More than 16,000 Mozambican miners working in neighboring South Africa could lose their jobs over the next ten years. The warning is the result of the introduction of new mining technologies and the increased interest of South Africans in working in the mines.

According to Rádio Moçambique, this was revealed by the director of South Africa's mining recruitment agency, José Carimo, to the Committee on International Relations, Cooperation and Communities of the Assembly of the Republic of Mozambique, which worked in the neighboring country on Monday.

"For example, last year, the Mozambican economy benefited to the tune of 1.2 billion rand and these amounts are coming into Mozambique every year, in addition to the purchases of goods that Mozambicans make in South Africa and send back to the country. And if we add that up, the contribution of Mozambican workers in South African mines is around two billion rand a year. It's a very significant figure, particularly for the southern part of the country," said the director of the labor recruitment agency for South Africa's mines, quoted by the South African Press. Radio Mozambique.

According to Rádio Moçambique, 36,000 miners from Mozambique, Botswana, Lesotho and e-Suatini work in the South African mines.