Why did South African mines become renowned for mine safety, while
the mounting rate of silicosis in black migrant workers lay hidden
for over a century? How complicit were regulating officers in the
operation of the gold mines' apartheid health and safety policies?
Why and how was tuberculosis among black migrant miners not
disclosed, perpetuating a cycle of disease (and death) and allowing
the infection to spread to neighbouring states? This book reveals
how the South African mining industry, abetted by a minority state,
hid a pandemic of silicosis for almost a century, and allowed
workers infected with tuberculosis to spread the potentially fatal
disease to rural communities in South Africa and labour-sending
states. The first crisis of 1896-1912 focused on the minority white
workers and resulted in industry investing heavily on reducing dust
levels. The second began in 2000 with mounting scientific evidence
that the disease rate among black migrant miners is more than a
hundred times higher than officially acknowledged. This has
resulted in class actions against operating companies.
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