Stealing Africa ⎜WHY POVERTY? ⎜(Documentary)
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- Rüschlikon is a village in Switzerland with a very low tax rate and very wealthy residents. But it receives more tax revenue than it can use. This is largely thanks to one resident - Ivan Glasenberg, CEO of Glencore, whose copper mines in Zambia are not generating a large bounty tax revenue for the Zambians. Zambia has the 3rd largest copper reserves in the world, but 60% of the population live on less than $1 a day and 80% are unemployed. Based on original research into public documents, STEALING AFRICA is an investigative story of global trade and political corruption where money and natural resources only flow one way, and in the meantime poverty becomes harder to escape.
Filmmaker: Christoffer Guldbrandsen
Producer: Henrik Veileborg
Produced by Guldbrandsen Film
Released: 2012
This film was originally released as part of THE WHY series WHY POVERTY?. Learn more about the project: www.thewhy.dk/projects/why-po...
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I’m Zambian. I’ve just stumbled upon this video. This is a whole wealth of information that has never made its way to Zambian televisions.
maybe the gorvernmnet in zambia is ashamed of what they have done by giving country’s resouces to western countryies, only in exchange of a short time benefits. I think if the people in Zambia all realised this, there will be so much anger against the gorvernment. I am just wondering the day when copper ran out in Zambia, what else can be left for this country to keep going?
People checked it out yrs back on the BBC via Dstv. However, most even if they checked it out wudnt understand the content because of literacy or language barrier.
@@charlesmtang.7708 Organize your youth to disrupt the operations of this company in your country and take back your heritage that has been sold by your former president for cloths and shoes.
this is why our leaders dont like us having access to all these info. when you know, you start to question too much
why would the government show this to their people
This is why i lost faith in humanity, greed is more important than moral.
I know, I used to have high hopes that my country of Somalia could rebuild itself to become what it was back in the 80's but with a corrupt president who pays terrorist and pockets money it's impossible to do so.
Maliriqan Great effort and time will make somalia a prosperous country. Education is the key to any countries success. Therefore i share your hopes for a greater Somalia :)
+Cerii hop fully, we have access to the gulf of Aden, Indian Ocean and close to Arabian Sea. We are placed at one of the most strategic points on the planet and with oil in the north and beaches that haven't seen hi,an life for decades we could become a tourism powerhouse. Somalia ha nolaxato
Maliriqan Somalia has huge potetial to become a great country. And persoanly i want to go there when i get older.
I'm in Somalia right now. In my 8 bedroom villa with my family members. I'm laying down next to my pit bull, surfing the web on high speed internet, with my Lexus parked outside. I live on the coast and I've never seen any pirates. In fact piracy is dead. They were a group of angry fishermen looking for reparations for illegal european fishing and dumping of toxic waste on their coasts, so they took up arms and began taking oil ships hostage.
The most dangerous thing to be here is a theif. If someone, anyone yells "THEIF!, stop him!" the whole town will chase the theif down and beat them for hours, sometimes to death. I dont blame you for being so ignorant and eating up what you see in the news and on TV. I guess it is like how people assume Canadians live in igloos, Americans are all racist poor hicks or rich celebrities, everyone in Colombia is a cocaine dealer, everyone in Africa lives in a mud hut and has malaria, everyone in Thailand is a trans-sexual and you cant live in Somalia without Al-shabab, Pirates or theives.
In short..talk about what you know. Learn about what you dont.
I'm so disgusted with the state of this world.
Please lend me money... I promise to pay you back.... lolol
Change it then
random tyyppi it was mostly them bit only in the last 60 years. But they were the years that mattered
@@KP-kg2ky
What about Nkrumah of Ghana? Toure of Guinea? Mengistu of Ethiopia? Barre of Somalia? Nyerere of Tanzania? Sassou-Nguesso of Republic Of Congo? Dos Santos of Angola? Mugabe of Zimbabwe?
@@KP-kg2ky thank you
Zambia needs to take control of their resources. They need to set a proper price for the copper and collect taxes.
The notion the Europeans or Americans can solve the problem is colonialist and denies the African' s power to fix their own issues.
No country will develop without manufacturing. what we need is a manufacturing companies in Africa owned by Africans and then we will win, but there are powerful people who will not allow that and will not go down without a fight it’s bigger than us ( WE NEED REVOLUTION)
#AFRICASTIME
And strong protectionism. All develop countries grew trough STRONG protectionist rules, and since the 90"s deregulations even rich countries are going poor spilled by corporations.
