Cele visited West Village to assess interventions following the gang rape of eight women at a disused mine in Krugersdorp while they were filming a music video.
Community members in parts of the West Rand say they will not heed a call by police Minister Bheki Cele to stay calm. Instead, residents have mobilised themselves to not only go house to house, and root out the illegal miners, but to also close off the non-operational mine dumps in the area. Public Order Police have been deployed, to try and stop residents from blocking roads in the area.