The SAPS's Vala Umgodi task team arrested 13 suspects during an anti-illegal mining operation in Blyvooruitzicht.

June lauded as a successful month for Operation Vala Umgodi, as police arrest 512 suspects for illegal mining.

A total of 1,775 suspects of different nationalities were arrested in May during nationwide Vala Umgodi operations aimed at combating and preventing illegal mining ...

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 ...

On Tuesday (2/6), a coordinated operation led to the surprise discovery of four individuals actively engaged in illicit ...

Nationwide Vala Umgodi operations conducted during the month of April has led to the arrest of 1 857 suspects of different nationalities.

JOHANNESBURG - Thirteen illegal immigrants have been arrested following Vala Umgodi operations in Mpumalanga. Police arrested the group in Low's Creek, where the suspects were found to be in the ...

In a breakthrough under Operation Vala Umgodi, Limpopo police have arrested 33 undocumented foreign nationals and three illegal miners, delivering a significant blow to illegal mining and ...

A Vala Umgodi team have arrested 32 suspects for violating the Immigration Act, they made a court appearance to receive their penance, the operation also let the police to find illegal mining ...

JOHANNESBURG - Operation Vala Umgodi has yielded the arrest of two suspects in Mpumalanga this week. An intelligence-driven search led the police to a house in Ermelo, suspected of illegal gold ...

A coordinated series of operations conducted under Operation Vala Umgodi has led to multiple arrests across several provinces for offences including illegal mining, possession of unlicensed firearms, ...

Operation Vala Umgodi started in August and over the course of the siege, 1 907 miners resurfaced, while 87 bodies were retrieved.