{"id":47353,"date":"2026-10-06T10:27:55","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T08:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=47353"},"modified":"2026-10-06T10:27:55","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T08:27:55","slug":"thirteen-suspected-illegal-miners-to-appear-in-sa-court","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/thirteen-suspected-illegal-miners-to-appear-in-sa-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Thirteen\u00a0 suspected illegal miners to appear in SA court"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Thirteen suspected illegal miners are expected to appear in the Sabie Magistrate&#8217;s Court in the Mpumalanga province, South Africa (SA) this Tuesday.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The suspects, including two women, were arrested during an intelligence-driven Operation Vala Umgodi conducted in Sabie over the weekend.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The latest arrests bring the total number of suspected illegal miners arrested to 22 since the sporadic shootout between rival illegal mining gangs in the province.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Mpumalanga police spokesperson Donald Mdluli says all the suspects are foreign nationals from Mozambique and eSwatini.<\/div>\n<div id=\"x_x_ms-outlook-mobile-signature\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The suspects are all foreign nationals, twelve are from Mozambique while one is from the Kingdom of Eswatini they are expected to appear at Sabie Magistrates Court on October 6 20206 this bring to a total of 22 suspected illegal miners who were arrested by the police over the weekend , the suspects are facing charges related to illegal mining, possession of gold bearing materials, gold bearing equipments and contravention of immigration Act of SA.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15158,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-47353","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Mpumalanga police spokesperson Donald Mdluli says all the suspects are foreign nationals from Mozambique and eSwatini.","published_date":"","news_description":"Mpumalanga police spokesperson Donald Mdluli says all the suspects are foreign nationals from Mozambique and eSwatini.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47354,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47353\/revisions\/47354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=47353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}