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Minister's comments...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHNyVwHSJAU?si=y4Nn4k44S1rn304Z

South Africa’s government says it will not help an estimated 4,000 illegal miners inside a closed mine in the country’s North West province who have been denied access to basic supplies as part of an official strategy against illegal mining.

The miners in the mineshaft in Stilfontein are believed to be suffering from a lack of food, water and other basic necessities after police closed off the entrances used to transport their supplies underground.

It is part of the police’s Vala Umgodi, or Close the Hole, operation, which includes cutting off miners’ supplies to force them to return to the surface and be arrested.

North West police spokesperson Sabata Mokgwabone said information received from those who recently helped bring three miners to the surface indicated that as many as 4,000 miners may be underground. Police have not provided an official estimate.

Cabinet Minister Khumbudzo Ntshavheni told reporters on Wednesday that the government would not send any help to the illegal miners because they are involved in a criminal act.

“You want us to send help to criminals? You want us to send help to criminals, honestly?” she asked, laughing.

“We're not sending help to criminals. We're going to smoke them out, they will come out. Criminals are not to be helped, criminals are to be persecuted. We didn't send them there and they didn't go down there for the benefit of the republic so we can't help them.

“Those who want to help them, they must go and take the food down there. They will come out and we'll arrest them.”

Illegal mining remains common in South Africa’s old gold-mining areas, with miners going into closed shafts to dig for any possible remaining deposits.

The illegal miners are often from neighboring countries, and police say the illegal operations involve larger syndicates that employ the miners.

Their presence in closed mines have also created problems with nearby communities, which complain that the illegal miners commit crimes ranging from robberies to rape.

Illegal mining groups are known to be heavily armed and disputes between rival groups sometimes result in fatal confrontations.

Well...

These people are wicked oh

Human life is precious.

All for survival. Please release them.

After all, the Earth is the Lord's and it's fullness thereof

Good riddance to bad rubbish🚮

We’re humans first.. help them get out.. then charge them.

Africa is mean

South Africa, ndi aruru-ala!

Humanity first. Everything comes after that

9ja4live:
These people are wicked oh

Read on the dangers of illegal mining in SA, it's a pandemic. They're a law unto themselves and are heavily armed. The miners are involved in deadly turf wars, community homes get cracks or explode from underground activity. Plus SA loses out on mineral wealth to people from foreign countries.

Not everything should always be blamed on SA. When are you people ever gonna take responsibility for your actions?

RandDigital:


Read on the dangers of illegal mining in SA, it's a pandemic. They're a law unto themselves and are heavily armed. The miners are involved in deadly turf wars, community homes get cracks or explode from underground activity. Plus SA loses out on mineral wealth to people from foreign countries.

Not everything should always be blamed on SA. When are you people ever gonna take responsibility for your actions?

Responsibility for your actions you say ? Are the miners Nigerians ? Why post your poignant sh*ton our media space ? Oh, you've exhausted the toxicity space for Nigerians in your domain right ?


You're a lowlife for validating such murders

DrDoc:


Responsibility for your actions you say ? Are the miners Nigerians ? Why post your poignant sh*ton our media space ? Oh, you've exhausted the toxicity space for Nigerians in your domain right ?

You're a lowlife for validating such murders

You're same Whatsapp group of criminal sympathizers. See post after post condemning SA police for fighting rampant crime. You think your hero Trump who separated kids from their parents would allow such lawlessness in the US?

These are infact invaders and terrorists - SA is soft on them for sending cops instead of the army. You know how that would've played out.

I'm not gonna castigate the xenophobic morons on this one but they shouldn't forget in a hurry that the probability of their own people being among those illegal migrant miners is very high.....Cuz,a total stranger from nowhere can't come into your country to start mining without the help of her citizens

So,they may be indirectly killing their own brothers Incase the wereys don't know

Ungrateful Xenophobic Mzamzi creatures enjoying good country built by White South Africans, if not for White Dutch people, these black Mzamzi xenophobes would have turned South Africa to Northern Sudan

franchasofficia:
Ungrateful Xenophobic Mzamzi creatures enjoying good country built by White South Africans, if not for White Dutch people, these black Mzamzi xenophobes would have turned South Africa to Northern Sudan

In that case it would still have been a million times better that nigeria. 100 of thousands of nigerian refugees were evacuated out of Sudan at the beginning of the war in old tokunbo buses that got stuck in the middle of the desert The jokes just keep writing themselves

SA and bad news, na 5&6

Mariangeles:
South Africa, ndi aruru-ala!

Chineke tụrụ mbọ na ike

SA is becoming a big disgrace to humanity, what sort of inferiority complex xenophobia is this?

How about the European countries rescuing African illegal migrants on the Mediterranean Sea almost on a weekly basis? So 4000 residents of your country with families should die because they don't have papers? Why not rescue and jail or deport them if they are criminals?

I can bet if these were European citizens, they would have acted differently.

So are they trying to commit genocide against there own people. The matter will reach the ICJ if any of them die ..

Who cares...kill your people for all I care.
...the headline is misleading...more than 80% of them are South Africans so why saying "Migrant"

9ja4live:
These people are wicked oh

South Africa shouting and protesting for Palestinian is now showing their true color, killing fellow Africa because of flimsy excuses

RandDigital:


In that case it would still have been a million times better that nigeria. 100 of thousands of nigerian refugees were evacuated out of Sudan at the beginning of the war in old tokunbo buses that got stuck in the middle of the desert The jokes just keep writing themselves

Mumu, those were students studying in sudan

9ja4live:
These people are wicked oh

That's why oyibo ppl wanted to finish them.

RandDigital:


Read on the dangers of illegal mining in SA, it's a pandemic. They're a law unto themselves and are heavily armed. The miners are involved in deadly turf wars, community homes get cracks or explode from underground activity. Plus SA loses out on mineral wealth to people from foreign countries.

Not everything should always be blamed on SA. When are you people ever gonna take responsibility for your actions?

Xenophobic man, go and continue on your nyaope

Okay

Yeah!

This is just a taste of what trump has in store for illegal migrants!

Criminals have no rights!

Fk all job stealers!

/s

9ja4live:
These people are wicked oh

They are not heartless, the migrants are brainless.

Stay away from where you're not welcome. Build your own lands.

South Africa is sending a message... the migrants are sub-human, even less than animals.

Someone wouldn't call you a dog and you wear chains & start barking. You're simply justifying the tag.

RandDigital:


You're same Whatsapp group of criminal sympathizers. See post after post condemning SA police for fighting rampant crime. You think your hero Trump who separated kids from their parents would allow such lawlessness in the US?

These are infact invaders and terrorists - SA is soft on them for sending cops instead of the army. You know how that would've played out.

In your nyaope infested brain, u think u re making sense ne?

So you want them to die?

To prove a point.

RandDigital:


You're same Whatsapp group of criminal sympathizers. See post after post condemning SA police for fighting rampant crime. You think your hero Trump who separated kids from their parents would allow such lawlessness in the US?

These are infact invaders and terrorists - SA is soft on them for sending cops instead of the army. You know how that would've played out.

But your evil South African is fighting Israel for defending themselves against Terrorist, you guys in SA are hypocrite