Student who lost seven fingers left to languish

Eastern Cape electrical engineering student Mpho Machae is still haunted by the trauma of a machine slicing off seven of his fingers. Machae, 23, slipped in and out of consciousness as he endured almost three hours of excruciating pain when his hands got stuck in the machine in June last year.His story is one of several case studies in a dossier of alleged irregularities compiled by the Department of Labour and the Commission for Conciliation, Medi ation and Arbitration that was submitted last ...