MALAIKA MAHLATSI | Thin line between being anti-crime and being xenophobic

10 August 2022 - 07:34A youngster lights a cellphone torch inside the dingy mine shaft in search of zama zamas in Munsieville, Krugersdorp.The story of the gang rapes of 10 women, by zama-zamas, at a disused mine in Krugersdorp is gut-wrenching. Though it has been weeks since the story broke, I find myself thinking about it on a daily basis. It haunts me. The helplessness that those women endured, at the hands of balaclava-clad men brandishing weapons, is unthinkable.

The thought of 20 men taking turns on each of those women is paralysing. And while for so many of us, it is this abstract idea of gang rape that traumatises us, for those women, it is the visceral reality that will be with them for the rest of their lives. I remember a line from a Jodi Picoult book I read when I was younger, which said that rape is worse than murder, because with murder you only die once, while with rape, you die every day but are forced to go on with the motions of being alive.

Days after the story broke, the ANC staged a march against illegal mining and zama zamas. On the surface, this was a progressive protest against illegal mining, which is not just a national issue but an issue of international concern. The United Nations has long noted that illegal mining and trafficking precious minerals is a global calamity that sets parameters for violence, war and economic decline.

We have seen in countries where illegal mining and mineral trafficking happen that these are breeding grounds for economic crimes such as corruption, tax evasion and fraud. Additionally, they are a festering ground for gross human rights abuses, as we see in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and in Zimbabwe.

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