Amid ongoing retrieval efforts at the Stilfontein Mine Shaft in the North West, the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria has dismissed the main bid by the Society for the Protection of Our Constitution to grant relief for the suspected Zama-Zama underground.
In a judgment on Monday, the court found, among other things, that there was no proof to show that government’s response to the issue is not “measured, considered and proportional”.
The applicant sought a final interdict after the court granted interim measures which ordered the 1. unblocking of the mine shaft, 2. that any miners trapped in the mine shaft shall be permitted to exit and 3. no non-emergency personnel may enter the mine shaft.
SABC News Reporter Tebogo Phakedi is in Stilfontein and filed this report.
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On whose behalf do these unknown so-called leaders come and talk their nonsense? They are not represent what we as South Africans really feel about these illegal foreigners. So, are other illegal foreigners maybe paying them to come on TV and talk this rubbish?
This is one is a shareholder with Zama Zama
What I'm picking is that there is also human trafficking and forced labour of some young people or men who are forced to slave underground while being held by those with guns
This things are not trapped
This things are not trapped police must wait there and arrest all of them. Our police are not trained to rescue these noncense instead they are trained to protect us South African and arrest illegal forwiners so they must not go down but wait outside they will come out when they are hungry and get arrested.
They are trapped by other illegal miners holding them hostsge with firearms.
They not trapped,they ran back into the hole when they saw the police.
Whatever goes down must come up. They are not trapped. They dont want to go to jail or deported. They went down out of their own free will. They should surface the way they went down. They should be investigated as to who brought them into south africa and how they entered without documents. These people should be arrested on child slavery and human trafficking
Wa gafa neh
Iyanya lendoda
They are humans, they are hungry and tthirsty.They are innocent until proved guilty by a competent court.
This guy work .withthem.
And whh he cant go down and comfirm the number of people died ππ who should go?π’
You are crazy wena these people are not trapped. Government did not send them there. What trapped them? O tsubile nyaope wena sanco
Ilegal miners or illegal foreigners mining ilegally
One individual is a mere 14 years old, a stark reminder of the vulnerable lives caught in this crisis. The situation underground is far from uniform. Some are trapped, their freedom curtailed, while others may be relatively unharmed, yet still confined. The demographics are diverse: minors and adults, both local South Africans and foreign nationals. The outcome is uncertain: some have perished, others cling to life, and many yearn for rescue. Given this complexity, why insist on a single, oversimplified narrative that fails to capture the full spectrum of human experience within this tragedy?
But other's went back when they saw police uyabhuda lo bhutu
The logistics makes no sense. If there is 5000 plus people going to get arrested where will they be detained?
There is no space in any jail for mass arrests.
NGOs trying to make their own agenda people who were arrested said they are held against their will to work in there ao how did they let them go just like that even those who are holding guns will say they were held at gun point so this won't have an end
Please show us a surface plan where these shafts are: Shafts 11 & 10 as well as the Margaret shaft.
ππππWhat does the lawyer have to say now???? Illegal foreigners make NGO'S, HUMAN RIGHTS & ETC LOOK LIKE MORONS!!!! they come to S.A. to have their wayππππππ