South Africa's Toxic Townships

[@bonganindwandwe1774]

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 🤮

[@jordanmntungwa3311]

everything we see is what they want us to see. I remember there was something so big that SABC and ENCA never ever reported on. every time I bring it up my comments get removed automatically

[@jordanmntungwa3311]

so issues like these will never make it on our media. Issues that affect the youth will never make it. but you will see a Smirnoff and brutal fruit advert 20 times before you go to sleep in the evening if you watch TV. which most south africans do between 5 and 9pm

[@siphomogale779]

Journalism of SA are biased just listen how the ask questions is like the bosses tells them in sports especially soccer it's happening

[@mashobane6177]

I am shocked, I didn't know we have such a problem in our country.

[@ndimumnini5894]

because he will be safe from inkabi, obviously.

[@beckyjo8745]

This is disgusting!! Shame on those companies!!!

[@thestreetbible1]

I can't lie, this touched my heart as a fellow south African 💔

[@randynesbit4497]

This is a great documentary. I hope these people get real justice but i wont hold my breath.

[@Error_-qz2zr]

they wont this happens in america as well with waste from plants next to neighborhoods

[@sburger1146]

These mines should be held accountable. Thank you!

[@norahmvelase5693]

I am south african living in Scandinavia oh my god when I was young I thought it was beautiful mountains now I get it ngiyabonga ❤

[@stephanfree250]

Great work keep it up please 😊

[@philnape4788]

This is excellent work and reporting,

[@iandemontfort4276]

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.

[@zedianerkatwishi3930]

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’.

[@marceloolavarria84]

This companies are so irresponsables 🤬😡😡😡😡

[@mogamatyusufmartin9171]

They only care about their own interests not the people communities that they do mining in least for the environmental damage

[@Error_-qz2zr]

the government not the faceless companies

[@ndabajay1626]

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..

[@KwinBee6064]

I guess this topic is one of the "no go areas" for them, let alone that some will be clueless about it, because it's tucked far far away.

[@ndabajay1626]

@@KwinBee6064 and that is the sad truth.. We are lead by bunch of clueless politicians with no vision for the future...

[@siphomogale779]

Media houses are captured they are told what to investigate and not to investigate

[@Moki4creative]

29:04 As sad as it is true. I appreciate his honesty.

[@C.kMotaung-nq6tz]

Same thing here in Evander mpumalanga😢😢

[@Omniscient247]

Merci beaucoup! ❤

[@mash288]

Townships are formalised areas which includes former white suburbs and black townships. shanty towns are informal settlements that do not have bulk and social infrastructure. These informal settlements can be found in municipal land, abandoned farms and even in abandon buildings in the CBD.

[@grofodsumadije3952]

Responsible is corrupt government.

[@nompumelolo]

no its people that choose to erect settlements near the poison

[@youbrokeitwefixit1723]

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.

[@tangaz5819]

Just because nobody lived there, doesnt give anyone carte blanche to pollute the area.

[@kudzaimutasa607]

😂😂😂😂😂 the last part was hilarious handisati ndakamboseka Kudai. You guys are world.class

[@DieisoJay-pr2zw]

What did I just watch! 😢. Why is our government sleeping on us? In 1994 one of the tailing dam in freestate has collapsed into the houses next to it.

[@MGold00]

I was in grade 4 wen that happen in Virginia my home town. The Harmony Gold Mining Company. Compasetated everyone. I think everything company used different kinds of gold clean chemicals. Cos Wen we moved to Gauteng Carletonville Mining town. My young sister start having sick & having eye problems. Which the doctors said were cost by the environment. But my parents movement back to Virginia & my sister is back to normal no more health problem.

