but right now, south africa is in a big mess, with a protracted energy crisis, shocking levels of unemployment and inequality, and systemic corruption. my guest is the secretary general of the anc, fikile mbalula. is his party about to pay the price of failure? fikile mbalula, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having us, and welcome to luthuli house. it s a great pleasure to be here. how disappointed are you with the state south africa is in today? south africa is undergoing challenges like many other countries. but i think to put us into a category of a failed state, it s an exaggeration. er. ican give. but you think that s a conversation that south africans are having amongst themselves? well, it comes from pockets of the. ..powerful thinkers in the country who project us as displaying characteristics of a failed state, of course. we may not be too defensive to that. if certain things are not resolved, we will become a failed state. but we are notjourneying towards that di
it s seven in the morning in singapore, and midnight in london, i m monica miller borisjohnson has been referred to the police by the cabinet office, over new claims he may have broken lockdown rules during the pandemic. the allegations have come to light during preparations for the covid public investigation. mrjohnson has replied to the allegations in a statement. in the statement, mrjohnson s team says the assertion by the cabinet office that there have been further covid rule breaches is totally untrue . and says, many will conclude that this has all the hallmarks of yet another politically motivated stitch up. our political correspondent jonathan blake has more on the story. there is no investigation yet to what happened here is the lawyers going to boris johnson s a ministerial diary during the time of the pandemic in the process of preparing evidence for forthcoming public inquiry which will examine the uk s response to the pandemic came across diary entries which w
welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore, i m karishma vaswani. the headlines. the former uk prime minister borisjohnson is referred to police over new claims he broke covid lockdown rules. russia says it has defeated insurgents who attacked the belgorod region on the border with ukraine. after receiving a rock star welcome in sydney the indian prime minister prepares for talks with his australian counterpart. spanish police make several arrests in their investigaton of racist abuse aimed at the real madrid footballer, vinicius junior.