How the drive for clean air is displacing people in South Africa

The drive for clean air in the world has led to increased demands for platinum, which is used to produce catalytic converters. Nearly 90% of the world's platinum reserves are in southern Africa, and this has caused the forced displacement of many from their ancestral lands. The compensation to mine on peoples' lands and for forcing them to move has been meager.

In a BBC intrview Rose Thlarera, a South African woman, said:

"What the mine is doing to us is worse than the apartheid era - during apartheid we had our water and electricity but we didn't have the mine amongst us. They are forcing us out - they don't care how they are getting their platinum."