Copper mines in Zambia – Straight through Africa | VPRO Documentary
Copper mines in Zambia – Straight through Africa | VPRO Documentary
Trade is better than aid for Africa. They say. In a journey through copper thieves and mine barons in the north of Zambia, Bram Vermeulen investigates the truth behind that slogan.
From a distance they look like ants, the hundreds of men digging holes in the rubble slopes of an old copper mine in Zambia. They are looking for copper ore in the…
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Stupid government dehumanizes it's own people
That wink at the beginning LOL
We are a people who do not need to dig into the earth for minerals. It only deeply scars the earth. Anybody who digs into the earth to find minerals and stones, is trying to get rich quick. That is legacy that the colonizers have left us. We no longer build earth homes, we import crap, we spend money that we are promised to get. Establishing a credit system that keeps us in the red. Ancestral lands mean nothing to a generation that knows nothing about it. The ancestors had to have known how to live on the land. All of those people were destroyed, the children almost starved because their training was not completed before the elders were killed. Greed has replaced village pride. Starving young people care nothing about tradition, you cannot blame them, this hard life is all that they know. That reinvestment thing is more credit owed, to keep you enslaved on a barren mine stripped land. It is a vicious circle. A stone is all that you have left, once the outsiders take away the precious metals from your once rich lands. You now own nothing but unproductive dirt. You are starving again and the outsiders have moved on to another rich mineral site to start the process all over again. You let them do what they want because land is not important to you anymore, food and money is more important than tradition. Tradition that has kept you hungry and land rich. You have been duped by your government as have we in America.
Africa has been suffering the injustice of the western world from the time it was divided in a berlin conference in 1884. The trend will never change, Africans now are being exploited with the co-operation of corrupt African leaders who benefit at the expense of their own people. My question is can an African company displace people in any European Country? This makes me sick to the stomach. History always repeat itself and the very poor will be affected.
Good video until the guy is talking we understand the Zimbabweans but not the guy in charge of the video isn't that stupid this guy is awful get a better employee for this channel
How and why, sellout these leaders.
There's no reason why Africa countries can't be like the Qatars and Dubai's of this world where the wealth has spread amongst the people, the governments there are selfish, disrespectful, short sited and greedy. Is it a wonder Africa is not developing at the rate it should be with these types of deals going on. Africa is not poor the leadership is sick.
To sign a coerced agreement at 35:03 No matter what the compensation may be nothing compares to a piece of land. These evils keep happening in African nations, Whites continue to collude with the government to exploit the helpless. This is insane and then the world will wonder why Africans are poor?
Africans we are alone in this planet no one likes us you can tell by the way they are milking the continent
Zambia must protect all mining resources from the Chinese. Having them in Africa is a gift n a curse.
Very interesting in my opinion..showed both sides of the coin…things change over time.. nothing remains the same.
16:30 Some things don't change.
I want throw up after this document they moved people against there will with empty promises they change there lives from original way of life. So picture for myself is clear for the future. Company get horrible rich after 20 years of mining they will destroy the land and people left behind will be left without any income in poverty and that (lovely 19 m2 houses) creates villages that turns into ghetto because there lifestyle was been changed. What a deal huh this people got robbed that is how I call it.
Well I stopped blaming the whiteman cos they always look for ways to exploit the vulnerable…my problem is with the govt of Zambia that can’t protects its citizens from those predators
The capitalist don’t have a conscience they all about the money…the only solution is to get the tech no how and knowledge to mine those minerals for their benefit
Iam so heart broken and shattered, i regret why did i even watch this documentary. Just want to pass out!!I cant believe such exploitation is taking place in this life time!!
Laughins in the face of FQM representant (the blonde man in the jungle), say all about your operation and the value of the people.
this is abandoned？
The video did not mention the compensation given to the truck driver. Is it more then the person made as a farmer? Is there less, more, or equal access to education, medical facilities, food and upward mobility in the new town vs the old village? Or did the documentary just want to show us that mines are bad.
Fantástic my friend successes