leopard so we have a lot of separate leper dessert everyday. reality for us is already lost 3 horses in 2 months. mm hm. and very connected to their land, you know, mostly in this form has given you a wonderful life. oscar. whitening libyans account for just 6 percent of the country's population, but most of the farm land belongs to them. gentlemen, are choose to have stolen violence. that is not only in namibia, so that was in all colonies as such a story of, of australian america sent and after the after and on namibia and independent in 1990 of the government of the day, aust land owner to have a more fair distribution of land and my, my,

my father at the time he actually sold to some 27 percent of his land. so owning owning land is not really doesn't make you does make you rich. it's a, it's sir working the land successfully that can make you some money. hurry schneider's semi arid land has another important resource on much water and plenty of it. the conditions are ideal for rising livestock. one of his herero employees mondanca looks after the cattle in absolute hermit, he lives out here completely on his own. look at best pants. he's eccentric. he's with me now for 34 years.

but we wondered where it would be for the ice and up until he ran away, but he came back. harry is proud of his heritage. he doesn't spend much time thinking about germany's colonial past or the deeds of his ancestors. it's a very important part of the development of, of, of, of the, of the, of the country now, maybe a, which was at that stage called south west africa. and i me, you know, and oh, before that it was, it didn't even have a name or european name. so it was sort of this dog, the dog africa, the time and then sent 1st the explorers came in to the development of the country . and i think the good, i appreciate it, like every, every nation needs to appreciate the history. german settlers were the 1st to mind

. namibian soil for diamonds when germany last world war one, namibia became a south african protectorate. while the mines went to the multinational company, the bears the corp has dominated the diamond market for more than a century to day in namibia alone. it owns millions of euros and profit annually. the diamonds mind here, particularly valuable because they come from a unique source on the atlantic floor. this mining vessel brings up diamonds from a depth of a 150 meters. it belongs to the namibian government, and debates with

tens of thousands of diamonds are then delivered to the capitol then took we've been given a special permit to visit this closely guarded place in the center of the city, diamonds, with a value of hundreds of millions of euros being sorted in this room, a good us in august. so but as odd we have you. how does she to not is a supervisor at the semi nationalized diamond joint venture in dtc, and these were with his quality sequence. it was oh, jiggly quality. she shanna is the person who determines the value of the gems. before they go to market, the whiter and clear they are,

the more there was more ah, did my interview, my be mixing diversity dollars, but when it's polish, you probably have to add another $30.00 to $40.00 be. so you might have to be $40000.00 full force, don't like that. you hear a 1000 diamonds of the highest quality. their market value is around $29000000.00 euros. you can condom buddy too big for ela. so if we weighed them at the end of the day, so we don't leave this building on do with bow. what we call we are. we have bond with recalls of each year, full 100 kilograms of diamonds, end up on this table. the really unique ones are stored separately while it is the, the biggest than that of these,

these brilliant nice color the stone is you can see looks big is a very red color. so we're talking a lot of my youngest on, i mean they've was a rough estimate and these were 3 or by 3000000 was the last for least on this painful when i look at these getting his living i don't make war my me and you get it off with he's only the shades, i the guys with orlin a lot of money that, that going based on a good that was when he gets goes an auction, even if you going to the prices. they go for serious once they've been polished, these times will be delivered to the world's most renown. julie, yet very few namibian is profit from this wealth. ah.

the vast an ancient midday. it stretches along the country's western coast, the hostile environment, beckon's prospect as well. oh i how are you? very good. oh, maybe love i think. let's dig here. yeah. meeting you. okay. okay. mm. every man in m bundles, family is a minor. when should we take the crowbar? would it not necessary? you know, says have long worked as a team, a flag, my brother, because we are growing up together. yeah. and if i'm for 20 years, the to have met twice a month. yeah. yeah. i see i'm, let's look over there. okay. so they're looking for valuable materials his

blood door, moline, is that one? yeah. there finds a used for small pieces of jewelry or therapeutic purposes. it's amazon, it can you find any day month? no, no dime of the i don't know their mother. if there was diamonds, maybe those years, oh we cause all that idea. oh, they're hoping to find stones that can provide them with a better life. they will hours here. ah. more on the 20 sir. oh yeah. follow that evening and you can and you can get, oh good of something like that. nice business. so good is totally, i am looking for big business leg. nice big pieces where they can see maybe big leg my hand. ah,

they'll only leave the desert after that found something ah, a week later in the small cafe, all eyes are on a bundle. proudly shows off. you small, amazing, my precious before he sells them. well, that's not that bad look, only look. i think his wits but that i what do you think? is it nice? oh, it's nice that we don't know i it like to get $250.00 for the stones just enough to cover his living expenses until he can make it back to the desert. he had to mike souvenir shop. where moto, hello. how's it going? yeah, i have some business of done with no again. mm.

