A tragic incident occurred in stilfontein, North-West where 4500 illegal miners emerged, refusing to resurface

This bizarre has sparked debate online where the general public sympathise while illegal miners because some are dying inside while others are in bad health due to lack of basic needs such as water and food. Police have reportedly cut the supply of water and food, forcing the miners to resurface and the miners decided to take another route of staying inside due to the fear of being arrested.

According to our constitution, the government is not allowed to deny people water and food and on the other hands, The minister in the presidency says the government is not willing to assist because these miners are from Lesotho, Zimbabwe and Mozambique are in the country illegally.

some netizens plead with the government to help them due to the fear of being reported to the International Court of Justice should the miners die inside, that would be regarded as genocide.

It is important to note that those miners are not trapped inside, they are able to resurface and the reason they’re still inside is that they fear to be arrested.