Transcripts For ALJAZ South Africa Toxic City 20240714

Cities across jan students have come out to protest and condemn the violence that happened in the city of a lady in north korea and on monday morning now its not Just High School students who are protesting there are also civilians as well as University Students there saying that there should be justice and accountability for the deaths of at least 5 protesters including 4 High School Students now most of these protests as per activists have been met with tear gas in the cities of the 2 and a live ammunition in the city of durham and there is concerns there are concerns from the protesters that there will be more deaths but theyre saying that they will not stop with their protests theyre also demanding that the Opposition Coalition is the forces for freedom and change all talks with the military council now the 2 sides are negotiating to try to calm the Transitional Government but the opposition has halted those talks for today which are they were expected to meet later but most of them have gone to the town of obaid to meet with the families of those who were killed yesterday now the justice are saying that if talks continue without justice and accountability there then they will lose faith in the protesters and theyre demanding that the opposition to a harder stance a tougher stance in terms of the deaths that have happened so right now the Opposition Coalition is caught up between the Transitional Military Council and were just on the streets who they represent and are near as u. S. Senators have failed to stop the sale to saudi arabia and the United Arab Emirates many politicians a policy the sale saying the weapons could be here is to again civilians and yemen the man accused of planning the september 11th attacks says he may be willing to help the victims of the north so twitch and ledgers saudi arabia was behind it and return Khalid Shaikh mohammed reportedly bomb the u. S. Government to not seek the Death Penalty against him the british pound has fallen to its lowest level against the. In almost 2 and a half years economists warn the currency could for further as the likelihood of the u. K. Leaving the European Union without a deal increases british Prime Minister boss johnson wants a new breaks of deal with the e. U. Leaders hes refusing to meet them until they agree to renegotiate. He wants a deal demanding such a high price for that deal the removal of the dreaded Northern Ireland backstop that the e. U. Are almost certainly not going to comply leading this country is not inevitable irreversibly certainly forcefully towards that no deal breaker that investors are pricing into the value of the pound the concern of course there are no deal breakers it would so chaos on Financial Markets the World Economy this is the biggest the 5th biggest economy in the world it could tip britain into recession the hallway says it seen a shopping jump in revenue up 23 percent in the 1st 6 months of the seer suggesting u. S. Sanctions arent slowing the chinese tech giant yet while weighs at the center of the trade war between the worlds 2 largest economies the us president blacklisted the company in may blocking its access to u. S. Suppliers trade talks between the u. S. And china are now resuming in shanghai protesters in hong kong have caused a rush hour chaos by disrupting subway trains demonstrators stop the carriage doors from closing preventing trains from departing with some stations swell to capacity as protests to stay put buses were boarded to allow travelers to continue their journeys a battle between rival gangs in a jail in brazil has led to the deaths of at least 57 prisoners 16 were beheaded others died when their cells were set on fire 2 Staff Members taken hostage were eventually released following the riot bush lasted 5 hours those are the headlines south africa toxic city is coming up next thank you for watching. At 1st glance they could be the remains of an ancient civilization. An eye catching natural phenomenon. These strange hills surround johannas back. The largest city in south africa. But their beauty is deceptive and toxic. In fact the dunes are made up of mining waste. From. The leftovers of south africas most profitable industries. And within the life some disturbing secrets. Now it seems that heart wrenching journalists must time to do has uncovered the shocking truth of exactly whats in these mind tapes and just how deadly they may be. Sunrise america river basin. One of south africas largest freshwater reserves. Bridget corrigan is a botanist. And a specialist in the regions biodiversity. This is a very special catchment for a lot of reasons if its not a unique but a very city from not just the terrestrial but also the 1st one of our diversity is very special its got about 14 species of fish and a lot of really endemic species of invertebrates and quite insects that contribute to the health of the sort of this river system. There about 200 trees species in america. Thats 17 of them. And about 400. 