Refugee teacher from south sudan whos using his education to pave the way for refugee children to go to university. And welcome to news Africa CompanySouth Africans who have been left homeless by the coronavirus pandemic have resorted to building shacks in new informal settlements the surge in new squatter camps with names like sanitize and Corona Village have drawn tough response from the local government that has responded with you. Say they have nowhere else to go often losing their jobs and then their homes because they could not pay rent. Khayelitsha the largest township in cape town more than 1000000 people live here including zoellick of illinois a month ago she could no longer afford to rent and simply built her own hearts on a vacant lot next door. For the. Hundreds of others to do the same and christened the new neighborhood covered 19. Because everything just happened because of this coverage there were lost jobs nothing close to my me anything me thats why we have to take that covenant in me. Shows us the makeshift heart where she lives with her boyfriend and 3 children. This place is too small of one bed so where the children are going to sleep you see my house is also of a leaking of sorts i dont have anything to solve at the moment i dont have money but im still. The family pays no rentier but the land doesnt belong to them. The people are setting up their shacks all over the place the a lot of construction happening and many here are saying they dont have a choice because they cant afford to pay rent any longer but the city on the other hand says these illegal and invasions are causing huge problems city officials tell us there have been more than 30 new locations with massive land occupations in just the last 6 weeks law and order and danger cape town lost 300. 00 hectares of land in the last year whatever the land was meant for is lost whether it is all spittle screw clinic if a piece of land is standing open its because there is an intended Community Use for that and there is in the case of these big invasions where i will tell you that Community Leadership just stood up this is not a fight to be invaders against the state or land invaders against the city of quetta this is a fight of land invaders against a city of captain and local residents since june the city says it has torn down some 60000 hearts in some cases resulting in violence this man was pulled out of his hat snake at a court has now ruled that the city needs a court order for eviction and must offer alternative accommodation to squatters. Structures but the city cant afford that 400000 people are already on the waiting lists for social housing that housing waiting list doesnt get shorter and the reason it doesnt get shorter is because theres constantly people pushing in the front if you were standing in a queue in a bank or at a cinema with theatre or something and you never got to the front because people were constantly pushing in the front you would become very angry and enraged. The liquor feeling and the entire family have also been hoping for an apartment from the state for a long time so far in vain. The governors will provide our needs because we need Something Like toilets or water electricity we have to get the we have to get them from the government its our right if we have to leave in this place we have to. Because we need to go to the movie or you want to do the number 2 you have to take the bucket and then you dig who sold the place is going to be full of all those things. You can go to the bores me and see how goes the people who are building there are also the leakers convinced that she will continue to live fear of the future a court order for every action takes up to one and a half years the police are not intervening for the time being and around her the settlement continues to grow. An extra 40 is from malawi way theres been a surge in teenage pregnancies during the pandemic age groups say School Closures are partly to blame one district alone reported 5000. 00 teenage pregnancy cases since the government ordered the closure of schools at the end of march now there is a race to get girls access to Reproductive Health services. A group of mothers ive been making regular home visits providing guidance to young girls like 17 year old exam. She lives alone in a village she feels for married man who promised smart phone and food which turned out to be empty promises now shes pregnant. You know maybe when i was in school i used to have a lot of problems because my family is poor and i could not have so body lotion clothing or features my mother failed to 10 for us children and so i was having sex and eventually got pregnant. Hes a saint she did not know but the man hes married and has 2 children unfortunately she never used birth control. And i mean i was aware of Family Planning methods but my schoolmates deceived me they said using contraceptives would make me unable to have children so when the man proposed to me we had sex and he got me pregnant. Outraged parents since. Hamas age. On hard baby. Them to get is going to this was a big blow to my family my poor entire pregnancy is an added burden that i couldnt handle when coming here when like you im enjoying the district has to put up its efforts to reduce teenage pregnancies it feels more teenage girls who get pregnant without proper messaging about Family Planning and the schools are not open source. We have been starting with the increased number of think they can i think but we know that we. Feel that we have with different quote as we can indeed review. According to figures from the National Helpline on the Regional Department of social welfare teenage pregnancies in the district have 3 board one reason to care it seems like some of them are not dignitas was reading terms of counseling. Psychosocial support the girls. In their education or those of no schools crossed before schools closed it is a week to hard in class to achieve our dreams of becoming a teacher but she remains determined to continue her education despite all the obstacles. To burn like you know this isnt the end of my aspirations after i have the baby ill do my best to go back and finish school. With my. Doesnt want to be one of the many young girls in malawi who get married before the age of 20. She has lain tabi to listen and hopes to bring her dreams back to life. Lets take a look at some of the stories making news across the continent now the World Health Organization say is that once a call that 19 vaccine is approved africa will get at least 220000000 initial says. We need not necessarily cover all the needs of the continent but at least well cover 20 percent of the african nation initially prairie. Dogs who are in the front line the Health Care Workers then expanding to cover the narrowboat groups such as the elderly or for