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The bodies of 8 illegal miners have been retrieved following a collapse at an illegal chrome mine due to heavy rains at Driekop near Burgersfort in Limpopo.

Image: Twitter@SAPoliceServiceThe bodies of eight illegal miners have been retrieved following a collapse at an illegal chrome mine due to heavy rains at Driekop near Burgersfort in Limpopo.

Police spokesperson Motlafela Mojapelo says the bodies had been trapped at Ga-Maroga village on Friday. Police say of the eight deceased illegal miners, one is South African, three are Mozambican and four Zimbabwean nationals. Police believe the zama-zamas were trapped after soil and water flowed into the entrance and exit points.

 

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Waste of taxpayers' money. Please can we be respected in 2023 🙏🏽?

Xenophobic rain marora

Over six years ago three 'LEGAL' miners where buried alive when the container they was swallowed by the weak caching in ground, they are still unaccounted for. Illegal miners are quickly retrieved, how ironical. Legal workers are given inhuman treatment, tsotsis are taken care of

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They should leave them there

What's the name of that mine because you journalist are lazy cabt speak of Driekop mine while we do have so many mines around driekop

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