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The Mozambican government, working through the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security (MITESS), is calling on the families of Mozambican workers killed in road accidents involving the South African transport company Vaal Maseru to come forward in order to put together all the necessary documentation for the completion of the South African court process relating to the case.
These are the family members of 32 miners who lost their lives in two bus accidents while travelling home. Fifteen miners died in a 1996 crash in Boane district, Maputo province; the remainder perished in 2008 in Komatipoort region in South African territory, also while travelling to Mozambique on Vaal Maseru vehicles.
A MITESS press release received on Monday by AIM says that the search for the families is being undertaken in all 11 provinces, including the city of Maputo, regardless of whether or not a change of residence occurred at the time of the relative’s death.
Vaal Maseru is the official carrier of mine workers from Mozambique to South Africa and also in reverse.
“The Mozambican government has been working with its South African counterpart, in order to ensure that all deceased workers or their family beneficiaries are not affected, which is why various actions regarding deferred payments are underway at both the level of MITESS and its provincial directions, while at the same time continuing the process of locating family or dependents of those former miners who have not yet presented themselves for this purpose,” reads the note.
According to the source, additional programs have also been undertaken by the government. In addition to investments in personal funds,when they finish their contracts, miners have received government support, in the social reintegration in their areas of origin, by means of funding livelihood and income projects designed by them, organized into associations.
“This is a reality that already have much experience in the areas of origin of the hand labour in Mozambique for the South African mines, namely in the provinces of Maputo, Gaza and Inhambane, in the case of south, and Manica, Sofala and Zambezia, in the centre,” explains the same source.
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