Government has been urged to establish a specialist mining police unit to combat and prevent illegal mining. This comes on the backdrop of public outrage at the gang rape of eight women who were shooting a music video near a mine dump in Krugersdorp. This was followed by multiple sting operations which resulted in the arrests of 189 illegal miners and immigrants. 14 of those have since been charged with the rape of the eight women. To discuss this and other crimes, we are now joined via Zoom by Professor Nirmala Gopal, a University of KwaZulu-Natal criminologist.
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