South African miners including Anglo American agreed to pay $ 400m to settle a class action launched by former miners who contracted serious lung diseases working in the country's gold shafts. (ft.com)
I, Daniel Blake is another collaboration between Loach and screenwriter Paul Laverty, the Glasgowian law student who effectively took over writing for Loach from former miner and socialist playwright Jim Allen in the mid-1990s. (slantmagazine.com)
They go on to visit multiple villages and with a slight — or rather, quite recognizable French socialist touch — they learn the stories of former miners, solitary farmers, and «Terminal du France» harbor employees. (ff2media.com)