termination of visor, native americans lived by hunting these wild animals, colonists slaughter the bison, and in fact made them nearly extinct. every buffalo dead is in indian gone, said colonel richard dug a veteran of the bloody and vicious indian wars cynically. the indigenous population was simply exterminated us army general phillips sheridan expressed the essence of this policy. in the infamous words, the only good india is a dead indian, the genocide of native americans of north america lead to a demographic catastrophe. the exact number of deaths is deal unknown, but the number of victims is in millions. having been the majority on the continent before the indigenous people make up less than 3 percent of the us population today . ah, ah,

the some of the largest mining companies in africa, the ac bulletin, anglo american extra and fabric. these american australian and european own company fill their pockets to the tune of an estimated 335000000 u. s. dollars. they exploit africa and african philosophy and tough mineral resources. hello, and welcome to this week african now show, i'm paul is clear. and in this week's episode, weeks go. the effects of western companies who made green to make a big back in africa, leave behind more than just mining company for decades. foreign companies have dug up, oil gas, gold, precious memos, and various other resources from africa that have left them with big profit. little benefit, the local, what's more days left behind,

environmental health and social problems that cripple 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 dictates as long operations me a di, although the mind is now closed for years, environmental has sounded the alarm resident know too well, these health hazards. they face mother his date course on this page. he gauge in 2000 and save it to us that he knows live tv also. and they told him that that does this usage here. last then she passed away. i have 4 children, and i take them to the cleaning every time for the usual immunizations. but that's

all do not come off. i have to take them to the medication for to take the chemist and to the doctor to see what is wrong with them and no results are there to tell me what is wrong with make sure that people have been here since 1995 to do something for my settlement is as all of them across the country, and is this all, this is a human rights commission. it is unfortunate that i've been the 5 years of democracy in our country. the people are still living in this opinion condition if they, if they may, if danger as to as to because of we in hailey, then they told me that it is going, going ahead as if, when i q is burning, is stuff from the stomach and rises to this burns, and then sometimes the goods very dry and sometimes like something

pinching inside the throat. my children of the symptoms they, they, they usually have. they get though i thought about their mouth is like a pimple swayed pimples under them and they are look and then they may, their skin get fresh. it sometimes it becomes like, ah, the skin color changes, am a traditional duct. i assume maybe sometimes it is the it is because of their chicken sandwich clean. oh maybe. yes, that marcus lee. then i give them a decent, clean. they kick knees. i give them maybe some food to drink in their system, but i realize that it doesn't stop it the pay stubs for that time, but they can choose to come again. we just didn't have that same every now and,

and every now and then is that the so i that, that thing is coming that total to close our, our long sometimes we can clear quickly, the standard of living is very poor and we are listening on public mining painting, we try to engage, we have different, you know, municipal departments as far as the is concerned and there was no luck. there was no us in our proposals that we made in regards to relocation. i'm not sure that i'm in the dark enough because he promised to be doing the houses, but i don't know was going to happen for those houses. when we go to our meeting, 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. there 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 find some few people, you just find few people there from there. they took no good for people to see the the you need to do something like you need you've been year. i think that of us, but i didn't get the idea where i can go because it is do any good me for this either and i don't people you can have by. so we we do for people to train to how to get to ration. how 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

and whereby they gave us a recommendation that according to the levels of flood and the volume, will you run your mia? there is no one is 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 is 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 f because isa hunger for economic development. and obviously they are also binding companies or in the fish or shade. i'll give that with exploit this anger for economic development in south africa. we have a convent legislation. however we had it fictionally, poor enforcement of non compliance with al gauges, lation in the east of africa, saturated namibia, ordering and motor down year or in

d r. c. they might not be such a nice today to selection and of course also the poor inforcement. so that resulted also in the exploitation, los angeles and mining companies. because that with the resulting in the extent guy sation of negative impacts wing ivy. 3rd, to the externalization of negative impacts. what often would happen is that the uranium or at the main source would be expected at back being off to mine, co share or decommissioning of mine when my knees gazing maintenance, often dos impacts, which would last for. in this case, if you guide me in 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 $380.00 active minor issue areas. ways be, are 400000 which are affected by the you guys. we would anticipate that they would be a high risk for the 3 students because they often have high i, b and i think teachers could only get the qc malnutrition, substance abuse, so that all we have in the community to be baby vulnerable. the challenge here is that the national nuclear reactor interprets it's mandate very narrow. it's only a few like mine sat it just not that a few like the i do active minor races due to forces. and jackie, the challenge, as i explained, we have 380. i do active mind that

a cities is currently in the process. right. that is now in hacking south africa. it's the issue that we must stick. these is that they should be sufficient at the abilene station signs for mining companies, not only to reach the current in banks, but also to agree things like that. order to deal with that tax, including the something i, treatment of extraneous or produced. it was this at the moment. if you didn't say by government at home, some of the mining company, some more responsible mining companies to increase closure. i do all that i do ask if you can, if that is why they are really feel inviting me north africa in south africa we has of course a value of it automates a lot of the automated doors all out put enforcement. i think africa is not the last. i think some of the unscrupulous mom he can finish explosive

a full out. he's already been experienced. we find in communities we, we work that the, the animosity at growing and anger against tomonica nice, especially since mommy company moved on leaving gaping hole in the ground, the youth rivers and i'm in at each and disruptive community. it takes 100 yes. for the oil to rebuild itself by just 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 its toil can rebuild itself, but the prospects for african countries remain bleach. 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 africa 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 as you're 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. these are actually the best at that because they does 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 not stable. we're not getting very

