In a Rain of Dust

Justice in the Dust: A David vs. Goliath Battle Against Corporate Greed

An inside story of asbestos, death, and the fight for justice by thousands of South Africans against a multinational mining corporation intent on denying responsibility.

For nearly 90 years, a British company called Cape used local labor to mine and mill asbestos in South Africa. Poor and mostly Black men, women, and children—some as young as seven—worked every day in clouds of asbestos …