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Breathing in a deadly dust: How a drop of blood can...

Agnee Ghosh -
Gold miners work the Cooke Shaft in Johannesburg. Thousands of gold miners and their families are now seeking compensation for the sector's failure to protect miners from silicosis

#MiningIndaba: Why the real mining investors won’t be in Cape Town...

Thabang Pooe -
Former miner Masiko Somi and his wife Magumede are part of the class action suit that looks to hold the gold mining industry accountable for its impacts on workers' health.

Court case could force gold industry to pay out miners’ daughters...

Thabang Pooe and Dean Peacock -
Silicosis: A tragic history of rights violations

Silicosis: A tragic history of rights violations

Dylan Bush -
The gold industry is appealing the decision to compensate mineworkers for damages sustained due to silicosis acquired on the mines.

Gold industry’s appeal in miners’ silicosis class action is shameful

Dean Peacock and Emily Keehn -
Justice came too late: Thembekile Mankayi died six days before a court awarded him compensation for falling ill with lung disease

Miners seek justice over killer dust

Dean Peacock, Anele Yawa and Emily Keehn -
Silicosis is a slowly progressing yet debilitating lung disease caused by inhaling microscopic silica dust particles that are mostly found in the ore of gold mines

Sick miners are ‘left with nothing’

Amy Green -
Kholekile Rouben Mdaka is one of 3500 claimants bringing a class ­action against Anglo American South Africa.

Silent killer lurks in miners’ lungs

Heidi Swart -

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