Cape Campaign

 

Victory The Dust Hasn’t Settled (Mail & Guardian) Company may not survive to pay claimants (Business Day) Battle against asbestos pollution continues South African Asbestos Victims Settle With Cape (ICEM) First asbestos payments due in June (Business Report) Victory for Asbestos Claimants (SAPA) Victory for Cape Asbestos Miners and Residents Settlement possible in Cape asbestos case Cape asbestos compensation waits on legal costs Cape plc Opens Talks With South African Asbestos Victims The Long Haul The Background The Legal Case Memo from Prieska Community and National Union of Mineworkers South Africans' Case Should Be Heard In Britain, Union International Says (ICEM Update No. 67/1999, 6 November 1999) Click on image to hear NUM General Secretary Gwede Mantashe comment on the Cape case. Thanks to FSN which supplies SABC and others with news coverage from London, Washington and Moscow. Open Letter to Tony Blair The ACTSA campaign Asbestos fight comes home (BBC, 5 Nov 1999) Lloyds on the rocks (Godfrey Hodgson, The Guardian 11 Jan 2000) Death from the rock exposes British firms to South African asbestos claims (David Beresford, The Guardian 31 Jan 1999) Liability of Multinational Corporations (Richard Meeran) National Union of Mineworkers (South Africa) Cape and Rio Tinto (Greg Dropkin, “The Namibian” 21 June 2000) Cape victory puts spotlight on Rio Tinto (Greg Dropkin, “The Namibian” 21 July 2000)