Spread This NewsThe Citizen The South African government spent just over R30 million retrieving suspects involved in illegal ...

Marikana was a precursor to Stifontein and show the lengths to which the state would go to punish people in protection of ...

Undocumented illegal miners in Mpumalanga are getting away with gender-based violence (GBV) and other crimes as law ...

As Operation Vala Umgodi nears its end, the need for setting up a permanent, specialist police unit to combat illegal mining ...

PRETORIA - Police say they've already spent over R30 million in the Stilfontein operation. That's according to North West ...

Hundreds – possibly thousands – of miners remain trapped in an abandoned gold mine in South Africa’s northwestern Stilfontein town, fearful to come out of hiding and face arrest by security ...

Of the 1,826 "zama zamas" or illegal miners arrested in the Vala Umgodi operation at the Buffelsfontein gold mine in ...

Mineral and Petroleum Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe said it was false to claim government refused to rescue zama zamas ...

Calling illegal immigration a 'huge problem', Senzo Mchunu told Parliament: 'The overall fundamental issue is border ...

Ahead of Human Rights Day experts highlight the ongoing struggles faced by marginalised communities in South Africa, ...

Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the world’s largest multimedia news provider, reaching billions of people worldwide every day. Reuters provides business, financial ...

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