And so this was part of the Mpumalanga leg. So three portfolio committees from Parliament’s Mineral Resources and Energy, which is mine, also Home Affairs, which deals with foreigners and illegal immigrants and the Police Portfolio Committee have been touring the country every weekend looking at illegal mining hotspots, and it has been very interesting. And since then, they have been very strongly motivated to go and get to grips with the problem. And all of a sudden, the ANC government discovered there’s a thing called illegal mining and it’s a problem.
And then, of course, the horrific events of Krugersdorp happened where those women were raped by people thought to be illegal miners. Well, illegal mining has been a huge problem for a long time, and I’ve been banging on about it to people, ignoring it. James Lorimer on the news release related to E malahleni (Witbank) Including, it appears, some Parliamentarians.Įxcerpts from the interview with James Lorimer Lorimer explains how crime is facilitated through the deliberately blind eyes of those paid to protect society against such abuse.
In this interview with Alec Hogg of BizNews, the DA veteran unpacks how illegal mining has become big business in SA’s coal mining centre, with criminal syndicates leasing heavy duty diggers and dump trucks to illegally strip-mine coal sold wholesale into the system at massive profits. But as Lorimer explains, the risk of getting their shoes muddied apparently took precedence for the R95k a month taxpayer-funded ANC and EFF deployments. This was the second site earmarked during Saturday’s visit to Emalahleni (Witbank), one which had avoided typical Potemkin-village staging by bureaucrats. DA shadow environment minister James Lorimer had his hopes of a breakthrough in the war against organised mining criminals dashed when ANC and EFF members of Parliament’s task force refused to visit an illegally-worked open pit coal mine.
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