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Silicosis class action

SA's first class action silicosis suit could win compensation for hundreds of thousands of miners and widows – and prepare the way for a class action suit against the mines for tuberculosis, reports [s]IoL[/s].

In March 2011, the [b]Constitutional Court[/b] ruled Thembekile Mankanyi could claim more than R2.6m from former employer [b]AngloGold Ashanti[/b] after he developed the lung disease silicosis. Mankanyi died about a week before the Constitutional Court ruling, but the judgment allowed his family to return to court and pursue his claim in the High Court. Mankanyi's widow, Nozuzile is now part of a class action suit comprising miners affected by silicosis and their widows.

[link url=http://www.iol.co.za/scitech/science/news/miners-families-live-between-death-and-hope-1.1670086#.U0KlbqiSzE0] IoL report[/link]

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