[@Lischlee]

These is sad as majority of people living near the mines suffer while business booms as usual without any accountability 😢

[@cupboyza9025]

We must take action on this issue! Please, everyone, let's share this across social media to raise awareness. Those affected deserve justice, and those responsible must be held accountable for their negligence!☣ I was deeply moved by Ntando's story, and I couldn't hold back my tears.😭 In the documentary, the only people who showed genuine remorse were the environmental geologist and the director of the NIOH. Meanwhile, hearing the Bulgari employees brush it off with such indifference was heartbreaking. Let's stand together for justice. 🌍 Kudos to Martin Boudot and his team for their incredible work in uncovering the truth.👏🏆

[@chumanimgijimachumani2059]

The lady running anti pollution department is a disgrace not to us as South Africans but as black people, I'm soo embarrassed at her arrogance and ignorance..but then again this is what you get from corruption and nepotism . Big thank you to the French journalist Martin and the team of researchers involved ❤️🙏Siyabonga

[@ontlametsemaleho4955]

Honestly, I was taken back by her response. I wonder if it is just pure ignorance or...

[@alyssakriel9477]

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.

[@JudgeVenat]

48:48 that smile tells you everything you need to know - they do not care 0% responsibility taken with that smile - see nothing hear nothing

[@venividivici4253]

She's corrupt.

[@josephinedurimel-caplain8540]

Très bon reportage qui j’espère a fait bouger le gouvernement et les industries

[@SA_Twala]

It's evil what these companies are doing! Why are they allowed to do this?

[@WikoWigo-c9l]

Hello everyone from Thailand.

[@orchidorio]

Hello from Los Angeles, USA.

[@codydrawz9624]

Hello from Alberta, Canada

[@DanielCheheibar]

Hello from Mars

[@diymaster101]

Hello from cape town, South Africa ❤️‍🔥🇿🇦

[@Pokemon_lugia-tc9eg]

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

[@helenduplessis4166]

We have A LOT of pollution in our cities. There are a lot of fires too.

[@JasenMorar-le1hy]

dirty wealth blood money, this is horrible something should be done. the government won't help we need to stand up.

[@McHali_Official]

But still the country is poor how sad

[@koosstander6191]

Yes they did pay the workers in Rand and sell the gold in US Dollars . cheap labor . All the gold is in the US and all the waste is left for us.Suck dry by the US.

[@oliverwalker5954]

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.

[@suh-guy]

It's not by choice they live there. As you saw these are poverty conditions. Finding a home somewhere else, let alone a solid house is impossible as homes don't buy themselves. As mentioned in the video, there are over 250 of these dunes, meaning the wind WILL still blow it into the air for everyone. The solution is for the mines to better deal with their waste. If authorities push them, believe me, the mines WILL come up with solutions.

[@IssaZiqubu]

Yes no choice bt any1 first priority ts 2 b alive.i guess 4 me i ll rather b alive dan dead having choices

[@IssaZiqubu]

4 me i ll Move a way 4rm da area with my poverty.dan dieyn having no choice

[@_Hewman_]

or stop having children maybe?

[@KwinBee6064]

I am a South African and saddened by this but at most, the mine tailings are there before the people. I understand they come to Jhb for job opportunities, how worthy are these jobs and opportunities they bring really? If you get stuck in one toxic place and even decide to start a family there because you can't afford to move. People must try and stop this bravery of erecting shacks anywhere. The gold mines must just take responsibility of the harm they bring to the environment.

[@francismarie3875]

What about the diamonds mining ?

[@fgvevdbcbvng]

No rehousing?? No cleaning up??

[@nompumelolo]

rehouse illegals?

[@かんちょう-q9p]

5 grams for 1 ton of toxic waste? I don't think it's worth it

[@FzStudiosFilm]

minister of environmental affairs, said thats not his department, Peter Griffin is not even this stupid

[@FRESHPRINCEYAKASI]

bro im watching this video and im not even 1km from the mine dump

[@hollanderson]

move if you can bud

[@Healingson]

Buy a mask, get your bread up and move out njayam 💯

[@insepsebastianus288]

Deadly wind

[@vonganimageza3229]

What is DMR doing about this?

[@AVALANCHE360]

Worst part its not south African companies

[@Shamie_e]

Who owns the mine yes it’s in SA but who profits from the suffering of the ppl? Where is the gold going? Who benefits????

[@lwandlembesa4062]

Why are always showing the world South Africa's worst places?

[@KwinBee6064]

Lol hhaybo calm down, this is a matter of life and death. As a South African I am quite intrigued, we can't always be showing Sandton or Durban North with people sipping liquor and dancing to amapiano. We actually have pressing issues.

