South Africa's Toxic Townships

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  • čas přidán 8. 07. 2024
  • 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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Komentáře • 41

  • @bonganindwandwe1774
    @bonganindwandwe1774 Před 21 dnem +20

    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
      @jordanmntungwa3311 Před 4 dny

      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
      @jordanmntungwa3311 Před 4 dny

      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

  • @beckyjo8745
    @beckyjo8745 Před 23 dny +19

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

  • @randynesbit4497
    @randynesbit4497 Před 22 dny +5

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

  • @grofodsumadije3952
    @grofodsumadije3952 Před 22 dny +5

    Responsible is corrupt government.

  • @sburger1146
    @sburger1146 Před 15 dny +1

    These mines should be held accountable. Thank you!

  • @iandemontfort4276
    @iandemontfort4276 Před 22 dny +4

    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.

  • @marceloolavarria84
    @marceloolavarria84 Před 23 dny +4

    This companies are so irresponsables 🤬😡😡😡😡

    • @mogamatyusufmartin9171
      @mogamatyusufmartin9171 Před 10 dny

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

  • @helenduplessis4166
    @helenduplessis4166 Před 17 dny +1

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

  • @C.kMotaung-nq6tz
    @C.kMotaung-nq6tz Před 23 dny +2

    Same thing here in Evander mpumalanga😢😢

  • @stephanfree250
    @stephanfree250 Před 23 dny +2

    Great work keep it up please 😊

  • @alyssakriel9477
    @alyssakriel9477 Před 13 dny

    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.

  • @TRICK-OR-TREAT236
    @TRICK-OR-TREAT236 Před 23 dny +3

    PURE GREED

  • @FRESHPRINCEYAKASI
    @FRESHPRINCEYAKASI Před 16 dny +1

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

  • @oliverwalker5954
    @oliverwalker5954 Před 22 dny +1

    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
      @suh-guy Před 21 dnem +1

      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.

    • @user-vs6zw9tc3v
      @user-vs6zw9tc3v Před 19 dny +1

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

    • @user-vs6zw9tc3v
      @user-vs6zw9tc3v Před 19 dny +1

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

  • @user-mp6sq7jb9j
    @user-mp6sq7jb9j Před 23 dny +5

    Hello everyone from Thailand.

  • @ndabajay1626
    @ndabajay1626 Před 16 dny +2

    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..

  • @End_Illegal_Apartheid_israel

    oh wow

  • @osawaruekhorutomwen
    @osawaruekhorutomwen Před 17 dny

    nice

  • @amarsanaagalbadrah4144
    @amarsanaagalbadrah4144 Před 23 dny +2

    Africans need education and democracy

    • @shuddR
      @shuddR Před 22 dny

      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.

    • @tsheposeeletso6475
      @tsheposeeletso6475 Před 17 dny

      Africa is not a country 😒

  • @user-ui6dd9vk3y
    @user-ui6dd9vk3y Před 23 dny

    Dis verskriklik

  • @bretfisher7286
    @bretfisher7286 Před 23 dny +3

    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
      @bushwhackeddos.2703 Před 23 dny

      Lol

    • @موسى_7
      @موسى_7 Před 21 dnem

      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.

  • @user-vs6zw9tc3v
    @user-vs6zw9tc3v Před 19 dny

    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.