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Hotel business sues victims of the 2018 Las Vegas mass shooting: Here’s why

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23 Jul 2018 0

Timothy D. Lytton, Georgia State University Last October, Stephen Paddock unleashed a barrage of automatic gunfire from a 32nd-floor hotel room overlooking a large crowd of concertgoers attending a country music festival in Las Vegas. With...

South Africa’s historic silicosis class action: why the settlement matters

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10 May 2018 0

Penelope Andrews, University of Cape Town The lawyers for miners who either fell sick or died after contracting silicosis and tuberculosis on South Africa’s gold mines, have reached a historic class action settlement with the industry....

Settlement of the Silicosis and TB class action: All you need to know

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3 May 2018 2

PBM The historic silicosis/tuberculosis class action against South African gold miners has come closer to finality with news that parties have agreed to a R5 billion settlement that allows for payments starting at R70 000 and...

Impala Platinum, Sasol & Eskom must pay servitude fees over my family’s farm in Rustenburg

Gontse Letlonkane

6 May 2016 1

Good Day ProBonoMatters My Grandfather, Aaron Motsuenyane, together with his brothers owned a farm, Portion 274 JQ in Weldebeesfontein, in the Rustenburg mining area where Impala Platinum had since 1964 operated. Impala has not been paying any servitude fees since...

Naspers must fulfil its reparative, BEE, promise

Sipho

8 Jan 2016 4

I’m one of more than 100 000 black people who invested into the so-called broad based black economic empowerment (BBBEE) initiative of Media24, a division of global media giant Naspers. At establishment in 2006, Naspers/Media24 made...

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