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

A South African Police Services (Saps) vehicle is parked near the mine shaft in Stilfontein on 17 November 2024. Picture: ...

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

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, ...

The government says they are robbing South Africa of more than $1 billion a year in gold. Authorities said that more than 1,500 people have been arrested for mining illegally in the Stilfontein ...

At least 78 dead bodies have been retrieved from a discontinued gold mine in South Africa where police cut ... the bodies from the abandoned mine near Stilfontein, southwest of Johannesburg.

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

STILFONTEIN, South Africa (AP) — The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally underground at an abandoned gold mine in South Africa has risen ...

The mine in question near the town of Stilfontein southwest of Johannesburg ... which is one of the deepest in South Africa at 2.5 kilometers (1.5 miles) deep and has multiple shafts, many levels ...