Mayor Xolani Tseletsele says the damage caused by the disaster is estimated to be around R100 million.

The disaster on Sunday 11 September 2022 destroyed infrastructure belonging to the municipality, including water reticulation, agricultural land, and electrical infrastructure.

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Tseletsele says the troubled municipality requested lawyers to make an assessment and following such they met with the Jagersfontein Development Project's (JDP) management to hand over this particular assessment.

In 2022, OFM News reported that bilateral talks between the municipality and the Free State Provincial Government took place which would have paved the way for the municipality to sue the mine, following the disaster that damaged Jagersfontein.

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Following the disaster in the area, which affected residents in Charlesville and Itumeleng, also known as Skoti, frustrated residents who then discussed intentions with so-called big-time Bloemfontein lawyers to sue the JDP following the disaster.

Community leader Lefa Shale told OFM News that on Thursday 14 September 2022 some of the residents met with several lawyers to discuss and map the way forward in suing the mine in question.

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Shale previously told OFM News that for years the Jagersfontein Mine neglected its mandatory community development programme and that residents were left to struggle whilst the mine thrived. Shale alleges that some politicians with a particular interest in the operation of the mine, have aided the mine to thrive whilst residents were left to live in squalor conditions.

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