the repressive, racist apartheid regime had been toppled. the new power in the land was the african national congress, promising a better life for all south africans. well, three decades on, it s time to judge how the anc is doing. to too many south africans, this looks and feels like a story of failure. khayelitsha township, cape town. nestled under majestic table mountain, a sprawling reminder of south africa s status as the most unequal society on earth. in africa s most advanced economy, at least half of young people can t find work. life here is never easy but, right now, south africa s power crisis is hitting the poorest hardest. no one in khayelitsha wants to be sick when the power is off, but it happens every day. the main township hospital has had to adapt to what they call load shedding . the man in charge is david binza. with load shedding now in place and the different stages, instead of reducing, they are actually increasing. we ve had to adjust our lives and wo
welcome to hardtalk on the road from south africa. i m stephen sackur. back in 1994, the one overwhelming emotion in this country was hope. the repressive, racist apartheid regime had been toppled. the new power in the land was the african national congress, promising a better life for all south africans. well, three decades on, it s time to judge how the anc is doing. to too many south africans, this looks and feels like a story of failure. khayelitsha township, cape town. nestled under majestic table mountain, a sprawling reminder of south africa s status as the most unequal society on earth. in africa s most advanced economy, at least half of young people can t find work. life here is never easy but, right now, south africa s power crisis is hitting the poorest hardest. no one in khayelitsha wants to be sick when the power is off, but it happens every day. the main township hospital has had to adapt to what they call load shedding . the man in charge is david binza. with
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what to do with myself. and we ll be looking back at the life of the man behind these lyrics. burt bacharach one of pop music s greatest composers has died aged 94. and coming up on the bbc news channel. despite protests from fans there are now revamped plans for a new look european super league with no permanent members and based on sporting performance. good evening. they re digging mass graves in turkey and syria as the death toll climbs rapidly. nearly 20,000 are known to have died in the earthquakes on monday. who knows how many more are still buried under the rubble, but time is running out to save them. the great fear now is for the survivors who are living on the streets with very little food and water in freezing conditions. the un secretary general has promised more help is on its way, but warned that the full extent of the crisis is still unfolding, with people facing nightmares on top of nightmares . we ll hearfrom quentin sommerville in antakya, close to the
also tonight. president zelensky takes his appeal for more weapons and fighterjets for ukraine to brussels. and. # ijust don t know what to do with myself. we ll remember burt bacharach the man behind dozens of hit songs who has died. and on bbc london, donations from londoners for earthquake and coming up on the bbc news channel, the idea has been dismissed once already but there are fresh calls for a european super league. welcome to the programme, on a day when the devastation caused by the earthquakes in turkey and syria became ever more clear, as the death toll rose above 20,000. in the region, rescuers continue to work through the rubble, sometimes still finding people alive. tonight, we ll share the stories of those working with survivors, including doctors looking after a tiny baby this little girl who was born in the rubble and whose mother, father and siblings have all been killed. we ll hear from three of our correspondents, one very close to the syrian