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An ambulance leaves the Lily mine, which is owned by Vantage Goldfields, near Barberton, east of Johannesburg.
ActionSA has temporarily suspended its plan to independently retrieve the bodies of three mine workers trapped underground at Lily Mine in Mpumalanga, pending government intervention.
The workers died in 2016 when a container they were working in sank following an implosion at the mine.
ActionSA says it has engaged the Minister of Mineral and Petroleum Resources, Gwede Mantashe, to allow the government to take the lead in the recovery process.
The party has given the minister 60 days to act.
Party leader Herman Mashaba says they will resume their independent recovery efforts if the minister fails to follow through.
“I was in a meeting with Minister Mantashe and I informed him about this process and how embarrassing this is going to become for the South African Government for something that a private individual is doing instead of the government…”
“And he assured me and he said to me that I’m going to be attending this to give me a chance so we don’t recess, as soon as we back out we’ll engage Mr Trollip. And Mr Trollip sent a letter on Friday last week to remind him about this particular matter,” says Mashaba.
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