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some of the largest mining companies in africa, b, h. p, bulletin, anglo american extra, and barrick, these american australian and european companies. so they pockets to the tune of an estimate for the $335000000000.00 us dollars. they exploits africa and africans who largely of mineral resources. hello and welcome to this week's african now. so i'm paul is clear and in this week's episode, weeks to the effects of western companies who and they greed to make a big back in africa, leave behind more than just mining company to take a foreign company, 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 cripple generations to come. i'm in

the 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 di, although the mind is now closed for years, environmental had sounded the alarm resident know to, well, these health hazards. they face mother his date close on this place. he date, who doesn't and save it less diagnosed with tv or so then they told me that that that 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's laws do not come off, i have to take them to the medication. for today they came into the doctor to see

what is wrong with them. and no result. they had to tell me what is extra run with make sure that people of pee yourself have been here since 1995. ah, to do something for miles circumvent is as old as democracy in our country. and he says, all does it say remembrance commission. it is very, very unfortunate that i've got 25 years of democracy in our country. the people are still living in this opinion condition, directtv. you think it is dangerous to as to because of we in hailey then that they told us that he's gonna, he's gonna head dives. he's when the key is burning and stuff on the stomach and it raises to the throat burns. and then sometimes the fuel get 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 weighed pimples under them on the bed looked. and then they, they, their skin get fresh. it sometimes it becomes like, well, the skin color changes. am a traditional doctor. i assume maybe sometimes it is because of their chicken sandwich, lee. oh maybe. yes, ma'am. marcus lee. then i give them the medicine. they kick me if i give them medicine referred to drink in their system, but i realize that the, it doesn't stop it, the pay stubs for that time, but they can choose to come again. we just in haley that same every now and, and every now and in that the so i that,

that thing is coming that total to close our, our land. sometimes you can place quickly, the standard of living is very poor and we are living on top of mining paintings. we've tried to engage. we have different, you know, municipal departments as far as the consent and there was no log. there was no, i was in our proposals that we made in regard to relocation. i'm not sure the government, the enough because he promised us to be in the 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. yeah. yeah. 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 find some few people. yeah. that's fine. few people there from daddy took no good for people to be. yeah, the see. you need to do something like you really need to. yes. you've been yeah. i think that area, it's dangerous, but i didn't get the idea where i can go because the people, when you come in for this, you know, and, and i don't people, you can buy. so we, we do for the people to trying to how to get this 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. they come to confirm their rotation studies and their whereby they gave us a recommendation that according to the levels of blood and the volume,

will you run your mia? there is no one is allowed to live in this place. rose yes, i believe. 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 gave way with it? my reach me for ring from the foundation for safe environment. shades hurtful shots, africa entering f because isa hunger for economic development. and obviously there are also and mining companies or in the fish or shade august that which exploits the founder for economic development. in south africa, we have a convent legislation. however, we had it fictionally, poor enforcement of non compliance with our gauges nation in the east of africa, saturated namibia, ordering and motor tanya or m d r c. they might not be such a nice today to selection. and of course,

also the put inforcement. so that result is also in the exploitation of mining companies because that with the resulting in the extra ny sation of negative impacts wing ivy 1st to externalize action of negative impacts. what often would happen is that the, you line him or at the mythos would be extracted. i back been asked of mine, co share all decommissioning of mine when my niece would be gazing maintenance, often dos impacts, which would last for in this case. if you guys in 2 logical ages noticed 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 institute. 80 s

ways they are 400000 person living which are afflicted by the you guy. him. we would anticipate that they would be a high risk for the 3 students because they often as high. i b, m. i think teachers put on the tooth malnutrition, septic substance abuse, so that all we have in the community to be baby vulnerable. the challenge yet is that the national nuclear act that interprets its mandate very narrowly. it's only a few like mine sat. it does not take you like the i do active mine the races due to the bosses and jackie, the challenge, as i explained, we have 380 and i do active monterey cities is currently in the office right now. that is now in hacking south africa. if this issue that we must decrease is

that they should be sufficient. the abilene station funds for mining companies, not only to reach the current in fact, but also 2 or 3 days. and i think order to do that. thanks, including the something i treatment of extraneous up against. it was this at the moment. if you didn't say by government at home, some of the minute camp denisa more responsible mining companies to increase closure. i do all that i do active or you can if that is why they are the feel invited me to north africa in south africa. we has of course a value of it automates a lot of the automated doors all out put enforcements. i think africa is not the lot. i think some of the unscrupulous mon, the company explodes as full as he's already being experienced. we find in

communities we, we work that the, the animosity at growing and anger against some of the money companies, especially since mani companies to move on leaving gaping house in the ground, the eustace rivers. and i'm in each disruptive community. it takes 100 yes. for soil 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 closed down, become waste. just like this one behind me. they say that a nation that can rebuild its coil can rebuild itself, but the prospects for african countries remain bleach. pizza 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. peter, 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 are giving people jobs. so we should have a preference for companies with lots of money that are going to do lots of the nasty, the big mining company. these are actually the best at that because they've done it . many of them for over a 100100 years. what we're see, you know, in a lot of africa because it's risky because it's unstable. we're not getting very many big whining companies. whereas 50 years ago we got

a lot more. so we're getting lots of little mining companies, supposedly mining companies are getting a lot of nickel dime. 7 on pause shop once a, once a mafia, 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 san gall and. 5 gonna 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 the gold mining just devastates the countryside ruins farmland. 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 think got some pretty good research your thought on. yes, thanks. my team has burke him office. 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 are as follows, you around us and yes, diseases. a burke hello service.

