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South Africa - January 14, 2025

Stilfontein: More than 109 deceased in the mineshafts, 89 arrested and hundreds still remain inside the mine

As yesterday in Marikana, under the orders of the mining transnationals...

The murderous government of the ANC imposes a new massacre against the mine workers

MURDERER STATE!

After being besieged since last August by the murderous ANC police without any food or water, what is happening at the Stilfolen gold mine is a true massacre of workers

Since August 2024, hundreds of artisanal miners have entered the tunnels of an abandoned mine to extract gold and feed their families.

Ramaphosa's anti-worker government accuses artisanal miners of being delinquents and illegal, while handing over all the minerals and resources to AngloAmerican and all the transnationals. What's more, the government itself claims that the siege of hunger and death imposed on the miners was necessary to stop a "war against the national economy" by illegal mining. MURDERERS! ANGLOAMERICAN AND THE TRANSNATIONAL MINING COMPANIES ARE THE REAL THIEVES OF RESOURCES!

Dozens of relatives of the miners trapped thousands of metres underground have been trying to get food and water to the miners who are already in a deplorable state of health, while the murderous police wait for them to leave the mine to take them as prisoners.

What are SAFTU and trade unions like COSATU doing for the miners? Absolutely nothing. They are Haití g for their comrades to die of hunger and dehydration! The trade union bureaucracy is complicit in the more than 100 deaths!

WE ARE ALL STILFONTEIN MINERS! ENOUGH OF WORKER MASSACRES! OUT WITH ANGLOAMERICAN AND ALL TRANSNATIONAL MINING COMPANIES, THEY ARE THE REAL THIEVES ON WHOM WE MUST DECLARE WAR!

 

See also:

November 21, 2024

Statement by the Workers International Vanguard League (WIVL) of South Africa

Reproduced by Workers International League (WIL) of Zimbabwe

Stilfontein: another massacre in the making?
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Access to Stilfontein gold mine

 


Miners imprisoned by police

 


The police patrols the mine of Stilfontein

 


Relatives of the miners trapped and activists protesting outside the mine