FatimaMurtala: I didn't see any insult if someone advised you to get a job.
Pleasantly so 😂. I kindly requested he be investigated for possibly creating multiple accounts. Idle people are known for such tactics, giving themselves likes.
Bliss4Lyfe: After killing so many fellow AfricanS without remorse, abeg help us give RandDigital lengthy ban for those dead Mozambique and Zimbabwe people. RIP!
😂😂😂 Am i the one who killed them since they refused to resurface on their own while 100s others did so willingly?
Bliss4Lyfe: Listen, when SA Gov gunned down Black South African miners in cold blood back in 2012, i condemned it as barbaric.
I'm not a retard that support things that are clearly wrong and outright evil.
SA Gov has a history and tendency to commit murderous crime against Blacks.
U supporting them out of tribal hatred thinking they wil stop at your neighbours from mozambique or Zimbabwe.
The chicken wil eventually come hom to roost, meaning tomorrow u might be next.
If we check their employer at that mine will be a South African.
U cannot kill our Black people like that, wat is wrong with you?
I bet if they were whites you wil rush to get them out.
First show us those whites who are currently underground stealing mineral wealth of a foreign country.
SA government has been lenient with your "desperate angelic criminals" for decades, at some point it had to stop. So don't play the race or tribal card.
Bliss4Lyfe: Respect Human Right that you preach to Israel.
Dont commit murder willfully because people did something you believe is wrong.
That is y you have court.
U arrest them and charge them to court.
Do you even know anything about this story?
Its tough terrain down there unfamiliar to the cops plus illegal miners are usually armed, it's a well-known fact. That's why the SA police opted for the option of surrender instead while allowing food to be sent down.
Like i said, good luck to you if you're thinking of prosecuting SA government, your "desperate angel criminals" have themselves to blame.
Desperate people have very limited choice and if the oportunity arise again, you wil still find desperate people prepared to take the risk foraging down in a mine for their daily bread.
Let this resonate in your mind and be understood, u thought nobody any lesson, just commited a crime.
SA Gov commited worst crime than the miners. Murder!
So your logic is we should let desperate people run down our societies?
Nothing stops your country from approaching the ICC or ICJ, SA knows which way their door faces - we hurled Israel there. These illegal foreign miners had all the opportunity to surrender but they chose not to. Go argue their case. I wish you luck.
MadPolitician: Very evil country. How could they allow this to happen? All that the stoopid SA government did was to station some fat hippopotamus looking police officers at the entrance to the mines, to suppervise this barbaric annihilation of fellow humans. To think that these mines were all leftovers by white apartheid supporting mine owners, makes the whole thing very revolting. Someone needs to shout them down next time they start running those their ugly looking mouths.
Lol, like you all keep saying "the whites developed SA" with those minerals. What's SA gaining from these ones busy stealing the leftovers and sending to their countries and not investing in SA? Next time SA police should seal all the holes with cement and leave all criminals down there to die. Their nigerian crime sympathizers can then run to the ICJ, if they have the balls or organisational skills - which they clearly don't have😂😂😂
Bliss4Lyfe: Those stil alive down there, will die later after the removal.
I cannot call this rescue, it is a removal of bodies and dieing.
Damage to their organs and health may not be something that can be reversed.
Congrats South Africa u killed them all.
I applaud SA government for finally sending a clear unequivocal message to criminals and their nigerian sympathizers that after decades of warnings their time is now up. What's so difficult for all of you to understand that the Illegal miners (and foreign) have been stealing SA mineral wealth? It's clear many of you support crime, no wonder nigerians have a terrible reputation in SA, you're irredeemable.
The South African government has begun a long-awaited rescue operation at the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine in Stilfontein amid a flurry of urgent litigation.
On Thursday the Pretoria High Court heard that there were 109 dead bodies in shafts 10 and 11 of the mine.
The operation will cost 12-million rands (1-billion naira) and the bill will be shared between the government and the Minerals Council South Africa.
One corpse was pulled up last Thursday, but another 108 still had to be extracted, said Anna-Marie de Vos SC, counsel for Zinzi Tom, sister to one of the miners underground. “In reality, the mineworkers cannot wait as they are dying by the hour and this is evidenced by the continued retrieval of dead bodies,” said Tom in an affidavit to the court on Friday.
