I agree with you. Most of the miners are the sole breadwinners. If they die, their families are left without an income. It is done as a humanitarian gesture. The unemployment rate is high enough to hire anyone off the street to replace them as menial labourers.
Harry Openheimer (now deceased) was a very humane man and this would have been his wish of his company...to help the poor.
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Date: 2001-03-08 09:41 pm (UTC)Harry Openheimer (now deceased) was a very humane man and this would have been his wish of his company...to help the poor.