Council inundated with pleas for help from retrenched BCL miners

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SELEBI-PHIKWE: Former employees of the BCL are inundating the Selebi-Phikwe Town Council (SPTC) with calls for social assistance. This is according to the town’s deputy mayor, Lydia Letlhogela.

The closure of BCL Mine last year saw over 4,000 miners losing their jobs with many other related industries here collapsing.

Letlhogela told an ordinary full council meeting that the retrenched miners have of recent been approaching the SPTC to assist with school uniform for their children, transport fare and food basket to sustain their families, amongst other appeals.

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