The families of Yvonne Mnisi, Pretty Nkambule and Solomon Nyirenda – the three miners who were buried underground when a Mpumalanga mine collapsed in 2016 – have laid culpable homicide charges against Vantage Goldfields SA directors
The Department of Mineral Resources was expected to have done so after concluding its inquiry into the disaster at Lily Mine in March 2018, but it did not. DMR only handed a report to the National Prosecuting Authority in August 2018 which it said had recommendations for prosecution but the NPA could do nothing about it because there was no police docket.
DMR spokesperson Ayanda Shezi still avoided providing clarity on why the department had been reluctant to lay charges with the police after completing the inquiry. Self-enrichment and greed could have precipitated the stalemate in the sealing of a deal to handover ownership of two Mpumalanga gold mines to new owners.
The mines needed a R310 million investment to be re-opened, and two Canadian companies who wanted to invest, pulled out of the deal. SSC Flaming Silver loaned R190 million from the Industrial Development Corporation - a condition of its release was that VGSA should handover the share certificates - and sourced more funding from other investors.
SSC disputed VGSA’s CEO Mike McChesney’s R5 million creditor claim of his company, Cheston Minerals Ltd, for “services rendered”;
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