Calls intensify for audit of South African tailings dams after Jagersfontein disaster

Following the tragic collapse of the Jagersfontein tailings storage facility (TSF) in the Free State on September 11, there has been a resurgence of urgent calls for audits of South Africa’s other TSFs. The collapse of the Jagersfontein TSF claimed one human life and nearly 900 farm animals belonging to at least 25 farmers, while destroying more than 50 houses, ruining water supplies and crops, and displacing nearly 400 people.