A 33-year-old man has been sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering a two-year-old boy in Stilfontein, North West, after ...

The City of Matlosana Local Municipality is home to about 430,000 people and includes Klerksdorp, Jouberton, Orkney, Kanana, ...

Chants of “Stilfontein is now! We want justice on the ground!” and “Justice for the miners” reverberated on the sidelines of the Mining Indaba in Cape Town on Wednesday, 5 February 2025, as local ...

Stilfontein will and must be remembered as one of the worst tragedies we have witnessed in the 30 years of democracy in South Africa. From August last year, 87 artisanal miners were deserted and hung ...

A South African court ordered police to end a standoff with illegal miners and allow emergency workers to gain access to a shaft where hundreds are believed to be holed up. The High Court in Pretoria, ...

Four police officers arrested in connection with the escape of illegal mining kingpin James “Tiger” Tsoaeli in Stilfontein, North West, have been granted bail. Tsoaeli resurfaced from a shaft at the ...

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 ...

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa called on police to “ensure that lives are not put at risk” in operations to flush out hundreds of people accused of illegal mining who are hiding more than a ...

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 what ...