The police have welcomed the interim court order issued by the High Court
, where suspected illegal miners have been retrieved must be unblocked for emergency personnel and that no person should block it.
The court further orders that any miners underground should be permitted to exit and that emergency personnel may enter the mine shaft. “This was subsequent to remarks made by various ministers of government, especially the minister in the presidency saying that the miners would be smoked out and persecuted.”
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