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. Equipped with a Geiger counter, they uncover some dangerous realities.
Director: Martin Boudot
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Great work keep it up please 😊
Same thing here in Evander mpumalanga😢😢
Why should whites own land in south africa, Africa we must unite, rid of colonial boundaries, common currency and rid of the remnants of colonialsm who own massive wealth and lands
Dis verskriklik
Communist anc ruins the country. Corporates to blame. The left doesn't learn it seems.
Black people do not know how to govern themselves responsibly. Even in America.
The ANC doesn't give a damn! Thry are csptured and like all governments they divide and exploit humanity. I send all of you love and healing.
This is a great documentary. I hope these people get real justice but i wont hold my breath.
Responsible is corrupt government.
So if you live at the foot of the toxic mine tailings you are sick and if you MOVE AWAY, you DO NOT GET SICK !
staying to fight will not help you get better, leave that place soon before its too late.
A French journalist coming all the way to detect and analyse environmental issues, and the department doesn't even bother to attend to it. Cases, petitions signed but all falls on death ears. Some not even aware but most decide to discard it. Disappointed and disgusted with my country 🤮
Are ur kidding me right now, ts takes a guy 4rm overseas 2 Crack dis.shame on u all members of parliament regardless wch revenues ur in.yoooo neva thought how dom all u are,yet havin doctrinez u boost wth bt failing 2 put em 2 yud use.4 i who neva went 2 skul,we both no deffer we in a same boat singing 1 song.
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We have A LOT of pollution in our cities. There are a lot of fires too.
bro im watching this video and im not even 1km from the mine dump
Typical of South African leaders, always clueless, it had to take a Journalist all the way from France while we have fully qualified personnel in our environmental department, what are the people in that department doing?
This documentary was embarrassing to say the least..
These mines should be held accountable. Thank you!
Would be great if your documentary production company can also do a segment on Haiti next… Particularly regarding the ecological disaster resulting from France demanding timber in compensation for the loss of their colony… Many western colonial industrialists have to answer for the ecological exploitation of the formerly colonized nations.
africa is beeing bled dry for every little bit of precious earth/recources they have…at the cost of african lives and to the profit of mega corps in the "first world", if you still wanna call it that…
ofc you can make the point of corruption but keep in mind that no one who isn't paid by these corpos even has a chance to get into a position to make a change, you can regard them as the extended small finger of mega corporations.
hundreds of billions of dollars are extracted out of africa.
you name it, it's extracted. oil, gems, cobalt, gold and more…and left behind is nothing but ruined land and lives.
je trouve qu'ils ne mette pas assez de produits chimique il devrait mettre du putonium en plus
South Africa has much bigger problems than toxic sand dunes, and they are all related to neglect and corruption by the ANC.
If the world has learned anything over the last 100 years, is that Africans are incapable of governing themselves.
Also the lady that had had FIVE children she can’t afford to raise, isn’t helping, and if the one child became disabled as a result of the dust, why weren’t the other four affected?
Linking the disability without a shred of evidence is purely speculative and it’s shoddy and irresponsible journalism to try and do so.
One disabled child in a community of tens of thousands doesn’t indicate anything other than the mean for the area.
Also the WHO is the same organization that pushed the COVID pandemic that caused the decimation of millions of families around the world have no credibility left and shouldn’t be allowed to give their opinions about any of this.
Today those god bars are worth double the amount, topping a cool $1 million dollars, each.
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Shame on everyone who likes a little bling bling.
i live a few milesaway froma huge silver and gold open pit mine in mojave california..and e get high winds here..im always hacking up a lung and getting migrains due to the massivve tailings they leave out in the open
jaurais pas attendu dattaquer lentreprise pour demenager
La science dit que l'Or est né dans l'explosion d'une étoile ! – Science says Gold was born in a star explosion!
What about the diamonds mining ?
What s important It s ti extract for good reasons for something usefull for humanity but if it s for jewelery It s useless humanity can survive without jewelery and private the organised crime of this business
Pour descendre a 3de pH ca doit etre tres concentré en merde
And what about the gold it could contains radioactivity because of uranium and nobody seems to worried about
But still the country is poor how sad
Gouvernement et compagnie de corrompus qui se foutent de la planète et des humains qui y vivent!
Ils doivent se dire qu'après leurs morts ce ne sera pas leurs soucis , ils auront vécu dans le luxe et l'opulence!
Ce monde et la race humaine me débectent …
Can they take any more from our people? 😢
Et toute ça pour enrichir ceux qui sont déjà les plus riches !! C'est une violation environnementale, un désastre écologique qui touche les plus pauvres… C'est toujours pareil, c'est une honte !!
No rehousing?? No cleaning up??
Why are always showing the world South Africa's worst places?
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’.
minister of environmental affairs, said thats not his department, Peter Griffin is not even this stupid
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.