South Africa's Toxic Townships

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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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  1. 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!!

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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’.