Tati mine case postponed

Lebogang Mosikare | Tuesday February 4, 2014 15:34

No one knows who brought the case to court and why. Also, it was labelled a miscellaneous application in the court register.No one from TNMC was present in court.  Thapelo Mafishane from the Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP), who stood up when the case was called, told Chief Magistrate Peggy Madandume that he did not have instructions about the case. He said he would call his colleagues in Gaborone and inform them that the case was called but somebody from the DPP in Gaborone, who was supposed to represent the state, did not turn up.

Madandume set February 11 for  another mention when the substantive prosecutor is expected to be present. Raditsebe was a bulldozer operator at Aveng Moolmans, a company subcontracted by TNMC Phoenix operations and his death was the third fatality since the mine opened more than a decade ago.

Unconfirmed reports suggested that the operator is said to have reported that his machine was malfunctioning, while working on a 50-metre high dump waste.

His colleagues later discovered his body outside the bulldozer with extensive head injuries and a deep laceration on his thigh.

The bulldozer reportedly overturned and rammed into fences of nearby ploughing fields at Pobepobe lands.