TimesLive reports that the government has warned the public about fake compensation fund agents inviting former mineworkers to be assisted with fund applications.

In a joint statement, the departments of health, employment and labour, and mineral resources and energy warned about a misleading poster circulating on social media – bearing the face of self-proclaimed prophet of the Incredible Happenings Church Paseka “Mboro” Motsoeneng – inviting former mineworkers and their families to be assisted with compensation fund applications. It also offered to inform those who had applied of their application status. “We consider this a scam by con men who want to take advantage of and enrich themselves out of the plight of former mineworkers (and their dependants) who might have contracted TB, silicosis and other occupational lung diseases while working in mines between March 1965 and December 2019, and those who were not paid their pension or provident funds,” the departments indicated. They went on to state: “No individual or organisation has been outsourced to carry out this mandate on behalf of government. People are warned to ignore anyone claiming to represent government, and to never pay any fee to be assisted to lodge a claim because the process is free of charge.” The government’s former mineworkers’ compensation programme is part of its efforts to track, trace and pay former mineworkers or their dependants who qualify for compensation funds, class action settlement funds and pension/provident funds.

• Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Unathi Nkanjeni at BusinessLive

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