00 in a bird species. It is a National Treasure and the north west doesnt have a lot of these River Systems a lot of the systems in this province are heavily degraded. The crown jewel of this is not true treasure lies just a few paddle strokes upstream. A sanctuary hidden at the heart of the reserve. This is america i or the source of america river. And the water bubbles up from big underground what to kevins at that point of the day the water is clear is anything very low conduct 70 which means theres no salt is not pollutants in this in the system its really very very pure. The water is Crystal Clear but it might not stay that way. Recently the Mining Industry has become interested in the areas subsoil which is full of Precious Minerals its regarded as a 10 mining payments for things like. Compass over gold in the region so does pose a risk yeah this place is definitely at risk and its you know we would like to see those places as an absolute no guy for mining if you pollute this this area this this underground aquifer. You cant just get that back its not going to come back. So could the marco river basin one day resemble the other desolate landscapes left behind by the South African Mining Industry. Like these flat lands dyed red by chemicals. Or these mined tailings in the midst of south africas forestalling and. Some of them date back to 886 when gold was 1st discovered and understood motown culture comes back. From that point on the Mining Industry began to deposit its to breed all around the city and more and more waste piles of beheading often only a few dozen metres from residents homes. Some of the may look as innocent to sandy use but they are mine tailings the slag heaps of years of extraction and digging for gold i dont go over there to scare. Away. The day it comes or is here a whole year its run as was the day i. Suppose i was out to see ball a pussy ass with. The project i would prefer interest over i dont even trust president assad. Drop sort of at the plutocrats wants to drive is brutal. Core still to discuss and mature enough to do. So what does it mean for those living next to these dunes. Like yeah thats me. So does the wind come from the mind savings it flows this side of the rose this side or this side from just a tiny dylan mimi is a mother of 5 she spent all her life in the shadow of one of the largest mining dumps in the country its residue is everywhere. So the neighborhood has become one huge psalm. 22 your quote from the. Sun times yes your eyes becomes ok this is not if you go to the to new day this choice is some mix some chemical in the act so im advising you to take not to go to mine because its too big its unhealthy at the same time to go you must think it or. Leave it you go busy to. A few months ago tiny dylan mean he wanted to find out how many people in her neighborhood of over a 1000 residents were unwell so she knocked on almost every duel this house had as keith. This house the model the owner of this house as i just told them this one you come here often here each and every man no women or child around here is coughing has a pope him of coughing as appropriate his skin some of them up only take from the man who. Says. He them i want to test in your question i will run off with a. Question that needs. Over one and a half 1000000 South Africans live in townships like this. At the foot of mine tailings mountains. Thats the south of it gets into our 4th week this past week the brink this that so that is why so many people are here this is the silence. 7 this dust doesnt just make people vomit or cough several children in the neighborhood suffer from severe Neurological Disorders. I dont believe you know for years you know if you live. You know i live it. Is 6 years old. She suffers from a paralyzing brain disease are you doing well lately however her family saying the tondo was born perfectly healthy the problems arose soon after the roof of the house was under repair at the time and the dust from the mine heaps cotton specially this dust you pull your kid in the piece that before you sleep you must face. That and everyone kids oh yeah a few weeks later the 1st signs of illness appeared in the years since the tundra has been unable to. Communicate with her. When she she was to be changed. Yeah and then she she kicks it is ok they are all new issue as she has to go as it reaches she kisses him and she screams all. Day you know she has to go say you want to. Poverty has always prevented the family from being able to prove a link between attenders illness and the mind dust but they are no doubt if there are other fields like under our own i was the same symptoms same Health Issues yet i do know in day theres a pinch out there its going to grow the only problem is that they are ashamed of their kids all and here they dont want anybody knowing of our day kids in this situation theres 2 of them open houses in the in the same street for them to have them though many of them you know personally personally strange is something that have made you only find them here this is actually centered it in my angel to them out today taking them to today day to day so bad if you go of out of any distance from here in eve you me will never find the key. To find out whether the dust from the nearby mine tailings really is the cause of peace illnesses. Must climb snake park hill. It has been abandoned ever since the mine was closed. Access is supposedly forbidden theres nobody guarding the site which extends over 4 square kilometers while im out of the all succeeding the foremost was rivers each. Day so then to me it turned to this it. Was a major. Must take 500 grams of the sun. The dust thats blowing over the village below. On the way down he finds a green lake at