Minister Talapa meets Mozambican miners in South Africa, urges them to register with the INSS

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Minister Talapa meets Mozambican miners in South Africa, urges them to register with the INSS

12:15 CAT | 28 Mar 2022

Photo: Ministério do Trabalho e Segurança Social

The Minister of Labour and Social Security, Margarida Talapa, last Friday met almost 200 Mozambican miners working in mines in South Africa’s Rustenburg area, about 120 km northwest of Johannesburg.

These are Mozambicans of various ages who have sought employment in South Africa’s world-leading platinum mines.

Minister Talapa told miners she had learned a lot about their working and housing conditions in meetings with the competent authorities locally, as well as through personal visits to the mines and accommodation facilities.

The minister urged miners to be exemplary workers, earning the sympathy and trust of their employers and scrupulously respecting South African and Mozambican law in the exercise of their profession.

In addition to discussing working conditions, Minister Talapa urged miners to enrol in Mozambique’s mandatory National Institute of Social Security system, so as to secure retirement benefits and support in other situations as provided for by law.

In turn, the workers presented several requests regarding interventions of the Labour and Social Security and other government sectors.

One of the problems was the use in Mozambique of vehicles that miners acquired in South Africa. Miners complained that the length of time authorities allowed cars with foreign registration to be used in Mozambique was too short, and should be extended in line with that allowed in South Africa.

Miners also requested an increase in the length of time their wives could stay, when visiting, from 30 to 60 days.

In reply, Minister Talapa said that the Mozambican government was making every effort to improve the conditions of Mozambican miners working in South Africa, and that the sectors concerned would continue to work to see their concerns addressed.

Source: O País