Macua spokesperson accused Kenny Kunene of 'cheap politics' after his controversial remarks on illegal miner at Stilfontein.
Macua spokesperson accused Kenny Kunene of 'cheap politics' after his controversial remarks on illegal miner at Stilfontein.Human rights organisation Mining Affected Communities United in Action has accused Patriotic Alliance deputy president Kenny Kunene of using “cheap politics” after his comments on the zama zamas at Stilfontein.
Macua spokesperson Magnificent Mndebele on Friday slammed utterances from Kunene and ActionSA leader Herman Mashaba on the illegal miners in Stilfontein. Kunene reportedly said on Thursday that he has no sympathy for the illegal miners as they are criminals. “I have absolutely no sympathy. They must die like rats underground there, all of them. They must burn in hell,” he was reported to have said in an interview with“So people like Kunene himself, they were criminals and convicted. Does it mean that at the point before they were convicted, does it mean that they deserved to die simply because they were a criminal?”“If you’re a criminal, you don’t have the right to life. You must die.
"I personally have got no sympathy whatsoever for criminality," ActionSA leader Herman Mashaba says the illegal miners in”When we adopted our constitution in 1996 it was to protect criminals, not law-abiding citizens, which is really very unfortunate,” he said.There had been calls for the cleansing of the mine, rescuers and the local community after the massacre.“If people do meet faith, they must do it. If they don’t meet faith, then not.
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