Johannesburg - Khulubuse Zuma and his business partners at Aurora must pay mineworkers all money owed to them, the National Union of Mineworkers said on Tuesday.
“Thousands of these workers are still trapped in abject poverty,” the union said in a statement.
“They have no food, no running water and some of them are sick. Others have passed on due to stress created by these heartless tenderpreneurs.”
Pretoria High Court Judge Eberhardt Bertelsmann on Tuesday dismissed an urgent application by Zuma, who is President Jacob Zuma's nephew, to have claims of over R1.5 billion against Aurora Empowerment Systems set aside.
Aurora's liquidators went to go to court to hold the company's directors responsible after they allegedly stripped the assets of the liquidated Pamodzi Gold's mines in Springs, Gauteng, and Orkney, North West. The case is due to be heard on March 23.
In 2009, Aurora was appointed by liquidators to manage Pamodzi's mines after the company went bankrupt.
Sapa