 Police Minister, Senzo Mchunu has arrived in Stilfontein in the North West where an estimated 4000 illegal miners remain trapped underground. This as police have been conducting operation Vala Umgodi in the area by blocking supply routes of water and food to the miners. Local community members have since been volunteering to rescue the trapped miners while the police remain on standby to arrest them once on the surface. Before we bring you the latest from the mine, earlier on I caught up with Masibulele Naki, regional secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers in the North West who gave us a brief personal history of the mine...

<p> Police Minister, Senzo Mchunu has arrived in Stilfontein in the North West where an estimated 4000 illegal miners remain trapped underground. This as police have been conducting operation Vala Umgodi in the area by blocking supply routes of water and food to the miners. Local community members have since been volunteering to rescue the trapped miners while the police remain on standby to arrest them once on the surface. Before we bring you the latest from the mine, earlier on I caught up with Masibulele Naki, regional secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers in the North West who gave us a brief personal history of the mine...</p>

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