Dying For Gold

Dying For Gold

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 31, 2019

Runtime

1h 38m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

75%

Original Title

Dying For Gold

Director

Catherine Meyburgh

Description

South Africa’s wealth and white privilege has been funded by large scale maiming and killing of people by the gold mining industry. Today gold miner communities across Southern Africa have nothing to show for the wealth they produced except extreme rural underdevelopment and the world’s worst epidemic of TB and silicosis. Through testimonies from communities in mining families throughout Southern Africa and extensive use of contrasting archive materials DYING FOR GOLD tells the story of how we have arrived at this extraordinary situation. DYING FOR GOLD brings to the surface the real cost of South