Mineworkers

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

Consumers must know whether the gold and diamonds they treasure have been tainted by human rights abuses

Nomawethu Ma’Bhengu Sompeta, whose funeral will be held this weekend, was unequivocal in calling out the government for its response to the Marikana massacre

Joyce Jokanisi died without knowing who killed her son in Marikana and while still battling with heartache and depression from the massacre

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.