TEBA wants to pay former employees

CHANDAPIWA BAPUTAKI
Staff Writer | Friday June 29, 2007 00:00

 

Making a presentation at the Gaborone City Council on TEBA Limited, the regional coordinator of North West and Botswana, Samuel Moeletsi stated that their major assignment is to assist the Botswana Savings Bank to trace and pay thousands of mineworkers their money held with the bank.

TEBA's core purpose as a company is to recruit employees for the chamber of mines of South Africa. 'But with recruitment diminishing, TEBA has now established a section 21 company which aims at looking after the interests and welfare of mineworkers and communities they come from in the post-employment era,' Moeletsi said.
He indicated that they have sent names of the mineworkers to the customary courts. He, however, stated that the majority of clients that come forward to apply for different benefits do not have correct documents.

 
'They are supposed to bring their industrial identity documents with the number, their Ids, passports and - in the case of the deceased - the marriage certificates and a letter of confirmation of the marriage from the district commissioner,' he stated.
He added that their concern is the on going family disputes over the benefits payable and the absence of government offices to receive estate payments in certain districts of the country.

 
Moeletsi further indicated that TEBA, which is a Black Empowerment Economy company, is owned by Dr James Motlatsi who has 'out of his free will and love for the people donated 25 percent shareholding freely to its employees to make history in what has never happened in the history of South Africa'.

 
'Our expectation now is to concert effort from all stakeholders be it tribal chiefs and different government sectors to trace and provide required documentation to mineworkers and relatives for the benefits to be paid timeously,' Moeletsi said.
TEBA operates in South Africa, Botswana, Swaziland, Mozambique and Lesotho and it has offices in Molepolole and Palapye in Botswana.