of save itself a large corporation news business interests range from agriculture to real estate earlier today algerian state t.v. reported that prosecutors had sent him to prison detentions are part of an anti graft drive against figures close to the former president bill as is beautifully go . to south africa now a country that recently made it onto a bloomberg ranking of the world's most miserable economies putting it in the company of nations like venezuela and the zimbabwe so what's behind all the gloom let's take a look at last year the south african economy expanded by only zero point eight percent but we growth isn't the only problem more than one in four people are currently out of work one sector that has been specially badly hit is construction is suffering from a shortage of both public and private investment just as you look at the at the group five construction firm to get an idea of how dire the situation is it recently filed for bankruptcy protection of the lenders pulled their funding and to