‘More could have been done to prevent Jagersfontein dam collapse’

You could’ve prevented the failure if you stopped the mining in the process or you could have made the disaster less of an issue if you had a good warning system in place to warn people about what is coming.

So, the losses, I am sure people understood what they lost but this recovery process was utterly traumatic and there was nowhere to appeal to.” Research associate, Phia van der Walt focused on the recovery of locals from the disaster and how institutions responded to restoring the dignity of people “Also, the feeling that they had at the end, the mine implied that they are doing the people a favour by giving them these things and this is touching on the dignity of the people, this is deep, it really hurts.