Inside Zimbabwe’s hazardous waste blind spot: Policy failures and illegal imports

CHIRUNDU — Pearson Rambakare still bears the scars of a sulphuric acid spill along Zimbabwe’s Harare–Chirundu highway, five years after an accident that nearly killed him.

A cross-border trader at the time, Rambakare was travelling before dawn when the truck he was riding in caught fire along the Zambezi escarpment after failing to negotiate a sharp curve.

“We bolted out of the truck,” he recalled.

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