Lesotho: Deceased Miners’ Families Plead for Help

. . .Want death certificates to enable them to claim benefits

FAMILIES of 30 illegal miners who died in 2023 in an explosion in an abandoned mine shaft in Welkom, South Africa, have urged the government to issue death certificates for the deceased even though their bodies have not been recovered. This to enable the surviving dependents of the deceased to claim insurance and other death benefits.

The victims, all Basotho men aged between 30 and 40 from villages around Bela-Bela in Berea, were…