{"id":964688,"date":"2024-07-07T17:59:05","date_gmt":"2024-07-07T17:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=964688"},"modified":"2024-07-07T17:59:05","modified_gmt":"2024-07-07T17:59:05","slug":"north-west-to-look-into-the-permanent-closure-of-disused-mines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/north-west-to-look-into-the-permanent-closure-of-disused-mines\/","title":{"rendered":"North West to look into the permanent closure of disused mines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The North West Department of Community Safety says they will engage with the Department of Mineral Resources to look into permanently closing all disused mine shafts as a permanent solution to illegal mining in the province.<\/p>\n<p>This as police in the province opened an inquest docket following the death of four members of the South Africa National Defence (SANDF).<\/p>\n<p>The members were deployed as part of Operation Vala Umgodi on a 24-hour shift at Shaft 3, a dormant mining shaft situated in Orkney in the North West near the disused Harry Oppenheimer stadium which has been a hotspot for illegal mining.<\/p>\n<p>The deceased members were found inside a container structure which was used as a guard house with their rifles on them and their personal items still with them.<\/p>\n<p>MEC for community, Safety Wessels Morweng elaborates.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are going to embark on a process of engaging the Minister of Mineral Resources to make sure that the process of permanently closing this shaft, we get into that process right away as a permanent solution to this problem.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North West Department of Community Safety says they look into permanently closing all disused mines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":964689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[824,825,256],"class_list":["post-964688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-south-africa","tag-illegal-mining","tag-mines","tag-north-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=964688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/964689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}