Farmworker who earned R300 per month dies before payout

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The elderly man who walked away empty-handed after labouring at a North West farm for 69 years has died.

Mokgwabone Kleinboy Dinake was certified dead at Ventersdorp Hospital at 3pm on Tuesday following a short illness.

A month ago Sowetan reported that Dinake, who turned 84 in May, had worked at Boet Terre'Blanche's farm in Nooitgedacht since he was 15.

When Dinake retired in October, Terre'Blanche failed to pay him a severance package.

This prompted the Department of Labour to intervene.

However in a bitter-sweet turn of events, Dinake died just after the department slapped his former employer with a compliance order instructing him to pay Dinake the moneys owed to him, amounting to R50000, within 14 days from last Friday.

Dinake had retired after working at Terre'Blanche's farm, earning a paltry R300 month.

He had initially been employed by Boet's father, Andries, who is now late.

The wage was in contravention of the minimum wage for farmworkers, which as from March 1, was R3169.
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Boer Terre’Blanche is without any doubt an @ss...

RIP Mokgwabone
 
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Just curious, was his accommodation and food and water and everything taken care off, maybe?
 
Give that R50k to his next of kin.
 
In any event why pay a severance package to someone that is way pass retirement age. Something does not add up here.
 
Thor said:
Just curious, was his accommodation and food and water and everything taken care off, maybe?
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R300 sounds so much worse than R300+ Free accomodation + free food + free water + Free + free......Quantify that and see what his actual salary comes to.

And since when does a company pay you a severance package when you retire? Is that not when your/state pension kicks in?
 
It should be paid out to his family. This is horrendous. Some people are so abused in this country.
 
Lord Farquart said:
R300 sounds so much worse than R300+ Free accomodation + free food + free water + Free + free......Quantify that and see what his actual salary comes to.

And since when does a company pay you a severance package when you retire? Is that not when your/state pension kicks in?
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Without proof that this was the case (payslip of sorts), ol' Boet has no leg to stand on. Wrong is wrong and should be corrected.

DOL has correctly intervened and made the award.
 
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ForceFate said:
Without proof that this was the case (payslip of sorts), ol' Boet has no leg to stand on. Wrong is wrong and should be corrected.

DOL has correctly intervened and made the award.
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OK, so on what proof did they then work on, if there was no contract or payslips??
 
Lord Farquart said:
OK, so on what proof did they then work on, if there was no contract or payslips??
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I have no idea, but I'd hazard a guess and say a week for every year worked, using national minimum pay as basis.
 
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Really sad. When I see articles like this, I always am thankful for my lot in life that I grew up in a stable low to middle income family that allowed me to get an education and what not.

There is a desperate need to equalise the ills of the past and its still going to take a generation to solve. Don't see any workable/sustainable solution from the government.
 
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