At 4pm on Friday, the court heard that the necessary contracts were ready to be signed for the rescue operation to commence. Yesterday Andries Fourie, the CEO of rescue company Mines Rescue Services (MRS), said in a statement submitted to the Constitutional Court in a separate matter that the paperwork had been signed and the company was “currently in the process to conduct groundwork to enable our mobile rescue winder [a bespoke crane device] to drive on the gravel roads to the number 11 shaft”.
Once this was complete, “we will immediately start with the hoisting”, he said.
Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR), which has been assisting the zama zamas (illegal miners) and the affected community, said it had met MRS representatives and it was hoped groundwork would be complete by today (last week), Sunday, or tomorrow morning at the latest.
In an affidavit to the Pretoria court on Friday Pieter Alberts, chief director of legal services for the department of mineral resources & energy, the Minerals Council (formerly the Chamber of Mines) would contribute to the costs of the rescue — estimated to be about R12m (N1billion). It emerged during the hearing that the cost would be split 50/50 between the Minerals Council and the government.
The rescue winder would work in 10-hour shifts, lifting the miners in small groups, the government’s counsel, Cassie Badenhorst SC, said in court. Once the access road was completed, it would take about 16 days to extract an estimated 550 miners, said Alberts.
Judge Ronel Tolmay said that, in the meantime, “we need to remember that people’s lives are at stake ... So let’s make sure that they’ve got food, water and medical supplies.”
A desperate handwritten letter from the miners was received on Thursday asking for face masks, because of the smell from the dead bodies, and Jeyes fluid — “to wash away the maggots”, said De Vos.
Badenhorst said police were not impeding efforts by the community to provide food and support. Tolmay said if the community or NGOs had any problems in getting food and water to the miners, including over the weekend, she wanted to know “immediately”.
“On my watch, nobody’s going without food,” she said.
LHR had urgently approached the high court on Thursday night on behalf of Tom. The application was heard on Friday morning.
LHR had already urgently approached the Constitutional Court on behalf of community organisation, Mining Affected Communities United in Action (Macua), with chilling testimony from informal miners that the situation was so desperate that some had resorted to cannibalism. Macua asked for similar orders from the Constitutional Court as from the high court on Friday, but also wanted Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, which holds the mining right over the mine, to be part of the rescue.
“To leave these miners abandoned in darkness is to sentence them to a fate unworthy of any human being. The law, the constitution, and the principles of ubuntu demand more of us,” said Macua to the Constitutional Court. The court had directed answering affidavits to be filed by yesterday.
free2ryhme: Nothing you can ever say that trumps the reality that you lots are on pigs menu in south africa your own country 😂😂😂😂
Mr Visa Beggar-gerian. You'll be next on that menu after your Zimbabwean friends since you're forever wailing for SA visa. You're also walking Xenophobic shooting targets.
Anyway, why you all running from Hunger-geria like rats jumping off a sinking ship? You still haven't answered me😂😂😂 You're the dumbest blacks on earth - oil and 300 million human resources but yet are Beggar-gerians as well as Rice Stampede-gerians 😂😂😂
free2ryhme: Pigs are having you south Africans on their menu 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Maybe you have a square head devout of sense, Zimbabweans are the ones involved. I've been banned before for describing the shape of your head and after effects thereof. Others with normal heads will make the calculations - your's is absolutely and completely unable to - for obviously geometric reasons (square & flatness)😂😂😂.
free2ryhme: You that will be fed to white farmers pigs is lamenting about who has not eaten. You are on the menu for Pigs in your own country 😂😂😂
Like i said, we send our condolences to Zimbabwe for their citizens who were thrown in a pigsty.
Talking of 'own' countries, remind us again why you all are jumping off Hunger-geria like rats off a sinking ship. You finally finished off your sh1thole (to quote the honourable Donald J Trump)??
Every day you're begging people for visas, have you no shame? Somalia and South Sudan don dire with una's begging 😂😂😂
kingbee90: But you posted this shit here as an achievement & made it seem like a young south African just invented something huge.
After receiving backslash from Nigerians, you are now changing the goal post. I can't believe south Africans would be celebrating "wrapping a notebook with calenders & KFC papers" as an achievement in 2025.
You people are pathetic. SMH!!
