Reflections on South Africa’s gold mining crisis: challenges for restructuring

Decolonising the Human

“…Unlike the situation in previous years, when silicosis and TB killed black mineworkers together with white mineworkers (Allen 1992;Maloka 1996;Nicol and Leger 2011), today these diseases have become 'a black man's diseases', mainly because of reduced numbers of white underground mineworkers in the country. Accordingly, most white mineworkers at Anglo Platinum hold supervisory positions.…”