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Business, national and multinational, has an enormous role to play in southern Africa's development and poverty reduction.
However, corporates operating in southern Africa are often responsible for labour, human and environment rights abuses. Some companies regularly exploit governments’ weak infrastructure and capability to hold those companies to account.
We also want British companies to support the development of southern Africa by stocking, promoting and selling fairly traded goods. Ask your local supermarket to sell fair trade goods from southern Africa.
Campaign - Undermining Development: Copper Mining in Zambia
ACTSA has been campaigning on why Zambia does not get the benefits that it should from its copper reserves. The camapign focuses on Zambia's biggest copper company, owned by UK-based Vedanta Resources, where we found contracts signed under pressure from international donors and workers who are not fairly paid for long working hours.
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Last year ACTSA campaigners supported Zambian civil society to call for new mining taxes for Zambia, and were successful in getting the Zambian Government to change its policy to prevent multinational mining companies exploiting the country's natural resources.
Since then, however, the mining companies, including Vedanta, have been trying to find ways not to pay. Please support our campaign to make the companies keep to their promises.
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Campaign History: Solidarity with Cape Asbestos victims
British company Cape Plc mined and milled asbestos in South Africa for 90 years, despite the health risks posed to its workers. From 1999 ACTSA stood in solidarity with asbestosis-sufferers in holding Cape to account. After a lengthy public campaign of protest marches, media coverage and vigils, justice was finally served in 2003, when a compensation settlement of £7.5 million was delivered to the stricken communities in South Africa where Cape had operated. |
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