I am African American and my fiancé is Nigerian...I study history of America and also West Africa, it sickens me how Europe has REPEATEDLY RAPED Africa for centuries!!!
continuously doing so...
Cheryl S.D im from Africa in Ethiopia a nice place
Grammar Nazi check me please fuck you racist bitch
Joffrey is the One True King am very sure you are one the progeny of the Criminal NEO COLONIALIST
BULLSHIT. We are to blame, not the Europeans. The Europeans will always do what is in their nature....HOW ABOUT US?
CORRUPTION IS ALSO KILLING US.
because Chinese won't get the fuck out of here
True corruption is really killing people chances to live a descent life
I hope that african citizens awake and fight for new government that
really cares 🙂
First, colonialism cripples the country. Then, the IMF and the World Bank swoops in to "save the day". Finally, aided by a leadership only concerned with their personal interests, countries like Zambia continue to be plundered. Sadly, nothing can be done as middle class citizens in the developed world continue to buy stocks from GlencoreXstrata.
This is still colonialism, just changed it's name to "look good". And when you don't comply, you get Kadafi ed, or Balkanized.
Honestly I'm mostly surprised by the amount of people who actually watched this hour long thing. Kudos to you
Africans we are foolish. It's time for change
We have to question everything they present to us as "Education" we need to serious look into how their vaccines effect our children, we need to question why we allow ourselves to be brainwashed by their religions. We have so much work to do as Africans at home and abroad.
Qadaffi was the man to bring that change,but leaders stood and watched the west kill him because of his vision
stop white people stealing from them
you said this 6 years byut now sars is going on
@@KP-kg2ky
Cant stand loosing power to USA of africa.
I am Zambian, and I think all the Zambian managers, ministers and presidents who served in Zambia should be brought to the books. They are totally answerable to all the problems and suffering we are going through currently.
Could you please conduct the same investigation in the Republic of Kazakhstan and prepare the video? We have absolutely the same situation. Thank you for what you do!
These issues must be looked into... How is Kazakhstan like ?
The sad truth. This is a fine video that people can learn a lot from. There are so many misconceptions about Africa.
The ground data the elites dont want the world to know.......
I'm a zambian and it's so depressing to see so this type of greed that's affecting us.
[work in progress, im watching with subtitles and sometimes they dissappear]
TIMESTAMPS (i had to watch this for class over and over and that was painful so have this so you dont have to)
PART ONE (mostly introductions, switzerland)
0:31 introduction
1:00 Starting to talk about Glencore, introducing the company
1:45 meet peter kadesh
2:58 beginning of tax meeting with residents
3:29 peter kadesh again
4:10 introducing zambia
5:43 introducing reporter
PART 2 (zambia)
6:30 guy scott and president
7:20 who is guy scott?
8:40 london metal exchange introduced. + statistics
9:07 what is transfer pricing?
10:40 glencoe and its ceo intro
11:20 stats- why is Glencore so unknown?
12:50
PART 3 ()
very kind of you to share because it is very helpful - thank you!
YOU'RE DOING GODS WORK.
This is very depressing for Zambia and Africa, the leaders of that part of the world needs to be brave and stop the exploitation of their natural resources. Africans leaders please unite and stop the eye-pass.
hahahaha.....theyhave improved... they just exploite of their natural resources...a century ago they exploit humans....remember slavery
Brielle Smith they are afraid to die, but not afraid to steal the money of the country
African leaders are so corrupt.
i reble what?
Shame on you britain
As a Zambian I completely relate with this narration and the greed expressed went to private school...
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It is a powerful film exploring the gap that has covered Africa for long time. It is high time that all Africans woke up. This film is an example why most African countries rich in natural minerals are poor. It is an eye opener. African states are being manipulated with massive corporations making huge profits. It is the reason why these kind of trade exchanges need to be discussed and debated before any documents are signed. How do all these trade agreements come into existence between these corporations and African states. The discussions in my view should be a people-centred approach rather than greedy politicians with these big corporations.
It breaks my heart to see this type of injustice happening all over Africa.
