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Article

7 May 2003

Author:
Jeanne King, Reuters

S. African gold firm faces $7 billion suit

Workers at South Africa's second-largest gold mining company [Gold Fields] were tortured, enslaved and poisoned with uranium, according to a $7.4-billion lawsuit filed late on Tuesday in a New York court.

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Update: Lawsuit against Gold Fields, alleging workers were tortured, enslaved, exposed to toxic & radioactive materials

Apartheid reparations lawsuits (re So. Africa)