Justice for Southern African Gold Miners. Thousands of ex-gold mineworkers in South Africa are suffering from silicosis. They have been denied the medical screening, compensation, healthcare and support they need and deserve. From 2012 to 2019 we called on the companies that made their fortunes from apartheid gold to address this injustice.
Read More2016-5-18 A South African High Court has paved the way for injured South African mine workers and families of those killed by illegal and brutal mining practices to file a class action suit against multinational mining concerns. This will be the largest class action suit in the history of South Africa. The gold miners suffer from silicosis and tuberculosis.
Read More2021-4-20 By Nevson Mpofu Ten-Thousands of South Africa’s former gold miners languishing under silicosis diseases have received a long life relief of financial compensation after lawyers representing them won for them a long- time protracted legal battle against their labour laws defiant employers . The recently released report from South Africa posted to the Pan-African media []
Read More2017-4-25 This South African Gold Miner Just Declared War On Illegal Miners By Dave Forest ... Which said over the weekend it is moving to completely drive out small-scale miners from its South African
Read More2020-2-9 A South African gold mine that goes two miles beneath the Earth's surface holds far more than just precious metals. ... To get to the gold, miners must walk miles through a vast maze of dimly lit ...
Read More2018-5-3 South African gold miners gain $400m lung disease payout ... The groups representing miners told me that they welcomed this legal action not just for the miners themselves but also for their ...
Read More2013-9-8 A South African gold miners' strike involving 80,000 workers has ended after employees at Harmony Gold accepted a final wage offer.
Read MoreSouth Africa - South Africa - Gold mining: Prospectors established in 1886 the existence of a belt of gold-bearing reefs 40 miles (60 km) wide centred on present-day Johannesburg. The rapid growth of the gold-mining industry intensified processes started by the diamond boom: immigration, urbanization, capital investment, and labour migrancy. By 1899 the gold
Read More2013-9-6 Some South African gold miners have ended their strike for higher wages and were heading back to work after just three days, bolstering confidence the strike could be formally called off on Friday.
Read More2013-5-20 Sibanye Gold , which was spun out of Gold Fields earlier this year, has fallen 50% during in just the past three months. What's ailing the South African miners? One possibility is the potential ...
Read More2008-7-4 Gold miners in South African, as seen on-the-ground by a gold-miners expert... WE ARE REPEATEDLY ASKED whether shares in South African gold miners remain a good investment, writes Julian Phillips of the GoldForecaster.. Our stock answer will now be yes, in the longer term.
Read More2016-5-18 A South African High Court has paved the way for injured South African mine workers and families of those killed by illegal and brutal mining practices to file a class action suit against multinational mining concerns. This will be the largest class action suit in the history of South Africa. The gold miners suffer from silicosis and tuberculosis.
Read More2013-9-4 By Xola Potelwa WESTONARIA, South Africa (Reuters) - A strike for higher pay hit production at most of South Africa's gold mines on Wednesday, but the main union behind the stoppage said it was willing to relax some of its demands . The stoppage called by the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) began at the evening shift on Tuesday, with many miners refusing to go underground.
Read More2013-9-4 A strike by tens of thousands of South African gold miners severely affected production in the struggling industry on Wednesday. There were no reports of violence and two mining companies reached ...
Read More2020-2-9 What lies at the bottom of one of the deepest holes ever dug by man? A South African gold mine that goes two miles beneath the Earth's surface holds far more than just precious metals.
Read More2017-11-22 Lawyers acting for thousands of gold miners who contracted lung diseases at work in South African mines said on Wednesday an out-of-court settlement with
Read More2007-10-4 Rescue of South African Gold Miners Under Way In South Africa, 3,000 gold miners are being rescued from under ground after an accident that cut power to the mine's elevator. The miners
Read More2013-5-20 Sibanye Gold , which was spun out of Gold Fields earlier this year, has fallen 50% during in just the past three months. What's ailing the South African miners? One possibility is the potential ...
Read More2018-2-2 South Africa is one of the world’s leading producers of gold, but the century-old industry has become increasingly perilous, with miners forced to descend ever deeper in search of unmined ore ...
Read More2018-5-3 Mining companies have agreed a 5bn rand ($400m, £285m) compensation deal for tens of thousands of South African miners who contracted deadly lung diseases while working underground.
Read More2020-8-27 South Africa’s main stock index extends gains for a second day, rising 0.7% by 9:50 a.m. in Johannesburg, as index heavyweight Naspers Ltd. and its subsidiary Prosus NV advance, and as gold ...
Read More2008-7-4 Gold miners in South African, as seen on-the-ground by a gold-miners expert... WE ARE REPEATEDLY ASKED whether shares in South African gold miners remain a good investment, writes Julian Phillips of the GoldForecaster.. Our stock answer will now be yes, in the longer term.
Read More2020-9-8 Laiton is one of the more than 500, 000 miners from South Africa and others from a number of southern African countries like Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Lesotho, Botswana and Eswatini that were made to work under inhuman conditions in South African gold mines from the 1960s. As result of these working conditions, most of the workers ...
Read More2020-2-9 What lies at the bottom of one of the deepest holes ever dug by man? A South African gold mine that goes two miles beneath the Earth's surface holds far more than just precious metals.
Read More2007-10-4 Rescue of South African Gold Miners Under Way In South Africa, 3,000 gold miners are being rescued from under ground after an accident that cut power to the mine's elevator. The miners
Read More2013-5-20 Sibanye Gold , which was spun out of Gold Fields earlier this year, has fallen 50% during in just the past three months. What's ailing the South African miners? One possibility is the potential ...
Read More2018-2-2 South Africa is one of the world’s leading producers of gold, but the century-old industry has become increasingly perilous, with miners forced to descend ever deeper in search of unmined ore ...
Read More2016-1-15 In 2013, mining companies produced 562,000 times as much waste as gold, according to the South African Chamber of Mines. A decade before, that same ratio was less than half as large, at 212,000-to-1. Mining operations are generating increased waste because South Africa’s gold is running out, and the remaining resource only can be found ...
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