With the testimony of a young farmer from Fukushima, Greenpeace launched a campaign against the use and expansion of nuclear power in South Africa.
This comes almost a year after the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, were more than 150 000 people were evacuated from their homes near the power plant after the disaster.
The disaster is estimated to have cost Japan up to $600 billion.
Ayako Oga said she wanted to share her story while helping people understand that many people had their lives disrupted and continue to live in fear of how the radiation around them affects their health.
Oga was also forced to evacuate and move over 100 kilometres away from home.
Oga told Eyewitness News that the worst part was being uncertain of what was dangerous.
She said despite clean-up in the area, children were no longer free to play outdoors and that residents could not collect vegetables from the mountain or farm the land.
Greenpeace is a non-governmental environmental organisation.
-EWN
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