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Attempts to retrieve their bodies were abandoned for security reasons, but the families believe it is possible.
The Lily Mine. Image: Kgothatso Mogale / EWN
JOHANNESBURG – The families of three miners whose bodies were never recovered after they were trapped underground at the Lily mine in Mpumalanga hope that a challenge from the Constitutional Court against the government and mine management will help close them.
Solomon Nyirenda, Pretty Nkambule, and Yvonne Mnisi were trapped in a container on February 5, 2016 after an axle collapsed.
Attempts to retrieve their bodies were abandoned for security reasons, but the families believe it is possible.
For more than 500 days, the families of Nyirenda, Nkambule and Mnisi have camped outside the Lowscreek mine in an attempt to draw attention to their plight.
They are convinced the trio’s bodies can still be recovered and the former mayor of Joburg, Herman Mashaba, believes so too.
Mashaba has offered to help the families in their legal challenge against the government and the management of the mine.
Harry Mazibuko speaks on behalf of the families and former workers: “We seek the intervention of the government, especially the DEMR as a regulator to intervene because we believe and know that they have all the powers to solve this problem.”
Mazibuko said the families were still hopeful and had no intention of leaving the scene until the remains of their loved ones surfaced.
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