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Post date: 20/05/2015
The site comprises an irregularly shaped stone concentration located at the base of a small copse of trees. According to the client a local resident has indicated that the grave of a Sangoma lies buried here. Apart from the stone concentration, no surface indication of a grave (i.e. headstone, surface grave goods) could be identified. When the mining company realised that the site is located centrally within their coal mining area, they appointed PGS Heritage to undertake the relocation of the grave. Bilingual (English and isiZulu) site notices were placed at the site on Thursday, 23 May 2013 and bilingual (English and isiZulu) newspaper notices were published in the Daily Sun on Wednesday, 31 July 2013 and in the Streek News on Friday, 2 August 2013. Discussions with local residents represented the third component of the social consultation
process. The author of this report assisted by a translator Mr. Simon McGina spent some time in the vicinity of the mine on Friday, 19 July 2013 in an attempt to establish whether any families for the deceased could be identified. These consultations included discussions with Ms. Emily Skosana (born Mahlangu) and Mr. Phillip Ditsego who both have homesteads adjacent to the mine. Mr. Ditsego indicated that when he first arrived on the farm in 1968, the grave was
already there. Ms. Skosana concurred and indicated that when she and her family arrived on the farm in 1988 the grave was already in existence. Neither one of the two families knew the identity of the deceased, nor where the family of the deceased may be found. They also confirmed that since the time when they first settled on the farm they have never seen anyone visiting the grave site. At the present moment in time the site can be described as a possible grave with no direct
confirmation for the existence of a grave obtained by way of the social consultation process undertaken above. However, in situations such as this the best practice is to adopt the worst case scenario until sufficient contrary evidence is obtained. This worst case scenario is that a grave is indeed located here.