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City Press reports that the Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) has submitted a report to the National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP) that contains recommendations for prosecution related to the mine accident that killed three workers at Lily mine in Mpumalanga in 2016.
The ultimate decision on whether to prosecute or not rests with the NDPP. A DMR spokesperson declined to say whom the DMR had recommended for prosecution, while the National Prosecution Authority (NPA) said it was studying the matter and could not say who could face the law if it decided to proceed with prosecution. Two reports have been produced by the DMR, namely a safety report which delves into the Lily mine accident in terms of the Mine Health and Safety Act (MHSA) and a prosecution report that contains recommendations for prosecution. In February 2016, an entrance at Lily mine’s shaft collapsed and buried three workers: Yvonne Mnisi, Pretty Nkambule and Solomon Nyirenda. They were working in a container, serving as a lamp-room, which plunged underground. The 76 workers who had previously entered the shaft were rescued. The safety report has dashed any hope that the bodies of the three workers can be recovered. It makes scathing findings against Lily mine management and notes the fact that there had been 10 pillar collapses of falls of the ground that had occurred before the February 2016 accident, which mine management did not report to the DMR’s principal inspector of mines.
- Read this report by Sizwe Sama Yende in full at Fin24
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