By OBAKENG MAJE
8 March 2026- The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) said it continues to demand that the immediate and overriding priority for the shareholders and the leadership of Ekapa Mining, a diamond mine operating in Kimberley, Northern Cape to do everything humanly possible to retrieve the bodies of the workers who were trapped underground following the recent mudslide. NUMSA said it is deeply dismayed by the liquidation announcement by Ekapa Mining.
NUMSA General Secretary, Irvin Jim said this decision comes before the retrieval of the bodies of the five workers who remain trapped underground. Jim said such an action is profoundly insensitive to the…