Lawyers for Human Rights has criticized the slow pace of a rescue mission to retrieve illegal miners from an abandoned shaft in Stilfontein, warning that delays could result in loss of life.
Non-governmental organisation Lawyers for Human Rights has criticised the slow pace in retrieving hundreds of illegal miners from an abandoned shaft in Stilfontein . It has been almost two weeks since a task team was appointed to drive plans to bring zama zamas at the old Buffelsfontein gold mine to the surface. While phases one and two of the plan have been completed by mining experts, the final phase is yet to commence.
The third and final phase will involve sending an unmanned cage down the shaft to haul the zama zamas up. However, an attorney for Lawyers for Human Rights, Mametlwe Sebei, said delays in finalising the rescue operation would come at the cost of human lives
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