i the some of the largest mining companies in africa, b, h. p, bulletin, anglo american extra, and barrick, these american australian and european own companies. so they pockets to the tune of an estimate for the $335000000.00 us dollars each year. they exploits africa and africans who largely unset, mineral resources. hello, and welcome to this week's african now. so i'm paul is clear. and in this week's episode, we explored the effects of western companies. who in the greed to make a big back in africa and leave behind more than just mining company to decade foreign companies have got oil, gas, gold, precious, monroe's and various other resources from africa that have left them with big

profit, little benefit to the local. what's more, they've left behind, environmental health and social problems that crippled generations to come. i'm in a band and mine done in the city of johannesburg, which is home to thousands of people. they live under a cloud of radio active dust. the result of an australian company, mental decades long operations, me a die. although the mind is now closed for years environmental it had sounded the alarm resident here know to, well, these health hazards. they face mother his date course on this place. he gauge in 2007 last back, last miss t b r. so then they told me that this is to say, hey lance. then she passed away. i have 4 children and i take them to the cleaning

every time for the usual immunizations. but that falls do not come off. i have to take them to the medication. for today they came in and to the doctor to see what is wrong with them. and no result. they had to tell me what is extra run with major when the people of to yourself have been here since 1995. so to do something for my settlement is as old as democracy in our country. and he says, all does it say human rights commission, it is very, very unfortunate that i've done 25 years of democracy in our country. the people are still living in this opinion condition, directtv. you, jeanette, it's, it's dangerous to as to because of we in haley then that lead to less that he's gonna, he's gonna head back when the key is burning and stuff on the stomach and it raises

to the throat burns. and then sometimes the full dead, very dry and sometimes like something pinching inside the throat. major when have the symptoms they, they, they usually have. they get though i thought about their mouth like pimples swayed pimples under them on the bare look. and then they, they, their skin get fresh. it sometimes it becomes like, well, the skin color changes. am a traditional doctor, i assume may be sometimes it is because of their key to this and what lean oh maybe? yes, that market smoothly. then i give them their maybe think they kick knees. i give them maybe 3 or 4 to drink in clean desk with them. but i realize that it doesn't

stop it the pay stubs for that time, but they can choose to come again. just in the have that same every now and, and every now and then is this way that, that thing is coming like total to close our, our land. sometimes we can place quoted li, the standard of living is very poor and we are living on top of mining painting. we tried to engage, we have different, you know, municipal departments as far as the is concerned and there was no lot. there was no us in our proposals that we made in regard to relocation. i'm not sure that color mindy dodge enough because he promised to be doing the other houses. i don't know was going to happen for those houses when we quote rousing, they say they don't know us us. we don't stay here even we stay here. the people

are coming from not up places. they come in just a year and get houses. that is a what we'll call, we'll go and wait for them. they will call us still waiting until now. and i move. yeah. just funds on few people. yeah. just a few people there from there. they took no good for people to be the the you need to do something like you really need to even yeah. i think that area, it's dangerous. i didn't get the idea where i can go because that is do any gun me for this either. and i don't people, you can buy, so we, we do for the people to drain, to have to get dissertation how we can do for this place. we try to engage with people and you always like m p o for donation, for sustainable environment. we engage with northwest 50 t with regard to this problem that we have to come to kentucky edition studies

whereby they gave us a recommendation that according to the levels of flood under volume while you're running, mia, there is no one was allowed to live in this place goes yes i believe. yeah, i don't know what when i hit my head, i don't know the echoed across africa. so how exactly do the mining company get away with it? my reach me for a ring from the foundation for safe environment. shades hurtful shots, africa, anything f because isa hunger for economic development. and obviously they are also and mining companies or investors or shared august that would explode the founder for economic development in south africa, we had a convent legislation. however, we had exceptionally poor enforcement of non compliance with al gauges,

lation in the east of africa, saturated namibia, ordering and motor down year or in the city or she, they may not be such an inactive today to selection. and of course, also the poor inforcement. so that resulted also in the exploitation by some of the mining companies because that with the resulting in the extent guy sation of negative impacts wing ivy for the externalization of negative impacts. what often happens is that the uranium or at the main source would be extracted. i bet, been off to mine, closure all decommissioning of mine when my knees gazing maintenance, often dos impacts, which would last for in this case. if you in a full 2 logical ages norcross biological ages, those impacts will be externalized to the communities, to future generations, to

a mute environment and often to also financially beleaguered municipalities in south africa. they are approximately 380 active minor areas will be all 400000 living which are afflicted by the you guys. we would be surprised that they would be higher fish for the 3 students because they often have high i child be and i think the kids put on the tooth mail, nutrition, substance abuse, so that all we have in the community to be vulnerable. the challenge here is that the national nuclear guy that interprets it's mandate very natalie. it's only a few like mine sat it, that's not that a few like the i do active mind the races due to sausage and decking the challenge

