No packages for BCL, TNMC employees

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FRANCISTOWN: Employees of BCL and Tati Nickel Mining Company (TNMC) mines will at the end of October get their last salaries, liquidator Nigel Dixon-Warren delivered the bad news last Friday.

Reportedly briefing emotional TNMC employees at the Phoenix mine, the liquidator indicated that, “given the financial state of the BCL Group, it was not going to be possible for the mines to pay their stranded miners beyond the October salaries.”

Mmegi is informed that the liquidator and his team, that included Sebetela Sebetela from the Minerals Development Corporation Botswana (MDCB) and others from the BCL Group board, were reportedly reluctant to address the entire TNMC employees fearing for their security.

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