Abahohotewe ahanini ni abakozi muri kimwe mu birombe binini bya diyama mu gihugu hafi y’umupaka wa Zimbabwe. Ubuyobozi buvuga ko kugongana hagati y’ikamyo n’abakozi batwara bisi bajya mu birombe byo mu majyaruguru ya Afurika yepfo mu ntara ya Limpopo byahitanye abantu 20.
Isosiyete y’ubwubatsi Murray & Roberts Cementation yatangaje ku wa mbere ko 17 mu bapfuye ari abakozi bayo bajyanwaga mu kirombe cya Venetiya i Musina hafi y’umupaka wa Zimbabwe. Abakozi bane bakomerekeye mu mpanuka yo ku cyumweru.
Isosiyete yavuze ko itanga inkunga ku miryango y’abapfuye. Kugeza ubu ntiharamenyekana abandi bantu batatu bagiriyemo impanuka.
Bivugwa ko abo bakozi bagiye gukora umushinga wo munsi y’ubutaka kuri iki kirombe, kikaba ari kimwe mu birombe binini bya diyama mu gihugu kandi kikaba gifitwe n’igihangange De Beers. Ifite ibice birenga 40% by’umusaruro wa diyama ngarukamwaka mu gihugu kandi ikoresha abakozi barenga 4.300, harimo n’abenegihugu benshi.
Afurika y’Epfo ifite imwe mu miyoboro yateye imbere ku mugabane wa Afurika ariko ikagira n’imwe mu mibare mibi y’umutekano wo mu muhanda. Ku wa mbere, abashinzwe umutekano mu muhanda bari bakiri aho impanuka yabereye kugira ngo bakore iperereza ku cyayiteye.
Kuri uyu wa mbere, Minisitiri w’ubwikorezi mu Ntara, Florence Radzilani, wasuye ahabereye impanuka, yinubira uko amwe mu makamyo agenda mu mihanda.
Ati: “Buri gihe tuvugana n’abashinzwe kubahiriza amategeko kandi twohereza ubutumwa kuri aba bashoferi bavuga ko bagomba kumenya neza ko imodoka ikwiriye umuhanda, kugira ngo udashyira ubuzima bw’inzirakarengane mu kaga.”
Radzilani yavuze ko abatwara amakamyo bamwe birinda imihanda aho bazi ko abashinzwe umutekano bakora irondo kubera ko imodoka zabo zidakwiye umuhanda cyangwa abashoferi badafite ibyangombwa byemewe.
Yatangarije radiyo rusange SABC ati: “Dutegereje abashinzwe iperereza, ariko hamaze kuvugwa ibirego bivuga ko umushoferi w’ikamyo adafite uruhushya ndetse n’ikamyo idakwiriye umuhanda.”
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