. as i explained, we have 380 that i do active monterey cities is currently in the office that is now in hacking south africa. if this issue that we must 50 is that they should be sufficient. the abilene station signed for mining companies, not only the current in banks, but also to agree to order to deal with that tax, including the something a treatment of extraneous or produced. it was this at the moment into clearances by government at home. some of the mining company, some more responsible mining companies to increase closure. i do all that i do active or you can if that is why they are really feel inviting me to north africa in south africa. we has of course of value of automate. lot of the automated laws all out, put enforcement back in africa is not the she said,

i think some of the unscrupulous mom he can finish, explore a full out. he's already being experienced. we find in communities we, we work that the animosity at growing and anger again, some of the mani companies, especially since mani companies that moved on leaving gaping house in the ground, the goose rivers. and i'm in each and disruptive communities. it takes 100 yes. for soil to rebuild itself by just a half a centimeter. add to that the fact that the world is currently using soil at a rate of 15 to a 100 times quicker than it can rebuild itself. most of the mines in africa after they've been abandoned and codes dom become waste. just like this one behind me. they say that a nation that can rebuild it so you can rebuild itself. but the prospects for

african countries remain bleak. peter major is a different mining engineer, an analyst who is highly regarded in the mining and financial services industry. i sat down with him to get an understanding of how active as a continent has been affected by these companies. p to thank you very much for joining us here on african. now, what are the negative effects of foreign mines for marketing can be good or bad? we know we need money. mining is a capital intensive business, and the more money you spend, the better it should be for the country because you're building infrastructure, you're building treatment plans, value ads, or giving people jobs. so we should have a preference for companies with lots of money that are going to do lots of nasty. the big mining company is, are actually the best at that because they've done many of them for over

a 100100 years. what we're seeing, you know, in a lot of africa because it's risky because it's unstable. we're not getting very many big whining companies was 50 years ago. we got a lot more. so we're getting lots of little mining companies, supposedly mining companies. we're getting a lot of liberal. 7 dime, mon pause shop, lots of skeletons, lots of mafioso. i gang 1st bugs. and those are not the good investors. we need. those are not the mining companies we need. they degrade the place. they corrupt officials, they corrupt local people. they leave a mess and we just have to look at what's happened in senegal and gorda with, with thousands of thousands of literally illegal. 5 chinese winders, come in there, and the amount of mercury that they're using mercury was bad. i think, way over a 100 years ago, in most of the west,

there should be no mercury coming into africa and yet that's how they're recovering . all their goal. and mercury is so deadly, so poisonous and last a long time and it's in the water supply. 5 from the ground, we haven't even mentioned about how gold mining just devastates the countryside. really a foreign land. so yeah, we've got to control all mining companies that come in. they have to abide by standards. they have to be transparent. they have to be approved by proper government agencies. what about the burden of disease in the mining communities? i've got some pretty good research your thought on. yes, thanks. my team has burke him office. you know, we almost thought we had a rather kid. spread like wildfire in these communities in the illegal mining camps . women are really abused in multiple ways sexually violently. they're made to work

. their conditions are exposed you around us and yes, diseases. burke hello service i want to think jaundra theory of what comes from sewage. it's not just people are exposed to hazardous waste. there are for the hazard of bacteria. they're exposed to social disease. yeah, it runs rapid. you know, when you have water caps there's. 1 no ventilation, there's not enough rainy. there's not enough. 1 sunlight compared to a proper suburb that has all the amenities, and that's what's happening around band and mining camps. communities crop up around there because they use the infrastructure and they populate uncontrollably

quite often. and so all the social diseases are, are rapid. there are growing rapidly and it's hard to control what landry validations, have you seen going on in africa? the majority of the mine i've seen going on and there is no rehabilitation. and how long does it cost for the last? well, just of mercury, you know, cyanide is deadly. the big money. 6 companies are pretty good at neutralizing cyanide, almost within days when they put that in a big pile down, we are neutralizing the site as it goes in there, but illegal, whiny and some standard binding or got neutralizing the cyanide. it can be very toxic and poisonous for. 5 months maybe even a year or 2 mercury though, it's almost impossible to neutralize. you just shouldn't be dealing with it at all . that will last for decades. it's widespread. yeah,

the rehabilitation. it's not being done, especially by the smaller, below the radar. co called miners. i want to call mining companies their miners, their pirates mafia miners. i know that the mining companies in south africa once they close down, has a fund for land rehabilitation. couldn't the same happen for communities? or should i should be president. because if we had a person that was thinking like you, this would be one of the best investment destinations on the planet. instead of being upset if you're zachary right, that the government sets the standards and government shows the standards and they get paid a lot of the sort of estimate. 5 here they get 1.7 trillion every year to spend a please, maybe have that for 27 years. so without a doubt,

the guy with most of the money, the guy with most of the power he or most responsibility, they come hand in hand. and yes, when government lead companies come in they have to monitor those companies. they have to evaluate those companies and stream them. government isn't just. 2 about running for reelection every 5 years and giving out all the. 6 contracts and attenders to your friends government us about doing much more. as you pointed out, it's helping us citizens helping communities. and it should be the goal between let me go share between the mining company and the communities and why the company pays taxes and lease payment garbage has a responsibility if either the appropriate part of that money goes in the community . it doesn't go to their friends in high office who have contracts outside that town outside, that governments have huge responsibility and they're not stepping up to let's