There was no such poverty in africa prior to SLAVERY , COLONIZATION AND NEO-COLONIZATION . We were doing pretty good minding our own business until the devil set his dirty foot in paradise!
yo!nacca,nacca all wars in africa are started and funded by the west which armed some bandits to attack peacefull africans and start wars to steal resources and i repeat There was no such poverty in africa prior to SLAVERY , COLONIZATION AND NEO-COLONIZATION . We were doing pretty good minding our own business until the devil set his dirty foot in paradise!
Ozalaka Menelik Bullshit, everything is funded by the Chinese. These African countries gives China the resources, and in exchange they give military weapons. It's so funny while you morons still blame the whites, you guys can't even see that the Chinese is your real enemy.
More then 750,000 Chinese have settled in Africa over the past decade, and more is on the way. Massive dams are being built, flooding nature reserves. The land is scarred with giant Chinese mines, with "slave" labourers paid less then 1 pound a day to extract ore and minerals. Pristine forests are being destroyed, with China taking up to 70% of all timber from Africa.
China is hungry for land, food and energy. The Chinese who now buy half of Sudan's oil, have happily provided armoured vehicles, aircraft and millions of bullets and grenades in return for lucrative deals. Mugabe has even courted the Chinese, offering mining concessions for arms and currency. Chinese made assault rifles and grenades are being used to fuel countless murderous civil wars, often over the materials the Chinese are desperate to buy,
VisualSimulator what war mugabe is doing lol ? tell me
" everything is funded by the Chinese " DAMN ...How many african presidents chinese have killed ?
Are chinese funding the war going on in central africa ? have they fund the war in mali lybia or ivory coast ?
How can you be so dumb and arrogant to even try to educate an african on whats going on in africa ??? SMH
Ozalaka Menelik I was born in South Africa dipshit, I know more about Africa then you will ever know and by the way go do your damn research before spitting out a bunch of lies. I do my homework unlike you, while your so called "friends" are robbing you blind, you still turn your backs against the whites. Once the Chinese are done will you guys still blame the whites?
Ozalaka Menelik Look at that they already started abusing your people:
www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2014/01/mozambicans-claim-abuse-chinese-employers-20141944057360930.html
Excellent! Very cogent and brutally honest!
I have lived in Uganda for 20 years. Unfortunately this video can be made in East Africa as well. These practices are happening everywhere in Africa. The leadership in Africa is very often bought by these large cooperations being corrupt. I am so happy to see the new leadership is taking action in Zambia to make the mistakes from the past correct. I hope my Ugandans take this at heart and demand the same actions from the Ugandan leaders
...reminds me of a non-fiction book called "The Economic Hitman" by John Perkins.
Good book man I heard the audio book on spanish. On the other hand. 💊I'm sharing Acts 2:38 with anyone who wants it bless.
Not only France should leave West Africa, but rather the whole EU because at any time it becomes intense with France, another EU-Nation takes up the position and continues from where France has left. $500Billion per anum which France takes away from Francophone Nations plus Mineral Resources for the benefit of the EU and their Currency is just too much, and jet not a single African Leader talks about that, whereas the EU and the WEST behaves as if Africans are incapable of governing themselves. They in turn put the blame on Africans. The most dangerous part is that some young Africans are being deceived to believe in this carnage. Recently a young African Female argued that Colonialism has nothing to do with underdevelopment in Africa. Is it possible to imagine such an assertion irrespective of such carnages taking place before our eyes including how we are being treated as blacks on the Planet??? Is anyone asking Africa whether a third world war should take place now or not??? What is wrong with the African Mind?
Our poverty in Zambia is to a large extent driven by poor leadership over time and lack of the professional literate Zambians to talk about this evil inflicted on us by foreigners. It's high time we all raised the bar and be truly patriotic for our country.
very powerful documentary.Thanx "The Why"! Thanx for sharing.
When people make programmes like these, WHY is there no real information about how various companies managed to secure the rights they have to remove the resources they rely on? I would like to know more about this. And whether the same kinds of deals are being made by those involved in extracting resources from the continent today? Surely these are the practices that need to be stopped if the continent is to receive its fair share and its people to thrive in a world of ever increasing competition and national (and personal) self interest. It’s the start of 2021 and I’m watching in despair. 🙏🏿
I get so sick of corporations coming into poor countries and taking their natural resources, and not feeling the least bit obligated to improve the communities they prosper from. These companies would not do this in their own countiries. Is it that they have no value for the lives of these black people. Does their assumed racial superiority make them
believe these people do not deserve to live better and in the past many of these communities leaders have enriched themselves and robbed their own of descency. All corporations should have to develop these countries as a part of their agreement to invest and follow the same rules and restrictions required in their own countries, and stop abusing these people all over the world. There will be a price to pay for this inhumane injustice. What they are doing is comparable to slavery.
