has returned to normalcy after an ...

eNCA's Bafedile Moerane has more.

Since Monday, 246 zama zamas were rescued and 78 bodies recovered. That brings the total number of miners retrieved to 1,907 since August.

With growing concerns about the rise of illegal mining in the area, Stilfontein is now believed to be the epicentre of the country’s black market for illicit gold. Mineral Resources Minister ...

notes with sadness the gravity of the human tragedy that occurred at Stilfontein in the North West Province of South Africa over the last few weeks. The death of at least seventy-eight miners ...

An illegal miner who was retrieved by law enforcement at the Stilfontein shaft in the North West has revealed disturbing information about the living conditions they had to endure and the grim ...

In my view personally, this does not make sense. "These miners in Stilfontein voluntarily came into our country illegally and I find it strange that we are a country that when we adopted our ...

A planned visit to the Stilfontein mining site by the Acting National Commissioner Lieutenant General Tebello Mosikili was postponed earlier this week “due to heavy rains in the North West”.

North West Acting Provincial Commissioner, Major General Patrick Asaneng, has ordered maximum resources to be mobilised in finding an alleged Stilfontein mining kingpin. This comes after James Neo ...