the foot of the slope. Its used mostly to arrogated adjacent farmland or residents also give it to their livestock sometimes their children even bay the net the songs were. Ok or if i could put in will do. For the. Applause of the news media have put it. Frankly linda is professor of environmental studies at Northwestern University in south africa can see me. Linda is also an expert on mining illusion the government the World Health Organization writes with his help has developed a scientific her took a test kit for different wood to pollutants yes so im at the bottom of the mine turnings theres some water all around i was wondering which parameters fish do you think i should analyze 1st in the water finding. Tricks translate to. Elevate. Ok. I. Thought it would seem recently gone by. So. Many down but in point of missouri. I think we just. Take a. Look at mike. Us. So i think its likely. That your son Community College just so you know it was. Says all the. Images from him and theyre going to continue to pose for then. Its impossible to analyze everything there and then so must takes another sample to check for more pollutants later. But the tests have already thrown out some serious questions. After some convincing one of the countrys top 3 gold produces agrees to a meeting. The 1st of the. Goldfields 8750 kilograms of gold was mined at the site last year. The team cant go underground into the mine itself the company will only allow them to film surface operations we get all from from the stuff. But at night you will see on the front back theres some of. The stuff presently we are doing a plus minus 5500. 00 tons. A day i mean we have reaching out on 300. 00 tons valid depends on a lot of viability and how many times of those there are. So there or that you see on the still fall is i mean at the boss minus 5 days but done thats always currently. Only 5 grams of gold for each ton of mind thats a remarkable ratio. And it means a huge amount of residue to be disposed of. The precious metal is separated from the rest of the and then heated in these killings. Only to make those there we used to im i sit in a sauna thats still pretty nice i can make those you know prices and the quarter mega nice and silly got. The concession that c. P. R. So you add all of these together with these with the ball. The last stage is the cost at 800. 00 degrees celsius for 40 minutes. The end result gold falls. At 84 percent purity each weighs in at just over 16 kilograms and is worth around 538000. 00. Goldfields makes 5 of these gold balls a week. Producing 16200 tons of residue you equivalent to the weight of 2 of frances eiffel towers. The company has wasted human lives here on this he said constantly 24 hours a day by these pipelines connected to the factory. Within a few years this hail will become another Steep Mountain of debris reaching up to 70 meters high. Andrew passons and Stephen Joseph are its grand architects. Whats in there. What is its. Well its its whats left over from there from the extraction process its the rock that. Held the gold. And whats left behind off the gold has been removed so its silica and and other materials its a sand. And. And other metals but many silica is there and you have the missiles for example there. Would be trace amounts but but very small concentrations some and some of the gold ores there is your random sauce deep has very little uranium minutes or so. Theres very little uranium and in this in the stomach you. Can really. Not offhand i think the numbers around about 40 to 50 grams a tonne 40 to 50 annually south African Mining companies extract 10 times more uranium than gold the uranium is then abandoned leaving behind radioactive mined tailings so the kind of control you do the samples you are talking about is on daily basis the gold from both of them. But the radiation 5th of may be. Ok or. Over time the waste produced by south africas gold industry has formed increasingly large radioactive heaps dumped outside in the open at. According to official estimates the mine tailings surrounding johannesburg now contain an astounding 600000 tons of uranium the quantities are so high that in reality the mountains of waste should be classified by the state as Nuclear Installations they should be confined and secured and kept at least 500 meters away from any residential area but those rules are routinely ignored as here into the shaft a township with over 20000 residents. Of. Bruno sherry ron is an engineer in Nuclear Physics and an expert from korea ratched a Research Association on radioactivity when i was i was government on the. Same thought they were. Then i visit us. That commercial school shaken by what she was going to seduce that there will be a little bit. Also paul not just on the well you know office all the moves you want to take to sort of you know im a quidditch sort of group on television i mean to depict it. I know my point of view the scene i just shot there young man get him up it even to be able. To do is to get your in you do risk. Deployed in your she thought of us of a young mom and shes. Going to join in our corn meal i dont is wrong but you dont want your little to do when this point 3000000 because you owe and you cannot sell gounder skin for 3 years in a cell with a country town lets work on the us because you will see for. Just one. And only because you want to force me to try. And they said. To you can find us. Do you think it was only. 4. 