Mpumalanga family alleges mining giant exhumed relatives' remains without consent, demands compensation; case under investigation.A Mpumalanga family has opened a case of violation of grave and malicious damage to property against aNurse Masombuka and her family from Nooitgedacht, Middelburg, said the case was opened against the Mafube Coal Mining management for allegedly violating three graves of their family members and burying their remains in a shallow grave without their permission.
“The graves that were violated were that of my two sisters and my mother. We used to visit the graves whenever we missed them but now we don’t even know where their remains are. When we inquired from the mine, we were shown a huge open space with tombstones written rest in peace unknown. has seen screenshots in which one of the mine’s representatives conceded that they made a mistake by exhuming the remains.