Debswana suspends production at Jwaneng Mine after fatal accident

Botswana’s leading diamond company, Debswana has suspended all production activities at its Jwaneng Mine following an accident last Friday, which claimed the life of its employee.
The group public & corporate affairs manager Esther Kanaimba-Senai said Motshwari Raseiteo met his death when the mine pit experienced a slope failure at Cut 6.
She said that production would only resume after all investigation as to the cause of the accident were completed.
Sources say 15 other workers that had been trapped together with the deceased were successfully rescued.
The Jwaneng Mine accident comes after another accident at Gem Diamonds’ Ghaghoo Mine, some two weeks ago.
The ground at the Botswana mine collapsed resulting in the death of two contractors who were on site.
Jwaneng was the richest diamond mine in the world by value.
The mine had been previously praised for having achieved one of the lowest disabling injury accident rates in Botswana since 1984.

Mathew Nyaungwa, Editor in Chief of the African Bureau, Rough&Polished