JOHANNESBURG – Mineral Assets Minister Mosebenzi Zwane says the physique of the remaining mineworker, trapped at Impala Platinum’s one shaft in Rustenburg, has been discovered.
Zwane was talking on the final day of the Nationwide Union of Mineworkers (NUM) central committee assembly in Centurion.
The employee is one among two staff who have been trapped underground following a rock fall final month.
In the meantime, three mineworkers on the Lily Mine close to Barberton are but to be freed after they have been trapped underground in February.
Minister Zwane says his division lately met with administration at Implats to demand extra be carried out to seek out the physique of the lacking mineworker.
“After our deliberations and dedication that ought to that not occur, subsequent week we’ll camp in that mine till that physique is recovered.”
He says he acquired information this morning that the physique has now been discovered.
“The physique has been recognized underneath an enormous rock. We hope the household will have the ability to begin closing this chapter.”
The minister says if decisive motion isn’t taken now – he fears this yr’s fatalities within the mining sector might exceed the seventy seven reported final yr.
(Edited by Masechaba Sefularo)