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Fund managing mineworkers' R5bn silicosis settlement starts …

The Tshiamiso Trust, which manages the distribution of the court-approved R5 billion class action settlement by mining companies to former mineworkers who …

Unclaimed Social Security Benefits and Impact of COVID …

Unclaimed benefits amount to approximately ZAR ten billion. Kitso outlined the challenges posed to ex-miners, one of the major ones being the advent of technology, and the new processes required to access claims electronically. Government has not facilitated the process, in terms of support and infrastructure, thwarting the process.

Former mineworkers paid more than R60m by unclaimed …

Thousands of former mineworkers have been paid more than R60-million in unclaimed benefits over a two-year period to date, the Mines 1970 Unclaimed Benefits Preservation Pension and Provident ...

How can former miners access … | GroundUp

The miners can be awarded an amount ranging from R10,000 to R500,000 depending on the disease and the severity of it. If a miner died as a result of silicosis or TB his dependents are also eligible to claim compensation. ... The Unclaimed Benefits Campaign (UBC) has been doing a lot of organising for former mineworkers, alongside …

How to find unclaimed money from the government | USAGov

To find money from: Check this database: Employers: Unpaid wages – Search the Department of Labor's database for back pay an employer might owe you. Pensions from former employers – Use the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) search tool to find an unclaimed pension. Unclaimed insurance: VA life insurance funds – Search the …

Fighting the legacy of mining in Lesotho

He says every week in rural areas of Lesotho, ex-miners are being buried without ever seeing the money owed to them. The social effects of the legacy of mining in Lesotho are left to Isaac's ...

Mine workers lament claim process for compensation when …

According to the Compensation Commission for Occupational Diseases, over 18 000 former mine workers have lodged claims with the commission so far. The claimants are South African, Mozambican and Lesotho nationals. About R1.1 billion has been paid to claimants in the last five years. About R1 billions remains unclaimed miners

Fund managing mineworkers' R5bn silicosis settlement starts …

The settlement was reached on behalf of thousands of mineworkers affected people who contracted silicosis or pulmonary tuberculosis during or after being employed as gold miners from March 1965. Gold mines normally drew labour from far flung villages and outside the country and the wide reach of the sector might complicate the claiming …

There is more than $23 million in Mohave County unclaimed property

More than $57 million of unclaimed property was returned to their rightful owners in Arizona last year, anywhere from under $1 to more than $2 million in one claim, said Ed Greenberg, spokesman ...

Mineworkers Provident Fund

unclaimed Benefit+27 10 005 6110; Home; About us . MWPF Management The MWPF Executive Management. The Board of Trustees Chairman & The Board of Trustees. ... Original certified copy of death certificate from country of origin if not South African, eg Lesotho,Mozambique, Botswana, etc.

Feud over miners' compensation erupts

At the centre of the tussle are allegations by the Ex-miners Association of Lesotho that former miners or their beneficiaries are forced to open accounts only with TEBA in order to receive compensation for silicosis or TB-related deaths. TEBA and Tshiamiso Trust strongly refute these claims. Tshiamiso is a South African Trust …

Mineworker's Provident Fund & Mines 1970's Provident Fund briefings

The Chairperson remarked that the Fund had indicated that there was a file of unclaimed benefits. That meant that some claimants were either untraceable or still needed to be traced. ... It was established in January 1970 for the those miners that were employed by the members of the Chamber of Mines. By December 1991 there had been …

Teba – connecting people to opportunities

In 2010, TEBA partnered with the Ministries of Health in Lesotho, Mozambique, South Africa and Swaziland to establish a dedicated programme for the delivery of TB screening, testing and treatment for miners, ex-miners and mining communities in Southern Africa. To date, more than 600,000 patients have been successfully registered on the programme.

Assisting our ex-miners and...

Assisting our ex-miners and beneficiaries with their unclaimed benefits in Lesotho from 8-9 May at Quthing, Hillview Guesthouse, and Mokhotlong at Mokhotlong Hotel Hall. Come with your industry...

