A Mail & Guardian online article ( here) describes 18 upcoming tuberculosis and silicosis trials in South Africa against mining entity Anglo American. Key excerpts state: "The case is likely to be heard in the South Gauteng High Court next year, after seven years of research by a high-powered legal team from Legal Aid South Africa and the Legal Resources Centre, advised by UK-based human rights law firm Leigh Day & Co. The 18 test cases have been selected to best represent

Here is an article from All Africa regarding asbestos cement risks in Ghana, and some very modest government action. #Africa

This January 2010 article from South Africa reports on this new auditor general report raising major issues regarding failed clean up of mines, including old asbestos mines. As to asbestos mines, it says: Abandoned asbestos mines constitute 3,84% of the total population of abandoned mines. As at April 2008 there were 144 asbestos mines: 45,83% had been rehabilitated, 8,33% had been partially rehabilitated and 45,83% had not been rehabilitated. The status of asbestos mines in