Acting Police Commissioner Patrick Asaneng expresses outrage over the escape of alleged illegal mining kingpin James Neo Tshoaeli, urging accountability for those involved.

Tiger’, a Lesotho national, is implicated in several statements as one of the ring leaders who controlled operations underground, and accused of murder, torture and denying other trapped illegal miners food and water.

Police have launched a manhunt for the alleged kingpin known as ‘Tiger’ in the Stilfontein gold mine debacle. The alleged kingpin resurfaced from shaft 11 in Stilfontein last week during a rescue mission to get the miners out.

North West Acting Provincial Commissioner, Major General Patrick Asaneng, has ordered maximum resources to be mobilised in finding an alleged Stilfontein mining kingpin.

Distressing content warningClement Moeletsi is one of hundreds rescued from an abandoned gold mine in South Africa.That's after a crackdown on illegal mining at the site in Stilfontein that began in August,

The police force said officials had helped James Neo Tshoaeli, a Lesotho national also known as Tiger, to escape after he was pulled up from the mine in Stilfontein. More than 240 illegal miners were brought up alive from the mine after it had been blockaded for months by the police.

By Nellie Peyton JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South African police are hunting a gang leader from Lesotho believed to have controlled operations at an illegal gold mine where 78 bodies were recovered last week after months of police siege.