16,000 Mozambican miners in South Africa could lose their jobs in the next 10 years – Watch

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16,000 Mozambican miners in South Africa could lose their jobs in the next 10 years – Watch

6:17 CAT | 06 Jun 2023

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More than 16,000 Mozambican miners working in South Africa could lose their jobs over the next ten years as a result of the introduction of new legislation, new mineral extraction technologies and the increased interest of South Africans in working in the mines.

This was the scenario outlined by José Carimo, a director at the labour recruitment agency for the South African mining industry TEBA, to the Parliamentary Commission of International Relations, Cooperation and Communities, working in South Africa on Monday.

According to Radio Mozambique, a total of 36,000 foreign miners from Mozambique, Lesotho, Botswana and Eswatini working in South Africa could lose their jobs over the next ten years.

READ: Mozambique: South Africa closes the door to new workers from 2030 – O País

Mozambican workers in the South African mines bring into the national economy around 1.2 billion rand per year (around 4 billion meticais), Carimo told TVM.

Under an agreement signed 59 years ago, Mozambique has been supplying labour to the mines in South Africa.

According to TVM, 27 years ago, the neighbouring country had as much as 55,000 Mozambican mine-workers, mostly from Gaza, Inhambane and Maputo provinces, in southern Mozambique.

Watch the TVM report.