South African rescuers have so far pulled 78 bodies and rescued 166 people from the Stilfontein gold mine over three days of operations, police spokesperson Athlenda Mathe told reporters at the scene on Wednesday.
“Our mandate was to combat criminality and that is exactly what we’ve been doing,” she said. “By providing food, water and necessities to these illegal miners it would be the police entertaining and allowing criminality to thrive.”
Oh my god
Answering basic human needs makes a breeding ground for criminality! Noted!
This situation is insane, they were trying to starve out hundreds of people underground.
The media might have cared about this, but Los Angeles was burning so you can guess what they went with
The media might not care, but we can.
