Mining Weekly reports that the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu) on Thursday staged a march to the offices of the Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) in Pretoria.  

The union demanded that the Lily Mine rescue mission be resumed and the container recovered.  The gold mine, in Barberton, was temporarily closed after a shaft collapsed on 5 February, leaving three employees trapped in a container that was serving as a lamproom.  Amcu called on government to tap its disaster fund and finance the recovery of the container.  It also called on Mineral Resources Minister Joseph Zwane to “live up to his word and pay the families R200,000 and survivors R50,000 like promised, as many of them are left destitute without an income since February.”

• Read this report in full at Mining Weekly
• See too, Amcu march protests unrecovered Lily mine bodies, at Mining Review
• Read Amcu’s press statement at Polity

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