Second death in ninth armed gang assault on an SA gold mine
Gold plants are seen as a relatively easy target because armed gangs regard the security as easy to bypass
20 December 2019 - 14:47
A security officer was shot dead by an armed gang that attacked Harmony Gold's Kalgold operation to steal gold, in the ninth attack of its type in 2019.
The attack by the gang at Harmony's Kalgold processing plant in the North West marks an escalation of criminal activities waged in SA's minerals sector, with rampant illegal mining of gold from old, abandoned mines as well as existing operations...
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