100 would be too close only let it go to the. Master has discovered that radioactivity levels here are close to those in the exclusion zone around the site of the 96 Nuclear Disaster he follows the grazing animals to eric from gomez nearby farm. Era keeps around 40 goats and a few sheep none of which seem to live very long lead them up about if they last week thats week by 01 months and months of all yeah well yeah and do you do you have a lot of baby though most because of your money why do these show then said its for success this is the. Eric wants to show us the most common symptom amongst his flock. They want to. Know whos behind. Them but a muslim know what you must. But this is the fungible what is. It in. The mind so all you. Want to learn and it cost. And i met. So when you see these every day what do you think. Was the motion and. I would go and talk about to you but its just the bins. It seems as though erics goats have radiation sickness but evidence is needed. Because we are close to the mind savings farm that money will look really sick i mean according to you do you own or do you think we should just have some bowl of the animals. Just like. What it takes 5 samples from 2 goats intended to be used for Meat Consumption including one who is blind he was looking. I come up with the results of the china factor i think struck thanks so you but i. Must turn takes the samples to be tested at south africas council the scientific and industrial research. Your views the water undertakings just across the years it is used as a rigorous what urges Us Immigration and also for almost a drink we also learn from our. Samples train job is done with the soil was contaminated as look at new competitors and so what can you what can you look for as almost all of that ever demand goes by did and then containment i was like yo yo now im your lead you know what i say make we shop in trucks and can basically when. We need an expert to get them in order once we get them then and trays and go right. As he waits for the analysis must time returns to the investigation in part 2. As the shocking results come in he shares the news with some of those affected and comes face to face with an Industry Insider what i found particularly scandals to take the worst possible material which is youre a me im grind it into dust comparable to flour and make a hill out of it and put it into a place where people live it is a colossal bad idea. Thanks. Get closer to the sea altogether f. C. 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And ominous of a problem in doha with the headlines on aljazeera there are reports saddams Security Forces are using live ammunition against protesters gathering and on their mom near the capital for thousands of people are joining mass rallies across the country 5 demonstrators including 4 students were shot dead by police on monday the growing anger has forced the head of the military gender to respond saying the killing of peaceful students is a crime that requires immediate accountability have a morgan has the latest from neighboring ethiopia. Anger can be seen and heard on the streets in courts and various of the cities across. Students have come out to protest and condemn the violence that happened. On monday morning now its not Just High School students who are protesting there are also civilians as well as University Students there saying that there should be justice and accountability for the deaths of at least 5 protesters including for High School Students now most of these protests as for activists have been met with tear gas. And live ammunition in the city of durham and there is concerns there are concerns from the group that says that there will be more deaths u. S. Senators have failed in their bid to stop the sale to saudi arabia and the United Arab Emirates many politicians oppose the sale saying the weapons could be used against civilians in yemen. The man accused of planning the september 11th attacks says he may be willing to help the victims in a lawsuit which alleges saudi arabia was behind it and returned Khalid Shaikh muhammad reportedly wants the u. S. Government to not seek the Death Penalty against him. The british pound has fallen to its lowest level against the dollar almost 2 and a half years economists warn the currency could for further as the likelihood of the u. K. Leaving the European Union without a deal increases Prime Minister Abbas Johnson wants a new breaks that deal with e. U. Leaders hes refusing to meet them until theyre going to renegotiate protests in hong kong have caused a rush hour chaos by disrupting subway trains demonstrators stopped carriage doors from closing preventing trains from departing stations swelled to capacity as a protest to stay put buses were bought and to allow travelers to continue their journeys those are the headlines on aljazeera south africa talks success he continues next. Thank. You. Hanks. Thank. Hank. Hundreds of strange mounds lie scattered around Johannesburg South africas most populous city but they arent a natural phenomenon they are mine tailings waste heaps left over from south africas hugely profitable gold industry. Many are also said to be dangerously toxic awash with heavy metals poisons and radioactive debris. With expert help french journalists must time to do is getting that