ah 25 minutes on d, w. d w's crime fighters are back with africa. most successful radio drama series continues for the whole episodes are available online. and of course you can share and discuss on d. w, africa's facebook page, and other social media platforms. crime fighters. tune in now. hello and welcome to the 77 percent. this is the show made for us africa youth. i am your host, michael duty to this show is about why not try resources in some african countries are not lifting people out of poverty. yes, was coming up. we look at the challenges and opportunities are on africa, mineral resources. we ask young cyril unions,

whether this cbs, mineral riches, us a blessone or a kiss. on a different lot. we take a cultural toll around miami africa, s blessed with many natural resources take, for instance, the democratic republic of congo. it is expected to be the global leader in the supply of lithium, which is used in mobile form, an electric car batteries. other countries have abundant mineral resources. so why is the continent not prospering? let's find out. from a shanty golden west africa to diamonds and south africa. human beings have exploited africa's precious minerals for centuries. nowadays, as raw materials run out elsewhere, african mining exploration is booming. africa at home,

some of the world's biggest mineral produces from africa for platinum, dorothy, for cobalt and colton. and put swanner as number 2 worldwide for diamonds. but with such abundant mineral resources, why african countries not richer? here are some reasons. most mining operations of foreign run apart from south africa, which has its own mining industry, corruption, and weak states means local communities really benefit and human rights are ignored . what's more short sighted mining practices, lead lamps, god and water poisoned plus minerals are really refined locally. they exported ra at a lower price while large profits are made elsewhere. the so called results current has led to conflict displacement and leaves local communities fighting for scraps. now i want to take you deeper into their minds. and i jenny stuff in kimberly thought africa. this town is known for 3 things. the big hall dusty,

abundant diamond mine that you've seen right behind me. and secondly, is a place in wait for my life. so ruth established a waltz biggest damn on fam, the p s. and thirdly is a town where dime, one producing countries sat down and came up with a ruse up, prevent the industrial from finance and conflicts. i know it's a little history, but what do they want mean to kimberly, to be. let's find out. in south africa, more and more desperate men and women try their luck, digging up gold and diamonds. a risky and often fatal quest. the government's aids illegal, but does morales can me bring changes to to me? my family. oh, quite qualified world of mine. we played with the police. we fight this, our play people's mind to swing. we don't care. to be honest,

if you don't care to be killed, want to believe penalized in. kimberly once the site of the biggest diamond russian history mines up close to down and left people jobless to day, thousands of a tis no miners like label frank and patrick, sick through the leftovers. they call themselves zamiah's armas, a zulu word, meaning those who try and try it hard, but we don't have a choice either leg days, no jobs. what will we do? so it's, this is our job. this is how we make living. even though it takes a long time to get out, but if we get it, then we know many things are thought out. you can come to day, pick up a 40 carrot and then your life changes automatically because of you'll be having millions and then with that money can bears out of 30000 are tis, no mine is in south africa. most are illegal. many belong to criminal syndicates.

where extortion and violence occurred daily. why ill? williams, an artist no mining activist from the northern cape youth and geo helps young's amazon has gauged the value and sell their stones better under the current law. that's tricky, law goes up. the market is actually designed in a way that, you know, it, it marginalizes the us, um, as i miss out, it keeps them out because, you know, we don't have that much laws. they do to help us to, to sell our stones in the private market. so we tend to, you know, just go back into the they were black, mark, zam mazama can work legally. the batch of pillow cooperative in. kimberly is south africa's 1st attempt to bring illegal miners into the formal sector. they can legally mine on a 50 hector plot. near the city, but after 3 years of not finding a single stone label hung and patrick left. the government supported co operative

aims to stop violence and provide livelihoods. but since it started 2 years ago, continuous violence has plagued by to paley with diamond to mine, as fighting over the best places to dig. now, government does not grant any more concessions or allow other cooperatives to form with the government does not put in effort to help us to grow in autism. maybe it is like the want to see the autism mainly fee and his kindly. it is what you want, but we never go to allow the government but without more co operatives, the local cutting and polishing industry also suffers osi gems, to the small diamond cutting company kimberly specializing ethically source to gemstones. if i tis no mining cooperative at here to good environmental and social standards, osi gems would buy their stones. it wants to see miners and their families profit

directly from sales. we really see 14 shannon, tim. so if his fish any in the fest were there, they are people who are more interested in buying dam was that dumb mind to buy i tis nellum my in us. so i think if there can be a proper structure in terms of smaller than one cartoon, punishing feckless accessing those damn ones they did in the future can be, can be very, very good. yet before this can happen, mining activist williams believes that miners and cooperative must make up and instead fight for better working conditions. currently, the butter pillow co operative reaps in membership fees and a 2 percent cut of each diamond sale without supporting its members. a lot more can still be done, you know, not by the government, but us ourselves, you know, just by, by, you know, helping ourselves out with tools. you know, in, at the, at the feel elicit mineral trading in south africa,

