27 teenage boys from Mozambique, involved in illegal mining activities, were repatriated to their home country after being discovered at a disused mine in Stilfontein, North West.
North West Department of Social Development social workers have repatriated 27 teenage boys from Mozambique who resurfaced at the disused mine in Stilfontein in November back home. The minors were involved in illegal mining activities at Stilfontein in Matlosana local municipality.
The department’s placement in temporary safe care is in line with the provisions of the Children’s Act, which mandates that social workers or police officials remove a child who is in danger and place them in temporary safe care. On Tuesday, 17 December 2024, at 00:00, the social workers managing the case set out to repatriate the children to the Lebombo border with a police escort. This is done after they get permission from the court to release them from their safety, allow them to repatriate them, and hand them over to their counterparts in Mozambique, who will then reunify the children with their parents. This was made possible after the Mozambican Consulate issued them temporary travel documents and allowed a care-to-care process between the Social Development Departments in the two countries. The Department of Social Development and International Social Workers Services facilitated this. The children will be handed over to Social Workers at the Lebombo border on Tuesday, 17 December. In November, it was reported that at least 96 children from Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Namibia and Lesotho were among scores of undocumented illegal miners that surfaced at a disused mine in Stilfontei
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