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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 is time to judge how the anc is doing. for 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 act ....
I would like to see a different government, because i m losing hope from our government. south africans are realising that if they don t change the way they vote, south africa is going to end up in a very, very dark place. there will be anarchy, there will be - looting, all over this country, because nothing will be - working. if certain things are not resolved, it will become a failed state. the anc, mandela s party has ruled uninterrupted for 29 years. is a day of reckoning coming? welcome to hard talk on the road from south africa. i m stephen sachar. back in 1994, the one ....
Now it is time for hard talk. welcome. i am stephen sachar. russians and ukrainians know each other intimately thanks to history, language, culture. now, they are at war, killing each other thanks to vladimir putin s decision to launch an invasion of his neighbour. my guest today is an embodiment of the complex layers of the ukraine russia relationship. leading ukrainian novelist was born in russia and writes in russian but is a ukrainian citizen and fears putting citizen. can ukraine survive russia s effort to undermine its neighbourhood? ....