Silicosis and its Gendered Impact
Sonke and TAC’s campaign to win justice for the many miners who contracted preventable lung diseases owing to mining companies’ neglect.
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Sonke and TAC’s campaign to win justice for the many miners who contracted preventable lung diseases owing to mining companies’ neglect.
Sonke Gender Justice, the Treatment Action Campaign and SECTION27 welcome the Gauteng High Court’s approval of the settlement agreement in the Silicosis Class Action. SECTION27 represented Sonke Gender Justice and the Treatment Action Campaign in the application to certify the class in the case in 2015, arguing in that case
Thabang Pooe highlights work done by gender activists to ensure that the role of women and girls in caregiving is recognised in the recent litigation aimed at holding gold-mining companies accountable for their negligence. This article was first published in the South African Labour Bulletin – July/August 2018.
Sonke facilitates a press conference for stricken mineworkers to give a firsthand account of the impact of silicosis in their lives.
Outlining Sonke’s research contributions to the ongoing silicosis class action.
Women’s work caring for sick miners is invisible – Tanya Charles writes for GroundUp.
Supreme Court of Appeal grants mining houses leave to appeal all aspects of the landmark judgement.
Sonke Gender Justice (Sonke), the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), and SECTION27 worked collaboratively on this project to conduct media advocacy, research and documentation to raise awareness on silicosis and tuberculosis (TB) in the gold mines of South Africa, as well as to support the class action lawsuit by applying to
Silicosis class action has positively impacted the rights of women and children who’ve depended upon, and cared for, sick miners.
A summary of the ongoing class action against South Africa’s gold mining companies.
Mining companies have been denied leave to appeal against the historic class action’s certification.
Unpacking the ramifications of the ongoing silicosis lawsuit – written by Thabang Pooe for the Oxford Human Rights Hub Blog.
Widows and children stand to inherit damage claims from the mining industry, but their decision to appeal doesn’t bode well.
SABC News reports on the Johannesburg High Court’s ruling in the historic silicosis class action lawsuit.
Sonke Gender Justice welcomes the judgement handed down today, 13 May 2016, by the South Gauteng High Court granting permission to a group of miners to proceed with a class action against South Africa’s gold mining companies. A group of miners are suing the gold mining industry for exposure to
The South Gauteng High Court has certified the largest class action lawsuit in South Africa’s history to commence.
This week, Sonke Gender Justice and the Treatment Action Campaign are joining former miners in a court hearing seeking certification for a class action lawsuit seeking damages to be paid to former gold miners who are now sick with #silicosis and/or #tuberculosis. Because of being laid off work due to
After months of deliberation, over 50 miners stricken with lung disease will find out whether or not they’ll be compensated.
Follow photographer Thom Pierce on a journey to document the lived experiences of the class action representatives. The journey culminates with an exhibition and possibly certification of the class.
In October 2015, Sonke Gender Justice and the Treatment Action Campaign joined former miners in a court hearing seeking certification for a class action lawsuit that would force the entire gold mining industry to pay damages to former gold miners who are now sick with silicosis and/or tuberculosis. Because of
A collection of portraits of miners who have suffered sickening working conditions in South Africa’s mines – only to be retrenched with little to no compensation.
About 600 people, including members of mineworkers unions as well as civil society took part in a march led by Sonke Gender Justice and the Treatment Action Campaign on the 13th of October 2015. The march, titled “Justice for Miners” is part of a concerted campaign to hold South Africa’s
Catch these two informative interviews this evening and tomorrow afternoon.
Sonke’s Government and Media Liaison, Patrick Godana, addresses Sonke and Treatment Action community action teams at a demonstration outside the South Gauteng High court, in Johannesburg, on the first day (12 October 2015) of a certification hearing for a class action lawsuit against South African gold mining houses. Former miners
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