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Another corporate story that has recently made headlines is a second unsolicited bid from Australian mining giant BHP for the operations of South African industry peer Anglo American.(Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
ANGLO AMERICAN SOUTH AFRICA

Lead poisoning claimants win permission to appeal class action certification against Anglo American

The Zambian class action was filed in South Africa as it would not have been possible in that country This content is restricted to registered users and subscribers. Get Your…

  • Sheree Bega
1 min read
Australian multinational mining company BHP has confirmed that it made a buyout proposal to Anglo American. (Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
ANGLO AMERICAN SOUTH AFRICA

UN experts can intervene in Kabwe lead poisoning class action, Joburg high court rules

Anglo says any liability for lead contamination in Zambian district ‘rests elsewhere’

  • Sheree Bega
5 min read
Mining output decreased by 9% year-on-year in November 2022, Statistics South Africa Photo: Gabriel Filippelli
ANGLO AMERICAN

Anglo knew for decades about lead poisoning at Zambia mine, lawyers say

The blood lead levels (BLLs) in children living near the world’s biggest lead mine in Zambia have been present for generations and have caused cognitive impairment in a large…

  • Sheree Bega
8 min read
Section 24 of the Constitution determines that everyone in South Africa has the right to an environment that is not detrimental to their health or well-being (Photo by H. Christoph/ullstein bild via Getty Images)
AFRICA

Zambia should commit to tackling toxic lead mine’s legacy

Residents of Kabwe have been poisoned for decades and now UN experts have called for an urgent clean-up

  • Namo Chuma
  • Eugene Kabilika
3 min read
Another corporate story that has recently made headlines is a second unsolicited bid from Australian mining giant BHP for the operations of South African industry peer Anglo American.(Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
ANGLO AMERICAN

Anglo American wins extension to respond to Zambian mine lead poisoning case

Claimants allege corporate human rights abuses that resulted in lead poisoning among children and women in Kabwe

  • Tunicia Phillips
  • Sheree Bega
9 min read
The World Bank labelled Zambia’s implementation of this grant as “moderately unsatisfactory”.
KABWE

Bid to clean Africa’s most toxic town

A class action is planned to get mines to clear the dangerously high levels of lead in a Zambian town

  • Simon Allison
5 min read
KABWE

Zambia gets $50m to clean up mining pollution

Zambia has secured -million from Western financiers to clean up hazardous waste in copper-mining areas, where 60 000 people are at risk from lead poisoning, industry officials…

  • Staff Reporter
1 min read