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A man who emerged from the disused mines at Stilfontein on Monday had a letter which conveyed several requests from the illegal miners holed up underground.

Some of the requested items in the long list in the letter included mayonnaise, washing powder, tomato sauce, beef, Koo canned beans, soap and deodorants (roll-on).

The letter seen by IOL stated that their relish had finished and therefore they were requesting beef and tinned fish.

The letter also stated that rice has been finished and they were requesting additional portions. The illegal miners also wrote that their paraffin supplies have been depleted and they were requesting more.

Last week, IOL reported that while food was being sent to the miners at Buffelsfontein goldmine in Stilfontein, the High Court in Pretoria found that the police were in breach of the court order which allowed the community, volunteers, and charitable organisations to provide essentials such as food and water to the miners.

This was after a community-based organisation, the Mining Affected Community in Action (Macua), again approached the court following Sunday’s ruling that the SA Police Service (SAPS) must for now allow miners at Stilfontein to immediately be supplied with food, water, and medication from the community and charitable organisations.

Macua, in an affidavit handed to court, said in spite of the SAPS being served with the court order, officials stationed at the Stilfontein Gold Mine refused to comply with the of the order.

Judge Nicolene Janse van Nieuwenhuizen said the SAPS was in breach of her order made on Sunday regarding the type and amount of food and other aid to be delivered to the miners. She ordered that the Sheriff be allowed to assist with the implementation of the order.

The applicant said that a community member physically served a copy of the order on a SAPS colonel who accepted receipt of the order but refused to acknowledge receipt of the court order in writing.

Judge Janse van Nieuwenhuizen was told that the order was also served to several other officials stationed at the Stilfontein Gold Mine; yet, they refused to comply with the of the court order.

Sabelo Mnguni, national of Macua, said in an affidavit that the SAPS placed arbitrary limitations on the quantity of food that community intended to lower down to the trapped miners, as well as the number of times food may be sent down.

Certain essential food items, including maize meal, canned fish, and soup, were also not allowed to be lowered down at all without any explanation.

The illegal miners, suspected to be around 4,000 and from neighbouring countries, have been been trapped underground since October fearing arrest from police who have barricaded all entry points to the abondoned gold mine.

RandDigital:
A man who emerged from the disused mines at Stilfontein on Monday had a letter which conveyed several requests from the illegal miners holed up underground.

Some of the requested items in the long list in the letter included mayonnaise, washing powder, tomato sauce, beef, Koo canned beans, soap and deodorants (roll-on).

The letter seen by IOL stated that their relish had finished and therefore they were requesting beef and tinned fish.

The letter also stated that rice has been finished and they were requesting additional portions. The illegal miners also wrote that their paraffin supplies have been depleted and they were requesting more.

Last week, IOL reported that while food was being sent to the miners at Buffelsfontein goldmine in Stilfontein, the High Court in Pretoria found that the police were in breach of the court order which allowed the community, volunteers, and charitable organisations to provide essentials such as food and water to the miners.

This was after a community-based organisation, the Mining Affected Community in Action (Macua), again approached the court following Sunday’s ruling that the SA Police Service (SAPS) must for now allow miners at Stilfontein to immediately be supplied with food, water, and medication from the community and charitable organisations.

Macua, in an affidavit handed to court, said in spite of the SAPS being served with the court order, officials stationed at the Stilfontein Gold Mine refused to comply with the of the order.

Judge Nicolene Janse van Nieuwenhuizen said the SAPS was in breach of her order made on Sunday regarding the type and amount of food and other aid to be delivered to the miners. She ordered that the Sheriff be allowed to assist with the implementation of the order.

The applicant said that a community member physically served a copy of the order on a SAPS colonel who accepted receipt of the order but refused to acknowledge receipt of the court order in writing.

Judge Janse van Nieuwenhuizen was told that the order was also served to several other officials stationed at the Stilfontein Gold Mine; yet, they refused to comply with the of the court order.

Sabelo Mnguni, national of Macua, said in an affidavit that the SAPS placed arbitrary limitations on the quantity of food that community intended to lower down to the trapped miners, as well as the number of times food may be sent down.

Certain essential food items, including maize meal, canned fish, and soup, were also not allowed to be lowered down at all without any explanation.

They will soon ask for Santa. Awọn oniyeye SA. Smh

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Abeg this una story have tired us. 2day is shawarma and pizza, 2mao is 2baco and loud, next week is milkshake and fruities. Abeg if una want to kill them pls kill them already and give us some space. 🤷🤷

Na movie dem dey act? Awon o ni ranu

. Ah. Those guys are still trapped there. Haba SA Is it so hard to forgive?

If they decide to cover up that Mine and concrete everywhere, one humanitarian organization go start dey Balablu abi?

Miners wen dey Trapped no dey think of Rituals (Cooking and boozing) na escape dem suppose dey reason but it seems this one's don see 7 Star Hotel inside that place so dem have turn to Mario.

I think South African police should get down there and arrest this people, enough of the drama.

Roll on

They should bring them out, this is getting boring already

Most important; ARVs!

Soap and Roll on ke?

What exactly is going on inside that mine?

Not surprised.. South Africans can be very funny and unstable.

SAD Africa and stupidity are like bread and butter. I have never seen a a set of black people whose reasoning is like that of cavemen. These set of blacks are still backward even after coming in with Europeans hundreds of years ago.
They would still have been living in caves and trees if not for the white people.

Hating on fellow black Africans.

Lazy Fo*ls

OK


they should let us understand this whole thing,



Princess FaithChukwu

Africans only show love when they think you are dying....so good, let them ask for chicken!

Very soon they will also ask for women to be send to them.


I know South Africans very well.


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Lol... Is it not better to go to prison than to stay inside of a hole?.... Dem fit dey dig their escape route Sha.... 4000 people... Omo

No food 4lazy man

I know what the next demand will be...

The white mine owners says to black SA leave the black and let them die there and black tries to hate what the white hate.

I know the intention of black is to let these immigrants who are never an immigrants in their very father land, die inside the underground heat. Africa belong to Africa.

For these treatments against black to please your white master you all will receive your karma. This can never happen to white drug dealers from Europe, Netherlands. Fools in black skin. Keep being a slave.

I think it's time for South Africa govt to go after these criminals it's no longer funny this is a total fraud.

Stop sending anything to them and the govt should find means to invade that hole and bring them all out and end these nonsense we want cigarettes, we want milk, we want tomatoes, we want beer shit these was how those motherfucker kidnapper started in Nigeria, if SA continue like this one day these idiots wi ask for money

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Dudes are lounging!

I kno understand this whole drama

they want to cook for the gods.... the gods are crazy

I begin to think they intentionally relocated into the mine to enable them tap into the national cake for once as government will send relief materials 😀

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Those people are down there simply out of fear of arrest.

Why not make a deal that they should all come out and nobody wil arrest them.

The average Nigerian is just insensitive with zero emotional intelligence. Look at the horrible comments. It's these same people that will grow to become politicians, policemen and we wonder why we are so evil.

So they shouldn't eat? If this happened in any advanced country they will be well taken care of and all their needs catered to. Is it poverty that has made us think mayonnaise, canned fish and detergent are luxury items? These are basics. Life is very important. We need to do better as Nigerians because from the comments, if this happened here, they will be left to rot there.

How are they breathing

They will soon request for a few strippers