yes, sometimes the by the way, jonathan, can i correct you? it s not his anger i mean, he s a poser. this is all posing. i mean, i just wanted to throw that in. you don t have to agree with me, but his alleged anger he s playing this populist role and playing his supporters as suckers. but go ahead, i m sorry to interrupt. joe, it s your show. what they see it as anger how they interpret it. that was a pretty narrow view of the electorate the last time around and he won anyway. his sense and the people around him are, we re stay with that. there s been no effort to grow his base. he does love the rallies. he tells people all the time that s his favorite thing as a president, to go to the hall, whether it s in north carolina, georgia or wisconsin or wherever it may be and get up there and perform and he feels the energy. it s up enthusiasm. he believes he has people who come to the rallies who aren t being picked up in the polls and he was somewhat right the last
the it also causes some questions and on the understanding. for the time being this is still a highway to nowhere whether the new superhighway will ever reach neighboring serbia is very much an open question. environmental protection public disclosures even a clean bidding process the new silk road often falls short on transparency one reason why germany has declined to formally partner with china. the western german city of duisburg sees things differently however it s transforming itself into europe s largest distribution point for chinese goods the city has struggled since the poser of coal mines and steel factories new silk road brings along hope for thousands of new jobs. will be the end of the line for an eleven thousand kilometer long railway creating a land shipping route from china to germany that takes only fourteen days. alone in
enough votes from a poser could find himself losing his grip altogether on the divided party. and i agree on ram opposed to he came to power replacing jacob zuma who was plagued by scandals he was supposed to really clean the house in the country and his party how successful has he been in doing that. well it s too early to say because he s only been in power for about a year but he has been coming out with very strong words when it comes to fighting corruption and it was the same also during the campaign time this time around he was really strongly saying that people who are corrupt will be spacing the consequences no people who are corrupt will be seen in government offices anymore they will not get any jobs anymore but the question is will he be able to follow up on that and this will of course take time because the corruption has been going so deep into the system here and many people are predicting that the basically how
rationing power causing rolling blackouts that have hindered efforts to boost growth. in addition ram opposer is under pressure because the a.n.c. is losing voters to the more populist land reform policies of the f f so he s pressing ahead with the expropriation of white farmers without compensation but risks losing white support and that of the international community. cyril rama poses future is all but certain his preferred path is one of stability and growth but if this election doesn t hand the a.n.c. enough votes from a poser could find himself losing his grip altogether on the divided party so what issues do matter most to south africans in this election did he is christine one who has been testing the mood. i m outside a polling station in so way to about four thousand people are expected to vote here today and these are some of the early risers that you re seeing behind me
so many south africans ciro around a poser embodied a new chapter and leader who enjoyed support and trust right across the class and color divides. when he replaced his disgraced predecessor jacob zuma first as leader of the a.n.c. and then as president he promised years of corruption and economic mismanagement were over you door is a poor us and the wonderful door pairs of eyes thank you. as a young anti apartheid activist and trade union leader from opposer was a nelson mandela protege who led the talks to and white minority rule in south africa. but when he was passed over as mandela a successor to president he turned his back on politics focused instead on business becoming one of the country s wealthiest men. later it was the backing of the business lobby and his boardroom experience that would help give him another edge