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19 Jul Almost 3000 military vets push ahead with reparations claim of R4.2m each
File photo by RAJESH JANTILAL/AFP via Getty Images Lawyers for 2 700 liberation struggle military veterans are pushing ahead with their legal claim for R4.2 million each against the government over its failure to deliver on the compensation they were promised for their contribution to ending apartheid. The group...
18 Jul Marikana tragedy settlement matter back in court: Andries Nkome
The Marikana tragedy settlement case is back in the North Gauteng High Court. This time lawyers on behalf of just over 50 miners are negotiating settlements with respect to claims from the state. For more, we cross to SABC News Reporter Canny Maphanga. For more...
18 Jul Africa Driving a Transformed Economy
The 7th Annual Top Empowerment Virtual Conference, presented by Topco Media and Nedbank, kicked off on 20 July 2022 with a highly successful first day. This virtual conference’s mission is to empower top companies, entrepreneurs and leaders that are embracing technology, transformation, and innovation in Africa. The conference partners include Nedbank, AVBOB,...
18 Jul MARIKANA MASSACRE SURVIVORS STILL WAITING FOR APOLOGY FROM RAMAPHOSA – LAWYERS
President Cyril Ramaphosa addresses the 022 Heads of Mission Conference in Tshwane on 7 April 2022. Picture: @PresidencyZA/Twitter JOHANNESBURG - Survivors of the Marikana Massacre said that they were still awaiting an apology from President Cyril Ramaphosa, 10 years after the killings. Lawyers representing those who were wounded during the...
18 Jul Mine workers symbolising SA’s tragic day: ‘We’ll fight another 10 years to taste justice’
Miners walking alongside an nyala that was pulling barbed wire, seconds before the shooting took place outside Nkaneng informal settlement near the Lonmin mine in Rustenburg, North West, on 16 August 2012. (Photo: Felix Dlangamandla) Victims are still fighting for justice a decade after Marikana and...
18 Jul Marikana Massacre: ‘Ramaphosa liable and complicit’
WONDERKOP at Marikana, near Rustenburg where a cleansing ceremony was held in 2013 after miners were slain by the police in the 2012 massacre. Bongiwe Mchunu African News Agency (ANA) File Published Aug 16, 2022 Johannesburg - It was a day that marks one of the darkest tragedies...
18 Jul Marikana massacre claims matter not even at the halfway stage yet, says lawyer
Negotiations with the State to reach a settlement in 53 matters in which victims were injured and arrested in Marikana had not yet reached the halfway mark. Picture: File Published Aug 17, 2022 Pretoria - As the country yesterday commemorated the 10th anniversary of the August 16, 2012...
18 Jul Tailings dam in South Africa collapses – several dead.
The Minerals Council South Africa is saddened by the tragedy unfolding at Jagersfontein in the Free State after the collapse of a historic deposition dam and it recommits its members to the highest standards of tailings and waste rock dump management. The causes of the collapse...
18 Jul OWNERS OF JAGERSFONTEIN MINE DAM WERE WARNED TO STABILISE WALL – FS GOVT
A dam wall collapsed on Sunday, unleashing water and mine waste, which has killed one person and displaced at least 250 residents in the small mining town. While the provincial government has described the flooding as an "unexpected disaster", it's understood that the mine had come...
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