(2 Aug 2022)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Johannesburg - 2 August 2022
1. Wide of police officers and sniffer dog searching mine dump
2. Police officer with barking sniffer dog
3. Wide of police officers and sniffer dog searching
4. Close of police officer using pen to pick up spent cartridge
5. Close of police officer holding two spent cartridges
6. Wide of Gauteng Police Commissioner Elias Mawela handing over spent cartridges to another officer
7. SOUNDBITE (English), Lieutenant-General Elias Mawela, Gauteng Police Commissioner: ++AUDIO AS INCOMING++
"This operation is one of those sustained operations we are running in the province to continue dealing with illegal mining and illicit businesses. So, but this is on another level. Usually, you see us when we deal with this illegal mining, we do the disruptive operations, we do the disruptive operations whereby we also remove their tools of trade."
8. Various of detained men on their knees with their hands bound behind their backs
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Lieutenant-General Elias Mawela, Gauteng Police Commissioner: ++AUDIO AS INCOMING++
"No, these ones we have arrested them for their own deeds. But the process of taking the fingerprints, the DNA, the buccal sample, whatever, it's our investigation chain. We'll continue with that, because when we do that, it also assists us to link these people with other crimes which they have committed before. So, it will help us to continue dealing with those who were evading us all along."
10. Police helicopter flying over
11. Various of arrested men sitting on the ground with their hands bound
12. Close of zip ties around hands
13. Arrested men being escorted into police vehicles
14. Police vehicles driving away
STORYLINE:
South African police arrested more than 40 men over suspected illegal mining on Tuesday in Krugersdorp outside Johannesburg.
Authorities in Gauteng province have stepped up their operations against illegal miners in recent days following reports of the gang rapes of eight women and armed robbery of a video production crew.
The suspects in that case are allegedly illegal miners, but none of those detained on Tuesday have been directly linked to the incident which outraged the Krugersdorp community.
Gauteng Police Commissioner Lieutenant-General Elias Mawela said while the 40 men were arrested for their "own deeds", the process of taking DNA samples and fingerprints could help other investigations.
Mawela was joined on the operation by a series of police units including a tactical response team, sniffer dogs and a support helicopter.
Spent firearm cartridges were also found near one mine dump after three suspects engaged in a shootout with police before being detained.
The illegal miners, known as zama-zamas, dig for gold in the Johannesburg area's many closed mine shafts.
AP video shot by: Sebabatso Mosamo and Nqobile Ntshangase.
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