Tension brews over Mupane localization

Mupane Mine
Mupane Mine

FRANCISTOWN: Mupane Gold Mine (MGM) has denied mounting reports that the company wants to defy a localisation plan agreed upon with employees.

The plan relates to the posts of commercial manager and mine surveyor. Contracts for the two expatriates employees, who have been with the mine for some years, come to end in June. Some employees at the mine have expressed doubt about the mine’s commitment to localise the two posts.

The employees occupying the two aforesaid posts were supposed to have left the company last year. But their contracts were renewed by a year, a development that was widely contested by Botswana Mine Workers Union (BMWU).

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