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Original Post Date: 2001-09-08 Time: 21:38:25 Posted By: Jan
I received this excellent article from the Dutch investigative journalist,
Adriana Stuijt.
Sept. 8, 2001 — The anti-censorship African website
http://www.censorbugbear.com has launched a new page to highlight
Africa’s New Slavery Markets — and the many ways in which Africans are
again being enslaved even from early childhood.
Children are working under the most abominable mining conditions of the
21st century, digging away for Coltan, the black mud of the Congo so
essential for the world’s cellphone industry; and Tanzanite, the unique
purple-blue gemstone torn from the vulcanic rock of Mount Kilimanjaro in
Tanzania by the tiny hands of African children.
Who are closing their eyes to this new slavery horror in Africa? The
African leaders themselves. And what can we all do about it? Plenty! The
UN has already condemned the child slavery practices at the Coltan mines,
which they say are also fuelling the long-drawn out wars in that region.
This will hopefully lead to action against this vile trade from the
industrial world.
And Amnesty International has also just been petitioned to urgently probe
the dreadful working conditions and the child-slavery practices observed
in the informal mine diggings of Arusha, Tanzania for the unique gemstone
Tanzanite.
American jewellers import Tanzanite to the tune of $300-million a year, of
which 95% is exported illegally from Tanzania via low-paid “informal”
miners — many are children — and who are digging inside dangerous,
unsafe “homemade”mineshafts for as little as $2 a month or even just food
handouts.
Do the American women, adorned with these stunning and unique gems, even
know that most of these were torn out by African children’s hands, digging
and hacking away at the Tanzanian vulcanic rock — often forced to live in
deep, unsafe mineshafts where many have already drowned horribly? Only
$18-million’s worth of Tanzanite is now being mined safely and responsibly
with modern safety techniques by Afgem, a high-tech South African mining
company which uses no child labour, has high standards of safety and
morality by using no child labour at all — and who are exporting it
legally: and these are all marked with laser identification.
Censorbugbear Adriana Stuijt filed a petition this week with Amnesty
International to demand an immediate probe into these reported
child-slavery practices at the much more informal mine diggings next to
Afgem for the unique, purple-blue gemstone.