Cape Town Wildfires Ravage South African Countryside as Firefighters Tackle the Blaze

On Demand News – Apr 18, 2021

‘Cape Town Wildfires Ravage South African Countryside as Firefighters Tackle the Blaze’ Cape Town firefighters were battling a wildfire raging on the slopes of Table Mountain on Sunday. More than 200 firefighters and emergency personnel were deployed and four helicopters were being used to drop water on threatened areas. Winds spread the blaze across dry brush and forced some roads to close down and burned part of the Rhodes Memorial restaurant. Cape Town University students were forced to evacuate the campus.

Fire burned Rhodes Memorial restaurant near Cape Town South Africa 18.04.2021

World Is DangerousApr 18, 2021

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Exclusive audio extract of Life on Earth by David Attenborough | #FirstChapterFridays

HarperCollins Publishers UK – Nov 30, 2018

The nation’s greatest voice, David Attenborough, reads a brand-new edition of Life on Earth, now available as an audiobook for the first time. Find out more about the book: https://www.harpercollins.co.uk/97800…

54th session of the Commission on Population and Development, CPD54

United Nations – Scheduled for Apr 19, 2021

By the year 2050, 9.7 billion people will inhabit the Earth. Yet, already hundreds of millions are going hungry. How can we feed a growing population without wrecking our planet in the process? Countries gather at #CPD54​ to find an answer. More info: https://bit.ly/3x2fKY4

Living On Ghana’s Largest Toxic E-Waste Scrapyard (Reggie Yates Documentary) | Real Stories

Real Stories – Mar 6, 2021

Reggie heads to Ghana to live on one of the largest electronic waste dumps in the world, Accra’s Agbogbloshie. Working with a group of burner boys, Reggie discovers first hand what life is like for the people who earn a living on the site.

Cape Town Suffers Harshest Drought In A Century

Journeyman Pictures – Apr 3, 2018

A three-year drought in Cape Town means that “Day Zero”, the day when the city must cut off its water supply, is now a real possibility. The city’s residents are doing everything they can to save water.

Cape Town is experiencing its worst drought in 100 years. Ian Neilson, Executive Deputy Mayor of Cape Town, fears that “Day Zero” would be catastrophic. “The social economic implications are enormous.” The city’s residents, rich and poor, are working hard to conserve water. Julia Lee, who lives in a middle class area of the city, says her attitudes to water conservation have been transformed by the crisis. “Every single drop of water that you see going down the drain freaks you out.” Goshi Kwezi, a resident of the township Gugulethu, believes that the water crisis has been a great equalizer in a country still recovering from apartheid. “Now at least everybody is going to be equally restricted with water. It’s not about colour now.”

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Slavery routes – a short history of human trafficking (2/4) | DW Documentar y

DW Documentary – Apr 4, 2020

How did Africa become a hub for the trade in human beings? Part 2 of this four-part documentary series begins as the Middle Ages comes to an end and Portuguese conquerors head for Africa in search of riches. At the end of the Middle Ages, European powers realized that the African continent harbored a seemingly inexhaustible wealth of resources. The Portuguese were among the first to set out to conquer the continent. They went in search of gold, but they came back with hundreds of thousands of captives to sell as slaves in Europe. From the coasts of Africa, the Conquistadores sailed on to Brazil, where they established a trading center. There, the Portuguese set up the first colonies that were populated exclusively by slaves. On the island of São Tomé, off of Gabon, they found their most lucrative commodity: sugar cane, and the sugar plantation became the blueprint for the profitable exploitation of the New World.

Part 1: https://youtu.be/InQvC9c-3K8​
Part 2: https://youtu.be/v3ppAebUW54​
Part 3: https://youtu.be/XMB7CpjIS9s​
Part 4: https://youtu.be/yKwXuRAseIc

Slavery routes – a short history of human trafficking (1/4) | DW Documentary

DW Documentary – Apr 4, 2020

The history of slavery did not begin in the cotton fields. It has been going on since the dawn of humanity. Part 1 of this four-part documentary series investigates how Africa became the epicenter of human trafficking. The first installment of the series “Slavery Routes – A Short History of Human Trafficking” opens the story of the slave trade. By the 7th Century AD, Africa had already become a slave trading hub. Barbarian invaders brought on the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD. Less than two centuries later, the Arabs founded an immense empire on its ruins, stretching from the banks of the Indus River to the southern Sahara. Now a new era of systematic slave hunting began, from the Middle East to Africa. At the heart of this network, two major merchant cities stood out. In the North, at the crossroads of the Arabian Peninsula and Africa, Cairo – the most important Muslim city and Africa’s main commercial hub. In the South, Timbuktu, the stronghold of the great West African empires, and point of departure of the trans-Saharan caravans. This documentary tells how, over the course of centuries, sub-Saharan peoples became the most significant “resource” for the biggest human trafficking networks in history.

Part 1: https://youtu.be/InQvC9c-3K8​
Part 2: https://youtu.be/v3ppAebUW54​
Part 3: https://youtu.be/XMB7CpjIS9s​
Part 4: https://youtu.be/yKwXuRAseIc

Slavery routes – a short history of human trafficking (3/4) | DW Documentary

DW Documentary – Apr 4, 2020

In the 17th century, almost seven million slaves toiled in sugar production. The French, English, Dutch and Spanish empires all sought profits from “white gold.” Part 3 of this four-part series focuses on the brutality of the colonial powers. In the 17th century, the Atlantic became the battleground of a war for sugar. European kingdoms sought ever-greater riches. To satisfy their greed, they opened new slavery routes from Africa to the islands of the New World in the Caribbean. With the complicity of banks and insurance companies, they industrialized the slave trade, pushing the number of deportations to unprecedented levels. Almost seven million Africans were trapped in captivity, in an endless spiral of violence. Up until the abolition of slavery, humans were trafficked across immense territories. The slave trade drew its own frontiers and created its own laws in a world marked by violence and the thirst for power and profit. The history of slavery dates back to the earliest advanced, human civilizations. As early as the 7th century A.D, Africa became the epicenter of a human trafficking network that stretched across the globe. Nubian, Fulani, Mandinka, Songhai, Susu, Akan, Yoruba, Igbo, Kongo, Yao, Somali… more than twenty million Africans were deported, sold and enslaved. The scale of the trade was so immense that for a long time, it was impossible to untangle the mechanisms that drove this criminal system.

Part 1: https://youtu.be/InQvC9c-3K8​
Part 2: https://youtu.be/v3ppAebUW54​
Part 3: https://youtu.be/XMB7CpjIS9s​
Part 4: https://youtu.be/yKwXuRAseIc

Antarctica: A message from another planet | DW Documentary

DW Documentary – Jan 2, 2021

The world’s major powers agree: the resources of Antarctica should be exploited peacefully. They have promised to promote peace and scientific research in Antarctica, and to protect its environment. But is this spirit real, or just a lot of talk?

This documentary features interviews with researchers, activists, diplomats, and military personnel from Spain, Russia, Portugal, Chile, Argentina, and the United States. There’s been much debate over how to share control of resources in Antarctica, which is the world’s oldest ecosystem. Critics say that behind the scenes, a game of high-stakes poker is underway. Could this competition end in armed conflict? Or will Antarctica serve as a model for peaceful international cooperation? This film addresses these complicated issues with in-depth analysis, accompanied by magnificent images of the Antarctic landscape. The documentary’s soundtrack was composed by Javier Weyler, former drummer of the Welsh rock band, the Stereophonics.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzJqbR2rPwY