In the wake of a devastating tailings dam wall collapse in the Free State, the Deputy Minister of the Department of Water and Sanitation, David Mahlobo, will open a criminal case against Jagersfontein Developments on Friday. | News24_Business
In the wake of a devastating tailings dam wall collapse in the Free State, the Deputy Minister of the Department of Water and Sanitation , David Mahlobo, will open a criminal case against Jagersfontein Developments on Friday. In September this year, the wall of Jagersfontein Developments' tailings facility collapsed, causing one death and injuring scores of people.
"This directive pertains to the release of a substance that pollutes or has the potential to pollute or have a detrimental effect on a water resource and contains the required actions that the responsible person had to undertake in order to remedy the effects of the incident." Jagersfontein Developments, which was leading the clean-up operations, said at the time that the waste water was not hazardous.
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