BCL employees speak

Kegakologetswe
Kegakologetswe

SELEBI-PHIKWE: It has dawned not only on the economy of the town, but even on the faces of the employees who only learnt abruptly of the end of their jobs.

This has not only left them with a psychological distress but hopelessness of where their next meal would come from after they receive their last salaries at the end of this month. They have already received threats by commercial banks that failure to pay their outstanding loan balances would attract serious penalties. They are forced to terminate their insurance policies because they cannot honour subscriptions anymore and they are likely to relocate back home without anything in their hands because there is no guarantee that they will get anything after the liquidator concludes his investigations.

It is for the first time in the history of the mine that it reaches a point where employees are told to stay home and even denied access into the mine. The workers are now spending working hours at home and worry is written all over their faces as they contemplate the future.

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