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Johannesburg - The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) on Thursday
said more than 2,000 workers at Aurora Empowerment
Systems' Grootvlei mine in the East Rand have been without water after supply was cut-off on Wednesday afternoon.
Aurora, a broad-based black economic empowerment (BEE) specialist investment company, on Thursday announced that it had secured a capital injection of R725m - funding it needed to save its mining investments after its previous financial backer pulled out.
But the trade union is not impressed.
"The beleaguered company that has this morning announced that it has received multi-million funding from foreign investors is yet to pay its workforce as well as water bills," the NUM said in a statement.
NUM general secretary Frans Baleni said it is unhealthy and unhygienic for workers to be without drinking water or bathing water. "It is totally unacceptable," he said.
The NUM said it was perturbed that Aurora could run to the media to make a public announcement when its house is not yet in order.
"They could have first restored water and electricity, paid their workers before going to the media to glorify their so called achievement," said Baleni.
"It is still a shock to us that workers who spent their Easter holidays at the mine because of not being paid are not their immediate priority," he said.
- I-Net Bridge
Systems' Grootvlei mine in the East Rand have been without water after supply was cut-off on Wednesday afternoon.
Aurora, a broad-based black economic empowerment (BEE) specialist investment company, on Thursday announced that it had secured a capital injection of R725m - funding it needed to save its mining investments after its previous financial backer pulled out.
But the trade union is not impressed.
"The beleaguered company that has this morning announced that it has received multi-million funding from foreign investors is yet to pay its workforce as well as water bills," the NUM said in a statement.
NUM general secretary Frans Baleni said it is unhealthy and unhygienic for workers to be without drinking water or bathing water. "It is totally unacceptable," he said.
The NUM said it was perturbed that Aurora could run to the media to make a public announcement when its house is not yet in order.
"They could have first restored water and electricity, paid their workers before going to the media to glorify their so called achievement," said Baleni.
"It is still a shock to us that workers who spent their Easter holidays at the mine because of not being paid are not their immediate priority," he said.
- I-Net Bridge
