Tens of thousands of gold miners are suffering with diseases like silicosis, tuberculosis and HIV. In the mines, Apartheid lives on.
Credit: STOPAIDS.
You may not have heard about it yet, but right now 59 South African gold miners are making history.
The miners and their families are currently suing the miners’ former employers - 32 mining companies including Anglo American and Gold Fields - for how their work has shattered their health.
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