Four police officers have been arrested after being accused of letting the underground kingpin of Stilfontein, Neo James Tiger Tshwaeli, escape. The police officers accused of the crime are ...

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 ...

A South African Police Services (Saps) vehicle is parked near the mine shaft in Stilfontein on 17 November 2024. Picture: Phill Magakoe / AFP The South African Police Service (SAPS) has condemned ...

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 ...

Community members on their way to the mine in Stilfontein, North West, on 19 November 2024, where some of the illegal miners remain underground. Picture: Nigel Sibanda/The Citizen The South ...

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 ...

Forensic workers at the site of the abandoned gold mine in Stilfontein, South Africa, on Wednesday (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.) From ...

eNCA reporter Bafedile Moerane spoke to Cosatu North West secretary, Kopano Konopi, who says lives could have been saved.

South African authorities began their operation at the Buffelsfontein gold mine in Stilfontein, about 95 miles west of Johannesburg, in November after some of those accused of mining underground ...

Ramaphosa must take the lead in ensuring that this appalling story does not become another Marikana, the 2012 massacre of striking miners by post-apartheid police in which 34 miners and 10 ...

These are the words of Clement Moeletsi. He was underground at the Stilfontein mine from the end of July 2024 until 9 December, when he was sent out by the other miners because of his frail and ...

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