Parliamentary committee calls for collaboration following more illegal miner fatalities

The Portfolio Committee on Mineral Resources on Thursday called on all affected stakeholders to expose the real “kingpins” of the illegal mining sector after five alleged illegal miners were found shot dead at an abandoned mine in Benoni, Gauteng, this week. Committee chairperson Sahlulele Luzipho, who believed that Parliament, the Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) and State security forces should join forces, expressed concern over the “sporadic killings associated with alleged gangsterism within the illegal mining sector”.