The 14 suspects arrested in connection with the gang rape of eight women in Krugersdorp have been acquitted.
The alleged illegal miners will now face a charge of contravening the Immigration Act as a result of the rape, sexual assault and robbery with aggravating circumstances charges being dropped.
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The suspects were reportedly acquitted because to neither the identity parade nor the DNA tests could link them to the crimes.
Police swooped on the suspects after eight women were raped at gunpoint and their film crew robbed while they were shooting a music video at a mine dump in West Village, Krugersdorp, in late July.
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