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News24 reports that police used pepper spray and fired rubber bullets on Wednesday to prevent the residents of Borwa, a newly developed community on Gauteng's West Rand, from crossing over Jan Blignaut Road to an area where they claimed illegal miners were hiding.
Residents, who barricaded the road that runs from Westonaria to the N12 with burning tree branches and tyres, complained that illegal miners operating from a nearby mine dump were "terrorising" them. Thembi Xuli, who was among those who threw stones at the police, stated: "We want to go [to the mine dump]. The police have taken sides with the illegal miners. Why are they stopping us? Why are they protecting them? Those people are victimising us. We are tired. We want them out." Xuli said residents wouldn't stop their protest until the illegal miners were gone. She accused the police of being nowhere to be seen when the community reported crimes that had been allegedly committed by the illegal miners. A community leader, Paseka Ndlovu, vowed they would continue their protest, saying they had delivered a memorandum to the Westonaria police station. He said they had established that the illegal miners had migrated from Mohlakeng, Kagiso, Bekkersdal and Krugersdorp. "We demand the police's assistance to fight illegal miners,” Ndlovu stressed.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Ntwaagae Seleka at News24
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