On 10 July 2025, the South African Police Service reported that they had arrested 512 suspects during Operation Vala Umgodi in the month of June. “Nationwide Vala Umgodi operations continue to ...

The illegal mining equipment frequently seized by the SAPS’s Vala Umgodi task team in Burgersfort was officially destroyed on July 8. In a decisive move to combat illegal mining, the SAPS in ...

Five people, aged between 19 and 25, were apprehended in Middleburg during Operation Vala Umgodi for allegedly contravening South Africa’s Immigration Act. According to Captain Mpho Nonyane-Mpe, the ...

Five suspected illegal miners have been arrested at Atok and Ga-Phasha villages outside Burgersfort in Limpopo. Police spokesperson Masekela Magoro says a driver was arrested for allegedly illegally ...

A TARGETED crime crackdown across the Frances Baard and Namakwa districts has resulted in the arrest of illegal miners, liquor traders, and drug suspects, as part of ongoing Vala Umgodi operations — a ...