This month saw deadly protests at Gauteng's West Rand where locals attacked so-called zama-zamas.
JOHANNESBURG - The Department of Mineral Resources and Energy has acknowledged that poor communication has contributed to increasing frustration in mining communities but said it had plans to remedy this.
The violence – during which at least one person died – was sparked by the gang-rape of eight women on a music video set near a mine dump. "So we are also asking from the Department of Minerals to say, 'give our own black brother's mining rights'," said a Kagiso councillor, Lebawana Lesotho.
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