content scientifically analyzed. But one night while he waits for the results he gets a mysterious Voicemail Message along lock your. Money where your around girls are under the bridge in their mind well i worked at an environmental challenges for a while and i would very much appreciate you you know youre going to come around again i will work about it thank you very much. The message is from a geologist and eagle club chick after a 20 year career in the Mining Industry has now left it disgusted by the industrys failure to have his warnings about dealing with its waste ill tell you what i found particularly scandals to take the worst possible material which is you radium grind it into dust comparable to flour and make a hill out of it and put it into place where people live that is a cause colossally bad idea when you when you said what was the only way you doing reports where you listened at that time i will have written lots of reports i must have some sort of a record in emails probably over the over 100 so after a while you know i was explained look what you are proposing costs money i mean 1st of all you have to become the contaminant. The land that is number one number 2 you can actually pump tailings all the way back where you got them from the would up just a few percent of cement and you can get rid of tailings this way is a basically you put it to normal you put it back to where it was and how does it make you feel when you see it is local communities complaining about that or their Health Problem doesnt make you fear makes you feel like a murderer. What we have done like i said we have created an enormous and were mental disaster if we were you know growing potatoes and we made and went to mental disaster along the side it would be different we would say ok were feeding the nation or the gold Mining Industry do it in a reached a small percentage of people so we have produced gold which is the most useless thing you know whole world it feeds human greed it has no uses and yet we have made him probably one of the biggest and one mental disasters in the world. So yes i do i do feel like like a murderer as eagles disturbing would sing head master heads back to sea from everett from goma. His current century possible signs of radioactive poisoning now the test results for the animals are being delivered and person by frank bender. The janice but professor farmer studies also one of the vote were joined by name is frank frank and. The professor has come to see erics livestock for himself. The test results a clear material from the nearby mine tailings has contaminated eriks phones and uranium isnt the only problem. For example manganese would be quite significantly elevated in your in your water sample over 2 cells times what would what one would find in natural water sources we do have we do have an ego being elevated to sars in times of authentic this elevated 50 times and zinc as a 500 ok to most lets say indicative metal for mining impacts and that is you are a new in those tailings that is about 10 times what you would see in a Natural Environment 10 times as much so what you what you analyzed in your water you did the bud 100. 00 times more than one would find it on polluted difficult Pristine Waters off of. A farm surrounded by pollution which is just. Its animals badly contaminated and. Its disturbing news. The health of your goat yeah shows the highest levels of war so. Overall and. You see uranium is 60 times for elevated but all the lead is that elevated to 80 times meaning almost 100. 00 times above whats normal thats the same was cobalt thats the same as ours and make 3 and a 600 times one nickel but maybe you didnt know if you know it is going to says ok all right i can have all of the yes you can have its all yours but soldiers. For nailing him down for you fly me. My lifestyle died prematurely townships which children have Neurological Disorders and suffer from terrible coughing fits. That all the medical links between poor health and mining and so clear cut. Stoff at the screen open Health Clinic might have some odd sense. Among their patients is. Its the 3rd time this month that my youngest son has taken an l. Ok. All right there is no. Need to let you know its too much of yourself it was ages of us and mike is not to let you go to the stylist is wonderful because of them dont know. So hes got yours. The baby has called brocade shes. I was just into school and science sometimes we see the worst so you get a child with a cough like the one that i just saw. She was having chest in drawings of course it does because of the dust is something that you will see on daily average yes you have been here youve got number of cases not to really there should be a study like you were mentioning is that everybody who are living through their minds if we get a lot of those patients i think definitely we have to do real estate. Astonishingly the South African state has never conducted a study to understand the impact of mine tailings on the population. But can. You catch up with you again. Back and have township at the foot of the mine down and out connecting with. Ok lets go oh its. Very heavy so you have to do this every day. This is your house ok tunisias the small shack with her 4 children. In langley. Is ignorant as saying oh i like. To play lenses im up on the corner quinola is it a corner quinola youll get the