A group of 87 illegal miners were sentenced to a combined 696 years imprisonment in the Regional Court in Stilfontein near Klerksdorp in North West.
The men, all from Lesotho, were sentenced after they pleaded guilty.
They abandoned their bail application after their status verification was completed and it was established that all 87 had no legal documents to be in South Africa and as such they were illegal.
They were arrested in an intelligence-driven operation on October 20 in 2021 at Shaft 2 in Orkney.
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