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Johannesburg - More than 10 000 Pamodzi Gold employees will go home without their salaries today, Afrikaans newspaper
Beeld reported on Thursday.
All workers have so far received only 75% of their March salaries.
According to the newspaper, Pamodzi had still not received a R5m emergency package from the Department of Minerals and Energy (DME).
The mine has appealed to the DME for emergency funds to pump acid water from the mine so that it can prevent an environmental disaster.
While the department claims to have paid the money last Friday, the mine denies having received the funds.
Graham Chamberlain, mine manager at Pamodzi's East Rand operations on Wednesday warned that the mine would have to stop pumping water from the mine's underground operations if the money was not received soon.
Chamberlain told Beeld that if the promised funds were handed over, the bulk of the money would be used to pump and treat water from underground.
He said the company had a responsibility to the environment. Salaries would be paid after this responsibility had been honoured.
The report added that the mine's liquidators acknowledged that there had been a delay with the transferral of the R5m and that the handover would happen on Thursday.
They also promised that they would try set aside some of the money to pay the rest of the workers' March salaries next week.
- I-Net Bridge