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.

Police are throwing "maximum resources" into a manhunt for Lesotho man, James Neo Tshoaeli, known as Tiger, who is believed to be the kingpin behind an illegal mining network in Stilfontein in the North West.

A suspected illegal gold mining ringleader known as “Tiger” escaped from custody with help from police officers after resurfacing last week from a disused mine in South Africa where dozens of miners died and 246 were rescued,

South African police have launched a manhunt for a Lesotho gang member believed to have controlled operations at an illegal gold mine where 78 bodies were recovered last week during a police siege, from which he escaped.

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.