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Business Report writes that with the national lockdown to ease to level 3 from Monday, the Minerals Council SA (previously called the Chamber of Mines) said on Friday that the mining industry was working with the government to get mineworkers from neighbouring countries back to work.
Senior executive Nikisi Lesufi said the council was working with the National Joint Operational and Intelligence Structure to facilitate the return of nearly 10,000 employees from the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region. “We have a list of 9,500 workers from neighbouring countries that are supposed to have come back from Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Swaziland (Eswatini) and Zimbabwe. We are submitting all the details of the transport logistics, and quarantine facilities. The list is to be finalised tomorrow (Monday),” Lesufi advised. Thuthula Balfour, the council’s head of health, indicated that 384 mineworkers had tested positive for Covid-19. She added that 216 of the affected miners worked in the gold sector. The government announced that all deep mining operations were expected to ramp-up to full capacity under level 3 of the lockdown, bringing the mining industry to full capacity of production. However, Gold Fields spokesperson Sven Lunsche commented that reaching 100% capacity and bringing back 100% of employees would be challenging. He said the industry would take time to reach maximum production as returning employees needed to get tested before entering the mining premises.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Dineo Faku at Business Report
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