MINE DISASTER IN VAAL REEFS EXPLORATION & MININGì CO. NEAR ORKNEY SOUTH WEST OF JOHANNESBURG: 00.04.57 EWS OF MINE - GREEN LAWN FOREGROUND 00.05.08 SIGN "Fatality Free shifts 47121 298 daysì to go" 00.05.21 MS SHAFT TILT DOWN 00.06.20 SIGN "Safety is everybody's business" 00.06.50 SIGN "2 Shaft safety shifts: 9 accidents:ì 7" 00.07.15 MR NICK FISHER [ANGLO-AMERICAN MANAGER]ì EXPLAINING HOW ACCIDENT OCCURED 00.10.48 3SHOT PEOPLE WATCHING - LOOKING WORRIED 00.11.18 2 WHITE MINERS CHATTING HEAVY MACHINERYì PASSING 00.11.31 MWS ENTRANCE TO SHAFT 00.11.57 4 WHITE MEN WITH HARD HATS TALKING 00.12.17 MS SHAFT TILT DOWN 00.12.46 CU CHOPPER COMING IN TO LAND 00.13.19 CLEM SUNTER [ANGO-AMERICAN] GETTING OFFì CHOPPER 00.13.28 CU ROTAR BLADES CHOPPER TAKING OFF 00.15.11 MCU MAN YELLOW HARD HAT 'MINES RESCUE" 00.16.11 PEOPLE GETTING INTO LIFT TO GO DOWN SHAFT 00.17.14 CLOSING LIFT CAGE DOOR 00.18.00 OPEING LIFT CAGE DOOR 00.18.07 MINERS COMING OUT 00.18.34 JAMES MOTLATSE, PRESIDENT OF NATIONALì UNION OF MINEWORKERS [NUM] ...the safety equipmentì werwe not used...we might lose more than 100 livesì today... 00.19.01 EXPLAINING HOW ACCIDENT HAPPENED 00.19.21 ...I cannot describe what I have seenì today. The people are squashed in such a mannerì that that type of accidents in my life even inì movies - I've never seen such... 00.20.36 ...safety precautions...were notì available... 00.20.42 ...this is a negligence on the part ofì management... 00.21.35 AMBULANCE PULLING UP 00.21.53 WS GROUP OF PEOPLE DISCUSSING 00.22.12 OPENING LIFT CAGE DOOR 00.22.26 BRINGING MAN OUT ON STRETCHER = MINER WHOì WAS DOWN DUE TO HEAT 00.22.56 CUTAWAY PRESS 00.23.02 GROUP OF MINERS STANDING AROUND - MANì WALKING WITH HANDS IN POCKET 00.23.19 MCU OF 4 MINERS CHATTING - CONCERNED 00.23.28 RESCUERS COMING OUT WITH COVERED BODYì [LOOKS LIKE 2 BODIES ON 1 STRETCHER - BODY PARTS] 00.24.00 PUTTING BODIES IN AMBULANCE 00.24.26 WS SIDE ANGLE AMBULANCE 00.24.35 CU AMBULANCE LEAVING 00.24.51 MINE SPOKESPERSON ...not sure whatì exactly happened... 00.26.00 ...I'm shocked It's a terrible disaster.. 00.26.13 Our safety standards have always beenì high & we've always attempted to do absolutelyì everything towards safety. I would comment it'sì high. 00.26.42 GARTH ELLIS RESCUE WORKER It was gruesomeì on arriving at the scene I was very shocked to seeì what I found. 00.26.51 A heap of mangled steel that wasì irrecognisable as a cage. 00.28.04 MWS COMING OUT WITH MORE BODIES [HALF Aì STRETCHER - BODY PARTS - COVERED] 00.28.22 CU HALF A BODY COVERED 00.29.05 CUTAWAYS PRESS 00.29.11 PUTTING BODIES IN AMBULANCE 00.29.24 BAKKIE PULLING UP WITH MORE STRETCHERS 00.30.55 AMBULANCE PULLING OFF AT SPEED - NOì SIRENS 00.31.22 TCU OF WOMAN WITH HARD HAT FACE IN HANDSì IN SHOCK 00.31.44 CU WOMAN IN YELLOW HARD HAT SLOWLY SADLYì SHAKING HEAD 00.33.10 VOX POPS - FEEL SORRY FOR FAMILIES INì RURAL AREAS