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SA Provides 160 Million Rands To Compensate Mozambican Miners

SA Provides 160 Million Rands To Compensate Mozambican Miners

The South Africa’s Occupational Diseases Compensation Commission announced that it will make available about 160 million rand ($12 million) to compensate more than 1,000 Mozambican miners, Mozambique’s labor minister announced.

“In articulation with the South African authorities, we have monitored, from 2019 to 2021, the payment [of compensation] to a total of 1,593 beneficiaries,” Margarida Talapa said.

The process resulted in the disbursement of 160,198,625 rand, Margarida Talapa advanced, quoted today by the Mozambican press.

The governor was speaking during a multi-sector workshop on compensation for occupational diseases to Mozambican miners in South Africa, held on Wednesday in Maputo.

The amount made available by the South African government refers to the payment of social welfare and compensation to Mozambicans who contracted occupational diseases in the mines, said the minister.

According to Margarida Talapa, there are still 1,644 eligible beneficiaries yet to be located, and there are also another 1,034 who claim their rights.

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According to data released at the meeting, miners are a high risk group for lung diseases, especially silicosis and tuberculosis.

In 2021, Mozambique registered 98,000 cases of tuberculosis, of which 2.7% were diagnosed in the high-risk group, according to the authorities. The extractive and mining industry in South Africa employs about 442,500 miners, of which 20,810 are Mozambican, in gold and platinum mines, according to the latest data provided to Lusa by the South African Mining Council.

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