{"id":15130,"date":"2012-10-01T17:23:38","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T15:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/10\/refile-update-1-anglo-american-to-face-s-africa-silicosis-hearing\/"},"modified":"2012-10-01T17:23:38","modified_gmt":"2012-10-01T15:23:38","slug":"refile-update-1-anglo-american-to-face-s-africa-silicosis-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/refile-update-1-anglo-american-to-face-s-africa-silicosis-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"REFILE-UPDATE 1-Anglo American to face S.Africa silicosis hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Ed Stoddard<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG<\/span> Oct 1 (Reuters) &#8211; Anglo American Plc&#8217;s<br \/>\nSouth African unit will face a hearing next year to determine if<br \/>\nit is liable for miners who contracted the lung disease<br \/>\nsilicosis while working in its gold shafts, lawyers for the<br \/>\nplaintiffs said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Anglo American no longer has gold assets in South Africa,<br \/>\nbut the proceedings, initiated by 18 plaintiffs, have been<br \/>\nlaunched on the grounds that miners contracted the debilitating<br \/>\ndisease when the company still ran bullion mines.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The arbitration hearing is scheduled to begin on Sept. 2,<br \/>\n2013 and will be presided over by a panel including South<br \/>\nAfrica&#8217;s former chief justice, Sandile Ngcobo, they said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The hearing will determine if Anglo American South Africa<br \/>\nis liable to compensate the plaintiffs,&#8221; said Richard Meeran, a<br \/>\npartner at UK-based law firm Leigh Day  Co, which is<br \/>\nrepresenting the miners along with the Legal Resources Centre<br \/>\nand Legal Aid South Africa.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for Anglo American in South Africa said the<br \/>\ngroup and plaintiffs had signed an arbitration agreement.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All parties are satisfied that the arbitration agreement<br \/>\nrepresents the most effective way to reach a resolution on these<br \/>\nclaims,&#8221; said Pranill Ramchander.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ed Stoddard JOHANNESBURG Oct 1 (Reuters) &#8211; Anglo American Plc&#8217;s South African unit will face a hearing next year to determine if it is liable for miners who contracted the lung disease silicosis while working in its gold shafts, lawyers for the plaintiffs said on Monday. Anglo American no longer has gold assets in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-15130","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}