20 March 2019 1 Min Read

Underworld: Zama-zamas hold jobseekers hostage

in News / South Africa by Bongani Fuzile
BUCKETLOADS OF NERVE An illegal miner processing rock with gold bearing ore mined from a disused shaft ion the West Rand.
Image: Alon Skuy
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Lured underground with the promise of jobs, 24 unemployed young men from Randfontein and Westonaria on Gauteng’s West Rand instead found themselves held hostage by suspected illegal miners.

Now police in have arrested three suspects who allegedly held the men captive in one of the Westonaria mineshafts.

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