Swaziland Migrant Mineworkers Association

Sharing perspectives of ex-mineworkers on TB and Occupational Lung Diseases in Durban ICC, South Africa, July 2024!!! Cde Jabu Xaba make comments in the plenary in a workshop for Eastern Cape Provincial Dept of Health, East London 2024! Please sign the petition for . The Key and Vulnerable Population especially the Ex-Mineworkers are lack TB and Silicosis screening in the Southern Africa Region The Global Fund Stop TB Partnership Community Delegation Stop TB Partnership World Health Organization (WHO)

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Living Claimants - Ex-mineworkers living with Silicosis and suffered TB during their working life for the 6 Gold Mines (African Rainbow Minerals, Sibanye Stillwater, AngloGold Ashanti, Gold Fields, Anglo American, Harmony) from 1965 to 2019 will be medically examined for severity of the lung diseases for compensation by the Tshiamiso Trust within this month of October 2023 in Eswatini. Watch the space for updates.

Calling upon all the families of ex-miners suffering from TB and Silicosis from the gold mine to register for their claim at Tshiamiso Trust. We need only few details: Industry Number (Makhuluskop), Name & Surname, contact number to be contacted on. You can send me a WhatsApp at: 7625 8705

Financial Inclusion Programme reaches AngloGold Ashanti Officials from Kingdom of Swaziland working there.

Path to SWAMMIWA Office

Today May 25, 2017, we were called by the Chamber of Mines informing us about missing documents on their files in order to pay compensations to former miners and dependants. If anyone has been called to submit, can reach us from Monday to Friday in Nhlangano. You can reach me on 7625 8705. Please call me once in Nhlangano to give you directions to our office.

In July 2017, SWAMMIWA is planning to conduct a national dialogue for establishing migrant network to feed into the SADC Migrant Workers Network. This dialogue is a residential meeting. We are targeting organisations working with migrants, local migrants, international migrants, returning migrants and their families. If you are interested please feel free to reach us at: [email protected]

SWAMMIWA will be convening dialogue on access to the HIV and TB Services for mobile populations in Swaziland, June 2017. Who wants to attend this 2 days residential meeting? Please find out if you can be a resource person for this meeting. You may send us an email: [email protected]

If you are an Ex-Miners son/daughter with proof that your dad was paid up NUM member during his work life, completed high school or matrix contact us for bursary application. Every year NUM approves bursary for learners at tertiary level for Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, South Africa and Swaziland learners. In 1999 I was awarded a bursary by NUM too. Reach us for this either by email or visiting our office at Plot No.29, Near Mordaunt Complex, Cnr Masabasaba & Velephi Street, Nhlangano. Email: [email protected]; copy- [email protected]

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Vame Jele, who heads up the Swaziland Migrant Mineworkers Association (SWAMMIWA), advocates for migrant miners, truck drivers, forestry workers, domestic workers and farm workers.

Jele seeks to raise awareness “and call for solidarity” around the issues of former miners and their families. Migrant miners who contract silicosis and tuberculosis from working without safety equipment are sent back to their origin countries with no support for medical care. As a result, Jele says, many former miners are dying and their families are in poverty because they have lost their primary breadwinner. SWAMMIWA recently coordinated a policy dialogue around migration issues in Swaziland and advocates to harmonize policies and regulations in the South Africa Development Community (SADC) to abolish inhumane treatment of migrant workers and involve migrant workers in union bargaining.