INDIGENT dependants of the Lonmin miners killed during a clash with police last week will receive grants to help them survive, the government has said.

Inter-ministerial committee spokesman Harold Maloka said yesterday the Department of Social Development was part of the government's effort to provide whatever support the families needed.

"Social Development has deployed 20 social workers in the area who are providing counselling to the families of the deceased. Their needs will be assessed to ensure that the indigent receive grants," Maloka said.

He saidthe inter-ministerial committee, led by Minister in the Presidency Collins Chabane, was working with other government departments to ensure that the deceased were eventually transported to their homes for burial.

"The Department of Home Affairs is assisting the families to get death certificates and burial orders," said Maloka.

On Tuesday Chabane said the committee had mobilised pathologists from across the country to ensure the speedy conclusion of postmortems.

Chabane also said the government would help to fast-track the paying out of any benefits the families were entitled to, in conjunction with the Department of Labour and the Lonmin management.

• This article was first published in the printed newspaper and eEdition on 23 August 2012. Click on this link to view the eEdition

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Aug 24, 2012

Papage

There is no case for those arrested, they must be released now in order to mourn their dead comrade, Zuma must release them now. The is no need for Home Affairs to do this, murtuaries kow is their work, they must just keep away from the miners, it is Ramaphosa and Zuma who must be arrested and charged with murder and their Police men.
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Aug 24, 2012

mokudubete

howmuch are we talking exacly 840 or 1140 in govt grants,and mind u this people died fighting against 4000,very interesting indeed.
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Aug 24, 2012

lidodaduvha11

damage control, history repeat itself, even the old apartheid government used to offer grants to the families of the people theyve killed.
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Aug 24, 2012

batical

how much...how much
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