The House passed legislation two years ago that would force OSHA to quickly issue rules regulating combustible industrialdust, but the proposal stalled in the Senate.
In 1994, as the Mandela government came to power, Motsepe left the law firm and struck out on his own, hoping to build a business contracting low-level labor like sweeping, where workers use brooms to glean gold dust from the rock surface after industrial mining crews have done their work.