WELCOME TO THE TSHIAMISO TRUST WEBSITE
The Tshiamiso Trust has been established to carry out the terms of the settlement agreement reached between six mining companies and claimant attorneys in the historic silicosis and TB class action.
The Trust is responsible for ensuring that all eligible current and former mineworkers across southern Africa with silicosis or work-related TB (or their dependants where the mineworker has passed away) are compensated. These beneficiaries are front and centre in all that the Trust does.
PLEASE BE WARNED!
There are dishonest people putting out messages asking you to phone them about silicosis compensation and they are telling people to go to Johannesburg to sign papers. This message is not from the Tshiamiso Trust. We are reporting these people to the SAPS. Only the Tshiamiso Trust will tell you where, how and when you can claim. You cannot claim yet, please be careful of people promising that you can claim compensation from them. To claim compensation from the Tshiamiso Trust will be free, you do not need to pay anyone.
Tshiamiso is a Setswana word meaning 'to make good' or 'to correct'
It is our vision to live up to our name and while the past cannot be undone the Trust will strive to make a difference now and in the future.
WHO CAN CLAIM? You may be eligible for compensation.
PLEASE
NOTE
It should be noted that certain mines that changed ownership over time are qualifying mines only for those periods that they were associated with any of the six companies party to the settlement agreement.
Mineworkers who did risk work at qualifying gold mines (during the qualifying period, 12 March 1965 – 10 December 2019) (or if deceased, their dependants) are potentially eligible for compensation. Risk work is work where an employee may have been exposed to dust that could have caused silicosis or TB.
If a mineworker worked on any of these mines for more than 5 years they are entitled to a free medical benefit examination to determine whether they have silicosis or TB as defined in the trust deed. If they do, they will be eligible for compensation. The amount of compensation depends on the nature of the eligible claimant’s illness.
The amount will be reduced pro rata for any time that they worked at a non-qualifying mine (or at a qualifying mine during a non-qualifying period).
But if they worked at one or more qualifying mines during qualifying periods for 30 years or more they will be paid the full amount of compensation due for the relevant class of silicosis or TB as defined in the trust deed. Mineworkers who worked for less than 5 years at qualifying mines are also potentially eligible for compensation but if they want to claim they must have a benefit medical examination at their own expense (and will be reimbursed if it turns out that they do have silicosis or TB as defined in the trust deed).
Our
progress
The Trust is now busy setting up the How to Claim process.
Once the How to Claim process has been set up, we will communicate through sms, the website, social media, newspapers and radio.
We are trying to be as quick as possible and ask you to please be patient for a little longer. We believe that is important for the benefit of all that the process is secure and as user-friendly as possible and we are doing our utmost to achieve these objectives.
Very important!
- To claim is FREE
- You do not need to pay anyone to help you to submit a claim
- Please be careful! ONLY the Trust can process claims and will know if a claimant is due compensation