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21-year court battle over TB in prisons ends in R1 million payout
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21-year court battle over TB in prisons ends in R1 million payout
Words: Tania Broughton / GroundUp A man who sued the Minister of Correctional Services for contracting tuberculosis (TB) while he was an awaiting-trial prisoner has been awarded over a million rand in damages. More than R700 000 of this is interest on the agreed damages of R350 000, because the case took decades to reach finality and the minister had known the state was liable since 2012. Zaid Seedat was imprisoned from 15 June 2000 to 30 August…
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