Southern Africa: South African Court Rules that UN Experts Can Intervene in Zambian Lead Poisoning Case

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Southern Africa: South African Court Rules that UN Experts Can Intervene in Zambian Lead Poisoning Case

Kabwe -- A court in South Africa last week ruled that U.N. experts can intervene in a class action lawsuit against mining giant Anglo American over lead poisoning in Zambia. South African and British lawyers filed the lawsuit on behalf of about 140,000 Zambian children and women whose health was allegedly damaged by a colonial-era lead mine. Anglo American has denied wrongdoing at the Kabwe mine, which it was involved in from the 1920s to 1970s.