Illegal miners are known to spend months at a time underground, and illegal trading in food underground is the one essential resource that sustains their illicit activities...Bans on food being taken underground have proven very successful in combating illegal mining activity...CEO John Munro said: "Rand Uranium has made excellent progress in ensuring the overall safety of our workforce. This includes combating the dangerous, and destructive, practise of illegal mining. To date we have been very pleased with the support of organised labour. The food ban was introduced with the full support of all the unions. provision has been made for all underground employees to have a meal immediately before or after each shift - and those emplyees that have medical conditions that could be impacted by the ban have been found jobs above ground"