Left behind in no man's land: plight of Lesotho's mining …

Mamohlomi Letlailana is the secretary-general of the ex-miners association in Maseru, the capital of Lesotho. She set up support groups for ex-miners across the country.

Basotho and the Mines

Basotho and the Mines: A Social History of Labour Migrancy in Lesotho and South Africa, c.1890-1940. Dakar: Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, 2004. 257 pp. Index. $47.95 (paper), ISBN 2-8697-8128-8. ... In this book, the author, Eddy Tshidiso Maloka, sets out to write a history of Basotho miners from the bottom ...

Billions lie unclaimed in miners fund

Billions lie unclaimed in miners fund ... The local mining industry has always relied on migrant labour from Lesotho, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and other neighbouring countries. Motsoaledi said only ...

Unclaimed-Benefits

An enquirer will be required to input basic information onto the Unclaimed Benefits Search Engine, i.e.. name, surname, identification number, fund name, name of employer, etc. in order for the search engine to check if there is a possible match. On a successful match, the enquirer will be provided with the contact detail of the fund and/or ...

Ex-Miners Association of the Mountain Kingdom of Lesotho.

Ex-Miners Association of the Mountain Kingdom of Lesotho., Maseru, Lesotho. 246 likes · 2 talking about this. Nonprofit organization

Moleko hits back at SA

Moleko said one of the issues highlighted in their meeting at the recent Mining Indaba in South Africa, was making Mantashe aware of the M42 billion worth of …

Silicosis: The curse of Lesotho's miners | Features

Maseru, Lesotho – When Lebina Liphapang last went down the world's deepest gold mine, he was already feeling sick.He had worked underground in South Africa for 29 years, far away from his wife ...

Ministry of Mining

Welcome to Ministry of Mining site. Government of Lesotho. Mineral Resource Deposits!! Rea u amohela Lekaleng la Merafo 'Muso oa Lesotho

Statement of the Justice for Miners

The Justice for Miners Lesotho Chapter is also a loose coalitionof stakeholder in the justice for Miners sector. Civil society organizations,churches, media, academia, organized labour, youth business traditionalleadership and others will be invited to join the forum.

Only 12 South Africa ex-miners to get Teba pension money, …

Out of 53, 000 ex-miners in the country, only 13 000 were approached to fill forms to access the pension funds, with only 5 000 filling the forms.

Access of migrant gold miners to compensation for …

Overall, miners from Lesotho had higher odds of filing a claim than did South African miners (OR 1.40) and were also substantially more likely to have their claim certified as compensable (OR 2.00). By contrast, other national groups were less likely to file a claim than South African miners. However, of these groups, miners from …

Mineworkers Provident Fund

WHO CAN JOIN MWPF? The Fund is open for membership to all workers in the Mining industry whose employers are participating employers in the Mineworkers Provident Fund, workers of other members of the Chamber of Mines in South Africa and workers of other employers whose participation in the Fund has been approved by the Trustees, may …

Moleko hits back at SA

According to Moleko, the money is part of the M42 billion worth of unclaimed terminal benefits of miners who used to work in South African mines. ... the money would help Lesotho in creating jobs and youth development projects thereby deterring illegal Basotho miners from occupying disused shafts of closed mines in the neighbouring …

M10 billion in limbo

. . . unclaimed funds could go land in govt coffers. MOSA MAOENG. MASERU – There are fears that most of the former Basotho miners who are owed over R12 billion in compensations by South African gold mines may not be traceable. Only M2 billion worth of compensation funds has traceable claimants or beneficiaries, which …

UNCLAIMED Funds Search

UNFUNDS service allows you to search for possible unclaimed funds belonging to you as a beneficiary in South Africa. Over R42 Billion of funds remain unclaimed by beneficiaries. Search Hints: For exact match, specify ID number . For possible matches, specify Surname (and/or ID number)

Tshiamiso Trust – Compensation for silicosis and TB

The Tshiamiso Trust manages thousands of claims for mineworkers eligible for compensation due to contracting TB or silicosis from working in certain gold mines …