The Mining Affected Communities United in Action says the mining giant must ‘take full responsibility for unpaid debts and abandoned communities’
South Africa spends too much money on medical malpractice lawsuits and wants to pursue new ways to settle cases out of court
The goal of ‘zero harm’ has seen progress but is yet to be fully realised
The reduction of deaths from falls of ground accidents is significant, because this usually contributes the most to total mine fatalities
Claimants detail struggles to access compensation
Trust had paid out more than R700m but too many claimants ‘are being misdiagnosed, incorrectly classified or rejected’, say activists
The Tshiamiso Trust has begun paying out workers who contracted silicosis and TB in South Africa’s gold mines, but the amounts are paltry against what they have lost to poor…
Families will never forget how iphika took their fathers, brothers, husbands and breadwinners after they spent the best years of their lives digging up gold in the mines
She’s worked on one of the biggest class-action cases in South Africa and she’s taken on Uber: Zanele Mbuyisa speaks to Athandiwe Saba about advocating for the underrepresented,…
Beneficiaries will now be able to apply to get money from the settlement almost two years after the Johannesburg high court ruled on the matter.
A blurb
The payouts to affected miners who were part of the class action will provide a modicum of justice
We need to resist the patriarchy, racism, sexism and capitalist greed that is still prevalent on the globe
It will give current and ex gold mineworkers an opportunity to receive a medical examination and compensation for those suffering from silicosis
Potential claimants and their dependents are encouraged to also contact the call centre
A reader writes in about the silicosis class action
Impoverished families will have some relief after a class action against 29 mining firms succeeds
Mthobeli Gangatha has learnt to accept that nothing, not even part of the R5-billion settlement announced by lawyers, will ever reverse his condition
The most important people in mining will not be among the movers and shakers at the high-profile event this week.
A high court has ruled that compensation to women who have to take care of sick miners could ease the gendered harms imposed by the industry.
