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Dumisani Nsingo,Senior Reporter
THE Mines and Energy PortfolioCommitteewill tomorrow visit the troubled Hwange Colliery Company Limited (HCCL) where the legislators are expected to be briefed about the challenges facing the coal mining giant.
The visit by the portfolio committee led by the maverick Norton legislator, Mr Temba Mliswa comes in the wake of a sit-in by the wives of HCCL employees.
Scores of HCCL workers have been camped outside the company’s head offices for a month in protest of their spouses’ outstanding salaries. They took the decision when the management announced last month the coal mining company would only be in position to pay the monthly 2, 6 percent in accordance with the scheme of arrangement in June going forward as well as ring fencing of the half salaries for the month of October, November and December.
The portfolio committee is also expected to visit the Hwange Power Station Expansion Project.
According to Parliament spokesperson Retired MajorEdward Mbewe, the Mines and Energy Portfolio Committee will be at HCCL at 8.30 am and then proceed to Kamativi at 1.30pm.
Today the committee is in Gwanda touring the site of the proposed Gwanda Solar Plant in the
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