Ditshwanelo addresses the plight of former miners

Currently, the centre is assisting them to form a Mineworkers’ Association, according to information from the organisation. 

A communiqué from the centre states that the aim of the association would be to help ex-miners deal with issues and aftermaths of having worked in the mines.  In its press statement on the 15th Annual Human Rights Film Festival, Ditswanelo emphasises the need to accelerate efforts to assist ex-miners who contracted silicosis and other diseases, such as tuberculosis from working in the apartheid mines in South Africa. To highlight this message, the festival’s closing film that screens on Thursday, Miners Shot Down, pieces together the events, which transpired in the Marikana massacre.