is estimated to be with 1200000000 euros money that feeds thousands of households and fields. a large, exploitative black market. when it comes to diamonds, many young people prefer bigger ones. the bigger their better, but always think about where your time on comes from. from south africa, let me take you to a mine in town, in sierra leone called coin to this area was devastated by the 11 year civil war in sierra leone and liberia. and the so called conflict or blood dimas, from this area finance to war 20 years after the war ascended. it is kimani, takes the debate, the streets of quite 2, and lots of people it be are finally seen that by me. want riches. hello and welcome back to the 77 percent. the show for africa youth this week we

are in coy do this is sarah leon's, rich mining district. and in this country, you will find literally anything from coulton to ion or, and dian was, but it is extracted and very quickly exported. and so today we want to find out those exports, translating to wealth for the young people who live here, who better to answer this question for me than fellow serial unions. let me hear from a i hear he is a student, but he was also mining and in the mines from a very young age. when i was 14 years old, i was going to school, i was out there a gina 2nd. i school in saloon also giving this kind of support from a really it's, he's almost been with but them enough horses here. we can get our live lute. it was very difficult, very challenging because us a younger adult, skip school by then to go to the mines. the give support because that was the only source of live you'd we had say for look at the impact of them of mine and to use your in the wider population saloon. for me it is much of course you. so look at a community that we are standing, look at the impacts of the minute. you look at people who are benefits of benefit

from the mining all a few people in a good measure, your views, we do not have access to water. we don't have access to electricity, we love good roots, even i infrastructure it as they ball. okay. and by the way, we should mention that where we are right now is a big mine that operates just beyond this mound. and what we're seeing as a byproduct of that glass seeing rocks which are then crushed into smaller pieces by the women we're seeing in the background to then be sold to construction workers . so i'd like to hear from the mayor because we've heard that this region, despite its riches, is not reflective of the diamonds and the gold that's coming out of this region. so i'm wondering why you are right so, but on the contrary to say a mineral deimos or whatever, i mean, or are given to was, is it cause is not a cause. the availability of the natural resources has into the, is not a problem. if we have a good govern, our system will system put in place how to extract on,

even if they say we pulled to go, we'll still bring those are machines, those technologies, how to transform those raw materials here into a finished product. um, so let me, let me, let me just bring in slime on here because you spoke of policy and he is from the national mining agency, the body that is supposed to enforce policy and also created around the extractive industry. so isn't right what the me a saying that we just have a lack of that leadership from national level. now what's the is, is it is, is focusing on mili is to see the committee's real world isn't where the mirrors are coming from. the benefit from the so given sure that the committees to sign the committee room arguments with the communities. so the at the end of every year, the gross revenues, some positive competence committee to have the committees that these with this wants to us. and sure, that's who jacks are been a implemented in hold on a is already disagreeing with you. yes. and if we look at what mining companies are

getting from, cannot dispute from the maintenance that they are doing? and we compare it to the impact in the community. it is not common. sure. it's even the community developments agreement to say the sine widows communities, the amount that is, gets him back to those communities. it can only take no tangible development projects the mays raising his hand on that side. but i want to hear from mary 1st again because you grew up in a place that has been mining for a really long time. in fact, some of the earliest dime was discovered where you grew up. did you see this reflected as you were growing up before this time? i think there was a better system in place. many people benefited from me before even we we are bon. as for me personally, i know you will like walking around the settlement community because haven't seen our mothers, our grandma does, our children are the listen girls that should be in school by now the i hear walking for themselves in order to gain the lively wood. okay. let me hear from

bennett, it's here because he's actually embroiled in apes, lawsuits active against big mining companies because of various reasons. so is what we're hearing from a reflective of what you're seeing in your profession. communities are calling out unseen. we've been oppressed, we've been abused by mining companies, and they are not respecting the laws and policies as articulated by the leadership of this country. what most warren is not the companies behavior that is worrying to the communities is their leadership attitude towards the pressure. so the, the, the government agents that are supposed to be protect, protecting, supposed to be challenging the companies to deliver to the community. they are being indicted by our communities that they are colliding, occluded into this operation is a serious issue. is a security issue. ok again, children below 10 years, a smashing stones dog from the robbers of the diamond, meaning of the generic type. one of the best quality demos in the world. and they cannot see,

it is not accounted for. no one knows what is taking their everyday. let me ask him, ask him about course, let me ask, let him get low to the people. ok. now we are seeing an enemy has mines compliance officers inside there. they walk and she, she misses. what's the mainly the company gets the parties everything the same, the seats in sure that she's been seen and then kept in into a say the enemy, cutlets, what were the defects wanted? and then they have the percentage you're going to play was in that comes back to the committee for which the city says they've got the accounts. i'm sure that is beyond your scope, but i'm just trying to put a lot of if you put money into an account and you never see the result, why keep putting money into the account until now? did this signal is good to, to go to schools, an improvised school. and another challenge that comes from mining, of course you're dealing with ethical, minerals out. what are some of the implications of these are extractive practices? if you can even call them that? well, i receive the implications like if this big company that are coming into the community

