[WATCH: STILFONTEIN ILLEGAL MINE] Clearing misconceptions and some media reports, the illegal miners at the Stilfontein mine shaft ARE NOT TRAPPED. What is happening underground is pure criminality and the activities down there are of a criminal bent. #IllegalMining

@RSA_CJS @GovernmentZA @SAPoliceService Let them come out on the own. You send people there , they will be held hostage and there will be more unreasonable demands. Or you can always ask General Mkhwanazi how to handle this difficult situation. You can’t be negotiating with criminals.

@RSA_CJS @GovernmentZA @SAPoliceService I'm getting a feeling someone who's in power in SA gov is somehow involved here with these underground criminals

@RSA_CJS @GovernmentZA @SAPoliceService They are not trapped, they are just afraid of being arrested by the police, If they can come out and look for food

@RSA_CJS @GovernmentZA @SAPoliceService Why do they want to negotiate with criminals? It either uyabopha or uyabulala

@RSA_CJS @GovernmentZA @SAPoliceService With respect, the criminality started when they were allowed via bribes, etc, to enter illegally into the country....Proactively died a long time ago

@RSA_CJS @Rowiaza @GovernmentZA @SAPoliceService If they do send any of our people down and anything happens to them we have to hold the NGOs the lawyers and judge accountable

@RSA_CJS @GovernmentZA @SAPoliceService Those zama zama are going to hold whoever you send there hostage and try to come up with a way to get out without being arrested

@RSA_CJS @GovernmentZA @SAPoliceService Don’t send people down only to be held hostage by those sgebengas @SAPoliceService

@RSA_CJS @GovernmentZA @SAPoliceService Monies and resources are being wasted on criminals

@RSA_CJS @GovernmentZA @SAPoliceService Smoke them out