+EPGAH your still commenting on this fucking video GOD DAMN!!!!! GEt a fucking life man!!!!
No,Thank you veronica thank you we as africans have a part to play still.
Who said they were a poor country ? Their literally getting used because they have a lot of valuable things there and Europeans and Chinese don’t like that
Why do the leaders of the countries allow the corporations to get away with this
Salvatore M for their own self interests
Brilliant doccy, great to see informative investigative journalism still struggling to survive in the information age of bs.
How do these people sleep at night? do they know in the end they will go six feet deep and will not take any of the money they have looted from Africa?
Watching this makes you understand why so many African Presidents move towards nationalisation.
Filthy world we live in😢
Why nationalism? Who you thinks making deals & living well above their means?
The president or whoever has power.
Don't let these leaders play you. It's a game all politicians in all countries play w the super wealthy. They play like their furious w them but that's show to get heat off their back & work things our later nut have to stay in power for that to happen
After Nationalisation they all end up being overthrown and dead
Simple solution, Afrika for the Afrikans, Europe for the Europeans, Asia for the Asians; and we will go from there.
and what do we do with multiracial people, just give them some melting pot somewhere? USA? europe is the most population dense continent, we need breathing space - canada and USA are good starts! not to mention south and central and latin america are all euro run, spain, portugal, etc...
africa NEEDS whites/asians and we should keep them out of USA and europe and asia...
+framb0isier
Canada does not belong to "everyone" no matter how much you might think it does. Canada "belongs" to the Canadian People. Most Canadians are white. If you don't like that you can go fuck yourself...
The world is for everyone!
This is a sad video to watch, I feel for the Zambians. I hope a group of leaders amongst them step up and do something to stop this corrupt injustice.
Great show very insightful
Africa really needs to unite urgently, this is not on.
This makes me sick to my soul.
Hope you like it
Hope I like what?
Ronier Smith Africa
Ronier Smith Does the black upon black murder is Chicago, Detroit, Camden, Newark, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Oakland, Gary Indiana, Atlanta, Houston, etc... Does that wound you in your soul, or whatever nonsense you said in your comment? I doubt it.
Your little mind can't see the big picture.
Great documentary!
The cultural interchange is simply beautiful!
Poor Rafea is trapped in a community that doesn't want to evolve. If only the other women were on her side...
Investigative facts...
Excellent. Keep this good work continue. This society needs people like you. Good luck and better streangth for your future. Thanks.
We need education The kind of education that will give us redemption and freedom. You can learn a lot from dummy but you can learn even more from a enemy 💪
:( This is so sad for Mother Africa!!
master123667 good now go away,thats what we want
jj with out Africa your dead 🤣🤣
Although this was sickening to watch, i'm still left with one question I can't figure out ~ You've got a nation that is rich in resource's, why on earth do you need these multinational corporations? Why not just bring in experts who can teach you how to set up the operations to extract the resource's and receive the wealth yourself, as a nation?
Was not my intention to 'blame the victim', as far as I'm concerned the perpetrator's are guilty of crimes against humanity and should not be allowed to continue to walk the earth. And in my opinion that also includes the corrupt ruler's who sell out the nation they are supposed to be representing and seeking the best advantage of.
Those corporations have the knowledge and skills to extract the resources. So countries that invest in education would be able to extract the resources themselves. Many former developing countries have done that. In countries like Zambia there are just too many kids to give a quality education at the moment. But they will probably get there one day.
Dont mind people like Wen Ros, their racist, i see a lot of them commenting on this video. They believe there is some conspiracy going on because they dont understand capitalism.
Pieter de jager Excellent point.
+ Ellotus
Perhaps you missed the bit at the beginning where we learned Zambia didn't even have time to get its resources valued. It had foreign "aid" loan repayments due it couldn't pay and the IMF and World Bank pressured it to accept this deal with Glencore or never receive loans again.
I'm confident Zambians are well aware of what's needed to extract their resources at profit without needing white saviour experts to come in and tell them how it's done.