clean the nissan oh, lovely color. it's less color. this is not so. yes, it ok to go to prove it. and no tours, not too interesting at the moment. bundle is one of nearby as last, independent prospectors in the land of diamonds, he leads a life of poverty. a situation many find in reaching on the outskirts of vin took lies, cut a tour. in english, the name means the place when no one would like to live with most of the residents here live on less than one. you wrote a day this 31 year old is a local celebrity work. but

i know your mom. i think it big. yeah, no problem. thank you. thank you very much michael. i michelle hello is the charismatic leader of a small radical opposition party. he grew up here. i how's it going? he wants people here to demand more that they get as yvonne. so i'm gonna, when i, when i'm at the woman norfleet up, they're building luxury apartments in the city. but here there's nothing. they don't do anything for us. we're not, we don't even have paid streets right either with take a look. first of that, this looked like it's a rich country to govern. the money in this country is only the concentration of a few health. but majority of our people still continue to language and forward to

handle it in the hands of the white people. in a few elite blacks, michael's opinion, swapper the party that's been in power for 3 decades is hopelessly corrupt. ah, buck, let's go on. we're looking for fighters, men. god, why don't you join the movement when you're done? dillard movement. nippy his cheek vara travels in luxury, he says he made his fortune trading crypto currencies. he wants to see foreign pass exploiting namibian workers driven out of the country of the construction industry as been entirely taken over by the chinese. so the chinese have taken over majority of the contracts in this country. one is this new highway that goes to the airport . if the rain comes, then it washes this road away like there was nothing. another major problem is that

the chinese companies have allegedly deceived namibian workers about their wages. oh, is called a michael to help power to the workers they've been striking since then. ruled people have the power you must lend to stand up and fight for yourself months. the company to tax 10 percent of workers wages for social security contributions, but no contributions have been received by the government since 2019 do. now it is clear that the swap or government and the chinese are business dealing from all of us government is always going after small businesses, nearby beard own companies, forcing them to pay decks by their chinese friends. they are busy protecting them. they must refund you all that money and then you receive tax exemption. i saw tell

mister womb is daniel the harley, that they are going to pick up their bigs because we go on thieves in this country . a lot of michael has no official authority, but seeks to dialog anyway. good judge english. the pool pool 0 his okay my that my chinese is also a little bit of work. oh, they finally greet. negotiate with michael. no. the media the has to be transparent . what we have to talk today is to be on the record, while you deducting text from the walk us by donald ping it over to the government . in one yankee article, when the tax nor you, as the company, i went to pay that tax. that is due to government, by the money of the walk us, you are going to give it back to the walk us. that money is for their holiday. that

is what going to happen. that is i was there, the walk as i went to report to me. if they have not been paid, then i'll make sure all of you will sit in jail on thursday and it's going to be for a very long time. okay. wednesday, make sure that people are paid ah, i will buy too long. maybe has been known to be a peaceful country. sometimes you need to use violence in order for you to send a message. and the message is to say that stop exploiting them events. if you continue exploiting, i'm events, then we'll fight fire with fire. demanding justice if needs be 3 threatening, violence is risky. he could back fire, but from now it's working on law. the company pays the next day. he targets chinese vendors in chinatown. so this do think we think under them this is audrey

harvey. i know fake aviana though that i leave all their phones are closed. after this, michael is arrested for incitement to violence with ah, china has long been an ally of swapper. since nubian independence. china has financially supported the ruling party. most of the public buildings in wind hook have been built by chinese contractors. swapper headquarters and the interior ministry are examples. in the meantime, chinese controls one of the country's most strategic assets. it's uranium mines, namibia is one of the world's leading producers of uranium.

one man has long taken a critical view of china's activities in his country. his location is being kept secret because he receives many threats. i'm differently under surveillance. without any doubt, i've been beaten up, turn it into a hospital whose occasion and our station bessie precautions at all times or do not advertise. i'm going way we're going to john graciela isn't it may be his most famous investigative journalist. he discovered that a 3rd country was actually using china as a cover when he came to contracts for public buildings. oh, i found this file because in here you have the original documentation. all the invoices are on the construction of state house

