By Staff Reporter
The police’s Vala Umgodi task teams in the North West have blocked the routes used to deliver food and water to illegal miners, with 225 of them, dehydrated and starving, having now resurfaced in the Orkney area where there are gold mines.
Operation Vala Umgodi, which was launched in December last year, is a multi-disciplinary South African police operation that aims to stop illegal mining and related crimes.
Thousands of people have been arrested since its inception, with the operation exposing a connection between illegal migration and the coercion of migrants in South African mines.
Acting national police commissioner Lieutenant General Shadrack Sibiya commended the Vala Umgodi task teams over the weekend.
“These 225 illegal miners are part of others believed to be hundreds if not a thousand illegal miners who are stuck underground with no food, water and necessities because the Vala Umgodi teams led by the
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