Zambians know the first thing you need is investment, for instance.
Unfortunately, they don't get investors turning up, they get thieving multinational corporations instead right at the time they are being squeezed by those wonderful humanitarian organisations, the IMF and the World Bank.
Perhaps we could crowdfund copper mining in Zambia? We'd need to raise several billion, but hey! we'd be teaching those Africans how it's done wouldn't we?
You may not be blaming the victims, but you certainly are patronising them.
fishysnake1 You're absolutely right, I must have missed that part at the beginning, because now after reading your reply I have a clearer understanding of the situation. Thank you so much.
so called poor countries are NOT actually poor, it is the people who are kept poor! natural resources of a country belongs to its people! NOT freebies for outside bullies!
Makes me sick. Question is how we can stop this from happening. Again and again
corporations, governments - just fronts for greedy people. systems won't stand in ultimate judgment. i LOVE that people are called to the carpet. those who profit in the millions, the attorneys who protect them, the politicians who pardon them as well as the commoner who votes to refuse to even share a little. if this was my film - i would go back to peter cadish and find out what he did with the money he's saving in property tax? i hope he's sending his share to help the region. brilliant doc!
I would like to apologise for my rant comment 2 months ago. I left it there because it was how I felt at the time. I think this all boils down to standards. Africans need to set higher standards for themselves across the board. I have lived in the USA and in Zimbabwe and the major difference is that standards are set high in America. Nobody here gets handouts at all, they really do work for everything they have. I work way harder in the US as I did in Zimbabwe. What I realised is that the average standard set here is different at home. I went to the best school in Africa in Zimbabwe and we had extremely high standard. The environment we lived in did not allow us to slack off so when we had competitions with other schools we had fewer election pool but we always kicked ass to the point where when other schools saw us on the schedule fear just crept over them. So I urge you young business people in Africa to set your standards higher and that way you can compete on the world playing field.
As a Zambian, having travelled to European countries. This is so hurtful to the country that actually has these mineral resources. They should have never been sold for peanuts at all. We should be making massive amounts and profits of money. To develop and grow our nation. This is not independence when the main source of wealth is not controlled by foreigners.
I came back to see this documentary again after 5 years.. Well nothing has changed..
African continent natural reserves combined worth at least tens or even hundreds of trillions of dollars! The blame for African poverty cannot only be blame on foreign companies alone; but African leaders are playing a big role in creating poverty in Africa as well.
Most African leaders in the poorest African countries keep their money overseas and not in their respective countries for development.
How can Africa eradicate poverty when our leaders only think of enriching themselves and care less of the people they represent?
African leaders need to invest the money from resources to African banks and let the bank lend that money to Africans to establish small businesses and that’s how prosperity begins.
Of course the battle goes on specially many young leaders men and women are rising to change the face of Africa and exposing the hypocrisy of the west to the world and the Almighty Jehovah will always protect his remnants.
i hope those africans banks are connected with somebody else
*not connected
Agreed.
even in the UK we have filthy air; higher than WHO guidelines all over the country.
What is going on in Africa is unbelievably selfish along with extremely dangerous levels of human stupidity from corporations
It's not stupidity, it's on purpose. Refusing to identify psychopaths in societies and limits the type of jobs they can apply too (not finance, not corporation hight lvl, and not politics) is the price humanity pays. As long we don't AUTOMATICALLY identify psychopathy in adolescents/young adults the world is fucked. (can't identify sooner, since kids have a healthy developmental psychopath phase, problem comes when some of them don't grow out of it)
Very good documentairy, thumbs up for the maker
If we are to have justice in this world, we need to
1.Abolish tax havens.
2. Reform campaign finance laws and ban lobbying by corporations.
3. Develop a new framework for intellectual property rights that rewards innovation and protects public goods.
why do we Africans let this happen to us?
Great question... the answer is the same as why you straightened your hair so as to look Euro or Asian or just not African.
Bribery.
You're just not that bright?
It is the leaders. They are corrupt. And they don't care because their pockets are getting greased, and they are getting rich. Not it's citizens. I know about this in my own country. We are still in slavery. Economic slavery.
Once upon a time... Egypt was great, Mongolia was even greater, Rome was even more influential, Spain had their slice of global conquest. Look at them now.
The man with the sword makes all the rules. This phrase has been painfully edged on the face of Africa, we are not fools but victims.
