Friends and relatives of Someleze “Potsoi” Matywebe have been worried sick since he was hospitalised after injuring his legs in an accident that claimed 12 miners at Impala Platinum’s mine in Rustenburg on Monday this week.
The spectre of private access to public assets for the benefit of private commercial interests loomed large this week in the court clash between partners in the controversial power ships emergency power procurement tender.
What was supposed to be an exemplary employee equity model where workers used their own money to acquire a 50% stake to save a mine that was going to close and retrench, has instead turned into a nightmare.