Threatened by sand miners [LETTER]
Are these not criminal offences under South African law?
EDITOR – Your article headlined ‘threatened by sand miners’ published in the 23 August edition refers.
READ:
- Illegal mining continues despite department’s order to shut down operations
- Toti Conservancy member abused, threatened by illegal miners
- DMR confirms Illovo River sand miners’ abuse
I never thought I would see the day that criminal thugs are able to threaten someone with a dangerous weapon, verbally abuse them in a completely racist manner and even threaten to rape them in the presence of South African police officers and walk away as if nothing happened (as reported). Are these not criminal offences under South African law? Surely, if you are brazen enough to act in such manner, right into the face of the SAPS, you should be immediately arrested and charged, and then heavily sentenced as a lesson to others with the same attitude towards the law.
Our natural resources are plundered and damaged, without any respect for the law, by an illegal mining operation and yet no arrests are made, not even after receiving a clear, official order to cease activities. All official channels are disregarded with complete impunity. Dig a bit deeper and you find out that Nicole Mchunu clearly identifies herself as a staunch ANC supporter on Facebook, and everything kind of falls into place, doesn’t it? It would be interesting to know exactly how deep her involvement with the ANC actually runs. Is she one of the ‘untouchables’?
How much longer are we still going to suffer the indiscriminate pillaging, and gangsterism? Where is our constitutional right of equality before the law? Who will protect normal citizens, when they are subjected to threats of violence, and yes, even the physical performance of those threats? Certainly not those who are appointed to the task.
DISGUSTED.
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