By Johnathan Paoli
The Mining Affected Communities Unified in Action (Macau) has welcomed the North Gauteng High Court’s ruling that Police Minister Senzo Mchunu and his department breached the interim court order allowing the provision of humanitarian aid to the trapped miners in Stilfontein.
Macau spokesperson Magnificent Mndebele said Lawyers for Human Rights, representing the organisation, brought the urgent application on Tuesday afternoon.
This followed police members stationed in Stilfontein placing arbitrary limitations on the quantity of food that community members could lower down to the miners as well as the frequency of the aid.
“This clearly demonstrates the state’s apprehensiveness and predisposition in how they use starvation and deprivation of food as tools for law enforcement,” Mndebele said.
Additionally, certain essential food items, including maize meal, canned fish and soup, were barred from being lowered down at all without any explanation.
Judge Janse van Nieuwenhuizen made an interim order
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