Court told Anglo turned blind eye to Zambian lead poisoning
Anglo says it doesn't believe it's correct to attribute legal responsibility to Anglo American SA.
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Anglo says it doesn't believe it's correct to attribute legal responsibility to Anglo American SA.
South Africa’s High Court was told that Anglo American turned a “blind eye” to lead poisoning in the Zambian town of Kabwe, where it held a stake in a mine for almost 50 years.
Plaintiffs argue that decades of mining have turned Kabwe community into ‘one of the most polluted places in the world’.
Playing Western Cape Judge President John Hlophe, one of two SA grandmasters of the Stalingrad legal strategy, this week was advocate Tembeka Ngcukaitob.
Western Cape Judge President John Hlophe is challenging the Judicial Service Commission’s finding that he is guilty of gross misconduct and should be impeached.