Court orders police to stop blockade of zama-zama exits in Stilfontein

The matter is postponed to Tuesday for the respondents, the ministers of co-operative governance & traditional affais, police, health and mineral resources & energy to make their representations.While the SA Police Service (SAPS) welcomes the court order, this does not prevent SAPS from performing its constitutional mandate, spokesperson Brig Athlenda Mathe said.She said SAPS static deployment operations continue at all abandoned and disused mining shafts in the Stilfontein area where police appeal to all illegal miners to resurface.“All those who resurface will continue to be…