Over 1 000 workers have been left jobless and their salaries not paid after the Ekapa Minerals Mine, where five miners remain trapped after a mud rush incident last Tuesday, was put under liquidation.

The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) says it will approach the courts for a way forward.

All mining activities at the Kimberley mine in the Northern Cape have been halted.

One of the miners affected Mothibeli Leshoro says, “We were not told earlier [that] this is what happened, we find ourselves in this situation of which now there is a meeting currently taking place, whereby we only ask for our payments, so we can pay our rents and debts. Currently we can’t express our feelings and there is nothing we can do.”

“Since we have our colleagues there underground, we can’t even boycott, because immediately [when] we boycott, we are going to stop everything and the rescue of those people underground will be stopped,” adds Leshoro.

Ekapa Minerals Mine | Five miners remain trapped

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