THIS Christmas was not a merry one for the Vryheid family whose two girls drowned in the open cluster mines that were not rehabilitated by a coal mining company more than a year ago.

The girls drowned while swimming in one of the eight deep holes dug during a mining project that lasted about three months in KwaMnathi Village in northern KwaZulu-Natal.

Guest: Ayanda Mdluli, editor of the Daily News

Guest: WARD 5’s Councillor- Mdititi Ntombela