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 health over the years.
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, getting ‘old’ and transformation in the law fraternity
Despite winning a R5 billion settlement in 2018, miners who contracted TB and silicosis at work and the family members of those who died are still waiting for that payment
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.
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.
The industry’s disgraceful behaviour takes place as death whittles away the number of claimants, writes Richard Meeran.
Widows and children stand to inherit damage claims from the mining industry, but their decision to appeal doesn’t bode well.
Gold mining giants are beginning to negotiate with mineworkers and their families.
Analysts said the suits could cost the industry hundreds of millions of dollars in the largest class action in Africa’s most industrialised country.
The landmark legal settlement benefits miners with silicosis and encourages an industrywide settlement scheme at gold mines.
How come not one black counsel was part of the applicants’ team in the miners’ silicosis class action?
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.
Will gold mineworkers have to prove a link between their silicosis and their employers’ negligence?
Workers afflicted with silicosis and/or TB launch historic class action lawsuit for compensation.
Miners with silicosis and TB are entitled to a small payout, but don’t claim because they are kept in the dark about their rights.