News alert: A film on the R5 billion historic class action law suit screening at Durban International Festival on Saturday, 27 July2019; Musgrave centre; 2pm.
On Friday 26 July 2019, the Johannesburg High Court approved the historic R5 billion settlement of the silicosis and tuberculosis class action suit.
The legal process involving gold miners affected by lung diseases has stretched over several years and has been described as one of the “most complex multi-party class action settlements ever concluded” by parties.
The agreement, on behalf of thousands of mineworkers and their dependents, affects people who contracted silicosis or pulmonary tuberculosis during or after being employed as gold miners from March 1965.
The six mining companies paying out the collective R5bn formed the occupational Lung Disease (OLD) Working Group, which represented African Rainbow Minerals‚ Anglo American SA‚ AngloGold Ashanti‚ Gold Fields‚ Harmony and Sibanye Stillwater.
The mining companies admit that in the past they failed to take necessary precautions to protect their employees from the Sicilia dust that rises from the gold mines.
DYING FOR GOLD, a powerful documentary film, screening at the Durban International Film Festival exposes the hidden story of the real cost of mining in South Africa and how “the South African gold mining industry’s silicosis and tuberculosis epidemic is without parallel in the world.”
DYING FOR GOLD is screening at the Durban International Film Festival on SATURDAY 27th July 2019 at The Musgrave Centre Cinema at 2pm.
The film’s co-producers and co-directors Catherine Meyburgh and Richard Pakleppa said: “ South Africa’s wealth and prosperity has been built on a foundation of slow genocide of black miners from across Southern Africa of over a century and we are very pleased that our film is part of the justice for miners campaign.
The filmmakers will be in attendance at the screening and are available for interviews before and after the screening.
FILM TITLE: DYING FOR GOLD
SCREENING DATE: 27 JULY 2019
TIME; 2PM
VENUE: STER KINEKOR MUSGRAVE; CINEMA 1; MUSGRAVE CENTRE; 115 MUSGRAVE ROAD; DURBAN
WEBSITE: WWW.DYINGFORGOLD.COM
FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/Dyingforgold/
TWITTER: @dyingforgold #JusticeForMiners
EPK: https://www.dropbox.com/s/uni4wo8y52ltag9/DYING%20FOR%20GOLD%20EPK.pdf?dl=0
Court approves historic R5bn settlement in silicosis saga:
https://m.fin24.com/Companies/Mining/breaking-court-approves-historic-r5bn-settlement-in-silicosis-saga-20190726
Court Approves Settlement of The Silicosis & TB Class Action:
http://lrc.org.za/news/sca26/
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