Hope is turning into despair for BCL miners after President Ian Khama spurned their efforts to deliver a petition containing their demands and suggestions directly to him on Thursday "due to a tight schedule". A day after the miners petitioned Khama, the Provisional Liquidator Nigel Dixon-Warren of audit firm KPMG met the leadership of Botswana Mine Workers Union (BMWU) and BCL Citizen Senior Staff Union (BCSSU) in Gaborone on Friday morning. His message was brief. He instructed the miners to advice their comrades and colleagues to collect their individual termination letters in Selebi-Phikwe starting tomorrow (Saturday) morning 0800hrs. "You are reminded to bring your proof of identity (BCL Identity card- all employees, Omang - citizens and Passports - non Citizens). Letters will be collected in Selebi-Phikwe as per the schedule; Area 1 - Number 3 Shaft employees; Area 2 - Metals Production employees, Support Services employees, Services employees; Ikageleng Community Hall - Selibe North employees, South East Extension employees, Botshabelo Community Hall-Selibe Shaft employees," reads Dixon-Warren's dispatch. On Thursday, under soaring temperatures reaching 42 *C, miners trucked into Gaborone in five buses from Selebi-Phikwe and braved the scotching heat to wait at Notwane Grounds to deliver their petition to the…