Walter Rodney documented this heinous act in 'How Europe Underdeveloped Africa"
That Swiss community in the beginning really makes me sad and lose faith in humanity. They’re already so privileged and so rich yet they refuse to even consider giving away some of that wealth to people in need and not just any people, but the people who’s work and suffering they directly benefit from. They wanted 7% tax cut instead of 5%, what difference is that going to make to their already wealthy and comfortable lives? They’re so old and rich yet so greedy and selfish. And it’s not that they don’t know what’s going on, they completely know all the suffering that goes on behind this money that’s coming in but they just choose to ignore it.
some people are just too greedy
who allowed these companies entry into their countries? their own african leaders who are taking all the money that these companies paid them, and who are living better than royalty instead of developing their countries, which was what the money was intended for. spread the blame fair and square, why don't you?
This is painful. Especially the example of the electricity vs tax revenue
What an eye opener....SMS
Please, do a documentary for Papua New Guinea too. Our country is doomed.
Very interesting! I guess this just confirms there are those who really don’t care what they do to make money or who they hurt while they do it. And I don’t suppose they’ll suffer any adversities as a result either unfortunately.
Just came across this today. The info I knew but whoah! This is a wealth of information.
If curruption doesn't stop at top levels in Africa, nothing will change, Africa will be poor forever. We need to stop complaining, because it's obvious these forieghners don't give a hoot about Africa's betterment.
This is a film of what happens when leaders of a country are only concern about how much they can get paid off by companies that are not even own by anyone living in the nation itself. Plus, I wonder if those companies paid what they are suppose to or even more taxes, would the people see any of it.
This is so frigging sad. Africa has so much natural wealth and the people allow other countries who has nothing come in and take everything they have for less than a dollar. If you pay careful attention one of the ladies mentioned Glencore paid $50 Million in taxes however the government supplies power to the mining plant at the cost of $150 Million so that means they lost $100 Million. This is murder at the highest level. I see corruption in plain sight and these CEO's have no love in their heart.
Bunch of greedy theives
Yes, greedy african thieves stealing aid money.
MrViking aid money? U mean hush money?
@@worldfreedom1271
Or better fat change for puppets.
So finally we learn(?) that all these miles and miles of copper wires on utility poles all over the world, that we thought was from south america, was actually from Africa, purchased through Switzerland?
Without Africa the world is empty world
The world will be a better place
Fool
@@kimcadarit1736
Believe it wouldnt do some honest search.
Olayinka, well said. That's the main problem. Like an adage in Yoruba goes, "if there were no cracks in the wall, lizards wouldn't get unfettered access to the rooms"
You are absolutely right! I have personally read that book!
Superb.
These type of deals made by those governing African nations like Zambia, only created a vicious circle of dependency on outsiders (foreign investors) and thus puts these Africans at the mercy of another country. Instead wouldn't it have been more ideal if the people in leadership would have thought about their country's future, the value of these assets and have found an ecologically feasible way to mine these copper mines by using African people and Africa's own financial resources. As a people, Africa should have been able to be the one's who sponsor, govern and oversee their own county's assets, thus benefitting the people of Africa in the long haul. These leaders, it seems are were only worried about immediate gratification and their own bank accounts, instead of their nation's well being.
Reminds me of the Biblical account of Jacob and Esau, Jacob like the European nations and the USA. knew the long term value of these natural resources and was welling to invest and do whatever it takes to get control of these assets and thus reap long term benefits, like Jacob, who knew the long term value of a birthright, which Esau possessed. On the other hand, the African leaders who sell their people future, and well being for their own gain are like Esau, who sold his birthright for a plate of beans. These leaders only want a quick payoff at the expense of their people. How sad, this type of behavior on the part of leadership is why many African nations don't get the respect they would have otherwise. It's not what African Nations have in their mines it's the ability to know the value of these mines and knowing how to make these assets work for their people that make for rich nations. Because like all things valuable, if the one possessing it does not make good use of it, someone else who knows it's value will. If one wants to be rich, one has to be shrewd as well. This type of shrewd doesn't mean dishonest, by this I mean having the skills and wisdom to know a good opportunity and find a win-win way to make it work for the rightful owners. All this problem is the product of greed and the inability to truly value one's country and people. It's also greed that is drowning Europe and America, because it is creating great disparity in the Western World as well. Greed is like sweet poison, then again wealth in natural resources without good management skills is worthless. So stop chanting to foreigners we need you to give us jobs extending the cycle of dependency and find ways to say to yourselves, we will unite as people and find a solution that will get us ahead, regardless of how hard it will be, or the price that has to be paid, nothing is free. Wisdom it is worth more than any riches, otherwise it's the same old story my friend, the rich get richer and poor get poorer.
