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South African gold miners settle lung-disease lawsuit
By Felix Njini
Bloomberg News
Thursday, May 3, 2018
Mining companies including Anglo-American Plc agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit from workers who said they contracted deadly lung diseases in South African gold mines.
The agreement provides for compensation for all eligible workers suffering from silicosis or tuberculosis who worked in the companies' mines at any point since March 1965, the parties said in a statement Thursday. The six producers last year set aside about 5 billion rand ($396 million) to settle the lawsuit. The settlement will be submitted to South Africa's South Gauteng High Court for ratification.
The workers say they were negligently exposed to large amounts of silica dust over decades, causing silicosis and pulmonary tuberculosis. South Africa's mines, which have produced a third of all the world's gold, have drawn in millions of poor, black workers from across the region in the 130 years since gold was discovered. The mines remain among the world's deepest and most dangerous even after the end of apartheid rule in 1994, before which safety standards and environmental restrictions were minimal. ...
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