Failure to pay workers at Mpumalanga’s collapsed Lily Mine resulted in a massive protest involving local residents and more than 700 disgruntled miners on Thursday morning. Thursday marked exactly three months since a shaft collapsed at Lily Mine in Louieville, outside Barberton, on February 5. It caused a huge sinkhole into which three workers disappeared. They had still not been found. The mine, owned by Vantage Goldfields, said it had paid workers R650 each after failing to …
