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Workers want govt intervention in embattled Gupta-owned mine

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Over 1000 mine-workers at a Gupta-owned Shiva Uranium mine in Klerksdorp in the North West, are pleading with the Mineral Resources Department to force the Gupta family to sell the operation to save jobs.

The mine, which has applied for business rescue, paving the way for liquidation is set for closer.

The Industrial Development Corporation has taken the Guptas to court to recoup the ballooned R250-million loan that the family used to buy the mine. The family defaulted on the repayment of the loan and is unwilling to negotiate.

Mineworkers have for the past two months been paid late, and are threatening to down tools.

Majority union, National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) spokesperson, Livhuwani Mammburu says, “We are worried that our members at Shiva are facing a bleak and uncertain future because management has applied for business rescue.”

“Members are not paid on time. The only choice we have is for the Guptas to sell these operations. They are reluctant. It’s the right thing to do, rather than wanting to own the operations and not paying workers. We feel that the Guptas, this is the right time to sell the operations and just leave the country. Workers are worried.”

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