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  (PDF) Burden of Silicosis in the South African Mining Sector …

  2021110 · Objective: This review aims to analyse silicosis patterns in the gold, diamond and platinum workers over a period of 30 years, and to investigate possible causative factors for mini ng sector ...

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  A century of miners' compensation in South Africa - Ehrlich

  2012316 · This Act provided for temporary relief, with permanent compensation for silicosis being legislated in 1912. The legislation was promulgated in the wake of an epidemic of lethal lung disease in the rapidly growing South African gold mining industry following the discovery of gold on the Witwatersrand in 1886 [Katz, 1994 ].

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  Sibanye-Stillwater increases wage offer for striking South Africa gold ...

  2022423 · Mining company Sibanye-Stillwater on Friday gave South African gold mine workers a higher wage offer, a month and a half into a strike at its gold operations in the country.

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  More than 100 South African gold miners treated for smoke inhalation

  2018726 · Hundreds of South African gold mine workers were rescued and over 100 treated for smoke inhalation after an underground fire.

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  1946 African Mineworkers Strike | South African History Online

  5  · On 12 August 1946 African mine workers of the Witwatersrand went on strike in support of a demand for higher wages - 10 shillings a day. They continued the strike for a week in the face of the most savage police terror, in which officially 1,248 workers were wounded and a very large number - officially only 9 - were killed. Lawless police and army …

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  More than 100 South African gold miners treated for smoke inhalation

  2018727 · Hundreds of South African gold mine workers were rescued and over 100 treated for smoke inhalation after an underground fire, the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) said on Thursday.

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  Heat Stress in Underground Mines and its Control Measures: …

  2022114 · Heat stress is a major concern for the health, safety and productivity of miners working in hot and humid underground mines. At greater depth, heat inside underground mines increases due to geothermal gradient, heat released from high-capacity machinery, exposed rock surface, auto-compression of air, human metabolism, etc. …

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  Birth of the African Mine Workers’ Union

  3  · The organisation of African mine workers was and remains one of the most difficult - and the most essential - tasks facing the trade union and national movement in South Africa. Recruited from the four corners of the country and beyond its borders in Malawi, Lesotho, Botswana, Swaziland, Mozambique and, up to 1973, Angola, the African …

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