Kagiso residents turn violent, assault people accused of illegal mining, crime: One person was killed, while others were stripped naked and beaten by groups, who also barricaded roads and searched abandoned mines
One person was killed when violence erupted in Kagiso when residents raided mine shafts in search of illegal mine workers they accuse of criminal activity.sent out on Monday urged residents in Mogale City, the municipality under which Kagiso falls, to participate in a shutdown on 4 August. and get rid of crimes happening there,” it read.
In one street, about 13 alleged illegal miners lay on the ground with their hands tied behind their backs. They had been stripped naked and badly beaten and were surrounded by residents holding machetes, pagans and sticks. “There are about 10 fresh mine shaft holes in Soul City. We burnt tyres and those people still didn’t come out. When we went in, we found buckets, hammers, plenty of condoms, dustbins, machinery that they use and generators to light which we decided to burn,” he said.Deputy commissioner Lieutenant Tebello Mosikili said the police had struggled to prevent the violence unleashed against the alleged illegal miners.
“We have been on the ground to try and arrest the situation to try and bring calm to the situation, to try and intervene where the community has information to follow up. That is why you have seen this week there were 80 people that appeared in court that were arrested with the assistance of the communities,” she said.
“The police must stop shooting at the residents so that we can do this in a peaceful manner,” he said, while also slamming residents who threw rocks at officers.
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