Group thats been on the front lines of social, racial and Economic Justice forever and to be here at a time of historic importance for the group because youve just called for the impeachment of donald trump. [ cheering and applause ] i read the Mueller Report the day it came out i read into the afternoon on the night and the next morning and when i got to the end, i did not stick my finger in the air and asked about the politics, i did not hesitate, i read it, i knew what is said and i concluded first that this is a man who has broken the law and he should be impeached and i said so on that very day. I come to at a moment of great crisis in this country, crisis at a time when americans are working better and better for a thinner and thinner slice at the top of that would leave everyone else behind. The simple question of my lifes work is what is happening to working families in america, why is the road getting so much rockier and deeper and for families of color, even rockier and even
With me, zeinab badawi. My guest is South African jazz legend and political activist Hugh Masekela. His life and music have reflected the struggles of the anti apartheid hero, and the years of black majority rule. So, why does he now describe south africa as fast turning into a rubbish dump, and becoming removed from its authentic african culture . Hugh masekela, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you, thank you, zeinab. You were born in 1939 in witbank, 100 miles east ofjohannesburg. You said if i have a trumpet, i wont bother anybody. You say music is your religion . Well, i was obsessed. I was actually bewitched by music from infancy. When i was five years old, my parents had to get me away from the gramophone and help me play the piano, with piano lessons. Nine years later, i saw a movie about a trumpet player. It was a biopic, called the young man with the horn. I had to play the trumpet. In fact, it was a man of religion, father Trevor Huddlestone, who gave you your first trumpet . He wa
Talk. Welcome to hardtalk, im zeinab badawi. My my guest is the Deputy President of south africa, Cyril Ramaphosa. This is his first interview with the bbc since he became president of the ruling anc. He could also become president of south africa very soon, ifjacob president of south africa very soon, if jacob zuma heeds calls to resign early. But is Cyril Ramaphosa and anc stalwart and wealthy businessmen the right person to lead a new south africa, a country mired in corruption and cronyism 7 Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you very much. It is good to be here. How worried are you about corruption in south africa . Deeply worried, because corruption tends to be a very negative action that is taken by corrupters against the nation. It impedes growth, it is something that takes away the resources that are meant to advance the lives of our people, and it puts it in the hands of a few, and it is a criminal act, and that is why i have been determined that we
This is his first interview with the bbc since he became president of the ruling anc. He could also become president of south africa very, very soon, if jacob zuma heeds calls to resign early. But is Cyril Ramaphosa, an anc stalwart and wealthy businessman, the right person to lead a new south africa, a country mired in corruption and cronyism 7 Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you very much. It is good to be here. How worried are you about corruption in south africa . Deeply worried, because corruption tends to be a very negative action that is taken by corrupters against the nation. It impedes growth, it is something that takes away the resources that are meant to advance the lives of our people, and it puts it in the hands of a few, and it is a criminal act, and that is why i have been determined that we should rid our country of corruption, because it has become all pervasive. The good thing, though, is that we have identified it, and we are now taking a
Zeinab badawi. My guest is South African jazz legend and political activist Hugh Masekela. His life and music have reflected the struggles of the anti apartheid hero, and the years of black majority rule. So, why does he now describe south africa as fast turning into a rubbish dump, and becoming removed from its authentic african culture . Hugh masekela, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you, thank you zeinab. You were born in 1939 in witbank, 100 miles east ofjohannesburg. You said if i have a trumpet, i wont bother anybody. You say music is your religion . Well, i was obsessed. I was actually bewitched by music from infancy. When i was five years old, my parents had to get me away from the gramophone and help me play the piano, with piano lessons. Nine years later, i saw a movie about a trumpet player. It was a biopic, called the young man with the horn. I had to play the trumpet. In fact, it was a man of religion, father Trevor Huddlestone, who gave you your first trumpet . He was a chapla