Violence against illegal miners in South Africa has spread despite calls for restraint from the country’s president.
Local residents leave a home after they broke in searching for illegal miners, removing found property and setting it alight in West Village, Krugersdorp, South Africa, Friday Aug. 5, 2022. Community members converged on the neighbourhood in search of illegal miners following the alleged gang rapes of eight women by miners last week.
Local residents enraged at the incident torched illegal miners' camps in the neighboring Kagiso township on Thursday, and attacked miners whom they stripped naked and beat before handing them over to the police.“We need to distinguish between legitimate protest and criminality, addressing the concerns and grievances of communities while acting to prevent loss of life and destruction of property," he said.
“Unfortunately, because some of ... the illegal miners would be undocumented migrants, this has created an element of xenophobic politics where people say all illegal immigrants must go and all foreigners must leave the country,” said Kopanang Africa spokesman Dale McKinley. Researcher and analyst Ziyanda Stuurman told The Associated Press that communities’ frustration at the deterioration of policing and their living conditions contributed to their anger.
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