Interestingly enough, a recent report by Jacques Pauw on the illicit mining in the area indicates that just before this trip of mine, an illegal miner by the name of Ronaldo Joseph, was shot dead by the new consortium's security company. This happened on the 10th of November - a week or two before our trip - and probably explains why the illegal diggings were deserted.iandvl wrote: ↑24 Nov 2020 15:05 <snip>
Strangely enough, in December, 2018, Kleinsee had a massive issue with illegal diamond mining. It was so rough that the folk were blatantly pegging out claims right next to the road, and the entire area looked almost like the start of Kimberly. This has changed now. The illegal diggins were all but deserted. I'm not entirely sure what is going on there - the rumours I'd heard was that it was a problem that had not been solved, but there were also rumours of one of the diggers having been shot at some point. I have no idea what to believe, and it is not really a problem that is well document, or which hits the news regularly. If somebody here knows what is going on, I'd be curious to know too...
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