Miners.

I’m very optimistic to hear that the injustices that happened to a large number of Southern African “fathers” are challenged. Listening to Gabz FM now and I am reminded of how my father found out that he had lost his job in apartheid South Africa. I’m told that one had to go through NRC first to re-register before travelling to Johannesburg.

It was in 1988, ko NRC, I think, that the 48 year old Lekgoanyana Kgasa was disrespectfully made redundant, with the order coming from Durban Roodeport Deep Mine. It was not only the way the miners were fired, but a significant number of them died from ocuppational lung diseases, leaving behind their very dependent families.