More than 1200 mineworkers from Ekapa Minerals in Kimberley are still battling to receive salaries and other payments due to them since February this year.Thats after the mine suffered a mud-rush incident in the same month, which claimed the lives of five mineworkers.
After the mud-rush incident the mine then applying for liquidation - a 150 years of a legacy of diamond mining came to an abrupt end and many of the workers, the 1 200 workers that lost the jobs, here are saying they are sitting destitute and hoping that maybe someone would come forth and reopen the mine in the near future.
Now, relief drives in the form of concerts and funding by community organisations and the Northern Cape government are taking place.