many big mining companies. whereas 50 years ago we got a lot more. so we're getting lots of little mining companies, supposedly. mining companies were getting a lot of nickel dime. 7 mon pause shock. what's the scale? what's mafioso? i've gangster 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. and most of the west, there should be no mercury coming into africa and yet that's how they're recovering . all their goals and mercury is so deadly, so poisonous and last

a long time and it's in a 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 gotta 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 got some pretty good research your thought on. yes, thanks. my team has burke him also. you know, we almost thought we added or rather hated 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,

urge post you are around us. and yes, diseases. burke. hello sir. i want to think john or good theory. yeah. you know what comes from sue each? it's not just people are exposed to hazardous waste there for the hazard of bacteria . they're exposed to social disease. yeah, it runs rampant. you know, when you have water caps there's. 1 no ventilation, there's not enough grainy. there's not enough. 1 sun life compared to a proper suburb, it 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 land we validations. have you seen going on in africa? the majority of the morning i've seen going on and there is no rehabilitation. and how long does it talk through to the last? well, just of mercury, no cyanide is deadly. the big mining companies are pretty good at neutralizing cyanide. almost within days when they put that in a big pile of the dam, neutralizing the site as it goes in there, illegal whining, and some standard winding, neutralizing the side i. it can be very talk so you can please know some months, maybe even a year or 2 mercury though. it's almost impossible to neutralize. it shouldn't be given 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, the 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? i for sure i should be wrong president, because if we had a president was thinking like you, this would be one of the high growth 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. 5 and 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 here, most of the 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 in stream them government isn't just about running for reelection every 5 years and giving out all the. 6 contracts from attenders to your friends government is about doing much more as you pointed out. it's helping 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. but the government 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 it. let's move now to me, jazz, where a french mining company started mining the country. you rainy reserve in the 1970.

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 but to drink and farm contaminated water and land. we asked our correspondent to investigate the story that the police confiscated his camera and to be for his materials. he spoke to us on condition of anonymity or a local missouri government. edu, who don't cur, compared to the current situation. there are several mining companies that will soon set up for the exportation of uranium in the august regions. yoga is region everywhere. there is uranium and with now the rise of 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 at its level at the state has 20 percent of capital in the company has 80 percent. it is against nature because society has neither the soil nor the country, 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 industry for 40 to 45 years after the common had been closed. so these people could be recovered from the state to raise its capital and little them that our government did not do it. it was badly negotiated with the state and all that have been 10 to 20 percent of all work done by this company that we don't love to read that need to be read. you quoted it. we go now to the world's most town, according to pollution expert,

come away, which is 100 kilometers to the north of the damn b, a capital you soccer was one posed to a quarter of a 1000000 people that lead silver. mine is the oldest in the country and dates back to the beginning of the previous century. while already in 1956 doctors were warning up high rates of lead poisoning. the mind remained open for another 50 years, only closing down in 1989. international lawyers have commenting, filed a lawsuit against anglo american, on behalf of the truth and of cub way, whose brains and other organs have been poisoned. we spoke with a former minor, this lucy, dick, any amount of dest go, and the, as the day melted. and that eyes you find that it contains, lead,

and the lady, the bad to our budget issues, and to easy applicable to young ones. the depth, it's their thinking capacity to tell the truth is people complain in the thinking they didn't want to inform any body the out to come of waking the boys and i see places indeed people where day sometimes of find that somebody may look to be sick as if easy, suffering from it and hit the hair. both his stomach, he bowed you and becoming sick. go see the dewey inside and it wasn't in these joints. he the nick, the joins here. the stomach and all the movie i bought. pats was intact. they are

wendy, somebody goes to the wasp, do they operate? you find the story, delay the da here in these board and bought the what the, the lady was acting to the body tissues as it is out to many people died, but we're not dordy. why do i because this boy is john, that is was all he's my grandson for this problem of getting affected with started in 2018. that is when he was diagnosed with this problem. from that time on i used to take him to clinic for treatment, which took about 22 to 3 years and abruptly her treatment, it stopped from that time to date defects that of in the,

till the boy someone showed them budget and the sometimes the route so these are the things that i've noticed from him undermining of our mentor litigation project. there are bank projects back to help with effects of lived in conway. so so far they have committed a point $5000000.00 in their remediation projects. the 1st one was it was due and they can now basically con, which will materialize. moving on the morning from the on my to, to exit to wall left using as a default is much more a can be done, but at least so far so good weekend to have g. yes. i think 100 children delayed as

a 6 month period. it places that st shock waves from the country bought into sharp focus, the dangers of mineral processing. correspondent lou david has more zone for states in niger risk. know it's rich in minerals like gold. we've been a just engage in mining and leave it most in a just to know we have personal protective equipment while working with the gold or other mine and told the lead us 6 to be applauded. we just take home, some people, if you walk into the homes, 6 ducks the gold, these strokes content will eat, i want the cord was structured. the leave will be released and spread throughout the house to help the driver go or expose them to high levels of lead. just as a feldman 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 dentist of mineral processing. and then lastly, impoverished a rural area, implication of desist that is johan to those communities where hundreds of people are still affected by lead poisoning, unset levels of lead, but felt inside. most of the hopes, what's from the community will also have high levels of lead children who survive to crisis, hot, dangerous levels of lead in via blot. she can new, contacted anglo americans and i think mining companies for climbing. 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 responsibilities? well, that brings us to the end of this week show. we hope we help shed a little light on a very real problem that is facing many communities across africa. next week we'll

be exploring the fascinating world of p and c, y, but a military company will take you behind the scenes and off exactly what is happening in africa until then from me and the teams here in africa's city of gold . good bye. ah ah ah

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