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South Africa: Silicosis - Mining Companies Hit Back in Court
GroundUp, 16 October 2015
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… Read more »
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South Africa: Court Hears Whether Silicosis Miners Can Bring Class Action
GroundUp, 15 October 2015
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… Read more »
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South Africa: Sick Miners in Court for Landmark Silicosis Case
GroundUp, 14 October 2015
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… Read more »
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South Africa: Battle Lines Drawn As Mineworker Lawsuit Begins
News24Wire, 12 October 2015
It has been dubbed the David versus Goliath class action lawsuit as mineworkers, who contracted a terminal illness while working underground, begin their fight against 32 mining… Read more »
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Africa: South Africa's Sick Miners Take Gold Mines to Court
DW, 12 October 2015
South Africa has always been known for its lucrative gold mines. In the process Johannesburg even became known as the City of Gold. But not all that glitters is gold, as miners… Read more »
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South Africa: Will Gold Miners Get Justice?
GroundUp, 9 October 2015
In King Leopold's Ghost, the historian Adam Hochschild uncovers the horrors committed in the Belgian Congo in the years before and after 1900. It is a history of slavery, murder… Read more »
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South Africa: Silicosis - Court Lets NGOs Join Class Action
Daily Maverick, 30 August 2015
What happens if you try to oppose some of South Africa's biggest mining houses? Civil society organisations found out last week in the South Gauteng High Court. They were trying to… Read more »