biography of a miner

By Diego Sanchez

Biography

Thabiso's

Thabiso worked hard in the mines for about 30 years to reach the post of stope leader (The man who leads the team to prepare the wall for detonate.

On the past seventeen years he worked on the night shifts. He starts working at nine of the night on a deep mine and just get to the surface by five of the morning.

He tells about when the lift doors recoiled for the first time.He and the rest of the team where deep on a mine, it was dark his ears where blocked by the pressure and the only thingh they had were headlamps. He experienced panic and sofocation from the heat. But they were rescued.

If he had a free life he would be an auto mechanic. He tried to get this education but it didn't worked.