An official enquiry into why 10 people were killed after an explosion ripped through Sasol’s Secunda plant will take place from October 27 to 28.
One Ceppwawu and two Solidarity union members were killed while all the rest of the workers were sub-contractors who had been employed to do the annual maintenance.
“Most of those guys were hardly four days in the plant,” says Ceppwawu’s Mpumalanga regional secretary, Simon Mofokeng.
In a show of solidarity, the two unions Ceppwawu and Solidarity have employed health and safety lawyer, Richard Spoor, to represent all the workers who died or were injured, even those that did not belong to a trade union.
Mofokeng is encouraged by Minister of Labour, Mdladlana’s recent statement on e-tv’s 3 rd degree that “if Sasol continues to kill people and people continue to die, I Membathisi, Mphumzi Shepherd Mdladlana, would rather stay without fuel in the country than to allow this to continue.”
Mofokeng believes that it “really shows how seriously they are taking the accident.”