Their call comes nearly two years after the disaster when the Free State tailings dam collapsed
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They said they were appalled during a recent two-day consultative workshop on tailings, convened by Earthworks and the Bench Marks Foundation, by the lack of transparency and accountability from authorities. It retained the prospecting rights on the property until 2002. “It is believed that limited reprocessing operations at the mine were eventually started in September 2010 by a company named Son Op, later known as Jagersfontein Developments,” the groups said.
The civil society groups and trade unions said the principal regulatory departments — the department of water and sanitation, the department of mineral resources and thePriorities that came out of the workshop is a need for literacy about tailings and mine waste and its wider effects on society, particularly workers and people living adjacent to mining. “This appeal must be to the whole society because when a dam bursts, its impacts will be indiscriminate and widespread.
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