Over 200 suspected illegal miners arrested in Westonaria [SOUND]

# Gauteng police arrested over 217 suspected illegal miners at Losberg Kloof Mine in Westonaria yesterday as part of Operation Prosper. This multi-agency operation forms part of an ongoing national campaign to dismantle illegal mining syndicates and transnational criminal networks operating across South Africa’s mining regions. Gauteng deputy police commissioner, Fred Kekana, says most of the illegal miners are foreign nationals from Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and Lesotho: