The organisation that was set up more than 100 years ago to acquire cheap black mineworkers by the cubic metre for the gold mines is now intent on reversing the social ills that the migrant labour system has heaped on South Africa’s perennially unsettled mining sector. It wants to do this through a combination of shift reform, mineworker work-life solutions, connecting former migrants with money still owed to them and the coordination of the development initiatives of the many mining companies.
