Africa-Press – Lesotho. The Ex-Miners Association has announced that Basotho gold miners in South Africa will be reimbursed for their TB and silicosis benefits. This comes after former gold miners were not paid their dues after being diagnosed with tuberculosis and silicosis.
Speaking at the workers’ meeting on Friday, the General Secretary of the Association, Mr Rants Mantsi, said they had called for a meeting to reach out to the Basotho community whose relatives were working in the mines and had non-communicable diseases.
mentioned, and relatives who have already died. He went on to say that they have made arrangements in which they will ensure that the person who was infected with tuberculosis or silicosis is actually tested by doing lung tests.
In the case of a deceased loved one, relatives should bring a medical certificate or a medical certificate. He pointed out that the people who worked in the gold mines then worked from March 1965 to March 2019.
Mantsi explained that this would come after the process created by the six government departments and the Ex-Miners Association was successful. “These were overseen by the office of the Honorable Prime Minister through the Office of the Prime Minister Hon Kemiso Mosenene and the Director of Lesotho Smart Partnership Hub Mr Shata Mothae.
Those branches are the Ministry of Public Service, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Ministry of International Affairs, ”Mantsi said.
He emphasized that the letter was a signal of a formal antitrust inquiry into South Africa’s mining communities. He said some of these Basotho people even went to the cold without being paid.
Many say this has prompted the deceased’s partners to travel to South Africa in search of work even under the dire conditions of the Corona virus. “The people you see crossing the river to South Africa are the widows of these unpaid men.
”Many interpret.
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