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Silicosis: Anglo American plays the race card
Attempts by lawyers for mining giant Anglo American to play the race card in the silicosis case were rebuffed by the South Gauteng High Court yesterday.
Pete Lewis
News | 22 October 2015
Eastern Cape building workers left high and dry
Some 20,000 building workers in the Eastern Cape are not covered by any minimum wage agreement.
Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik and GroundUp staff
News | 21 October 2015
Silicosis: Anglo American joins the fray
Lawyers for gold mining companies ERPM, DRD and Anglo American added their voices on Tuesday to those of their colleagues fighting the silicosis action in the South Gauteng High Court.
Pete Lewis
News | 21 October 2015
Mines not liable for TB, silicosis hearing told
Mines cannot be held liable for TB, advocates for the gold mines told the South Gauteng High Court yesterday.
Pete Lewis
News | 20 October 2015
Striking west coast mine workers suspended
About 25 workers at the Australian-owned Tormin mine on the west coast, who went on strike last month, were suspended on Sunday.
Barbara Maregele
Brief | 19 October 2015
Silicosis: mining companies hit back in court
Allowing the miners in the landmark silicosis case to act as a class on behalf of other miners would be contrary to the interests of justice, lawyers for the gold mining companies argued yesterday.
Lwandile Fikeni
News | 16 October 2015
Court hears whether silicosis miners can bring class action
Lawyers for the mining companies have begun to set out their case in the South Gauteng High Court, which is hearing an application from mineworkers to be allowed to claim for damages due to exposure to silica dust on behalf of a bigger group of affected mineworkers.
Lwandile Fikeni and GroundUp staff
News | 15 October 2015
Mine workers desperate in remote west coast town
Thembela Nkwalase, a single mother of five, has been employed as a cleaner at the Australian-owned Tormin mineral sand mine on the west coast since December last year.
Barbara Maregele
News | 15 October 2015
Sick miners in court for landmark silicosis case
Bangumzi Balakazi, from Peddie in the Eastern Cape, was among the former gold miners sitting in the South Gauteng High Court this week as the landmark silicosis court case got underway.
Lwandile Fikeni and GroundUp staff
News | 14 October 2015