“We are not sending help to criminals,” Khumbudzo Ntshavheni said, adding that “criminals are not to be helped. Criminals are to be persecuted.” Trade unions and rights groups say ...

Minister of the President Khumbudzo Ntshavheni said the strategy was to “smoke them out”, meaning it would force the miners to resurface. When many didn’t, this caused a nationwide debate ...

In November last year, Minister in the Presidency, Khumbudzo Ntshavheni, said that the government would not be sending help to illegal miners — known locally as "zama zamas" — because she said ...

Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy, Gwede Mantashe, has called for a stronger and more focused approach to combat illegal mining, emphasising its harmful impact on the economy and its ...

President @CyrilRamaphosa, accompanied by Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Ronald Lamola and Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni, will attend today's proceedings.

Authorities made clear their approach when South African Cabinet Minister Khumbudzo Ntshavheni told reporters in November that the government would not help the miners, who they consider criminals.

SMOKE THEM OUT' Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni said in November: "We are not sending help to criminals. We are going to smoke them out." But a court said in December that ...

Police Minister Senzo Mchunu has contradicted Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni's previous statement that the government would ‘smoke out’ illegal miners in Stilfontein.

At the time, Cabinet minister Khumbudzo Ntshavheni said the government would not help the illegal miners, and told reporters: "We are not sending help to criminals. "We are going to smoke them out.