By Henry Booysen
26 March 2008
The body of a mine worker has been dug up after being trapped for twenty days at the Golfield’s Beatrix mine after a ground fall.
“NUM condemns these senseless deaths and while we are relieved that the body of a mineworker has been exhumed at Beatrix, we condemn the manner in which rescue teams are being remunerated,” says Secretary of Health and Safety of the National Union of Mineworkers, Eric Gcilitshana.
After the death of the mineworker further deaths took place at Oryx, Paardekraal Cementation, Northam Platinum, Eagle Granite, Middleburg Mine, and Corobrick. These deaths totalled to nine in two weeks.
NUM has passed it condolences to the families of the deceased in this time.
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