The current gold price is improving margins, sustaining the opportunity for existing miners to mine for longer, and probably ...

illegal mining is not exclusively the domaine of foreigners. Thornton said there existed a "sort of independent gold territory" around Barberton, near the eastern border with Eswatini, where the ...

Nationwide Vala Umgodi operations has led to the arrest of more than 1 700 suspects of various nationalities in March, who ...

The momentum continued as, on 21 April, SAPS intercepted a group of five suspects on the R355 road en route to Port Nolloth, ...

On Sunday, 23 suspects were arrested in Sabie and three more on the Barberton ... full of gold-bearing material. ALSO READ: Premier promises to continue fight against illegal mining outside ...

Police confirmed the arrests followed stop-and-search operations and patrols around known illegal mining hotspots ... along the R38 in Barberton. Officers recovered gold-bearing material from ...

illegal mining is not exclusively the domaine of foreigners. Thornton said there existed a “sort of independent gold ...