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South African Government Vows To "Smoke Out" Trapped Illegal Miners

4 months agoThu, 14 Nov 2024 11:13:51 GMT
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South African Government Vows To "Smoke Out" Trapped Illegal Miners

South Africa’s Minister in the Presidency, Khumbudzo Ntshavheni, on Wednesday, said that the government will not attempt to rescue illegal miners trapped underground in Stilfontein, North West. Instead, she said authorities would take measures to “smoke them out.”

During a post-Cabinet media briefing, Ntshavheni said the government would not assist “criminals”. She said:

We are not sending help to criminals. We are going to smoke them out. They will come out. We are not sending help to criminals. 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 good benefit or for the good intentions for the Republic. So, we can’t help them.

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

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The minister’s comments have sparked a storm of reactions. Some people support her strong stance, while others criticise her, saying her words show a lack of empathy for the families who are desperate for help in finding their miners.

In an interview with Newzroom Afrika, Phillip Mankge, acting deputy general secretary of NUM, called the minister’s remarks “inhumane” and “irresponsible.” He said:

As NUM we would like to categorically clear that we do not support the statement. In fact it is inhumane and irresponsible of the minister to utter such words when the people are trapped underground.

What is wrong with African people when they want to go back to their primitive mining stage, to say they want to mine themselves because we have an abundance of gold, chrome and all sorts of minerals in South Africa?

Around 4,000 illegal miners are still trapped underground in an abandoned mine shaft in Stilfontein, North West, with reports suggesting that some may have already died.

Brigadier Sabata Mokgwabone, a police spokesperson from North West, told SABC News that the police are working with local community members to help bring the miners to safety.

However, he also said that once the miners are brought to the surface, they will be arrested.

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30 Comments

famba · 4 months ago
maybe NUM ndoyakakonzera mine collapse kuda kuuraya vanhu
I · 4 months ago
the criminals just have to come out the way they came in and be arrested chete hapana kana problem buda kana firamo
chipoko · 4 months ago
Lucifer with iron horns has been spotted in South Africa
Jaa · 4 months ago
a proper devil. surely 4000 souls. rsa might be charged with genocide. there's no difference to the slaughter Hitler did against the jews where are the so called HUMAN RIGHTS LAWYERS WHO ALWAYS ARE ON GVT TOES AT ANY TURN OF EVENTS? SO YOU ONLY OPERATE AGAINST ZANUPF AND GVT? GO DOWN SOUTH AND WITNESS THE CRUEL REGIME IN THE NAME OF GNU SUFFOCATING PEOPLE .HERE WE DIG OUR MINERALS AT OUR OWN RISK .IF THE MINE COLLAPS GVT GIVES STATE ASSISTED BURIALS AND AT LIST THEY RETREAVE THE DEAD AND THE LIVING. THATS ZANUPF NOT DILUTED ANC .
Anonymous · 4 months ago
Your ignorance is blinding. This is nowhere in the league of Hitler. Hitler went looking for the Jews to exterminate them. How is this similar. Who is ultimately responsible for their saftety? Those people should be responsible for the costs of their rescue. The gold dealers and smugglers should pay. Not the tax payer. The criminals are always the victim?
BUOY · 4 months ago
4000 yoooo😒
ƒяєєℓαη¢є ¢σяяυσтι¢ιαη · 4 months ago
uyu ndiye george charamba wavo. matwins chete misoro izere hutsinye
That Guy · 4 months ago
first it was phopi now this one heartless witches these women damnnnn
Rodex · 4 months ago
Tarira even chiso chake chinotaura zvizhinji
gumlaz · 4 months ago
zvatovharana vatoengerwa death sentence mai avo vakaoma asi zvechokwadi here kuti 4000 people varipasi pemigodhi
plan b · 4 months ago
They know very well dat vazhinj vacho ma foreigners so nhamo yemumwe hairambirwe sadza saka it's a long story
SADC CHAIRMAN · 4 months ago
A she-devil
imi · 4 months ago
haisi nyaya inganzi munhu anofira mujere iyi, ngavabude tione coz hunger uuuuu
mculi nthube · 4 months ago
She knows the majority of them are immigrants, most likely undocumented.
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Zozo · 4 months ago
Maybe muzukuru waTshaka the Zulu Kiing
MBAMG coupe · 4 months ago
Vhenda
Ediots · 4 months ago
SA Zanu-PF ndozvavanoita . they are terrorists
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Anonymous · 4 months ago
That's why ANC and zanupf are friends they have lot in common.
😔 · 4 months ago
Had thought women were compassionate, this Ntshovani is of different make...
ok · 4 months ago
lol hausati wakambobirwa nevakadzi kai?
Tintin · 4 months ago
insensitive remarks from the minister. public relations ishoma pana amai ava
ncii · 4 months ago
A true Hitler suffocating the Jews.......
moto · 4 months ago
It's better to rot in jail coz maybe pardon time may come than die slowly of hunger and sarfocation
cde · 4 months ago
vanemoyo wakaipa Mai avo muroyi

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