last pictures and they were this tiny cabin provide some shelter from the rain but not from the pollution. And her children live only a few doesnt need to is from the mine dumps where earlier i had measured radioactivity levels 28 times higher than the norm. She agrees to provide has samples to test what level of contamination but the response to. The book will agree that a new. Long songs pinay director of the institute for research and scientific expertise in strasburg comes online if you will include on the team you know. His cover will come on do you come and then hes commotion to pull. It in yeah if you blow or secured your gale norton im just you know me. Im still me i dont. Know she. Is one of the sort. 3 of want to put in a bit will. Say quote im into the yes you could fall and then there is this food kind of love. You put in culture get your lucky takes you still from. Nashville sure look back look at hobarts love that they dont pay you well. Right if you turn. Right that should be more than enough. For us and then. Use them all and then you would put. We got to the mosque itself did you like this want to. Go next. Or a perfect. Master has also taken to has song from the time to whom we matched. The little girl suffering from year old to suit a moving look. This is one of a lot of thinking so done little. To look beautiful. Ah. And then more 10 in total from other residents living near the mine tailings and sent them via express mail to professor penny in france. Once again theyll be a few days of waiting for the results. In the meantime goes looking for gold. Some of south africas most profitable export is used in the Electronics Industry some of it is used for investment but most of it ends up as drury yet to the websites of the worlds major Luxury Brands a curiously silent about the sources of the gold. That both you know jennifer was full of those that are. Nor any of them seem to respond to questions show that theres one of them called just how to yell matilda clearly because you dont know how good the flow of the lives can for the job business comes from them on this one is of utmost importance she is really going to communicate but leave it dont you for the mother was one time was a good moment when the mongia federal police each of them to call from the city to indeed not one jewelry brand agrees to provide details of whether gold comes from. Medicare and then you can you go bust and question the reason the italian brand is the 3rd largest jeweler in the world and it certainly seems to be using a lot of gold. Its time to go shopping. Who carries headquarters in. Johannesburg located in sun city among some of the most expensive real estate on the african continent in a luxurious Shopping Mall made by the company displays one of its finest pieces a gold and diamond necklace costing almost 70 8700. 00. But again no one hand seems to know where that gold had been sourced and we wanted to know whether. Here in the National Gallery you knew where the gold comes from if you can talk about it its called the gold yeah the gold you use in your jewelry. Or you know i you know the ones here that are ok dont you think it is kind of a surprising that you dont know where to go comes from the caribbean so here you believe me to tell you you know ok ive heard of the. Of the consequences of mali a gold mine says i forgot that for example the mind savings uses when you burn injuries better environment to learn to know but. Thats just sorry isnt better stuff ive heard of the 1st word where you know. Her thank you very much for you ill come. Back in a world overshadowed by the waste dumps of south africas a vast gold Mining Industry. People are gathering in a church hall. Tiny the activist has come to syria to exist and. Their drugs on people with here. So to have all the children whose has something smashed on has taken for testing. What has spread and even the National Media present. Everyone wants to know what the scientists have concluded. What thank you so much again for being here today i really appreciate the fact that youve come quite a long way to be here must all run through the results gleaned from soil and guts samples and then you cools off and sap the name and stress plant in charge of analyzing the levels of heavy metal spout in the human head thats been gathered more recover somewhat only we dont know it and i suppose a huge tree i think youre totally belsen was a really sure who. Was a very nice you dont know oh it was else you it is. You that you will. 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From the mine tailings is full of heavy metals the level of all snake for example is 330. 00 times higher than the norm the water is full of uranium 100. 