By Staff Reporter
ZIMBABWE’S mine workers have called on parliament to help establish a compensation scheme for members who would have died or maimed during the course of duty.
This follows a fatal mine accident involving a worker at Zimplats’ Ngwarati-Mine in Mhondoro-Ngezi on Sunday.
The worker was one of the contractors who succumbed to injuries sustained after a high wall collapsed at the Ngwarati-Mine box cut.
Speaking through Zimbabwe Diamond Allied and Minerals Workers Union of Zimbabwe (ZDAMWU) general secretary Justice Chinhema, ZDAMWU said it was “relieved that the rest of the employees who were underground when the tragedy occurred have been evacuated by the Zimplats Proto Team.”