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TimesLIVE reports that ActionSA leader Herman Mashaba has offered to retrieve the bodies of the three deceased Vantage Goldfields Lily mine employees who were trapped and died when a central pillar collapsed into a sinkhole on 5 February 2016.
Solomon Nyirenda, Yvonne Mnisi and Pretty Winnie Nkambule were in an above-ground container that was being used as a lamp room when the mine collapsed and they were buried 70m underground under 20,000 tonnes of earth. Their bodies have still not been retrieved. Mashaba said he was frustrated by the long wait, which had prompted him to write to the business rescue practitioner of Vantage Goldfields, RC Devreaux, to offer to retrieve the bodies at ActionSA's expense. “The whole thing has been turned into an upmanship battle through litigation by Vantage Goldfields and Agromanzi. It is sad. I cannot sit by with a clear conscience knowing that these families continue to be denied the justice they deserve,” Mashaba said. He added: “ActionSA makes this proposal to fight for these families precisely because everyone else has either forgotten and moved on or simply given up on their story.”
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