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Sick miners die as cash held back
Agent handling R5bn compensation for gold workers with lung disease delaying payments, says lawyer Richard Spoor
26 November 2023 - 00:01
Five years after committing to pay R5bn to impoverished former miners with terminal lung disease South African gold mining companies have yet to fully deliver, says public interest lawyer Richard Spoor, who brought a precedent-setting class action against them in 2012...
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