Cape and its officers to face new ac tion

Following Cape’s failure to meet the 30 June £11mn instalment of settlement, and two extensions to 14 September, Richard Meeran of Leigh Day & Co representing 7,500 South African claimants is taking steps to revive full action. A conditional deal of £21mn was struck in December 2001, to be paid in instalments to miners employed by Cape in the 1970s.