Johannesburg: A total of 118 illegal miners were brought to the surface during rescue operations at an abandoned gold mine in Stilfontein in South Africa's North West Province, with 36 confirmed ...

North West Acting Provincial Commissioner, Major General Patrick Asaneng, has ordered maximum resources to be mobilised in finding an alleged Stilfontein ... by and about Africa - aggregating ...

The Acting Provincial Commissioner of North ... West, Major General Patrick Asaneng has ordered maximum resources to be mobilised in finding an alleged kingpin who resurfaced from shaft 11 in ...

North West police are on the hunt for an alleged Stilfontein mining kingpin ... Independent Online, popularly known as IOL, is one of South Africa’s leading news and information websites ...

The government has been blamed for the continued deaths of the illegal miners trapped at Stilfontein Mine in North West. Labour union, the General Industries Workers Union of South Africa (Giwusa ...

Last week, rescuers recovered 78 bodies and 246 survivors — many of them weak and emaciated — from the Buffelsfontein mine in Stilfontein, in South Africa’s North West province, where police ...

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 ...

Seventy-eight dead bodies have been brought to the surface of the abandoned gold mine at Stilfontein in South Africa ... with illegal mining.” COSATU North West Secretary Kopano Konopi said ...

North West Acting Police Commissioner, Patrick Asaneng has promised to soon unmask those behind the scourge of illegal mining in South Africa. Alleged Stilfontein illegal mining kingpin James ...

CAPE TOWN, South ... of North West, Major General Patrick Asaneng, speaks to journalists outside an abandoned gold mine, where miners were rescued from below ground, in Stilfontein, South Africa ...

The Stilfontein mine in North West Province comprises multiple shafts ... Operations like these have existed for decades and cost South Africa $1bn yearly in lost revenue. They are carried out ...

has launched a manhunt for an alleged illegal mining ringleader who is believed to have escaped after resurfacing from the Stilfontein gold mine in the North West Province of South Africa.