Abandoned mines causing problems especially blasting

Promise Mabilo

Mpumalanga Vosman

28/07/2021

Through blasting some stones goes straight to the community roof tops and fàll all over the place in the community. Also the operating machines make noise day and night 24/7 and the worse part is that when the mines comes they didn’t do public participation with the people around Vosman. In total number of mines were 9 then 2 left 7 remains not long ago 1 is added due to this covid we are unable to do proper investigation on as how many realy mines are operating now.

When we went to ask from the municipality we spoke to the EAP from the municipality he responded that he only knows 3 mines he don’t know about the others how they come in and also he said he will go there and check.
And these mines disturb the community in many ways last they told us that when they blast their TVs were broken they went to them they came and collect them but never came back their houses are falling because of the mines operations they also said their children are unable to study well due to the noise that is coming from the mines. The mines are very bad in the community of Vosman they were also out of water and electricity for a month 2 weeks due to blasting the water pipe bulk that goes to them blast while they were blasting and also the electricity line fall and that took them time to fix it. We also cant hold the names as they change often