Well said 👏
Every charity organization no profit or not, makes people rich and they profit on the money and use it for themselves instead of what the actual organization claims it's for. This dates back to days of the church giving for the poor. Money went to the poor but it's quite marginal compared to the actual amount of money donated. It's sick how greedy so many people are. And it's sad because people are afraid their hard earned money is just going to go into peoples salaries.
Well your YT name and comment so perfectly matched together, that I took you serious.
It is very sad to see our country used and have these multinational companies turning a blind eye to the people of the country and not even acknowledging the impacts there greediness is causing.
For goodness sake do something about it! What is the use of just talking about it!
I have watched few clips of this documentary. I am yet to watch the entire piece after missing it on our national television. It is unacceptable that in a country where we have all these resources we have allowed foreign multinational companies pay peanuts in taxes. This is daylight robbery. These resources are for Zambians and should therefore benefit every Zambian.
Thanks for this piece of work.
Welcome to every western nation, corporations screw everyone.
the truth is if africans are united and love each other today they will be able to start making headway, once there is one straight and progressive clean government that knows what it,s doing all other country in africa will follow and that will spell the end of western countries that have been sapping africa dry the problem is africans do not know this but europeans and americans know this, that is why they make sure there is always form of instability always somewhere in africa that the west create always look at the world today for instance
Phillip Carroll Many african leaders benefit off the Europeans mining , the african leaders could care less for the people who are suffering, truth is they pocket the 99% foreign aid while .98% goes to their friends while 0.02% goes towards the people.
Any so-called African leader that does not care for the African people that they are supposed to govern, are simply political puppets! placed there by white colonial rule to extract the resources from Africa!!!!!
@lawrence matrix you clearly don't know
Much about Africa. Yes tribalism and colorism are an issue amongst Africans. Many Africans don't know their worth because of years of oppression and being made to feel worthless now they are oppressed by their leaders. African leaders are the problem trust me I live in Africa and I know hoe incompetent they are most of the time. They believe they are above the law and they don't live to serve their people they live to benefit themselves and their family
Members. They have no sense of pride leaders like Thomas Sankara and Patrice lumumba don't exist anymore in Africa. The Zambian president Michael Sata is a classic example, he is an arrogant and remarkably unlikeable man but he's still in power and probably won't step down anytime soon
I know go and read the book crisis in black and white and black man of the nile by Ben y jochannan find out
Wow, you guys are really racist! Try to get your shit together! Maybe get some education aswell. I live in Norway, and we send billions of dollars to Africa every month, so do not generalize!
What Africa lacks is capitalism, free markets and rule of law.
Give them that and you lift them out of poverty.
LOL, wow, you took the bait, hook, line and sinker.
Could you give an example of a country that rose from poverty only by capitalism?
Without the presence of a state that provides basic health and education, unable to implement laws that ensure physical safety, economic activities and national interests
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At that point the US became the world power without the presence of the STATE?
I am not referring to the level of interference in the economy.
Have you heard of the war of secession? The protectionist policy post war? Military strength and support dictators around the world?
As the US achieved independence?
These African countries are in a situation that does not have basic sanitation.
Structure of the last century which makes people even poorer, live longer than the kings of the middle ages.
Most of these African country are infested with militia who exploit natural resources, and scare away investors who bring benefits to the country.
As capitalism itself solves this issue?
You are talking about capitalism as if it were a panacea
I really hope you're joking.
***** Was this actually in reply to my comment?If yes,read my comment again,understand it before commenting boy!
We africans are playing checkers while the East and West is playing chess. We are getting check-mated on our own territory and taken for everything we have. We try and negotiate from a place of need and desperation and get taken to the cleaners every time. Its like negotiating with a crack addict who will sell their $500 flatscreen TV for a $20 fix.
