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Reuters reports that the Minerals Council SA (MCSA), previously called the Chamber of Mines, has flagged that the process of facilitating the return of foreign mine workers as lockdown restrictions ease will take longer than expected due to delays at the Mozambique and Lesotho border posts.
Senior executive Nikisi Lesufi told MPs on Friday that about 3,500 employees from Mozambique and about 8,500 from Lesotho were prepared to return to work. “The border posts in Mozambique can only process 400 employees a day. We are going to take two to three weeks to process the employees in Mozambique. In Lesotho, there are close to 8,500 employees and three border posts. Each one of them can only take 130 employees a day. It will take much longer to process employees in Lesotho over a 20- to 25-day period to bring the workers back,” Lesufi indicated. He advised that the plan would be endorsed by the National Joint Operational and Intelligence Structure. Lesufi advised that about 10% of SA’s 400,000 mining employees came from neighbouring countries, particularly Lesotho and Mozambique. On arrival in SA, the mineworkers were expected to be quarantined for two weeks.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Dineo Faku on page 9 of Business Report of 22 June 2020
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