More than 1 000 workers of the mines, which are situated in Louisville outside Barberton, lost their jobs in 2016 when a sinkhole opened up at the entrance of the Lily Mine and buried a container office with three workers inside.The bodies of Yvonne Mnisi, Pretty Nkambule and Solomon Nyirenda have still not been retrieved.The workers been out of work since and were hoping that an investor would buy the mines from the Australian company, Vantage Goldfields and resume operations.
Fred Arendse, CEO of Siyakhula Sisonke Corporation , said the company had spent R1.13 million on food parcels for the former employees and community members. Arqomanzi had to go to court to force business rescue practitioners, Rob Devereux and Daniel Terblanche, to recognise the company as Vantage Goldfield’s biggest creditor following Standard Bank’s ceding of VGO’s R389 million to Arqomanzi.Arqomanzi approached the Mbombela High Court to get this order and another one restraining the business rescue practitioners from making misrepresentations to any prospective buyer during the business rescue process.
The prolonged litigation has left the workers and their families in a difficult situation. Until the container office is retrieved when the mines are re-opened, the families of Mnisi, Nkambule and Nyirenda have said they will not find closure.
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