i want to think jaundra theory. yeah. you know what comes from through each? it's not just people are exposed to hazardous waste. they're exposed to hazardous bacteria. they're exposed to social disease. yeah, it runs rampant. you know, you have water caps, there's not enough ventilation. there's not enough grainy. there's not enough sunlight 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, confirming quite often. and so all the social diseases are, are rapid. there are drawing rapidly and it's hard to control what landry

visitations 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 talk through to the last? well just of mercury is deadly. the big money. 6 companies are pretty good at neutralizing cyanide, almost within days when they put that in a big pile. damn. they are neutralizing the site as it goes in there. but illegal whining and some standard winding got neutralizing the side i. it can be very toxic . employees know some 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 is not being done, especially by the smaller, below the radar. co call 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 could be wrong president because if we had a president was thinking. 5 like you, this would be one of the hydro best investment destinations on the planet. instead of being upset. if you're exactly right, that the government sets the standards and government shows the standards and they get paid a lot. 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 the power here, most of the responsibility they come hand in hand. and yes, when government less companies come in, but 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 contracts and the 10 years to your friends. government is about doing much more as you pointed out, it's helping helping his communities and it should be the goal be 3, 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 and 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 the chair where a french mining company started mining the country. you rein in 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, confiscated his camera and to be for his materials. he spoke to us on condition of anonymity. sir my local missouri government. edu, who dunker 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 for 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 80 percent . that 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 are being close to these people could be recovered from the state to raise its capital and little them, what 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 by this company. we don't at that a niko period because didn't we go now? to the world's most town, according to police and experts come way, which is 100 kilometers to the north of exam be a capital soccer was one posed to

a quarter of a 1000000 people lead silver. mine is the oldest in the country and dates back to the beginning of the previous century. while already 1956 doctors were warning up high rates of lead poisoning. the mind remained open for another 15 years, only closing down in 1989. international lawyers have comments and filed a lawsuit against anglo american on behalf of the truth and 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 sd, they mailed it, and now eyes you find that the to contains, lead and the lady, the bad to our board, the tissues and to it's easy, applicable to young ones, the depth,

it's their thinking capacity to tell the truth is a beep way out. hopefully they see me thinking they didn't want to inform anybody the out to come of waking the boys and i see places they didn't people where day sometimes you find that somebody made room to be sick as if easy suffering from it and have behavior both you still my kid belgian and becoming sick cost did you? i see inside and it was in these the joints. he the nick, the joints here, the stomach and oh, the movie i bought pats was intact to wendy. somebody goes to was do they 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, many people died, but we're not dordy. why do i? because this boy is enjoying that. he says, oh, he's my grandson for this problem of getting affected with started in 2018. that is when he was day and i was do we think this problem from that time on i used to take him to clinic for treatment, which to about 22 to 3 is the number up to the treatment. it stopped from that time to did the if it's that of in the tell the boy in some,

all short tempered andy, sometimes the answer is roughly so these are the things that i've noticed from him . i'm reminding of our mentor mediation project, to though our bank projects to help with effects of lead in conway. so, so far we have committed a point $5000000.00 in the remediation project. the 1st part of it was due in the car. now basically the conduit where material was moving on the morning from the on my to, to exit to wallace using as a default, as much more that can be done. but at least so far so good. we can choose a genius. we think 100 children delayed as a 6 month period. nicholas and she played from the country and brought into sharp

focus the dangers of mimic processing. okay. respondent lou david has more zone for state in niger risk. nope. is which in minerals like gold, we've been a just engage in mining to leave it mostly just to know we have personal protective equipment while working with gold or other mines and full believe 6 to be applauded with the take home. some people isn't brought into their homes, sick, struck the gold. these strokes content will eat. i want the food was structured, believe bill to be released and spread throughout the house to get up and help to drive gold or expose them to high levels of lead. just as felton and sad feels an outbreak of lead poisoning and at least 7 villages in the state. within 6 months, more than 400 children died in these crisis. the sent shock waves throughout the country and broke into sharp focus, the benches of mineral processing, and then last impoverished every area,

duplication of desist the fuel to both communities where hundreds of people assume affected by lead poisoning unset levels of lead, without inside most of the hopes was from the companies will also had high levels of lead children who survived crisis had dangerous levels of lead in g. a blot she can nail contented 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 responsibilities? 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 fascination world of pmc. private military companies will take you

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