A miner works underground at a Johannesburg gold mine. Picture: ROBERT TSHABALALA
Research published in 2018 by the University of Cape Town showed the mortality rate among former miners in SA was 20% higher than in the general population. Only last year the mining industry was forced to establish a R5bn fund to compensate gold miners who were dying of silicosis and tuberculosis, while coal miners who worked for Sasol are suing because of its alleged failure to maintain healthy working conditions for its miners.
All these problems are worsened by the poverty many miners and their families experience. Most miners continue to live in informal housing and have limited access to sanitation and health care — for instance, the primary demand of the workers at Marikana was for improved living conditions.
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