UNCLAIMED FUNDS
Frustration and tragedy haunts legacy of untraceable workers’ wasted benefits
Just three hours before the Constitutional Court ruled against activist Rosemary Hunter, saying that the Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) was not obliged to do more investigation on the controversial funds cancellation project, Mapaseka Mabe reached out to the media to try to find her late father’s provident fund benefits. "Hello, please I’m asking you to help me check my father’s provident fund. He is an ex-mine worker," Mabe wrote to Business Day on Thursday morning. The 27-year-old Free State-born woman said she has been trying to find her father’s provident fund benefits since 2013. Her father, who worked in two mines between 1987 and 1996, contributed R43.21 of his meagre R966 salary to a provident fund in 1995, his payslip shows. He died in 2016. "But we never got anything since he stopped working in 1996. He died without getting anything," said Mabe.
Mabe is among millions of beneficiaries who are struggling to lay their hands on their family members’ work bene...
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