. that's the namibian presidential headquarters. i knew the sea $29000000.00 transferred from namibia to john jones. the united nations does not permit certain deals to be made with north korea. the penalty for violations is sanctions when news of the payment became public. all the north korean construction companies, employees left the country within 24 hours. john was 1st on the scene back then there was some sort of a public. oh, and they ran, i mean they literally lifted food standing on the table like i am the you in fear didn't and maybe it was indirectly financing the north korean nuclear weapons program with projects such as the state house. ah, north korea also profited from other public contracts,

such as the construction of the museum of independence in front of the museum, there's a statue of the countries national hero and former president, sam, norma. this looks like a cl cast out of bronze. that is, in fact it's kind of a plastic. so the polymer, the digest, spray paint, you see a graduate period everywhere as, as all fakes to cornerstone. i was on fake museum with half finished communist inspired frescoes that supposed to do this, a lot of good victimization. all the dues missing another reason namibia is so attractive for asia, is its pristine natural environment. gigantic open spaces and nearly uninhabited.

namibia has only 3 residents per square kilometer making at one of the world's most sparsely populated countries. ah, ah ah, it's a paradise for many wild animals. ah, but hell for an endangered species of friend nasir us? let me be his largest reiner reserve is located in the northern part of the country for a while, one, ostriches kill daily around the world. their horns are sold at high prices in asia . ah, to help protect him from pouches the reserve portion of french in g o. mom and

protect. yes, we're not was on good, wrong done or brucely. i don't want to see that, for example. no, that's for the movie where i go to our know doug with assistance, you can use it. good mobile. yeah. the range is a trying to prepare for real attack the simulations and now the train is to assess the reaction of the ranges in crisis situations. ah, the meaning of it looks like a military exercise preparation for an armed battle, a fight for life nach just what it is wild wide, an average of a $150.00 range is a killed each year. oh many, are you ever ever had so many people most going to boost who said go your friend so

and then and are we all many people? did you go see why that's my fault? i was i thought you were going to die blah blah blah blah. blah, when your team was ready, you will not ready. and that's a big, big, big mistake. you think what you're gonna say to you guys, we're gonna should june free for minute. get ready? no, there will. sure. bye night guys. there will should, by note that you will all be in town that this, that way with read 0 love gala de la gina, us one let's this is the war of our generation of our century. it's about the survival of hundreds of species which will die out if we don't act in. i've heard of a reserve in south africa in which a $94.00 rhinos were slaughtered in less than a week. she mentioned poem on the phone. i can't imagine a world without wild animals. that's one of the last bits of magic left on earth for me, were annihilating into a different company 8 when he's not on deployment. a tuba toe is a beekeeper in france. then the one of the biggest problems that his true face is,

is a lack of resources the right with, i don't steal the engines just shot or this happens quite a bit. it's 2 or 3 times a day or the vehicles on the reserve or old half a century out of date. sure, thank you. oh. and when it comes to weapons problem the exports. oh, okay. so i think your magazine of us it on there think given you what the guns often jam is a reason for that too. but. so good. but they're not exactly new, 53,

with ammunition from eastern europe to be the rest there and very bad chapter was, is a new social in, so i've never seen ammo bent like this or so on. believable, we are initial as a checkered lead to a situation in a shoot out where none of the rangers would be able to fire more than 2 or 3 shots . it's a sequence that's daily life and an anti poaching team. it's a dangerous job and it needs doing 7 days a week, 24 hours a day from miserable pay can maybe do a lot off with more the next week that being at india doing some extra with what's the difference between the salary of a red hair and the price of the rhino. hm. ah, the dividend. uh huh. beaver in lee, be the good news there for him that i go on to do that in your salary.

rhinoceros homes are sold for astronomical psalms on the black market. chinese medicine claims the horn has therapeutic effects that these have never been clinically proven to discourage poachers that the reserve has implemented of radical method. after a veterinarian has sedated, the rhino the horn is cut off. it's a risky but painless operation. like fingernails, the horns and made up of keratin. i said you, are you good? how are you? why problem you? yes, let's is the owner of the reserve ya comalla has commission sergio's n g o. this service is free of charge. so you, you have every with a progress. yes. yeah yeah. yeah. co doesn't receive any support from the

government for protecting his animals. but the value of their horns alone could cover the costs of protecting the species. we meet him at a secret place in a city. this is where he keeps his treasures. in the black market, this one will be worth roughly 450000 years dollars. for us it's, it's now actually dangerous to have it. people will come kill me, they will come to my house to kill me for these things i've time has collected dozens of horns. he hopes that this sale will sunday be legalized the moment days of the largest supply to the market, the price will drop. if i can get $6000.00, you is dollars per kilogram. it can help me to save the species from extinction and there is an additional perch legalization would make him a millionaire. the young nation of namibia with its wealth of resources. it's rich

species, diversity and wide open spaces could provide for its population generously in the maybe of faces, great challenges, a deeply skewed distribution of wealth, the global competition for resources. and of course, the long shadow cast by a bloody colonial past. ah, ah ah ah ah, ah ah, ah, ah,

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