to see a wide spread races, depression, today, the screen we need to talk about here, the stories, shadows of german colonialism. hello and welcome to this special edition of the deputy news africa were in south africa with the most contested election in the country's history is taking place. we're asking what's gone wrong here and who can fix it? it's been 30 years since the end of white minority rules. and the policy of nelson mandela has been in power here ever since. but the amc is in trouble. the tides may be turning on the policy. and africa is old. it's never ration. movement is fighting to maintain its political dominance. the government is failing us before our clubs have in the past,

like every now and nothing is holding on the excess of people. and we have been the people stuff a lot, especially in terms of unemployment. i personally myself teaching i, i have used for graduates already, but it's tough. that's because south africa is in serious decline. unemployment poverty and in a policy have dropped many cell that pretends mostly less of a dignified standard of living. the biggest opposition policy says it can do a better job, but it's not convincing enough closes. so what is the democratic alliance has problems. and with dozens of pope poles on the ballots, new plays are changing the political scene. polls show them, making crowds,

winning loads and loads. is this on chances with the established policies? the i'm christine one, do i? it's good to have your company. i've reported on a number of elections in south africa, but the general election set for may 29th. feels different. there is a strong sense here that the result will be a game changer. the african national congress has ruled for 30 years. it's now facing its toughest electro challenge. he gets a growing number of sub africans off, dissatisfied with the state. the country is in and they blame the amc. the key act to in bringing about south africa's freedom off the dock is of oppressive white minority rule has a brief look back at the era known as the policies in the racially

segregated south africa. black people were 2nd class citizens. the highest stages in society was reserved for white people who would defend himself batch, and 46 as they had privileged access to the best of the countries public facilities . the segregation officially known as a policy began in 1948, but it was rooted in the country's history of colonization. a pause a little required black people to carry a possible which stipulated with they were permitted to work and travel. the system can do the harassment of black people the, the government did not tolerate descent, but that didn't stop people from showing their position. they were frequent mass

demonstrations to which police responded with people for in 1960. so the african police opened fire on thousands of demonstrations in shop full township, killing 69 people. again lisa nelson, mandela and the amc took up the struggle against the policies. for this he and his comrades were branded terrorist and lisa sentenced to life in prison. but the resistance continued inside south africa and around the world by the 1990s. much of the legislation that form the foundation of the apologies the system had been repealed, making the way to south africa's 1st inclusive and democratic election in 1994. the agency won that election, making nelson mandela, the country's 1st black president, please raise your right hand. i'm sorry,

so help me. god saw how the country was full of hope and promise blacks and whites would long been divided. would united and the agency would continue to dominate. so that's what this policy with overall me, majority support at the better thoughts by any measure, the agencies electoral success over the past that he is has been phenomenal. starting high end of nelson mandela and rising to spanish levels and to tell them babies all time high, just shy of 70 percent. 20 years ago. even the decline of jacob c. my is relative and below watermark off 58 percent of silver. i'm a pool, so is a result. most democratically elected parties can only dream of. but this time the amc is facing an uncertain future pulse point to the result and the 50 percent. and

the loss of its absolute majority the smell of rubbish mixes with sewage. it's a powerful cocktail that residents have gotten used to living with. this is a familiar site across south africa's township areas. we're meeting black citizens live president. so i'm a post. i've visited this area to campaign for votes. we joined him at the interested with residents listening to the consent this lifetime agency support to us happy to see remo posts. so he would tell him exactly how bad it is here. big guy, there's theses running through the streets here. good, i'm, i've, i've, sewage water is flowing freely here. right now. cool. start done. we often don't have any electricity here. yeah. it goes off for long periods, one, even for a month,

sometimes i big. those are the things that causes frustration. i've enjoyed, this comes out by increasing this also causing frustration is the countries high unemployment rate, 40 percent of people old enough to work with out drops so that's what kids are also experiencing coupling electricity crisis. at its worst, some areas winds without power for over 8 hours a day. just imagine paying 5 times the market price for a roll of toilet paper. that's what public probably utility is. scott, more shutting out. it's been revealed that it was regularly over paying for basic supplies. it's a kind of maladministration that has lived so the african serious pendants have been used by business people with closer relationships to the amc, to enrich themselves, leaving a litany of corruption scandals of what it is for reasons like bees. the amc is in

big trouble. prediction polls suggest support for the party could even dropped below 50 percent, and eviction goes up how we know what's going to happen and the people in this whole and the people of south africa know in their own. so what they're waiting to do in terms of giving the amc and overwhelming majority but the majority of voters in this election or john south africa who grew up under the amc administration of the although housing, the water supply and sanitation may have improved during the lifetimes. they're unhappy about the put it nomic prospects. well, no, try to go ahead. i don't have what young people won't fight for the i n c because we are unemployed because it will be painful for them because new policies are

