Minister of Labour Ken Kandodo says the government is this week expecting a response from authorities South Africa detailing compensation payment modalities for former Malawian miners. Thousands of Malawians worked in South African mines in 1960s, 70s and 80s during apartheid when the then white minority government outsourced labour in mines because black South Africans […]
Minister of Labour, Skills and Innovation, Martha Chanjo Mhone says government is working tirelessly to ensure that Malawian ex miners who worked in the South African mines under Teba get their pension money in time. Currently, there are over 49,000 registered ex miners who are expected to get their pension funds, according to statistics from […]
Some ex-miners who worked in South African mines some 30 years ago are reacting with shock and disbelief that the South African government has left them out in the much awaited Teba pension money. “I am in shock, I am very angry. I feel frustrated, I cannot believe this, there is some corruption in this,” said Mzimba based […]
Minister of Labour and Manpower Development Francis Kasaila has said only 12 Malawian ex-miners who worked in South African mines nearly 30 years ago under Teba will finally get their pension money. Between the 1960s and 1980s, several Malawians trekked to South Africa to work in mines under an arrangement with Teba Limited, which served South […]
Over 150 ex-Teba mine workers in Karonga have planned to hold a vigill at South African High Commission in Malawi on 4 July over the delays of their benefit from South African mining firms. According to the document dated 20 June 2016, addressing to the Office of the President and Cabinet, the group shall not […]
President of ex Teba Mine workers, John Dick on Thursday accused Malawi Government of snatching their identity cards making the whole process of receiving their money almost difficult. In a interview with Nyasa Times, Dick said government went around in different places snatching K1,000 and the Identity Cards. This follows revelation that out of 36,000 names of […]