Lifeline for Boseto Mine workers
Thursday, February 12, 2015
Morulane
The Australian company is due to close its ‘unprofitable’ open pit operations in the first half of this year with only 42 of the 422 workers earmarked to retain their jobs under the care and maintenance period.
Discovery Metals Botswana country manager, Mokwena Morulane told Mmegi Business that plans to close the Boseto open pit mine will go ahead, although the new funding might help mitigate the pending job losses.
‘When you make peace withyourself, you make peace with the world’- Maha GhosanandaThis may come at a huge cost if not handled properly. What started off on Labour Day in Letlhakane this year, where Boko was in attendance when the militant lawyer-cum-trade unionist, Robert Rabasimane rebutted the President’s address in defence of the trade union has seemingly spiralled out of control. The issue is now creating a cat-and-mouse type of a...