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Toxic mine waste in Zambia’s Kabwe region. Photo: 2024 Juliane Kippenberg/Human Rights Watch.
CHITOFU GENERAL DEALERS

South African company accused of fuelling toxic lead crisis in Zambia

Human Rights Watch has found that the lead-contaminated waste in Kabwe, Zambia, puts residents health at risk

  • Umamah Bakharia
4 min read
Staying put: Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana is under pressure from some political parties to resign over the VAT drama and the national budget. (Dwayne Senior/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
BUDGET

Opposition parties criticise Godongwana over public sector wage bill, state-owned enterprises

The finance minister’s reduction in corporate income tax and allocations to education, health, social development, justice and police have been welcomed

  • Anathi Madubela
3 min read
During the Covid-19 pandemic, the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority had to speed up its approval of new medicines while still ensuring that they were safe and effective. (Photo by Dinendra Haria/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
COVID 19

Covid-19 Boosters: Why time is not enough to get people to line up for their next shot

You can now mix and match boosters and also get them sooner. But what’s the science behind it?

  • Aisha Abdool Karim
  • Joan Van Dyk
9 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