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The government has been urged to establish a specialist mining police unit to combat and prevent illegal mining. This comes on the backdrop of public outrage at the gang rape of eight women who were shooting a music video near a mine dump in Krugersdorp.

Image: Twitter: @SAPoliceServiceThe government has been urged to establish aThis comes on the backdrop of public outrage at the gang rape of eight women who were shooting a music video near a mine dump in Krugersdorp.

This was followed by multiple sting operations which resulted in the arrests of 189 illegal miners and immigrants.Minerals Council South Africa public affairs and transformation senior executive, Tebello Chabana, says the sector is facing an unprecedented crisis in security and crime. “It’s really quite an extensive criminal organisation. You need specialised police to be able to combat them essentially in terms of numbers and in terms of firepower and in terms of know-how.

Police Minister Bheki Cele attended a crime scene in Imbizo at West village in Krugersdorp, following a week of protests on the back of the gang rapes of eight women at an abandoned mine. It’s alleged that illegal miners were behind the attacks, and community members and police have spent the past few days rounding up so-called zama zamas .Bench-Marks Foundation, David Van Wyk, says policing should have started when big mining companies abandonedThe video below is reporting that zama zamas’ operations demolished in Bekkersdal:

 

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Maybe we did not know how we can eat this money but our soldiers are chilling in the camp somewhere mara nou we have n excuse to go to the finances and pump up some special mining police. Why not let the youth eat Basotho have been eating and the rapes messed up.

Thanks 2 our slow taker gorvmnt wth de decision thy hv taken,in future let not wait until negative take place then we start to act.Train all the SA matriculated as thy force to protect their own country resources,we hv too much jobs in SA we only need wise ministers to take actio

One of the dumbest idea ever , and the current police 🚔 what's there job cause they are sleeping at police station 🚉 taking 30 minutes to arrive at crime scene mxah. We needvto utilise what we have and make it effective than just adding numbers and the burden to pay them

But it's funny if white foreigners mine it's legally still as ordinary south African we don't benefit so my question is illegally and legally for me where do I benefit

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