South Africa's Toxic Townships

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

[bonganindwandwe]

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 🤮

[beckyjo]

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

[norahmvelase]

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 ❤

[randynesbit]

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

[sburger]

These mines should be held accountable. Thank you!

[chumanimgijimachumani]

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

[DieisoJay-przw]

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.

[youbrokeitwefixit]

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.

[iandemontfort]

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.

[C.kMotaung-nqtz]

Same thing here in Evander mpumalanga😢😢

[ndabajay]

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..

[marceloolavarria]

This companies are so irresponsables 🤬😡😡😡😡

[zedianerkatwishi]

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’.

[Lischlee]

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

[alyssakriel]

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.

[josephinedurimel-caplain]

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

[Pokemon_lugia-tceg]

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

[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

[kudzaimutasa]

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

[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.