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News24 reports that North West Premier Job Mokgoro advised on Monday that only 10 of the illegal miners found dead near Orkney last week had been identified.
Mokgoro and Lesotho Consul General Selimo Thabane accompanied family members of the miners to the Tshepisong Mortuary in Klerksdorp for the grim task of identifying the bodies. Twenty bodies were found near an unused shaft near Lawrence Park and along a public road. It is not clear yet what happened to them. Some of the bodies had name tags on them or the name of a village. "What happened here is quite unfortunate. We have already identified some of the bodies, and they are those of bona fide citizens of the Mountain Kingdom," Thabane stated. At a press briefing, Mokgoro welcomed the Lesotho government's commitment to help solve illegal mining activities in the area. "We are dealing with a massive international challenge but we are committed to the challenge. As responsible leaders, we must not be too quick to blame. We should rather intensify our effort to understand the problem at hand and be able to break its back," he said.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Jenni Evans at News24
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