Inside Politics Reporter
ActionSA President Herman Mashaba said on Thursday his party is extremely dismayed that Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe has disrespected the laws of the country by extending a mining licence to Vantage Goldfields to reopen Lily Mine.
Mashaba said the company is partly responsible for the tragedy at the mine on 5 February 2016 where three people Solomon Nyirenda, Yvonne Mnisi and Pretty Winnie Nkambule were engulfed in a sinkhole and their bodies never recovered.
With this decision, he said, Mantashe chose corporate allegiances above the interest of the families of the Lily Mine victims.
“How is it possible for the Minister to work with the very same company that was responsible for the tragedy, and disregard the work over a number of years of the Business Rescue Practitioners?,” he asked.
However, on Wednesday, Cosatu said it welcomed the agreement reached between the government led
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