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Sungula Nkabinde writes that nearly seven months on, the collapse of Vantage Goldfields’ Lily Mine is slowly becoming a forgotten story.
No efforts have been resumed to retrieve the bodies of Yvonne Mnisi, Pretty Nkambule, and Solomon Nyerende, which remain trapped underground, and workers who hadn’t received salaries for three months have had to take severance packages as they remain jobless. Meanwhile, the business rescue practitioner, Rob Devereux, is still looking for new investors since the controversially fruitless AfroCan deal. In the meantime, work is continuing at the neighbouring Barbrook Mine, where some of the Lily staff have been absorbed. “We are looking at recycling a nearby mine dump to increase the production at Barbrook, which will then also create a little more employment,” says Devereux. But the trade unions are not pleased with what has happened since the accident.
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