Consultation with the South African authorities on the conditions of employment of Botswana citizens in South Africa and matters relating thereto;
Ensuring that labourers from Botswana comply with South African requirements concerning entry, identification and documentation; assisting, when necessary, with such identification and with applications for documentation; and generally encouraging compliance with those requirements;
Consultation with the South African authorities on matters affecting the welfare and housing of Botswana citizens employed in South Africa or whose employment contracts have expired;
Administering in consultation with the South African authorities, tax collections, deferred pay, family remittances and workers’ welfare funds in respect of Botswana citizens employed in South Africa;
Assisting the South African authorities with the repatriation of sick, injured or destitute Botswana citizens who are or were employed in South Africa and of other such citizens whose presence in South Africa is or has become unlawful;
Encouraging Botswana citizens in need of advice and assistance to utilise the facilities of the office of the Labour Representative;
Consulting, with the concurrence of the South African authorities, the employers concerned with regard to the attestation, repatriation and other matters relating to the employment of Botswana citizens in South Africa;
Providing, at the request of the South African authorities, interpreters in matters involving Botswana citizens employed in South Africa;
Liaising with the South African authorities on behalf of Botswana citizens employed in South Africa or their dependents in regard to workmen’s compensation and pneumoconiosis claims by or on behalf of such citizens;
Any other function relating to Botswana citizens in the Republic which may by agreement between the South African and Botswana authorities be assigned to the Labour Representative or which are necessarily incidental to the proper discharge of the functions specified in this paragraph.
In order to discharge their functions, the Labour Representative and his staff shall, by arrangement with the South African authorities, be permitted access to employers and places of employment of Botswana citizens in South Africa.
