Operations to resume at beleaguered Lily Mine

Lily Mine, near Barberton, has not been operational since a surface collapse in April 2016, during which three workers — Solomon Nyerenda, Pretty Nkambule and Yvonne Mnisi — died after they were trapped 800m underground.

 

All operations at the mine were stopped but the mine’s business rescue practitioners have now secured a buyer for the ailing mine.

 

But National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) deputy president, Joseph Montisetse, believes the new investors should not resume activities at the mine for the sake of profit-making while the bodies of the three miners are still underground. 

 

"First and foremost what they have to do, is to direct that operation to a place where those workers are trapped and retrieve them and they can continue with business."

 

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