"Ex-miners compensated for occupational lung diseases"

A total of 3008 Batswana ex-miners have been diagnosed with occupational lung diseases at Boswelakoko clinic in Molepolole and 471 of them have been compensated with P37.8 million as at end of June 2024.

They are part of thousands of Batswana who worked in South African mines between 1950’s and 2000s.

This was revealed by the Minister of Labour and Home Affairs, Annah Mokgethi, in response to a Parliamentary question from MP for Sefhare Ramokgonami, Dr Kesitegile Gobotswang, on Monday…

The minister confirmed that her office continues to receive enquiries from ex-miners who want to know how they can be assisted to access compensation for injuries, occupational disease, and related matters from their previous employment at the South African mines…

She said they engage to share and exchange detailed information and data necessary to enable compensation to former gold mine workers covered by the settlement agreement reached between six gold mining companies and attorneys in the Silicosis and TB class action.

The six companies are African Rainbow minerals, Anglo America SA, Anglo Gold Ashanti, Gold Fields, Harmony, and Sibanye Stillwater that employed thousands of migrant workers from SADC countries for several decades since the discovery of gold in South Africa in the 1950s…