move now to me, jazz, where a french mining company started mining the country. you re new reserve in the 1917 . although the mind close to years ago, 20000000 tons of radioactive weight remains in the country. many 800000 people live in the area and they have no choice that you drink and farm contaminated water and land. we asked our correspondent to investigate the story back beneath complicated his camera and to meet his materials. he spoke to us on condition of anonymity. sir, my local missouri commentator, who don't girls compared to the current situation. there are several mining companies that will soon set up for the exportation of uranium in the godaddy region. yoga is region everywhere. there is uranium and with now the rise and the price of uranium. there is

a risk of having factories almost everywhere manella. on the other hand, the state is not careful about the percentage. it requires unit, the global atomic company, which has created a subsidiary called some eda, which involves operating a mind, but its level at the state has 20 percent of capital in the company has an 80 percent young. it is against nature because society has neither the soil nor the countrymen, nor the minerals. it is nothing. and on the other hand, the state of niger already had a potential them puts on, for instance, the people who have been trained at the common not industry for 40 to 45 years after the common have been close to these people could be recovered from the state to raise its capital and little them with our government did not do it. it was badly negotiated with the state in all that have been 10 to 20 percent of all work done with this company that we don't love to read that and he read you

quoted, we go now to the world's most town, according to police and experts come way, which is 100 kilometers to the north of zambia capital soccer was one posed to a quarter of a 1000000 people live in silver. mine is the oldest in the country and dates back to the beginning of the previous century. while waiting in 1936 doctors were warning up high rates of lead poisoning. the mind remained open for another 50 years, only coating down in 1989. international lawyers have current and filed a lawsuit against anglo american on behalf of the children of cub weight, whose brains and other organs have been poisoned. we spoke with a former minor, this lucy, dick, any amount of dest go, and you put the s d, they mailed it. and that you find that the to contain lead

and the lady, the bad it to our body fishers and towards easy applicable to young ones. it defeats their thinking capacity to tell the truth is people hopelessly thinking they didn't want to inform any body the out to come of waking the boys and i see places they didn't people where day sometimes of find that somebody made room to be sick as if is the suffering from it, and his behavior both is still medically bouncing and becoming sick, quasi they do i see inside and the toys in these joints. he,

they make the joints here, the stomach and oh, the movie i bought pats was intact there, wendy. somebody goes, there was to the operate, you find the story, the lady here in these board, and bought the what the lady was acting to the body tissues as it is out to many people died. but we are not dodie. what do i, because this boy is john disposal. he's my grandson for this problem of getting affected with started in 2018. that is when you was there, when i was rooting this problem. from that time on i used to taken to clinic for treatment, which took about 2 to 3 years and abruptly her

treatment. it stopped from that time to did the if it's that of in the, to the boy in some, all short tempered andy. sometimes he answers roughly so these are the things that i've noticed for the remaining of our mentor mediation project. there are been projects back to help with the effects of lives in conway. so, so far they are going to a point $5000000.00 in their remediation projects. the 1st part of it was to do the car. now basically the conduit where material was moving on the morning from the on my to, to exit to wireless using as a default. much more that can be done. but at least so far so good. we can,

to virginia. we since 100 children delayed over 6 month period, replaced the st. she waved the country, bought into sharp focus, the dangers of minimal testing. i can london police gave, it has more than for states in larger risk, nor is which in minerals like gold. we've been a just engage in mining to leave it most villages to know we have personal protective equipment while working with gold or other mine. and so believe 6 to be applauded with the take home. some people, if you brought into the home sick, struck the gold these strokes content will eat. i want the food was structured, believe bells will be released and spread throughout the house to help the driver go or expose them to high levels of lead. just as feltman said, fills an outbreak of lead poisoning and at least 7 villages in the states. within 6

months, more than 400 children died in these crisis, the sent shock waves throughout the country and brought into sharp focus, the benches of mineral processing. and then last impoverished really alia, duplication of resist the fuel to both communities where hundreds of people assume affected by lead poisoning, unfit levels of lead, without inside, most of the hopes was from the companies will also had high levels of lead to 5 surprises had dangerous levels of lead a blot as he can now contributed anglo american and again, mining company for clint. but they avoided us some heartbreaking stories and lingering questions, the most vital of which is how do companies continue to get away without owning up to their responsibility. well, that brings us to the end of this week shows we hope we help shade. and this one's

on a very real problem that is facing many communities across africa. next week we'll be exploring the fascinating world of pmc. private military companies will take you behind the scenes and off exactly what is happening in africa until then from me and the team here in africa was city of gold. goodbye the the joggers archipelago. homer, the jo, san diego garcia, the largest island in the archipelago, is now the location of a very large u. s. military base. you get given met, div our

a us government to make the military base and just deported all of tuggle sent people from their country. so they called return back on the island. no, but we are fighting. that's why i'm real fighting for the right. so i, we do not consider that the right to self determination actually applies to the trickle. since i don't the question know, self determination of the legal advice we've received is actually the trickle. since we're not at all, not a people for me, it's time to move on and see what we can do. a full, the child said community to return back home. there is no support from the imagination di commission, african united mish. i don't care about child christian people. ah

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