Mantashe issues new lockdown measures for mining, energy industry

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Mantashe said government was proactively managing issues that were directly affecting mining and energy, in the interests of ensuring employee health and safety.

Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy Gwede Mantashe on Thursday announced new lockdown regulations for the mining and energy industry.

“This is also to ensure that these sectors are better positioned to ramp up production systematically once the lockdown has been lifted,” he added. On mining operations, he said that to maintain a risk-based approach, these conditions applied to the starting and increasing of capacity:The mining industry must provide quarantine facilities for employees who have tested positive for Covid-19;

In accordance with these regulations and other regulations applicable in neighbouring Southern African Development Community countries, workers from those countries will be recalled at the end of lockdown.

 

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