St Helena Mine security officer Dawie Wepener 31 survives shot in face in mob-attack by illegal mineworkers Welkom
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On the same day, Harmony Gold's Protea-Coin security team also arrested a woman, Mrs Yvonne Mojanaga, 50, in a local squatter hut, allegedly owning a 7-kg bar of gold. (story below). She was released on bail pending testing of the gold-bar. If it's genuine she 's in trouble for illegal gold-sale: and if it turns out to be fake, she's facing a charge of fraud for slicing of pieces and buying luxuries with it, claiming it was pure gold. http://www.beeld.com/nuus/2013-09-02-goud-gekry-by-plakkershut
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Sept 2 2013 - Censorbugbear has obtained formal confirmation from four reliable sources that on August 30 2013 at 08h30am, the Harmony company's St Helena mine was the scene of a violent attack by a large group of illegal mineworkers, referred to as zama-zamas against a ten-member mine-security patrol. During this confrontation, Mr Dawie Wepener, 31, was injured by home-made shrapnel fired allegedly by one of the zama's while others were throwing stones at the security patrol. Another unnamed member also was slightly injured by a rubber bullet, fired from the same crowd. The entire incident is still being investigated and further details are being awaited. It is believed however that when the ten-member patrol retreated, taking the injured colleagues back to the mine-offices, they initially believed Mr Wepener had been injured in the face by a stone. However when they started cleaning the wound they realized he had been shot and rushed him to the Ernest Oppenheimer hospital in Welkom.
He was x-rayed and it was confirmed that shrapnel was embedded in his face which had cracked his jawbone and shattered his right cheek bone. Mr Wepener is scheduled for reconstructive surgery on Sept 3 2013 and reportedly is in good physical condition otherwise.
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-updated September 2 2013 by Adriana Stuijt email a.j.stuijt@knid.nl telephone 31 519 701 266.
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7kg suspected pure gold bar discovered at squatter hut 2 September 2013 in Welkom
Monday 2 September 2013 Tom de Wet
WELKOM, South Africa. SA mine-companies, the SAPS and the mine-security team are awaiting with 'great anticipation whether a confiscated 7kg gold bar they had found at a squatter hut during an arrest, could be pure gold.
If so, the 7kg bar could be worth more than R3million. The suspect, Mrs Yvonne Mojanaga, 50, was arrested at her squatter hut and released on bail.
She was ordered to appear on 20 September 2013. Welkom has a large community of illegal gold-miners who live for months on end inside the mineshafts, endangering legal miners while hacking gold-ore from the rockface inside the shafts and smuggling it up to the surface to the cracked down, melted and resold to illegal dealers.
It's not certain that the arrested woman's bar of gold is actually bona-fide as yet, it still has to be tested.
Apparently this is a double-barreled complaint: slices of the bar were allegedly 'sliced off' and used to buy luxury goods and to lure more buyers.
If it isn't pure gold as she had claimed, she could be charged with fraud.
Members of Harmony Gold 's Protea Coin-security went in search of the gold-bar after they had 'followed up certain information'.
kuriteit in Welkom inligting opgevolg het. – Tom de Wet http://www.beeld.com/nuus/2013-09-02-goud-gekry-by-plakkershut
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