to actually now the used the some machine is the context of vito, the just man dandy lived the whole like that. then i believe if delivery like that's for the future generation, they will house like now you measure culture, they would have some, some yachts would do the i culture because the, the whole, the piece is left open. okay. it's layman. i like the fact that you're raising your hand because i wanted to ask, what is it? and it may say about this. so we tell them after many, you will clearly lun because of so many does their order use of one. so what you're saying is companies are compelled or they're supposed to, yasser poor still opposed to her. it's in my experience, is that say the enemy and the p. alice, i lived in love in terms of visual protection of the environment. because if we look at the piano under protection agency to be fair, they've been trying to plant trees, they're doing their best to recover and reclaim some of the land. we are the trees that the up lansing,

the fees on will grow in the fees or the up lonzey. i know even looking after the trees for me most of institute is that she showed up a money off years of the environment are just may leave her lip service for the people. if you go to mimic coach dome, we are one of the biggest they go minds is located in co disputes. the apple, it's hard to water sources that is the, at the community. a softly announced point in time. the steam that is, the has been polluted. i see is also the mining operation. fishy, is another, a living things that are living those streams along. you know, the places we had his mind operations are being carried up specifically in the mc orchard, them, all those things are being destroyed. yeah. so what do they do in terms of preservation of the environment? all right, so we've had quite a myriad of challenges related to both large scale and small scale mining, particularly in this region. and now i want to find out for my panelists, how do we move forward? we have a way forward. how cool do the, the top management has to change their attitude, especially in the a, of the smiling companies we are seen, deceased them. i'm the policies that are already in place should be implemented and

of course are regarding women. we have several structures in place. even this m. m stone crash as we men. we have them as an association. so this blotches are, if we want to empower them, there are several other ways, maybe in agriculture, we can bring up, i will catch up broke, i mean programs and we subscribe them so. so that's how we got our programs. does anybody else have a solution that we haven't heard yet? so the goldman was be ta spirit, accountable and development must not be particularly political issue. once you own government, your government for everybody. okay, well at the beginning of this debate, i asked if the riches that i found largely underground in this country present a curse or not to the economy and the people of this region. what i've heard in a resounding way is that no, they're not. it's simply how they're handled or mishandled. i don't know what your viewpoint is, but thank you for watching. do

a google search of quite do and you realize i don't mind. i've left 2 big horse in the middle of the town. and also most of the time that you have just seen does not have electricity. and to think that some of the largest diamonds in the world have been found here. that is for me, very hard to reconcile. if you want to watch a longer version of this to beat her to r 77 percent youtube channel, and tell me if you are seeing that natural resources richest in your country. we have just seen that debate where there is no minor regulation. the environment suffers that, coupled with a change in climate and africa, has a major problem on its hands, nigerian activist or lud, a. so a den nikki, is trying to raise awareness about climate change and to assess the time to act as now. climate change is no longer traits, but to reality and the reality is force we are physically to right now. so the time

to act is now in my name is the ladder, so i didn't care. i'm an equal feminist climbing just to the fact that he's coming . if a reporter i'm to find out, i need climate. and i thought if right is working children growing and no one is the in that in africa. so i did, i did just joined. great. i, tunable to you so, and that's really inspired me on the war dust lodge because she's yelling in the action trying to make the award to understand the impact of climate and, and why most of it's right now with digital to us is important for us to see how we can bridge the gap in common. he gets in it to people. that is what i'm using my social media channel to do to champion all of this solutions every after. because i am taking offline the tickets

or like for people to understand and to join me. i can not just with paul goldman in the option models quality back in my dad's. so i started and i know that we need to localize. that's a form of activism so that so as to fit our society so as they're going to school day the kids to day. so i think going to university to secondary school, bob lee, and trying to educate people about the 5. because i believe that you, we must force know the problem before we can solve. ah, my biggest challenge for us is like trying to convince people in not try for people to understand there. some people don't plan to deny the plenty to believe that you are washing them in or they have to see the software needs before they get

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i hope that today's sure help you to understand the natural resources do not necessarily translate into wealth value needs to be added and regulations and force . because there are a couple of examples where this has weight. but china, for instance, is an example where the profits flow back into the communities. so if you nor of other places where this solution wakes, then let us know i would like to hear from you. you can find us on facebook, instagram, and youtube, or write us an e mail on before i leave you. yes, a music a song i should say, from none other than that man. we've just met back enough from the say, when it's funky cost woman. until next time. thanks for watching. ah, with no, no,

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