Widows� forum to help spouses access claims

According to a representative from Ditshwanelo Kitso Phiri, the forum will create an opportunity for stakeholders to review the mechanisms put in place to address some of the challenges experienced by widows of ex-mineworkers in accessing their spouses unclaimed cross border social security benefits.

He said that would be done through facilitation of a policy dialogue between widows of ex-miners, funds and Government officials on national issues affecting them, engagement with the funds on the opportunities for partnership with ex-mineworkers associations, facilitation of discussions with policy organs such as the SADC National Committees on regional interventions related to the portability of social security and compensation benefits, discussion on the progress and sustainability of post employment support programmes across the region from donors/support agencies and  progress to date since the first widows forum in 2015.