More border openings are wanted for returning foreign mineworkers.
As of Thursday last week, not a single foreign mineworker had re-entered South Africa from neighbouring foreign countries.
“Only a limited number of border posts are open,” Minerals Council South Africa environment, health and legacies senior executive Nikisi Lesufi said during a virtual media conference call in which Mining Weekly took part.
Lesufi said that the volume of returning mineworkers was such that the opening of more border posts was wanted.
Four thousand workers were needing to re-enter South Africa from Mozambique through one border post, and three times more, 12 000, from Lesotho, also through one border post.