THREE years after Aurora Empowerment Systems left the Grootvlei and Orkney gold mines in ruins, former employees say they have little faith in a long-delayed court process to recover outstanding payments.Protesting outside the North Gauteng High Court this week, former Orkney mine staff said they were tired of delays and empty promises about pay and other benefits owed to them since 2009 and now estimated at about R28m.Liquidators of Pamodzi Gold, which owned the Grootvlei and Orkney mines when the company went into liquidation in 2009, are trying to recover more than R1.7bn in damages from directors and managers of Aurora, which took control of the mines but never coughed up the purchase price.Aurora’s directors and managers included Khulubuse Zuma, a nephew of President Jacob Zuma, Zondwa Mandela, a grandson of Nelson Mandela, Thulani Ngubane and Fazel and Solly Bhana. Liquidators want to hold them personally liable for the alleged stripping of the assets of Grootvlei and Orkney a...
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