Mining Weekly reports that Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) Minister Mosebenzi Zwane said on Friday that the number of fatalities at mines in South Africa this year was at risk of surpassing the 77 mineworkers' deaths recorded in 2015.  

Addressing delegates at the National Union of Mineworkers' (NUM’s) 2016 Central Committee meeting, he said that with 33 fatalities already reported up until May this year, mine safety was a significant red flag for the DMR.  “We are deeply concerned that there are still fatalities in the mining sector," Zwane said, adding that urgent attention was required to reverse the trend of increasing deaths.

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