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BREAKING: They Want You To Celebrate 41 DEATHS. Here’s The HORRIFYING Truth.
Forty-one miners are DEAD. Killed on the job in South Africa last year. And the mining industry is throwing a PARADE.
The Minerals Council just unveiled their “record” low death toll at their lavish Indaba event in Cape Town. They bragged about a “fatality-free” August. But that’s a LIE by omission. It means miners were STILL DYING in the other eleven months of the year.
LOOK at the data they buried: Deaths from “falls of ground” SPIKED by 25%. That’s fifteen crushed workers. These aren’t numbers. They are sons, fathers, brothers.
Stop and feel the weight of that history. In the 1980s, under apartheid, the annual death toll was 800. Black bodies treated as disposable. Now it’s 41, and they call it “progress.” But ask yourself: Why is ANY death in 2025 acceptable? Because it’s “good for business.” They admit it: fewer accidents mean fewer costly stoppages. Fewer “investor concerns.” Your life has a price tag.
Unions scream. Regulations gather dust. CEOs polish their “Zero Harm” slogans while the ground swallows men whole. They promise a shiny future of AI and robots to keep workers safe. But WHERE is the urgency for the men dying TODAY?
They want you to see 41 and feel relief. You should feel RAGE. This is not a milestone. It’s a gravesite.
The industry sanitizes its blood-stained ledger while another family gets the worst news imaginable.
Edited for Kayitsi.com
Author: Kayitsi.com
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