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🔈Anglo American recently announced a merger with Canadian company Teck Resources
ACTSA director Tricia Sibbons was on SAFM earlier this week highlighting its mining legacies across Southern Africa, from the lead pollution in Kabwe to the half million ex goldminers who contracted TB and silicosis...
ACTSA director Tricia Sibbons was on SAFM earlier this week highlighting its mining legacies across Southern Africa, from the lead pollution in Kabwe to the half million ex goldminers who contracted TB and silicosis...
September 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
🔈Anglo American recently announced a merger with Canadian company Teck Resources
ACTSA director Tricia Sibbons was on SAFM earlier this week highlighting its mining legacies across Southern Africa, from the lead pollution in Kabwe to the half million ex goldminers who contracted TB and silicosis...
ACTSA director Tricia Sibbons was on SAFM earlier this week highlighting its mining legacies across Southern Africa, from the lead pollution in Kabwe to the half million ex goldminers who contracted TB and silicosis...
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140,000 women and children from Kabwe, the world's most polluted town in Zambia, have filed a class-action against British mining giant Anglo American for lead contamination.
Join us in supporting their campaign for #JusticeForKabwe!
Join us in supporting their campaign for #JusticeForKabwe!
September 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM
140,000 women and children from Kabwe, the world's most polluted town in Zambia, have filed a class-action against British mining giant Anglo American for lead contamination.
Join us in supporting their campaign for #JusticeForKabwe!
Join us in supporting their campaign for #JusticeForKabwe!
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ACTSA UK worked hard on building support and awareness around the lengthy court case that led to this compensation scheme, and ACTSA Scotland assisted in that process. It's desperately disappointing that justice for suffering and dying ex-miners is still being thwarted.
Only 30% of ex miners claiming compensation for lung disease from mining companies have been compensated
Mass rejections based on technicalities go against the administering body Tshiamiso Trust's values of giving claimants the benefit of the doubt
A huge injustice for ex miners in Southern Africa
Mass rejections based on technicalities go against the administering body Tshiamiso Trust's values of giving claimants the benefit of the doubt
A huge injustice for ex miners in Southern Africa
Compensation for sick miners: only 30% of claimants paid out by Tshiamiso Trust
Most claims do not meet the medical criteria, AGM told
groundup.org.za
September 12, 2025 at 3:22 PM
ACTSA UK worked hard on building support and awareness around the lengthy court case that led to this compensation scheme, and ACTSA Scotland assisted in that process. It's desperately disappointing that justice for suffering and dying ex-miners is still being thwarted.
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When will #AngloAmerican keep its promise that where it has “contributed to adverse human rights impacts we will contribute to their remediation”?
Lead poisoning from the mining waste it left behind in #Kabwe, Zambia, continues to affect children with lifechanging health issues.
#JusticeForKabwe
Lead poisoning from the mining waste it left behind in #Kabwe, Zambia, continues to affect children with lifechanging health issues.
#JusticeForKabwe
Anglo American questioned by affected mother at its AGM
Mother and community advocate from Zambia, Lydia, asked Anglo American about historic lead pollution that continues to affect children especially and hamper crop growing.
actsa.org
September 15, 2025 at 3:24 PM
When will #AngloAmerican keep its promise that where it has “contributed to adverse human rights impacts we will contribute to their remediation”?
Lead poisoning from the mining waste it left behind in #Kabwe, Zambia, continues to affect children with lifechanging health issues.
#JusticeForKabwe
Lead poisoning from the mining waste it left behind in #Kabwe, Zambia, continues to affect children with lifechanging health issues.
#JusticeForKabwe