00 times the international limit the goats are infected their fur contains 83 times more lead than those living far away from the mine tailings and as for the residents some of the children show 64 times more exposure to lead 5 times more exposure to your ania and 4 times more exposure to us nic than the average french person even jesus into easy to mean we eat is dangerous for it. Can cause celeb can we do. It. Looks. A lot but usually you dont. Even know shed miss it you know you for. One. Moment and. I think the only. Is this one normal and this is not all those people that are really. Blows minds are seriously the scientists who can be sending us things weve had enough of this mans exposing us all so we are building now to elude you once again from a shortage of the vision there was a. You know weve lost because of insufficient evidence but now were dead documented in the youre doing now youd lose the universe. Will know whats. Do you very much want to see. As residents begin planning their next move. Including a possible legal claim against the Mining Companies. Matha obtains an interview with the chamber of mines. The industrys association for some of south africas most powerful mining concerns. Oneill says will probably prevail sixs if someone demeanor look good enough to just shoot someone just as soon as you are emma and extend to put on the you sometimes now for. Almost 120 years later steffi runs the lincoln is ations antipollution department on string for those issues that the gold producing families do not want to address individually regarding the Environmental Impact of the Mining Industry and do you think its its going in there on the right track on the gridley. Yes there is significant Good Progress achieved this far in terms of my Main Companies dealing effectively with Environmental Impact hows the chamber of mine ever conducted Human Health Impact assessment regarding the tellings to mine 2 things not not that im well ok so we dont so much. Then shows the same scientific analysis that he has shared with the residents back in the township we never heard about that and i dont know ok. What does that make you think now its quite concerning for me and i think something should be done do you think that the Mining Industry that you were present have a responsibility in these numbers. I think it is with our Members Company is mindless we do have the responsibility. Do you live close to the mind. Why not even me. I mean most of the its i mean most of the i mean those guys they follow and attainments is not the way around they choose to go and stay there thing that people believe are on the tape these tapings does huge things around drones producing theyre safe theyre not safe. At all theres a lot of. Environmental risks as when the safety of risks and why do you think youve been clean over all these years of yes to something should be done for the tailings that our own bellman when you when you Say Something do you think its something way of what is it about eating the media and of the have been tahsin of those should get rid of the yes i think we need an all vote all Management Strategy as the industry and obviously in putting up with government. So what does the government have to say. South africas environment minister declines to be interviewed. And his office says that the subject is not his area of expertise. The ministry of health on the other hand is very interested. In the evil. Is director of the National Institute for Occupational Health 1000. 00. Fundamentally this is of great importance to demonstrate that the levels are so much high and that there will be negative Health Effects on the children and really one of the real tragedies east coast of the 2nd why the money has not been prioritized we need to make sure that mines and other workplaces dont continue to contaminate the Living Environment for communities and so on. You know would you like a copy or we would absolutely love to have a copy because you see we dont have this we dont have it in and then we can go in with our medical teams and perhaps have a sample of those who have got higher levels. Of these different heavy metals and uranium and go in more physical examination do blood tests do urine tests and monitor their. The South African government will soon begin a major study on the Health Impacts of mining pollution. But time is of the essence in 2017 Mining Companies extracted 130 tons of gold from South African soil. Producing 27000000 600000 tons of supplementary waste. More ways to be produced next year and the next one and the one after that. There are still 35 years remaining of exploitable gold reserves in south africa. How many move it dims will have to be in that time before people realize that life is more precious than gold. Hello the weather is looking pretty quiet across a good pots of south america my little bit of cloud just pulling away from the reply process guys coming back in behind temperatures getting up to around 17 celsius there in that want to be a 20 degrees f. Or santiago is 17 as well full of pass and we go to clear skies as we go through choose day the wetter weather because of fog north of the continent and some of those big shadows theyll pull away further south up towards the apostle brazil but says any cause venezuela colombia pushing over towards panama but sea want to see big showers as we go on through the next couple of days just some showers to just around the the Leeward Islands we got a fair bit of cloud pushing over to wards Dominican Republic is fine and dry for trinidad and tobago brought about by this as well temperatures here around 31 degrees celsius the sweater weather will just creep its way across the great around to this is we go on name to wednesday haiti briefly wet keep missing some lavish as not even catch your shot just making its way into jamaica kingston with a top temperature of around 32 degrees cooler just left here some of the wet weather making its way across the Central Plains of the u. S. 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