WATCH: Protesting Lily Mine workers venture underground to retrieve missing container
The miners are risking life and limb on their daring mission to retrieve the bodies of their former colleagues
BARBERTON – The former Lily Mine workers camped outside the closed mine have taken matters into their own hands following a shaft collapse in 2016.
Three of their colleagues who had been in a container, perished in the tragic incident and their bodies have still not been recovered.
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The protesting miners embarked on a mission on Christmas Day and resolved to retrieve the bodies themselves. According to the group’s spokesman, Harry Mazibuko, the miners have enlisted the help of illegal miners to assist in the search.
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“We have found what we believe is the fence which was next to the container on the surface before the shaft collapsed. We are making slow but steady progress,” he said.
Mazibuko intimated to Lowvelder that a number of threats have been made against the group. Most recently, a tree was blasted and the bomb squad summoned to the scene to investigate the source of the explosion.
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