The South African government spent just over R30 million retrieving suspects involved in illegal mining at the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine in Stilfontein, North West. This was part of Operation Vala ...

More than five months after Operation Vala Umgodi in Stilfontein, police confirm 156 cases involving 1 831 suspects remain ...

As illegal mining flourishes in South Africa, a growing health disaster is unfolding underground and in surrounding ...

Police have arrested suspects in Limpopo allegedly involved in illegal mining activities and contravention of immigration ...

The Department of Mineral Resources is facing backlash from advocacy groups, including the South African Civic Organisation (Sanco) and Mining Affected Communities United in Action (Macua) over its ...

Zama zamas have been a rising problem in the South African mining industry. Uncover the hidden world of illegal miners who ...

JOHANNESBURG - More than 20 children trafficked from Mozambique to work as illegal miners in Stilfontein are being sent back home. WATCH: Crime in SA | Crises of Stilfontein and spaza shops Police ...

READ: Illegal mining | North West SAPS spokesperson provides Stilfontein update Mining Affected Communities United in Action have approached the Constitutional Court, saying they want the South ...

Of the 1,826 "zama zamas" or illegal miners arrested in the Vala Umgodi operation at the Buffelsfontein gold mine in Stilfontein ... to clamp down on illegal mining. Having started in December ...

On Wednesday, 5 February, people gathered at the doorstep of the Mining Indaba held at the Cape Town International Convention Centre calling for justice for those sacrificed in Stilfontein.

The Department of Home Affairs has deported 46,898 undocumented immigrants in the past financial year, an increase of 18%.