Houses damaged after the Jagersfontein mine collapse on September 12, 2022. President Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to visit Jagersfontein, in the Free State, on Monday following the mine dam burst on Sunday. More than 70 people have been treated at various Free State hospitals. Those who are still...
President Cyril Ramaphosa was on Monday expected to visit the mining town of Jagersfontein in Free State after the collapse of a dam wall which left one person dead, scores injured, more than 200 displaced and a few people unaccounted for. “The president’s thoughts and prayers...
Jagersfontein is a small town in the Free State that sprung up during the diamond rush of the 1870s. In the early hours of Sunday, 11 September, tragedy struck after a slime dam wall collapsed near the open-pit mine, causing a mudslide and flooding in...
Adirector-general in the Free State Office of the Premier, Kopung Ralikontsane, says the disaster at the Jagersfontein diamond mine could have been averted had the owners of the tailings dam that collapsed heeded instructions from the government to cease operations two years ago. The company, however,...
The walls of the dam at the mine collapsed on Sunday causing mudslides that left an elderly man dead and over 50 houses damaged. Mahlobo said the mine was ordered to comply with the regulations by January 2021, but it failed to show progress on many...
A tailings dam at Jagersfontein burst over the weekend. Mlungisi Louw/Netwerk24 Tony Gupta offered a former Free State MEC a R2 million bribe derived from the Jagersfontein mine in 2012 – a source of funds that allegedly also lined the pockets of then-Free State premier Ace Magashule...