Poisoning

Deliberate and unintentional poisoning with pesticides and animal drugs, collision with power lines and habitat change are driving down the numbers of several species

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…

The speaker of parliament intervened when the DA demanded the deputy president comment on rumours he had been poisoned, saying health information was confidential

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

Day two of State Security Agency testimony at the Zondo commission birthed more revelations that point to the former head of state and agents breaking the law

Deputy Agriculture Minister Sdumo Dlamini was admitted to hospital with a severe headache, says the ministry

In a parliamentary discussion, President Zuma denies that his life was under threat from his stance on radical economic transformation and Brics.

Twenty children have now been confirmed dead after eating a free lunch at a primary school in eastern India, say officials.

Animal activists and farmers are up in arms about draft government regulations for the "management of damage-causing animals".

Russia’s leading human rights lawyer is at the centre of an investigation by French police after claiming she had been poisoned.