North West SAPS said the confrontation between police officers and the zama zamas degenerated as the illegal miners pushed to bring food and necessities to their colleagues who were in a mine shaft.
Mokgwabone said the police watchdog, the Independent Police Investigative Directorate was “immediately summoned to the scene” of the shootings.
Mokgwabone said that from Saturday some of the illegal miners who were trapped underground due to a shortage of food and water, used explosives to open a hole and started to exit the mine shaft. “Although nobody exited on Monday and Tuesday, the ‘zama zamas’ exited again on Wednesday afternoon on October 6, 2021. It was at that stage that some of the illegal miners launched an attack which resulted in the deaths,” said Mokgwabone.
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