By Akani Nkuna
The GOOD Party has urged Mineral and Petroleum Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe and Police Minister Senzo Mchunu to work with the community and NGOs in Stilfontein to ensure that the illegal miners are treated humanely.
It said they should not be forced to choose between starving and resorting to eating the bodies of deceased miners in the Buffelsfontein mine shaft.
GOOD Party secretary general Brett Herron said in a statement that the predicament at Stilfontein “is first and foremost a humanitarian crisis, and with no further action and continued disregard for the miner’s human rights, the situation will become one of the largest humanitarian failures in democratic South Africa’s history”.
He said it was shocking that the government was behaving in such an “anti-constitutional”, way ignoring the human rights of the hundreds of miners trapped nearly 2000 metres beneath the surface.
The party has urged the government
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