DStv Channel 403 Wednesday, 04 December 2024

Discussion | Efforts to get miners to resurface in NW disused mine

PIETERMARITZBURG - Aid workers continue to bring miners to the surface in Stilfontein, North West. 

National Police spokesperson, Athlenda Mathe, has reiterated that no officer will go underground to rescue illegal miners.

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Instead, police are standing by to apprehend miners as they resurface. Hundreds of Zama Zamas have been underground for months at the abandoned mine shaft.

Former chairperson of the  DMRE portfolio committee in the sixth  partliament Zet Luzipo from the Smiso Nkwanyana Centre for Alternative Ideas spoke to eNCA.

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