preexisting condition johannesburg residents have held a vigil for nathaniel julissa 16 year old boy with down syndrome who was shot dead by Police Last Week 2 Police Officers were charged with murder on monday the killing had sparked violent protests and forced president sorum of also to appeal for calm. The United Nations has warned that locusts on africa in parts of Southern Africa countries affected all. The mid and assam p. A the un says up to 7000000 people in the region off facing Food Insecurity the southern outbreaks are not related to the huge outbreak of billions of designated kist in east africa. Well what for some may be the most normal thing in the world is unattainable for this access to education among refugees from south sudan only 69 percent of children and teenagers can go to Primary School and only 13 percent get sick and 3 education a University Degree is practically out of reach for many now is of war in south sudan have robbed young people off opportunities and forced them to flee some of them to ethiopia and one teacher they wants to give them a chance for a Better Future. James tute has come a long way the displaced from his home in south sudan he finished university a rare triumph for refugee. Wind a war is a war zone brogan any thoughts or done that are no one thing its ok youre not as well by going to both. From the interior trim to play in a platoon to for tired of war. To be employed by my government but while he finished his studies the war in south sudan continued to needed to change his plans now he teaches others who fled the conflict in south sudan. Hes also one of the vice principals here at the compelling refugee camp that is trying for me to serve my community in theater and that if you are of our country when we return bob then we will develop country one that is an ambitious goal for refugees the chances of completing their education are often small and the axis gets harder the older they get only 3 percent of all refugees and role in higher education. Jim stewart was one of them and thats why hes eager to give his students and his children a good head start the lesson i give them it is better for part of the. Women that inmates are in their life. I would be a comfort for them also in the james today is making a difference thanks just time at university. Carriage and stuff now that is a finale shoulder check out of the stories on t. W. Dot com for africa or also on facebook and on twitter as always to get in touch with me im on twitter at 7 i was interested to know what you think about all stories news africa and the stories that we should be covering today will leave you with pictures of the filming goes in kenya outweight is these brightly colored birds of a rare sight at the lake and the surrounding lakes region now the clouds of pink back enjoy have a lovely weekend. And. Language courses. Video and audio. Where. Theyve been robbed of their soul thats what are people experiences when their heritage is taken from them. Countless cultural artifacts were stolen from africa by colonialists and carted off to europe. Left wounds that have yet to heal much should be done with a still more from africa. Still. Scarred september 7th on g. W. Welcome to arts and culture of the 77th Venice Film Festival is underway bashing on despite the covert 900 pandemic and hoping to give some momentum to an industry in danger of being used by streaming Services Also coming up in the pipeline. The museum bata bidini in potsdam welcomes its Permanent Collection of impressionist paintings including the largest collection by kodmani outside of paris. And in our series on german artists and colonialism and with more uses for work to bring forgotten colonial histories back to life. Well cinema is the real antidote to this pandemic those are the words of spanish director Pedro Almodovar and as the Venice Film Festival bravely resuscitate the festival circuit one can only hope that hes right suffice it to say the cinephiles in attendance were determined to keep the dream alive. Whether you. Judy president Cate Blanchett or spanish directing legend Pedro Almodovar theres no escaping this street. On the 1st night. This safely distance away and even at c. R. Cinema cinema cinema what can go for. Nothing but. Cinema is a lie even given the pandemic doing the Opening Ceremony swinton was honored with a golden lion for high lifes work then he is the 1st of the worlds major Film Festivals to take place in person since no down. On the 3rd day the most is almost back in its old swing the themes are once again in the spotlight not the measures required in order to show them. And my colleague scott roxboro joins us live from the lido in venice welcome scott there you are and you know this is so crazy bannister in a Global Pandemic so different from what youre used to whats hows it going. Yeah its going surprisingly well here i mean it is odd to be here with a mile staff wear masks in the cinema to have the sort of the smell the scent of disinfectant gel everywhere you go but it actually does still feel like a real Film Festival and i think that has so much to do with the fact that everybody here the stars like a plant child like Pedro Almodovar like Tilda Swinton but also all the ordinary film fans and film reviewers here are just desperate for venice to succeed they really are desperate for the Film Industry to get going again and to get restart again and i think thats really creating a wave of optimism here and here at venice all thats great to hear now we heard in the piece that its a very political festival this year especially the competition film so whats striking about the lineup for you this time around. Yeah its interesting because usually venice is a very big hollywood festival a lot of big oscar films start here and that hasnt happened this year because so many of those films are being held back by the studios so in their place we see a lot of more interesting european and political very political Strong Political films there was one the premier earlier this week. Which is both a celebrity its a massacre its a bosnian film and this is incredibly powerful it follows a u. N. Translator bosnian Woman Working for the u. N. Peacekeeping group translating between them and and the bosnians there and basically the film is about her struggle to try and desperately save her husband and her 2 sons from being swept up by the serbian military and then as we know be executed its its a very very powerful film i mean i think this will go down probably as the definitive film about the 70 to massacre it really shows how rawson about can be and how cinema can really. Be a testimony to history of very very powerful movie and i think will go far after its premiere here in venice ok scott were running shortly out of time but still early days what other highlights do