Deputy president says government is looking for ways to police the problem
Communities should work with the government to help it deal with the illegal mining problem, which is fast becoming a pandemic in SA, deputy president David Mabuza told MPs on Thursday.
His comments come after the discovery of the bodies of six men believed to be zama-zamas in an open veld next to the N1 freeway near Bosmont and New Canada‚ Johannesburg‚ on Wednesday morning. “An existing multidisciplinary economic infrastructure task team of various specialised units of the police‚ in partnership with private security and business‚ is working to prevent and combat the critical economic and infrastructure-related crimes‚ including illicit mining.”
The strategy‚ he said‚ included tighter intelligence gathering and co-ordination‚ intensification of police visibility mechanisms and tightening of mechanisms aimed at disruption of organised and stubborn crime.
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