Mantashe: Don’t rush to judgment in Impala Platinum accident
Mineral Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe has cautioned against drawing conclusions on the Impala Platinum mine disaster before the investigation is complete.
Eleven mineworkers were killed and over 70 injured when the cable of a lift that was bringing them up to the surface overnight snapped, and the elevator crashed.
At a joint briefing by mine bosses and department officials on Tuesday, it was revealed nine workers remain in ICU.
The company has since suspended operations at it’s all its mines in the country.
Mantashe says emotions must not used to deal with this tragedy.
"There is going to be an investigation and inquiry. The right area to give evidence is in that investigation and that inquiry,"
"If you give evidence now, you can as well use that evidence as a defence mechanism and actually repel everybody else. Everybody must interact with the information in the inquiry because otherwise, the union say this is what happened, and then evidence proves something else."
