As economic activities return today - albeit partially - workers heading back to their posts after five weeks of complete lockdown have expressed anxiety about their safety. kgmadisa
A mineworker from Free State who was preparing to return to work underground told Sowetan yesterday that he was concerned about his company's record of compliance with health and safety regulations.
"There's noncompliance generally. What they have done is to sugar-coat the problem by complying 100% on surface. The trouble is underground. "There are no sanitisers for employees and usually before we go inside the panels where the production happens, where they do blasting and all that, there's supposed to be meetings in the waiting place where people sit and there's no social distancing there."
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