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"What Happened To Ubuntu?": Helen Zille Calls For Humane Approach To Trapped Illegal Miners

4 months agoFri, 15 Nov 2024 07:55:55 GMT
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"What Happened To Ubuntu?": Helen Zille Calls For Humane Approach To Trapped Illegal Miners

Helen Zille, Federal Chair of South Africa’s second-largest political party, the Democratic Alliance, has called for empathy in handling the issue of trapped illegal miners in Stilfontein, North West.

Thousands of illegal miners are reportedly trapped in disused mines in Stilfontein, sparking a national debate.

At a post-Cabinet media briefing, Minister in the Presidency, Khumbudzo Ntshavheni, stated that the government would not attempt to rescue the trapped miners, instead opting to “smoke them out.” 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.

The government’s refusal to help the miners has led to widespread debate across South Africa, with varying opinions on the best course of action.

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

Come on. The minister is talking about human beings here. People facing a perilous life-threatening calamity must be rescued.

Arrest and prosecute them for breaking the law. But don’t leave them to perish in horrific circumstances. What happened to Ubuntu?

Members of the South African Police Service (SAPS), supported by the South African National Defence Force (SANDF), have descended on the area and sealed off the routes through which community members supply food and water to the illegal miners underground, enabling their ongoing and indefinite illegal mining activities.

A community member who volunteered to go underground this week reported back that some of the trapped miners have died, while others are critically ill.

The community representative estimated that around 4,500 miners remain underground, too afraid to resurface due to the risk of arrest.

Meanwhile, AMCU president Joseph Mathunjwa told Newzroom Afrika that miners, including those employed by formal mining companies, face daily dangers. He said:

Workers are being killed every day, even in the regulated mines, therefore, there is no law. You can’t blame people who go and seek for livelihood because of this government that is so incompetent.

They called [striking mineworkers at Marikana in August 2012] criminals. I do not know now how they can be able to distinguish between criminals and workers.

Thirty-four mineworkers were killed, fighting for economic emancipation by the very same government.

Today they have the guts to say let’s smoke them out, those criminals. The same government has made this environment very fertile for illegal mining.

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35 Comments

kelvin · 4 months ago
Self hatred is killing us as black people,we can't be praising the white for something we can do ourselves. that's how we think they are our savior
Tawanda Mhazi · 4 months ago
Hey why does the government want to arrest them, those people who are trapped underground have already suffered a lot
HiLLBiLLIES VOLkSWAGEN 0774857233 · 4 months ago
MAMA HELLEN ZILLE FOR RSA PRESIDENT
Zozo · 4 months ago
Among the whites only Zille has the qualities of ruling South Africa. ANC failed dismally
Anonymous · 4 months ago
She is doing it for publicity. She doesn't care.
Comrade X · 4 months ago
The African National Congress is digging their own grave
jah d · 4 months ago
if a soldier volunteers to save the nation and another person do likewise to save the economy what is the difference.these people are important they must be helped.
Z · 4 months ago
THANX ZILLE . THUMBS-UP TO. YOU. AT LIST YOU POSSESS THE QUALITIES OF UBUNTU. THAT UGLY FEMALE BLACK MINISTER MUST BE SMOKED OUT OF GVT . SHE DOESN'T DESERVE THAT POST. SHE SHOULD BE A HANGMAN.
🧐 🤔 🤨 🤪 · 4 months ago
Well done Zille, unotofungawo se mu Zanu pf chaiye, The biggest question is what are these miners doing pasi ipapo Ku tsvaga ka mari hupfumi, huno a huchave feeded🙄fed into the mainstream economy which ever made it way, asi hupfumi and hunotodiwa Nyika inobudirira despite kuti Forbes magazine iriko here for credibility and and documentation, havo and Ana Chivhayo you don't read them mu Forbes but are filthy rich, making headlines betterer than some Billionaires so regai vatsvage mari, Mukavasunga Vanobvisa ka fine motor henyu ka mari, vakadzokera vasungei zve muchi go moorra mari chetechete
🧐 🤔 🤨 🤪 · 4 months ago
Mom's iyi yakaita kunaka chete iyi
Mhanduwe · 4 months ago
save them and then arrest after
Corruptmore Looto · 4 months ago
If they don't want to come out because they fear being arrested, then if they perish in there it's their fault.
Zuma Zim Zim · 4 months ago
It's everywhere the suffering. Zviri kwese, pasi rino rakaoma.
june · 4 months ago
kune nyika inodzi Chile 🇨🇱 yakabudisa boys dzefoot ball mucave
I · 4 months ago
those people are criminals and should be treated as such.....you can't risk police and emergency workers' lives to rescue people who knowingly endanger their lives doing illegal mining... empathy yes bt why won't they come out on their own because they can but simply refuse to do so...so the only option is to smoke them out deny them sustenance and eventually they will come out and be arrested and the situation will be solved
🧐 🤔 🤨 🤪 · 4 months ago
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skye · 4 months ago
u need deliverance
I · 4 months ago
ngavango buda vasungwe ka....wofa nekutya jeri....handina tsitsi nema korokoza
Vic Venom · 4 months ago
You know you are a nasty piece of work when a white middle class liberal like Helen Zille is calling you out for your misdeeds...It seems populism is on the rise in South Africa and one can only wonder how long the country has until it descends into anarchy....Rant over sanity restored
Putin 🇵🇾 🇵🇾 🇵🇾 🐊🐊 🐊 · 4 months ago
Same Same like the Israeliets ,look what is happening in Lebanon, Syria now North West ,u run to ICC whilst u turn blind eye to your own country, shame on you Mr president Ramaphosa, your company was involved in massacres in Marikana have mercy on these zama zama ,be a president not a resident pliz do what you did at Phala Phala farm scandal ,,Ubuntu first politics last,let's pray to for those who are underground, Amanda ngawethu,Muchini wami awulethi muchini wami, JZ viva MK ,in Zuma Era we didn't such a thing, hallelujah God bless you all
let's zoom zoom · 4 months ago
ndaona minister vaitwa suspended ivava mirai tione
citizen · 4 months ago
South Africans are known for their devilish way of doing things.They don't fear God at all.They kill humans which they tag foreigners everyday.There is a distinction btwn a foreigner and a human in South Africa.These people are so evil.
ok · 4 months ago
i agree with you.
Ctrl Alt Del · 4 months ago
ka minister kaye kanotokundwa hunhu nemurungu uyu kaye ndokamuroyi manje
Tambaoga · 4 months ago
nhai zvako.some whites a better than blacks
VaBhomba · 4 months ago
Tambai zvakanaka ne vamwe ikoko
The Dubious thing · 4 months ago
First Rescue Then then Talk their fate, than talk muma office enyu vanhu vachifa, it'll bring bad Rep for both you guys and the country.
Tawanda Mhazi · 4 months ago
Very correct

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