Ekapa Minerals in Kimberley, where five mineworkers died in a mudslide in February, is officially up for sale.

Local and international investors are invited to submit offers in an effort to save the mine and resume operations.

The mine applied for provisional liquidation in late February, stopping all operations and leaving over 1 000 workers jobless.

National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa), which is opposed to the liquidation, wants the former mineworkers to be paid all the money owed to them.

Numsa’s local organiser Lerato Mohatlane says, “We are fine with the auction if the company is auctioning and the new buyer is willing to take it through the process of section 197, where it will be an ongoing concern. Nothing will change because in this case, our interest is the workers. If workers can continue having employment and their salaries are kept as usual, and if anything that is owed to them is paid back, even by the new buyer of the company, we will be happy.”

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