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Gayton McKenzie Backs Ntshavheni’s Tough Stance On Illegal Miners, Says "Let There Be Lots Of Smoke"

4 months agoFri, 15 Nov 2024 11:57:21 GMT
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Gayton McKenzie Backs Ntshavheni’s Tough Stance On Illegal Miners, Says "Let There Be Lots Of Smoke"

South Africa’s Minister of Sport, Arts and Culture, Gayton McKenzie, has expressed his support for Minister in the Presidency, Khumbudzo Ntshavheni, who recently insisted that the government would not attempt to rescue the illegal miners trapped underground—reportedly numbering in the thousands.

The statement has sparked intense debate across the country, after Ntshavheni labeled the stranded miners as “criminals” and declared that the government would “smoke them out.”

Speaking to the media on Wednesday, Ntshavheni said that the government would not put the lives of police officers and military personnel at risk by sending them down the shafts to rescue what she referred to as “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 [sic].

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.

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

Commenting on X, McKenzie expressed his support for Ntshavheni, adding that there should indeed be “lots of smoke.” He wrote on X in response to a clip of Ntshavheni’s remarks:

Thank you Minister (Ntshavheni), let there be smoke, lots of smoke… Why don’t we get them some pizza with extra cheese toppings and a few bottles of wine whilst they making they mind up if they want to resurface ? Guns & grenades are being hidden down there, these guys are buying time, no one is trapped, they are simply refusing to come up & out.

Another South African, Lindo Mnisi, concurred with McKenzie, saying criminality should never be tolerated. He wrote:

The South African government must deal decisively with these criminals. Anybody who stands firm against illegal foreigners and criminals, will be supported and protected by all of us. Thank you Minister Ntshavheni for the decisive stance. We must stop tiptoeing around illegalities. Smoke them out!

On the other hand, Helen Zille, federal chair of the Democratic Alliance, has called for a more empathetic approach to the issue of trapped illegal miners in Stilfontein, North West.

Commenting on X in response to a post by Newzroom Afrika, Zille said that the situation should be handled with compassion, as it directly impacts people’s lives.

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15 Comments

Anonymous · 4 months ago
YAAH, SMOKE THE SHONAH GUKURAHUNDI OUT. LET THERE BE LOTS OF SMOKE AT THE BORDERS, IN HOSPITALS, IN THE PUBLIC SERVICE, IN BUSINESS ETC ETC WHY DON'T THEY GO TO MOZAMBIQUE, TANZANIA THEIR ZANLA FRIENDS? GO TO MALAWI, DRC, RWANDA, BURUNDI WHERE YOUR ANCESTORS CAME FROM!
mr · 4 months ago
Gayton uyu ndiye wekumbonzi muZimba ka uyu
constable · 4 months ago
first, how are they trapped? shaft raka dhirika heree kana kuti chii chaka nyatso itika
Ediots · 4 months ago
Its a xenophobic response from the South African gvt. they have profiled illegal miners and found that most are illegal immigrants/foreign nationals. What a way to eliminate a thorn in one's side.
BBC · 4 months ago
Maybe they know that the trapped miners are foreigners
👀👀 · 4 months ago
thats the point,
Anonymous · 4 months ago
Uyu Minister anotopengawo uyu,pamwe hamayake itoriwo mumigodhi iyi. Anoita kunge zeeretsi chairo,kutadza kunobatsira veganda rake,ummmm,zvimwe zvacho sooka,hazvidi kudaro.
I · 4 months ago
these criminals are free to come out at any moment of their chosing...it's just that they are afraid of being arrested so the help they require is for the government to send them food and water so they delay being arrested a condition which any right thinking government should deny...mughodhi hauna kudhirika...mukorokoza worambira mumwena woramba kubuda achitya kusungwa vanhu votochema kuti mupei mvura ne chikafu arambire paso ipapo kuti asasungirwe chikorokoza ...kkkk
Corruptmore Looto · 4 months ago
Nhai zvako iwe, they should smoke them out. SA is a first world country it doesn't have resources to waste on people who are refusing to come out be they fear being arrested, SMOKE THEM OUT
Corruptmore Looto · 4 months ago
*SA is not a first........
Ctrl Alt Del · 4 months ago
Another ediot mamunzwa these anc ministers are heartless witches and sons of snicthies
🐴8stripes · 4 months ago
mr Gayton McKenzie please be reminded that you political mafias are the biggest criminals too, you rob the nation pretending to be good Samaritans.
Z · 4 months ago
ITA SAD THAT THE ANC BROUGHT REACTIONARY FORCES ON BOARD. THEY HAVE LOST ROUTE

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