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Business Report writes that miners at Vantage Goldfields’ Lily Gold Mine in Mpumalanga have been forced to live on handouts after the cash-strapped company, struggling to secure funds from investors, failed to pay salaries.
A shaft collapse in February halted operations, leaving three workers are still unaccounted for. Solidarity’s Gideon du Plessis said 500 mineworkers had received R750 food vouchers each from the SA Social Security Agency following negotiations with the mine’s business rescue practitioners. Humanitarian organisation Gift of the Givers has been involved in distributing food parcels, hygiene packs and disposable nappies. About 900 employees of the mine, which applied for business rescue in April, have not been paid their salaries for April and May. As soon as the company receives funding it will apparently be able to offer employees voluntary severance packages.
- Read this report by Dineo Faku in full at Business Report
- Read too, Lily Mine close to clinching R200m deal to resume operations, at City Press
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