Five illegal miners have been retrieved alive from a mine shaft in Stilfontein in the North West.
They were assisted by about 50 residents who volunteered to rescue suspected illegal miners who were to weak to come back to the surface by themselves.
The residents have been using ropes to pull out those who are too weak because of a lack of water and food.
Residents estimate that around 4 500 suspected illegal miners are still underground.
Are South African mining companies fulfilling their legal obligations to repair and rehabilitate environmental damage that they cause?
To discuss this matter further, we’re joined virtually by the Director of Mining at Modern Corporate solutions Peter Major and Nikisi Lesufi, Mineral Council Senior Executive responsible for Health, Environment and legacies
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Let it be a lesson….bad things happen to you when you do illegal things
Where is the president of South Africa ?
He must talk to the Zimbabwe , Mozambique and Lesotho governments about what their people are doing here in 🇿🇦
Majority of the resurfaced illegal miners are undocumented people from other countries. The view that those miners are doing illegal mining due to high unemployment rate in SA, is untrue.
2:18 Panyaza o ne a tloga go itlhamela mophato wa gagwe go fitlha jaanong a dira motho yo o godisitsweng go tswa mo seleng e le nngwe ya mmele kgotsa nyutlease ya sele mme a tshwana le yone ka dijini.
This Panza's brotha?
The government steals above the ground, and these guys steal under the ground. The pot can't blame the kettle.
Please balance me out here, sometime ago communities in zama zama areas where seeking protection from gpvernment/police/military as they were terrorized by zama zama's.
Now community is all love and compassion, prepaired to risk it all to volunteer to rescue the zama zamas.
I do not understand, what is going on here, now its the police/government that is a problem, they are not doing enough to rescue the illegal guys who stuck underground in the act of committing a crime.
Lets say if it wsa cha-in transit guys who were trapped in the cash van with a bomb that will explode in 2hours, one of them is deceased, others are dehydrated, whould communities go the extra mile to volunteer to rescue them ? Would there be pressure on police/government to rescue them ? Would there be love and compassion for them as they are doing what they are doing because of poverty ?
cOMMON DENOMIATOR is both groups are commiting crimes, with guns, prepared to kill anyone who tries to stop them.
Please balance me out here, and correct me ?
These zama-zamas can mine, where companies fail. Make it legal and keep thousands in a job. There is a way to get this done, to ensure the country gets the benefit. I proposed this in 1989, already.
Why should they rehabilitate. Who will prosecute them despite what the law says.