Recently, a proposed amendment announced by the Tshiamiso Trust — set up to disburse compensation — now threatens to shut out even more former mine-workers with the disease from…
Countries around the world are increasingly turning against Israel and its aggression in the Middle East. South Africa’s unions and citizens must join in solidarity with…
Trust had paid out more than R700m but too many claimants ‘are being misdiagnosed, incorrectly classified or rejected’, say activists
Nine years later, the government has not finalised damages claims, but has paid millions for Phiyega to contest the scathing findings against her
Amcu and experts agree that mineworkers and their communities face a unique risk without a detailed response to Covid-19 from the sector
My mother was a domestic worker and my father a miner, and I went to school in the townships
Not a year into buying Lonmin, Sibanye is accused of mistreating the mineworkers who were injured eight years ago during the Marikana massacre. But the platinum giant says it is…
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A reader writes in about the silicosis class action
Impoverished families will have some relief after a class action against 29 mining firms succeeds
In the Northern Cape, former mineworkers and their families live with lung-destroying diseases and barely survive financially.
Another BASF shareholder meeting has come and gone without resolution on reparations.
We must address the legacy of apartheid and abolish the slave wage economy we have inherited.
This week it was the mining companies’ turn to tell the court why they can’t be held responsible for the suffering of thousands of former mineworkers.
The historic class-action suit brought by gravely ill former gold miners and their families will push the boundaries of the country’s court system.
The high court in Johannesburg has to decide how to process a case of this size, which mining companies say is impossible.
Mineworkers in Marikana have blasted the Farlam Commission of Inquiry report for its findings against Amcu.
Three years of labour upheaval and a political push for safety and better wages have set in motion a drive to mechanise platinum mines.
Platinum stockpiles and a market surplus mean the mineworker strike is almost convenient for the mining companies.
The top three platinum producers have agreed to further court-mediated talks with Amcu in yet another attempt to reach agreement on wages.
