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CHRONICLE and CODE4SA write that in 100 years, no mining company has ever been prosecuted for exposing its workers to harmful quantities of dust underground.
Now in 2017, a group of 32 of the world’s largest gold mines are dragging their heels in an historic class action lawsuit brought by 56 mineworkers diagnosed with silicosis and tuberculosis, because it would probably work out cheaper for them to be in court for the next 15 years than it would be to compensate all of the claimants. Johanna Chisholm and Daniela Q. Lépiz have written an in-depth interactive feature which is most definitely required reading for anyone who wants to be informed about an ongoing tragedy at the centre of the history and present of South African mining.
- Read the full interactive feature here
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