Stealing Africa (2012)

Name: Stealing Africa
Genre: Documentary
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Rating: 3.5

Documentary | 58 minutes

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Genre: Documentary

Duration: 58 minuten

Country: Denmark

Directed by: Christoffer Guldbrandsen

IMDb score: 8,1 (72)

Releasedate: 28 November 2012

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Stealing Africa plot

Rüschlikon is a very wealthy place in Switzerland where there is more tax revenue than expenditure. All this is thanks to one resident in particular: Ivan Glasenberg, CEO of Glencore, a company that mines copper in Zambia and pays hardly any tax on it. In Zambia, 60 percent of the population lives on less than a dollar a day, and 80 percent is unemployed, despite having the third largest copper deposit in the world. In this documentary, director Christopher Guldbrandsen tries to answer the pressing question: how is it possible that a poverty-stricken country like Zambia hardly benefits from its own mineral resources? He lets researchers and politicians shed light on different sides of the situation.