The South Africa Police Service's Operation Vala Umgodi task team in the North West province has reaffirmed its call for illegal miners to return to the surface who are still underground. Police are in a standoff with hundreds of illegal miners trapped in a disused shaft.
trapped in a disused shaft. Police closed off the entrances used by the miners to transport their supplies underground, leaving them without food, water, and other basics.
The South African Police Service's Operation Vala Umgodi task team in the North West province has reiterated the call to those illegal miners who are still underground in… The Operation Vala Umgodi task team in North West continues to call upon those illegal miners, who are still underground in the Stilfontein area, to return to the surface.
The zama zamas who surfaced at Orkney over the weekend are the small fish in this big pond of criminality. The big fish have yet to be landed in the net. The Gauteng Provincial Legislature's Portfolio Committee on Community Safety has said that it will be writing to President Cyril Ramaphosa and Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi, representing a diversity of positions on every topic.
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