Crime

Police in Mpumalanga continues to clamp down on illegal mining

As a continuation of an intelligence-driven operation that started on Monday 17 January, which consisted of Visible Policing, POPS, Detective Service, Crime Intelligence, DMRE, and the Security from Anglo American, the team seized additional nine mining machinery.

This time they were found on another illegal mining site, at Elpaso in Witbank Policing precinct.

The site was formerly used by Anglo-Americans as their official mining site.

It is suspected that the illegal miners fled and left their equipment on the site.

This followed an operation which was conducted at Schoongezight coal dump on Tuesday, 18 Jan 2022 in which 17 suspects were taken in for questioning and several mining machineries were seized.

The Provincial Commissioner of SAPS in Mpumalanga Lieutenant General Semakaleng Daphney vowed that the operation will not end until the police totally eradicate illegal mining.

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