The funds consist of 11 712 pension fund beneficiaries and 57 450 provident fund beneficiaries, located in South Africa, Mozambique, Lesotho, Swaziland, Malawi, Botswana and Zimbabwe.

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 …

General queries. FSB Call Centre: 0800 20 2087 0800 110 443 FSB switchboard: 012 428 8000 Fax numbers: 012 367 7204 012 3466941 Email addresses Pensions.Queries@fs [email protected] b.co.za Media queries: 012 422 2823 Postal address: P.O. Box 35655, Menlo Park, Pretoria, 0081. Physical.

Silicosis: The curse of Lesotho's miners. A legacy of injustice and an under-resourced healthcare system has led to generations of workers becoming gravely ill. By Victoria Schneider. 23 Jan ...

12. Redress eludes miners' widows. Africa-Press – Lesotho. A lot of noise has been made about South African mining companies finally paying long overdue compensation to mineworkers across Southern Africa for contracting silicosis while working underground. Sadly, widows and orphans of Basotho former mineworkers are being …

TB is an infectious, bacterial disease that usually affects the lungs, and silicosis is a lung disease caused by inhaling mineral dust. Miners, most of whom work in close proximity to each other in confined spaces underground in southern Africa's large, commercial mines for gold, copper, and other minerals, tend to have a higher …

Bookmark. Symptoms of Silicosis include shortness of breath, chest pains and persistent cough. (Picture: Lucky Nxumalo/City Press) Cape Town - There is R10bn of unclaimed former mineworkers' retirement benefits in various pension and provident funds, according to the Presidency. Some of these date back to the 1970s, it said in a …

Major children must complete their own affidavit of dependency, signed and stamped by the Commissioner of Oaths; The benefit payable is as follows: Members R30 000. Spouse R30 000. Children (aged 14 & older) R30 000. Children (aged 6 to 3) R15 000. Children (aged 1 to 5) R 7 500. Children younger than 1 year R 3 750.

Each state has an unclaimed property program that works to reunite it with its rightful owner. Join our detective work and search for your friends and family as well as yourself! Each state has unclaimed property in the form of uncashed checks, security deposits, overpayments, and more. You never know what you might find!

Eligible former mineworkers and the surviving dependants of deceased mineworkers in the Lejweleputswa region and surrounding area in the Free State, are …

HOW TO CLAIM WHEN YOU ARE DIAGNOSED WITH TERMINAL ILLNESS. HOW TO CLAIM WHEN YOU RETIRE. HOW TO CLAIM WHEN YOU RESIGN OR ARE RETRENCHED?

You can commute up to 1/3rd of your non-vested benefit for a taxable cash lump sum and use the balance 2/3rd to purchase a compulsory annuity. If the total of your non-vested …

Use each separate database in the links below to search for each type of unclaimed money. 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 …

For comparison, a similar annual mortality rate of 29 per 1000 was recorded in the study of ex-gold miners from Lesotho conducted between 1999 and 2001 within 2 years of exit [13]. Of the 18 ...

unclaimed Benefit+27 10 005 6110; Home; About us . MWPF Management The MWPF Executive Management. The Board of Trustees Chairman & The Board of Trustees. The R.A.C. Is the Regional Advisory Committee. The Fund Rules Set of Rules governing the Fund. Careers at MWPF Be one of our lifetime achievers.

He said there are 53, 000 ex-miners in the country, out of which 13 000 were told to fill forms to access the pension money but only 5 000 filled the forms. "Only 12 have qualified, they were ...

This was because of the unclaimed claims that the both funds were burdened with. Mines 1970's Provident Fund Briefing. Mr Kenny Ngosi, Principal Officer: 1970's Fund, began by giving a brief history of the Mines 1970's Provident Fund. It was established in January 1970 for the those miners that were employed by the members …

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

Four thousand Eastern Cape ex-miners or their families today stand a chance to claim their share of R40-billion worth of benefits that was left unclaimed for decades.more All 4000 names are ...

Production Started. Late-2016. Owner. Liqhobong Mining Development Company (LMDC), owned by Firestone Diamonds (75%) and the Kingdom of Lesotho (25%) Expand. Liqhobong held its first diamond sale …

Mineworkers who contracted silicosis and/or TB at work and are looking to claim compensation can now register on two new …

This unclaimed benefits service is free of charge and anyone can register on this portal or do so on behalf of relatives or member-nominated beneficiaries. Next of …

LESOTHO is reviving artisanal and small- scale mining (ASM) in to increase local participation in a sector dominated by foreign players. Licensed diamond digging by local diggers was first introduced in the country in 1961 but was barred in 2004 due to rising tensions between local diggers and large, foreign-owned mining companies.

BC Unclaimed keeps unclaimed money until we find the rightful owner. The money is left behind in places like credit union accounts, estates and courts. $218 million waiting to be claimed. $3,895,695 …

Friday, June 1, 2018. The Department of Labour and the Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) have launched the long- awaited registration campaign of unclaimed benefits for ex-mineworkers in the Northern Cape, targeting Hartswater in Phokwane Local Municipality. The campaign, which is aimed at ex-mineworkers who left employment in the mines prior ...

Thirty-one suspected illegal miners, allegedly Basotho nationals, are believed to have died at a ventilation shaft at a mine in ia, Welkom, the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) said on Thursday. The department said the Lesotho Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Relations informed the High …

The Mineworkers Provident Fund and the Mines 1970's Provident Fund briefed the Committee on their structures, duties and scope. Each noted the same …

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.

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.

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 ...