you see coming up or amongst what youve seen so far. What one of the big highlights for me was a french film called lovers a completely different not a political movie at all film the wire sort of in the style of a clutch of oil just a film with a lot of sexiness a lot of danger and and crime and some incredible interiors a film to film to escape into and i think thats also something that were seeing a lot of here in venice that im really looking forward to in the coming days and what will we be checking in with you about on monday because we will check and obviously early days still whats coming up next week. Yeah monday i think is one of the big holiday of this festival one night in miami its a directorial debut of oscar winning actress regina king and its set 964 and its a civil rights drama about a real life meeting that occurred between Mohammad Ali Malcolm x. The singer sam cooke and jim brown the. N. F. L. Football player and not and civil rights activist im really excited to see this movie its already being seen as an oscar candidate so i think youll be really excited to see it on monday thanks very much scott well check in with you again on monday and between now and then happy viewing and stay safe. Well it was a huge win for the city of pottstown when German Software magnate has so plot now renovated a Historic Building to how was his Art Collection and the rich one is the museum exhibits works that range from the old masters to contemporary art and this week his long awaited impressionists join the Permanent Collection making one of the most impressive outside of france. Good morning i bought. The impressionists are strongly associated with france but now the barbering easy and imports damn near berlin can boast its own striking collection of impressionist paintings thanks to a permanent loan by german businessman fossil plattner. Mr platinum built the museum precisely for this moment he wants to share the paintings 103 of them with the public that was always his wish and its now been accomplished and once he fell in love with france as a sailor i as a nature lover because hes always been interested in bodies of water. Shifted mutism pass of flesh and how do you francis and the french impressionists i live next to the same river they wanted to be close to the river to the sea. Thats what fascinated him was another person near. Among the highlights of the class a collection are more than 34 morning paintings some of them are now on display for the 1st time. In years feel like theyre learning is perhaps the painter he succeeded the most in capturing be shirtless via he said that he wanted to paint what was between him and the motif under motif it means that he really takes you in here invited to dive into his works. Alongside monet many other impressionists are also featured alfred sees lees paintings of snow scenes standout. The impressionists were fascinated by snow because it gave a completely different outlook to landscapes they were familiar with but i think the really interesting thing with these landscapes is when you see them from far away you think of the color white but the closer you get you actually see that are painted so many different views of things sparkles and vibrates the certain details so you really need some time to discover the painting for yourself. With the platen i collect. Now i want to display the barbary to mean potsdam looks like any tool carries in the heart of germany. French companies are has not. Started performing as a child while suffering from leukemia her family moved to europe for her lifesaving treatment and due to language barriers she started to express herself through performance in order to cope with the pain well now shes based in berlin and she says her work is about healing. This quiet german a lake beholding secrets secrets of history mysteries that art could uncover. Things were hidden under the sand and makes the nature speak something here needs to happen a process or ritual of remembrance or saying goodbye or pass it has to happen artist. Felt that here. The town outside berlin with nazi bunker towers between houses like this one collapsed. Abandoned soviet barracks testified to the cold war. But it was a deeper layer of history that shocked her most a story nearly unknown and seldom told from the 1st world war people died in the camp because of hunger because of pneumonia germany already believed that people of color when not human during world war one prisoners from french and british colonies were kept here soldiers from africa and asia it was here that germany built its very 1st mosque meant to show what was taking care of the mostly muslim prisoners and they were not actually praying inside of the mosque it was too small for the amount of soldiers that were here which was up to 9000. 00 but actually the soldiers were praying on the fields on the outskirts with guns on the head. A century later found a space is now a camp for asylum seekers. Where the mosque stood it is now a parking lot. Only its 20 marker testifies to its existence. But because it was born in. Which she feels a personal connection to this points she came here to understand her own history me i found out so few years ago that my great grandfather had died in a german court on your count in off get on which used to be south come on the family has never buried his thoughts. Near the camp are the graves of inmates indian soldiers of the British Empire who died while prisoners here. Or wonders where the other bodies lying. There is not a trace of african soldiers here that are buried beneath. She believes there are traces in this nearby lake. I want to come here. And think about an underground. Archaeology of water. Or performance in arcadia how soldiers become mates together with artist. Is about remembering and mythologizing those who died. And thank you and enable you to believe here is a voice is of the left into need incentives they have found a way i can talk to every language i can help you to it and which is to come back here was a way to bury those voices that were raised and those soldiers that were murdered and make sort of. Yes act of healing and of burial in this water. The work also uses original audio recordings from the colonial prison camp. Believes that some contain the voices of female prisoners whose stories she says historians have ignored. And i dont think that history disappears i think its to take. But we have forgotten how to listen. She says its up to the descendants of colonial victims to hear their ancestors story and bring them back to the surface org click on blog and thats all for this week so until next time thanks so much for watching and all the best. Small acts can inspire change the people making an assault on go africa fantastic night. 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