March 8, 2006
A trust fund modeled after the Asbestos Relief Trust fund has been created to pay asbestos workers for the next 20 years.

The Asbestos Relief Trust was created after three companies set aside money to compensate ex-workers from their company mines in Mpumalanga, Limpopo, and the Northern Cape.

Richard Spoor has brokered a deal with Swiss Eternit Group, a multinational company that will pay those miners who worked at the groups asbestos mines at Kuruman and Danielskuil in the Northern Cape between 1952 and 1981.

This new trust fund is following the victory had by 7000 asbestos victims who once worked for the British multi-national company, Cape Plc. The employees for Cape Plc were able to get the company to pay the workers who suffered from asbestos-related illnesses.

Spoor has declined to reveal exactly how much Swiss Eternit Group has set aside to pay their own ex-employees who have suffered from asbestos diseases. He will say, though that the grants payable to qualifying applicants are fair and equitable.

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