60 000 ex-mineworkers come forward to claim R5bn unpaid benefits

JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) -- Some 60 000 former mineworkers have now come forward to claim R5-billion in unpaid pension, provident fund and service-award claims.
The 60 000 are from the traditional labour-sending areas of Limpopo, KwaZulu-Natal and North West in South Africa and the neighbouring States of Mozambique, Swaziland and Botswana.