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Waiting widow: Noziqhamo Mgidi’s husband died before the settlement was reached. Photos: Delwyn Verasamy
CYRIL RAMAPHOSA

Where are the unions and the ANC for suffering silicosis victims?

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…

  • Lucas Ledwaba
6 min read
Mining Weekly reported in March this year that the trust paid the first R1  billion in benefits to more than 11 000 eligible families. Photo: Supplied
SILICOSIS

The keys to solving the legacy issues in SA’s mining sector

The goal of ‘zero harm’ has seen progress but is yet to be fully realised

  • Busisipho Siyobi
5 min read
Anna Ranyama holds a gold-framed portrait of her late husband, Mahlomola Ranyama. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
ALLANRIDGE

‘I will fight the Tshiamiso Trust till I die

Claimants detail struggles to access compensation

  • Sheree Bega
5 min read
Charles Lessingh lies on the bed in his lounge in Welkom next to his wife Elsa. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
COMPENSATION

Stress, tears and struggles with Tshiamiso Trust

Trust had paid out more than R700m but too many claimants ‘are being misdiagnosed, incorrectly classified or rejected’, say activists

  • Sheree Bega
11 min read
Mthobeli Gangatha is a litigant in the class action brought against 29 mining companies. He worked on a gold mine for 16 years.
CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT

Silicosis payouts are ‘symbolic justice’ for South Africa’s miners

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…

  • Thabo Molelekwa
7 min read
Nozamile Yaphi’s husband returned home from the mines suffering from TB. They started a suvvessful commercvial farming enterprise which eventually collapsed after he died. She now helps out at a local creche while trying to get compensation for her husband’s occupational disease. (Lucas Ledwaba/Mukurukuru Media)
BLACK BODIES

The gold miners’ widows tell of daily battles for survival

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

  • Lucas Ledwaba
15 min read
Silicosis is a disease that affects people in jobs where they breathe in dust that contains silica – a tiny crystal found in sand, rock or mineral ores, such as quartz.
ABRAHAMS KIEWITZ

Tshiamiso Trust makes due on silicosis payout

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.

  • Tshegofatso Mathe
3 min read