It's poverty porn. South Africans have money for brand new wrapping paper hence Shoprite hasn't shutdown like in Nigeria where you people didn't have spending power.
kingbee90: But you posted this shit here as an achievement & made it seem like a young south African just invented something huge.
After receiving backslash from Nigerians, you are now changing the goal post. I can't believe south Africans would be celebrating "wrapping a notebook with calenders & KFC papers" as an achievement in 2025.
You people are pathetic. SMH!!
It's poverty porn. South Africans have money for brand new wrapping paper hence Shoprite hasn't shutdown like in Nigeria where you people didn't have spending power.
free2ryhme: white farmers are feeding you people to their pigs, how worst can it get 😂😂😂
At least SA pigs have something eat (Zimbabweans) - what are you having for super for your one meal of the day? I hear sometimes you eat once every 2 days now. Sorry for you o.
free2ryhme: It's shocking to see comments from pauper feeling funky, especially when you realize the history here. You people were exploited on their own land for generations under colonialism and apartheid. Working on white man farms for little to no pay, while white farmers feeding you people to their pigs. This isn't just poverty; it's systemic oppression and dehumanization in your own country till tomorrow
😂😂😂
Quote SA poverty levels under apartheid and compare with Hunger-geria. It's even worse now for you because even just the mention of the word rice causes a stampede😂😂😂 Go mingle with other starving kids and pick flies from each others cracked lips and kwashiorkor bellies, I ain't got time for you.
free2ryhme: What Nigerian schoolchildren in the ’80s did to protect their exercise book covers from wear and tear is what you ignorantly applaud in 2025. 😂😂😂😂
We've never been poor like you guys hence almost a million views for the video because its something weird for our nature. Poverty porn.
kingbee90: Whenever your south African men are not raping people, gulping alcohol or taking drugs, they are busy inventing rubbish that Nigerian boys, now men did 27 years ago with their notebooks when still in primary school.
If not for the white people that refused to leave your country eh, u ugly folks would still be living on trees and in small huts because y'all lack innovative ideas.
Now take this mediocre invention out of this Blog and go post it in your kwa-Zulu natal blog where your types would celebrate this rubbish.
You invented poverty before SA? What an achievement Mr Rice Stampede-gerian 👎🏾😂😂😂
christejames: No mind the guy, when I get say Satafricans are still living in the stone age era some will say they are the most deverope part of Africa..
Something that even I did while in primary school is what these Satafricans are seeing as something unique or maybe they just want to advertise KFC.
Wow you guys have been starving for the longest of time. Clearly rice stampedes aren't a new thing. South Africans actually buy brand new wrapping paper for school books. It's the norm.
One young man has captivated South Africa's attention with his genius hack, which has gone viral on social media.
The boy's creativity, as seen in an online clip, left South Africans in awe after he used KFC packaging to wrap his school books.
@somilazweni's resourceful act was shared on TikTok, where the student proudly showcased his neatly covered books, sparking admiration and conversations about innovative ways to save money.
The video has over 900,000 views, 89,000 likes and 1,790 comments.
SA schools reopen for the first term of the year on January 13.
INEXPENSIVE WAYS TO COVER SCHOOL BOOKS
Back-to-school expenses are often quite high, so to ease the load, one can use these budget-friendly ways to cover school books using recyclable materials in the house.
Newspaper: Use old newspapers as covers. They are affordable, eco-friendly, and can be decorated with markers or stickers for a fun look.
Brown Paper Bags: Make use of brown grocery bags as durable book covers. Cut them to size and personalise them with drawings or labels.
Recycled Calendar Pages: Large, vibrant calendar pages can be repurposed into beautiful, functional book covers.
Reused Wrapping Plastic: Save plastic wraps from packages or other items to use as waterproof book covers.
Old Magazines or Posters: Use large pages from old magazines or posters to create unique covers.
Gift Wrap: Repurpose leftover gift wrap to add a colourful touch to school books.
kingbee90: These ugly south Africans should first solve the high cases of violence and rape against South African women by South African men in their country as well as discrimination against fellow Africans in their country (Xenophobia) . Charity, they say begins at home.. Lazy mofos..
It takes very ugly people to make very beautiful South African women all you Rice Stampede-gerians are obsessed with.