going to come and take votes from the i called. the new policies are responding to our needs as young people is that, but the, i, in the same thing has to be stuck in the past. i then not looking after on somebody's got court that unhappiness is expected to cost b and c deals at the polls. the amc leadership sees the party has turned over a new leaf and should not be judged on past governments failures. on the 29th of may, so that for tenants will give the assessment of when they think the agency can truly turn things around the bit up to 3 decades in power. the amc is suffering a wide range of electoral ills i spoke with the agencies youth, the president calling malachi, and asked him about the worst one, corruption. those will clear up that one does have to be days. that's why i didn't see a setup systems for that day, is if you're a child named funky and if you're

a child of corruption, we requested just double side as a member of the is a good government because of step outside of it to play of the nc, and teen q need the steps that tables move, acknowledge of the is that part of our problems that we've faced over time? is that our political been a vision has been associated with what up she and in was the split up a window confidence that enough it's enough for those they'll cut off must leave organization because it of us grew up and try to like club cards of because i have them in part, you know, and they've been fighting the world. i'd say it's quite up kind of tough to cause a you, i yeah, of course, of course, access to the source, the, the access to the not. no, not able to one that comes to the organization tend to be there to save the people in advance. that's end of the impact. we're at a time where geopolitical relations around the world are shifting. you have power centers emerging all over the world. i know that it's, it's been a long held emission of the agency to break wisdom hit you. mooney,

young people in this country, not having to decide between the east and, and, and the west and alliance. so to say, do you think so that should cause it more to ally with wisdom, power eastern powers, excuse me, like china and russia, as opposed to the west? look at the is the ticket most pulls up what, you know, our poster there. but also, even though, as even most that i don't know if we ever saw some of the sort of a lot of explore the reports and plead agreements mostly with the wife. no, i'm saying that the only thing that was on the one from one of these countries, i don't want to be seated. but one day at the end of the stuff, it's like she, we want anyone who's a d. i those kind of agree is that the post of the nc rated to us is for the for the 2 bedroom. there is some polling suggesting that your parties, the amc for the 1st time might struggle at 2 suits when a majority in the selection. the fact that that's even part of the conversation

isn't that a daunting prospect. we've never been on that tech like before, that cause the if there's more of that tech than ever now. now i think that we've got quotes and wonder about the and see if it can take it is better able to time to do. i'm about to consult stalled the present, but actually thank you so much for you so much in this election for the 1st time in 30 years and they will news it's majority, but they will do anything to stay in power image and quietness in between the amc the violent f, f m as whom of function, and then based upon the issue of corruption lives, we're on the to get twist. to this election is about some 5 of unites to risk to south africa vote d a. you just saw a campaign video from the democratic alliance. it is promising to rescue south

africa from the amc. a controversial taxi from the main opposition party, which 121 percent of the national flows in between the 19 election. but it as low as the government at provincial level, it runs the wisdom teeth dw style pool could travel to cape town to look at the policies record and what it has to offer. so that we can city like no other to hey tony's homes over 4000000 people and the numbers keep growing. the city has become an investment hub and a sort of to relocation destination for south africans and foreigners. it's one of the few places we jobs, a state of the growing large moving to it's also different because it's not a fact by the opposition and like the meaning of the successes in town. and the great problems are due to its policy interventions. it believes that can

replicate this success in the risk of south africa and risk you the country from what it sees is 50 years of amc mismanagement. but there's another side of cape town. aside we have residents struggle to find decent, affordable accommodation rates in k town are up to 40 percent higher. they need to have this book informal settlements like this one have sprung up all across cape town. residents loved us, say they want to be close to public transport routes and close to the city center. with the jobs are located. they say they simply isn't enough social housing available and are concerned that the prices for rental in other areas are simply too high. life here means living without many basic needs, needing some residents to feel leaked down by the d. a administration. finally we, we don't have electricity, we don't have water. and we also don't have toilets, which is the toilet. and these things are quite important to all people in the

indian is that when i set up where you join us in the da's track record has not yet to convince you to vote for it does seem to be trying to deliver. but there's many people in the western cape, it's trying, but we're not really satisfied. yeah, even though there's more than seeing needed john ski and he's in his taking these parties risk, you saw the african message of the country mainly focusing on areas that have traditionally voted for the agency. he knows the parts he needs to attract these voltage committees to overtake the routing parts at the polls. but what about those? what i'm certain about the da's track record in the waste, in case you're not going to get everything rocked over or not. it's going to take some time with people, especially the quality, an economic inequality that still exists in south africa use officer part of it. and absolutely, the waste of cape is not perfect. still got a lot to do and that's why we're saying there's lots more to do so that we can

voters have made it clear that the on promises they will judge parties in this election on the track record. the democratic alliance will have to show voters that he works with citizens of old backgrounds. if it wants to n c p a and see the above is the only alternative that we have got out of the night when the f. f is the one that i relate to is the one that talks about the problems that you should go to account is the one that addresses the issues that the people are facing, the pool the much and i like the printer. i think if, if he presents me so all the policies, i think the waking for for me. so that's why i said let me uh, come and support the party and that they've given me that think this n c have never given me. i'm 35 and nobody's going to hire me. but really as,

