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City Press reports that the families of the three mine workers who died when a support pillar at a mine in Mpumalanga collapsed in 2016, trapping them underground, have issued a plea to Mineral Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe to ensure that those responsible for the accident are prosecuted.
The families of Yvonne Mnisi, Solomon Nyirenda and Pretty Nkambule wrote to Mantashe on Thursday, asking him to “start an investigation and prosecution” action against the management of Vantage Goldfields SA. The dead bodies of Mnisi, Nyirenda and Nkambule are still trapped in the Lily Mine in Louisville, outside Barberton, and have not be brought to the surface because of a lack of funds and unsafe ground conditions. This has been a source of anguish for the families. They have further alleged that Vantage Goldfields SA’s CEO, Mike McChesney, told them during a meeting on 4 March that “he is not responsible for what happened to our children”. “[Our] position is that the responsible person must be prosecuted with immediate effect,” the letter reads. The Department of Mineral Resources finished its inquiry into the Lily Mine disaster in March last year. But no charges have been laid, nor have any prosecutions taken place, despite evidence of negligence against the mine’s management.
- Read the full original of Sizwe sama Yende’s detailed report on the above at City Press
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