Transparency only way to win mineworker trust – Motlatsi
The only way to win the trust of mineworkers is for the mining business to become open and transparent, former National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) president Dr James Motlatsi said last week.
Speaking at the Joburg Indaba, Motlatsi shared the podium with Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) president Joseph Mathunjwa in a discussion on mining’s legacy and investment issues.
“Be open with your employees so that they can be part and parcel of the business. Transparency is the only way of building trust to avoid suspicion,” Motlatsi told the conference, attended by Creamer Media’s Mining Weekly.
He made this point after Mathunjwa had suggested that mining companies had more than one balance sheet and did not know which balance sheet they should look at in dealing with legacy issues.
“They will always plead poverty,” the AMCU head said.
On eliminating the trust deficit, Mathunjwa said he could not trust companies that paid their CEOs “share bonuses of R40-million and workers who go into the belly of the earth R5 000 a month”.
Motlatsi said thousands of mineworkers suffering from occupational diseases had still not received compensation.
“The industry needs to make sure that it rectifies its legacy,” the former NUM president said.
Mineworkers could help to eliminate the smuggling of gold if there was adequate transparency around the number of grammes of gold meant to emerge from a tonne of ore.
Motlatsi also sees this as helping to solve the balance sheet quandary.
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