Job-seekers accuse Moolman Mining of extortion

African Copper wants an investigation into allegations of bribes for jobs involving a company it awarded a five-year mining contract. 

So serious are the allegations that African Copper, alongside the Tribal Authority of Dukwi and the local councillor Paulson Majaga called a kotla meeting last Thursday at which tempers flared when angry people demanded an explanation from Moolman Mining, the sub-contractor, why it had reneged on an agreement to recruit workers from the Dukwi and Mosetse dikgotla and was instead fleecing desperate job seekers at a certain lodge.
"When Moolman made a presentation to us after being awarded the contract, we agreed that they would use the kgotla to recruit employees because they had no offices on the mine premises," Majaga told Mmegi.