R2bn in gold stolen from SA mines
17th Nov 2006, 06:32 GMT
Gold theft from mines was estimated at R2-billion rand annually, the Chamber of Mines said on Thursday. Chamber of Mines deputy legal adviser Anton van Achterbergh said that a report, compiled by the Institute of Security Studies, "confirmed ... that about R1,8-billion- to R2-billion-worth of gold is stolen every year".
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