[@zedianerkatwishi3930]

because its important!!!

[@nompumelolo]

Because they exist?!

[@mashobane6177]

They need to be shown, so that they will be solved.

[@Ritesh-yy1zr]

We need this to be exposed to the world

[@LindoMchunu]

The apartheid government had no shame!

[@nompumelolo]

Don't blame them when those settlements are recent

[@mashobane6177]

We are no longer in the apartheid

[@Ritesh-yy1zr]

And the black government is even worse

[@AnthonyGarlic-tr9br]

We thought 💭💭 it was the protestant reformation.

[@francismarie3875]

And what about the gold it could contains radioactivity because of uranium and nobody seems to worried about

[@alidigitali9091]

La science dit que l'Or est né dans l'explosion d'une étoile ! - Science says Gold was born in a star explosion!

[@badger9456]

Shame on everyone who likes a little bling bling.

[@LeonilUba]

Davao City Dika Tugbok Tacunan Purok-1 Kalyerserye Fish Water Akwaryom Bulkanaysing

[@amarsanaagalbadrah4144]

Africans need education and democracy

[@shuddR]

Africa is a continent consisting of many different countries, all of which vary in how democratic they are. South Africa actually has a strong democracy since apartheid ended.

[@tshepo7122]

Africa is not a country 😒

[@Healingson]

They have democracy

[@mashobane6177]

We do have democracy and education in South Africa.

[@misanthrope3098]

16:38 "eye protection compulsory"...aha

[@TRICK-OR-TREAT236]

PURE GREED

[@bretfisher7286]

Africa is the center of human tragedy in all the world today, as various contemptuous colonial empires of old Europe begin to withdraw and hand over self-rule to the original inhabitants of the various states and tribes of the continent. It appears it will take thousands of years for the trauma of apartheid racist domination to be undone, and until that happens, if ever, it will be a nightmare-- because the return of power to the subjects of white racist empire will for a long time simply repeat the abuses they endured, since those abuses became the currency of power, and nothing better can easily appear now. This is the ghastly outcome of imperialist colonial empire everywhere in the world throughout history, and it is completely predictable and completely inevitable.

[@bushwhackeddos.2703]

Lol

[@موسى_7]

Not thousands of years, only a few decades are needed to reverse the effects of apartheid. South Africa hasn't been free for long enough. Just give them 20 years and they'll be an excellent country when people start voting for their interests.

[@confidentminaj]

They been after the mother land

[@jeanrochefort5402]

jaurais pas attendu dattaquer lentreprise pour demenager

[@AnthonyGarlic-tr9br]

The father said go home with your family.

[@osawaruekhorutomwen]

nice

[@cars9969]

Thank God I don't buy any gold diamonds it is full of evils.

[@IssaZiqubu]

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.

[@evansmensah8682]

Any Ghanaian here?

[@francismarie3875]

Pour descendre a 3de pH ca doit etre tres concentré en merde

[@travelwithtony5767]

Today those god bars are worth double the amount, topping a cool $1 million dollars, each. 👍👍

[@abcdefg02]

😔😔😔😔😔🌎🌎🌎🌎

[@bekkerbosbeer3453]

Why don't the french Rather fix the mess in their own country

[@francismarie3875]

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

[@sharonlabiche]

Can they take any more from our people? 😢

[@calinoubb38]

So they needed a YT journalist AND SCIENTIST from abroad to start noticing...EUH WTF I CANT FOLLOW WITH THIS. BUT AT LEAST NOW WE KNOW THAT JUST FOR THE ADORATION OF GOLD EVIL WORKS BUT IS THAT SOMETHING NEW TAKING PLACE. NO. IT SHALL END IT SHALL END PERIOD.

[@AnthonyGarlic-tr9br]

We are not allowed to look at colored books 📚📚.

[@DawnDeJongh]

And the rich get richer

[@MariaVice-x1m]

Dis verskriklik

[@MauriceMineo]

No SA is lekka. Nothing wrong. Land of milk and honey. New Zimbabwe. Place of gold. A new Nigeria place of wealth. No SA is ok don't worry

[@AnthonyGarlic-tr9br]

Only black and white 🤍🐻‍❄️🤍🐻‍❄️🤍.