A miner at Mopani Copper Mine in Kitwe has died after being electrocuted.
National Union of Miners and Allied Workers -NUMAW Secretary General Goodwell Kaluba has confirmed the development to ZNBC News in Kitwe today-Tuesday.
Mr Kaluba says Morgan Ngosa a thirty – three year old miner who was working as a whistle man died in the early hours of Tuesday.
He said the late Ngosa was operating at 3360 level at Central Shaft when he met his death at about 02 30 hours.
Mr. Kaluba said Ngosa was riding on a electric trolley when the lining of the machine got burnt thereby electrocuting him.
He said the body of the late miner has since been retrieved from the underground.
Meanwhile Operations at the Non Ferrous China Africa- NFCA mining where miners were protesting against the formation of a new company have normalized.
All the workers have returned to work.
National Union of Miners and Allied Workers- NUMAW Secretary General Goodwell Kaluba has confirmed the development to ZNBC news in Kitwe today.
Mr. Kaluba said the miners have returned to work and mining activities are running normally after management gave the workers two options.
He said management asked workers willing to return to work to do so while those who were not interested were asked to sign forms to be laid off.
Mr. Kaluba disclosed that the workers chose to keep their jobs and have since started working.
He also revealed that management has agreed to revisit its decision to operationalise the new company which triggered the protest.
Mr. Kaluba said management has promised to involve the union so that the best way forward is found before the new company can start operations.
He said employees are still working under the old conditions of service as stipulated in the collective agreement signed by NFCA mining
[ ZNBC ]
Chabipa umu guys.Sad indeed.MHSRIP.
The welfare of the miners needs to be seriously looked into. As mining productions goes up to maximise profits, the risks to the miners also become greater. The government should not just focus on attracting investments especially in the mining sector without putting up policies that look into the interests of the miners favourably. Health and Safety legislature needs to be put in place so that deaths such as the story above should be minimised or even eliminated altogether. It should also be costly to the mine owners for each miner that dies on the job, that will compel the mining companies to make sure that the working conditions of the miners are excellent. Our miners also need to get paid top rates because the job is dangerous, they should be getting more money than what MPs get.
When will our mines going to become safe? What has happened to the strict safety measures that ZCCM had in place?
On top of losing lives, we are getting very little out of them.
What is wrong with the monkey’s toilet govt?
Why is it that in third world countries “Zambia” miners are paid peanuts, while in developed countries, say “Australia” miners are the highly paid when copper is sold at the same market. If the cost of production is very high in Zambia miners can still get paid at least half salary of a miner in Australia or New Zealand. Some mines in Australia are Chinese mines but miners are highly paid because the Govt cant allow peanut salaries.
We need to get rid of Rupiah Banda. Sad that the Chinese can have the audacity first to be changing Company names every five years to continue evading tax and then have the audacity to give such stupid conditions to our employees. We need to change government come what may and bring sanity and dignity to our Zambian hardworking Miners. May the good Lord help us.
Some of us with relatives working for the mines are always worried when are relatives report for work until when they knock off that’s when we are relived. its not safe to work in the mines in Zambia
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