JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South African gold producers agreed a 5 billion rand ($400 million) class action settlement on Thursday with law firms representing thousands of miners who contracted the fatal lung diseases silicosis and tuberculosis, officials said o... More »
FILE PHOTO: Former gold miner Senzele Silewise, 81, talks to paralegals in Bizana in South Africa’s impoverished Eastern Cape province March 7, 2012. Silewise worked underground in the country’s gold mines for 44 years before being diagnosed with silicosis. RE... More »
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