South Africa's Toxic Townships
South Africa's Toxic Townships
Johannesburg is considered the most uranium-contaminated city in the world. Waste dumps from around 600 abandoned mines sit next to residential communities, blowing polluted dust into homes and contaminating the soil and water supplies. To get a sense of the sheer extent of the problem, Martin Boudot and his team of researchers investigate….
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Worst part its not south African companies
dirty wealth blood money, this is horrible something should be done. the government won't help we need to stand up.
Deadly wind
These is sad as majority of people living near the mines suffer while business booms as usual without any accountability 😢
Physical oppression was not enough in the eyes of the evil after colonization , they had to look at another way to harm the ones deemed poor and not important to the society. It is sad that you had to come from far to come and conduct such a research on foreign grounds to help us sing a song we have been crying all these years. MINE DUMP REHABILITATION! The environmentalist said the dumps could've been buried again than to be polluted against the earth, couldn't that have been less costly for the mines to do, they just couldn't care less. Poor us surrounded by the cyanide mountains. It is also sad that if you go out to put out such a research in South Africa, our MOTHERLAN, the government wouldn't even bother to fund the study to help save the vulnerable!!
Why are you people forgetting that all these America, France, Israel, Germany, Canada, Australia and many big countries who created civil war here intentionally, diseases in order to steal resources here, the people of their countries consider them human and the people of other countries. He destroys for his own interests
all this in the name of money, killing us poor people while their stomachs are full
No SA is lekka. Nothing wrong. Land of milk and honey.
New Zimbabwe. Place of gold. A new Nigeria place of wealth.
No SA is ok don't worry
Who owns the mine yes it’s in SA but who profits from the suffering of the ppl? Where is the gold going? Who benefits????
😂😂😂😂😂 the last part was hilarious handisati ndakamboseka Kudai. You guys are world.class
The lady running anti pollution department is a disgrace not to us as South Africans but as black people, I'm soo embarrassed at her arrogance and ignorance..but then again this is what you get from corruption and nepotism . Big thank you to the French journalist Martin and the team of researchers involved ❤️🙏Siyabonga
I am south african living in Scandinavia oh my god when I was young I thought it was beautiful mountains now I get it ngiyabonga ❤
48:48 that smile tells you everything you need to know – they do not care 0% responsibility taken with that smile – see nothing hear nothing
Thank God I don't buy any gold diamonds it is full of evils.
Not to be that person but notice how its mainly shacks near the dumping area??? Our government is failing people by letting people live anywhere they want. And its usually foreigners inhabiting those shacks
The apartheid government had no shame!
What is DMR doing about this?
These had to happen to show how useless black leadership is
This is where 90 % of blacks live
What did I just watch! 😢. Why is our government sleeping on us? In 1994 one of the tailing dam in freestate has collapsed into the houses next to it.
Corruption as long as the Comrades are making money no one cares😢😢😢
Très bon reportage qui j’espère a fait bouger le gouvernement et les industries
16:38 "eye protection compulsory"…aha
Unfortunately, some of our black brothers from South Africa seem to have more energy to attack African migrants in their country than to fight for fair land distribution. They are quick to label and blame African migrants instead of addressing the real issues.
Its bad but sometimes we bring this to ourselves, when the mines were operating no one stayed here but as soon as they closed,people move in establishing squatters camps close to previously restricted area's which end up being approved for RDP house due to pressures of availability of land ,the government is also not doing its job to hold the mining companies liable to rehabilitate lands they have mined to acceble standards, but they can never clean them completely.
minister of environmental affairs, said thats not his department, Peter Griffin is not even this stupid
In Zambia the city of KABWE is the most polluted from lead mining, over 100,000 women and children are thought to have sustained lead poisoning. The scale of lead contamination in Kabwe is devastating. Evidence shows that Anglo American was aware of widespread lead poisoning of local children and the environment while it was involved in managing and providing technical advice relating to medical and environmental operations of the Mine. This situation would not have been allowed to endure if it had happened in the Global North. Mining giant ‘turned blind eye’ to Zambia lead poisoning
Plaintiffs argue that decades of mining have turned the Kabwe community into ‘one of the most polluted places in the world’.
Why are always showing the world South Africa's worst places?
No rehousing?? No cleaning up??