Dam catastrophe — Mantashe points finger at 'danger...
Gwede Mantashe says a high court judgment from 2009 that left the DMRE without jurisdiction over all tailings dams was a dangerous mistake.
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Gwede Mantashe says a high court judgment from 2009 that left the DMRE without jurisdiction over all tailings dams was a dangerous mistake.
The disaster in Jagersfontein, triggered by the collapse of a tailings dam, has put the mining industry’s environmental and safety record into focus.
Rather than clean up their mess mining companies tended to ‘pass the parcel’
The company’s legal compliance officer Marius de Villiers said they are hopeful that an investigation into the incident will provide more details on the dam collapse in Jagersfontein.
On Sunday, hundreds of residents in the small Free State town had their homes flooded when a slimes dam wall collapsed at a local mine.