This happens in most poor countries with resources. Some locals with power want to stay in power, help write laws to make deals legal where only they benefit from it. If the population is poor and starving, any deal is better than their current state. Getting real people into a position to represent their people is the only way to make a new deal. If most of the people understood, or had the willingness to learn, the inner workings of their government; they may have more motivation to take action. This can easily happen anywhere around the world, the richest of the rich have more money than the rest of the world combined. How they got in such wealth and continue to keep it, this is where the interest of the people should lie. Considering the conditions of anyone being taken advantage of everywhere in the world, this is the perspective a society needs to make effective changes.
The extremely wealthy have a secret war against the people. Their weapons are not conventional but the opposite. The endgame is to have and keep the most power and influence over the masses. You may be able to win a battle but you cannot win a war if you cannot truly understand the angles at which your enemy will attack. This does not make them evil, either, they're more like David and the people are Goliath. The greatest weapon in this war is convincing the people they are not at war and are, in fact, fighting the same thing...an invisible enemy.
Great video, but I’m writing a research paper about this, and I can’t find any primary sources on the world bank report from 2011 about Zambia’s tax revenue losses. If you know anything, please help!
Did you find anything Mason?
Wow. Absolutely terrible. Glad this video was shared with me to know what's going on
73% to the corporation. 27% to the African nation who owns the mines who is responsible for this criminal act.
We're so silly!...us Africans.
Not know we know....
The problem is if these mines are nationalized, the government employees make a mess of it and soon the mines run gigantic losses. Then they start needing funds from the public and taxes rather than contributing to it.
While Glencore may not be paying taxes as we want, we should be ok that they are paying taxes based on LME prices. Making it into govt run company is a decision that would decimate both the company and the Zambian tax revenue.
It is sad but that is the way economics and human behavior is. Govt workers just want salary and no work and most businesses collapse. I am talking from Indian experience.
Oh my goodness and Zambians we're so blinded thank you I randomly stumbled upon this video 😢😳
Welcome to the first irl Minecraft letsplay where we find better ways to use Copper Ore!
1v1?
The first time I ever heard of tax sir plus, so they lowered it. it is crazy i didn't know it can happen.Thats how you know they stealing from someone.
I haven't watched this yet, but I wonder if they are going to blame the people of Zambia for their own victimisation.
I think you should watch it before you continue to put your foot in your mouth any further ;)
I said "I wonder".
You don't read much do you?
And HE said watch it BEFORE you comment, which is the sensible option.
+Roland Taylor Of course they will...Would u expect anything different?
Watch,Listern, Think , Wonder and Learn, it is amazing. Enjoy.
I’m speechless 🤦🏽♀️
The first four minutes already had me heated. 😡
Like they say! Africa has made all western nations rich.
Thanks African leaders for selling your people down the river. That’s the only way this could happen.
Also I haven’t even finished watching this yet but I know enough to know who’s the cause of all this.
El guerrero más guapo you might want to look more into how bad the leadership is in Africa so you can see how they’ve completely turned there back on there own citizens for the sake of wealth and power. Africa is known as the richest continent in the world for its abundance in natural resources but yet has some of the poorer countries throughout the continent. Why do you think Africans have to leave the home to find work and education. The African continent should be as advance as any other country due to its natural but corruption has prevent that.
Daylight robbery! Thieves
Nationalise the mines recover what was stolen
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Digging a hole does not give you the right to it These "others" are just that others having no right to the land, hole and resources therein
You are drunk EPGAH, Africans were trading the minerals BEFORE the british came to claim it. NATIONALISING is taking back what is rightfully theirs from britamerican theft.
***** And how do you? The crown? The private sector?
The PEOPLE who live in the NATION should prosper from their natural wealth and labour. It's a simple concept.
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Simple BHoy ... Zimbabwe
Good point
Heartbreaking!!!
When I watch this, it's hard not to feel sick.
Human being is curse of this planet what they feel the rich when they see this poor childern this kind of documentary make me feel sad :(
It's time for us to stop feeling sad and change things.
"...the love of money is the root of all evil." (1 Timothy 6:10 - Holy Bible).
No my friend, it is rather the “lack” of money
How true joe.
😢 I am Zambian and seen this truth makes me so sad i wish we can benefit from our minerals
I thick the of poverty in Africa is because of our leaders who bow down to this western countries. We the people have start educating our people on what is going on our wealth taking abroad and how we can stop this looting
It must surely be included in your country's school syllabus. How can students not learn about the geography and history of their own country?