SABC News reports that the families of three workers whose bodies remain trapped underground at Vantage Goldfields’ Lily Mine near Barberton in Mpumalanga, said it was difficult for them to partake in Heritage Day activities as they have yet to receive closure.
Pretty Nkambule, Solomon Nyarenda and Yvonne Mnisi were on duty inside a lamp room container in 2016 when the mine’s crown pillar collapsed, burying the container. Some family members of the three, are still camping outside the mine’s premises. “Since from that day up to this day, psychologically we are not okay that’s why we are begging our government to intervene, to help us in terms of the retrieval of the trio. We are asking for their interventions to try and assist us as the families of the trio in terms of the retrieval of the trio,” says Pretty Nkambule’s younger brother, Sfiso Mavuso.
- Read the original of the above report by Motsebi Monareng at SABC News
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