as i have hold off the top 3 place policies, any one is expected to grow its share, often floats. the economic freedom fights is o e offense. it has been very deliberate in courting young firs since the 5th is led by 43 year old julius my lemma, who rose to prominence as the amc youth meat liter between 282010. the parties focus on land redistribution has been a major draw pod to young person so many of whom believe the amc sold out during the group associations with the parts they needed. the airpods they thought lead the lives of the fact that the don't the light 30 percent of the lead in the time of the wind jobs. if you put the, by the fact about dropping the inside, that's what you've got today. seat at both on 50 the meter or the people who are comfortable to wait an hour and perfect. so now is because our self funding is

typically now there are thousands of political policies standing in this election menu of the new profiting from purchase hopes for change, hopes that can knock me fulfilled by the 3 big policies. sonya is leaving is the lead to off the rice incense, the policy i close up with him and so wasteful, and asked him about his plan to make informal settlements and things of the past. the ease no plan, so profile in sleep build communities which cannot become gift to us because they've got that right for us to be to the close. i can make send us with if it can wait in a short distance and so on. it's calles. provide please just pop up menu, we believe that within 15 reviews you viewed just eliminates the problem, you have to lend, come find me, take a hold of the data and make the tough decisions we need to take to get land is the

big issues in south africa and it's in your manifesto, land reform. how do you propose rolling out a policy of land reform? curious on that because so far by the recently on the phone it's patients of these institutions pledge forms. we've seen the contents, we've just spoken about to crank population. she started commenting justice and immunization fitness question. what else i think is moving, right? what do they need with the get the they need to become entities. they need physical network infrastructure. and so, and one of the instruments that is provided in our constitution is expectation of men with compensation. the government is not done because the easel plan, because the constitution says you must expropriate for a public purpose. so you must be clear why you need a land identify each. so the context of the plan, it's for page,

you pays it or not, if it and the amount of money that you sent in to provide the services that you need to provide. but of course, has made some very on it. yes, but i is a demo. i'll pay the views at this. expropriation should happen without compensation. can the south african states afford to compensate people whose majesty suddenly gives you a sense of why compensation is important in the areas you have lots of what i meant on this. when you say there must be exploration. he thought, compensation impala is you wanted to maybe let the government officials for making it so patient decision and you end up caught up the site. you're going to get some for sending that over. and he's telling me, it's what we did by a porter up to for she a. and because the for to read the lawyer, we would need to fight the case for told them to talk to this is that this has been

physicians as a whitish, almost 10 years old to one. it is intended to be a way to give the government power to take the thought compensation you wouldn't have this model was a week, but some other teachers, white people want to say don't amount particularly in the process of acquiring net we set out by all skin with i'll definitely co wind wrong and who might be able to solve its challenges. so if south africa on the decline, i put that question seductive sampling better political sciences at the university of pretoria. so that's a good is on the has not subject to the promise of 1994. and it certainly, i think in many areas under the tide in terms of being able to provide for the people that lives here. so that i think that

no mallet, she will be good for south africa. i think the good, i think being this miracle of 1994 and this, you know, relatively peaceful transition from authority to democracy has been a major big heavy yoke to carry for the country. and for the people that lived yet because the expectation of what south africa is to um and, and could be, has often been completely out of touch with the reality of what it is and what it was recovering from to because and so i think that a dose of healthy expectations is a good thing to south africa. and, and i think that one of the major uh, kind of hurdles and what i would like to see being focused on from now is to really attempt to attack the deep and the quality that is in this country. because the

reality is that the country is in some ways more an equal than it was in 1994. the people to do well well see in 1994 has only become wealthier, you've still got massive disparities between white people and black peoples. what quality of life and, and the a young person who was born in 1994 con see very much what is big to about 2024 to 1984. where as for me, who was born in 1984 i so and i lived through a dramatic improvement in my life and my life chances. and we need to give that back to kids who are living now. and i think part of that means being really realistic about what south africa is,

what it kind of cheese. i'm not trying to live up to some of the image of the american states. even nelson mandela said he was not the same. and he didn't want to be treated as one, and i don't think that's how that because should be treated like a country of states. um, so that because a normal country with deep, deep, deep problems, many historical, but also many created in the present. and i'm looking forward to us having the time in the space to deal with the reality of who's south africa. it's not to the international community imagines it's a one that's all for the special edition of the news africa on the south african elections. this week is off to the end of the policies, will leave you with the voices of the people who have the final say, saw the african verses on their hopes for the future. i'll see you next time by the

. 7 us from the trust change here in south africa. the answer is going to win the i'm positive because it's a, it's a, it's going to when people can see this change. education is the key way to know who i want children can post. as we get educated, they will be significant change even better than what they saw in 1994. the beautiful and there's more that can be done to go to africa. and i believe, honest as the youth coming up, we have so much clearly that just to change or con. no,

i feel like the call to service. okay, so people afraid we all liked working together. um, no, it's just a friendly nation. so the, all the

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