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TMG Digital reports that the remembrance service to commemorate the first anniversary of the accident at Vantage Goldfields’ Lily Mine near Barberton planned for Sunday has been postponed.
Three miners have been trapped in the mine since the container in which they were working fell into a massive sinkhole which formed on 5 February last year. Business rescue practitioner Rob Devereux said the ceremony had been arranged two weeks ago, but in the course of last week “we received indications from the police that unrest has been planned to disrupt the service.” He indicated that at a meeting held on Thursday and attended by the police‚ the unions and the affected families‚ it was agreed that it would be irresponsible to continue with the ceremony in light of a threat of violence. Cosatu had earlier called for a boycott of the planned ceremony‚ describing it as a futile gesture that was morally obscene.
- Read this report in full at TimesLive
- Read too, Cosatu calls for boycott of Lily mine commemoration, at Business Report
- Read Cosatu’s press statement in this regard at Cosatu Today
- Read a press statement by the NUM on this matter at Cosatu Today
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