Mineral Resources Portfolio Committee chairperson Sahlulele Luzipo has welcomed the approval by the Gauteng High Court of a R5-billion settlement between gold mining companies and former employees who have contracted silicosis after working in the country’s gold mines. The settlement is between the Occupational Lung Disease Working Group, which represents African Rainbow Minerals, Anglo American South Africa, AngloGold Ashanti, Gold Fields, Harmony and Sibanye-Stillwater, and the settlement classes’ representatives, as well as the settlement classes’ law firms Richard Spoor, Abrahams Kiewitz and the Legal Resources Centre.
