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christine one bill welcome to news africa i'm glad you're chewing then the stakes were high when south africa's president sort of opposed to gave he's state of the nation address on thursday evening i'm opposed to has been president for just shy of a yeah he assumed office office of the ruling a.n.c. the former leader jacob zuma but as the a.n.c. rather continues to be buffeted by corruption scandals the powerful pulpit off a drum opposed to an opportunity to market his vision of the reform party we'll get reaction to the state of the nation speech but first some of the highlights. cinerama arriving for a second state of the nation address since taking office with an election looming the president of the ruling african national congress set up to hide out advances made in the last twelve months. over the past year we are focusing our efforts

or not accelerating inclusive growth. increasing levels of investment and putting in place measures to create more jobs we want those efforts have yet to provide the desired effect growth is sluggish and one percent unemployment remains high at twenty seven percent and then this corruption commission into grafters had a steady stream of details of bribes paid to governments and a.n.c. party officials under former president jacob zuma from a poster is promising action the action we take now to encryption and to hold those responsible to account will determine the pace and the trajectory of the larger cause social and economic transformation we seek help from a post has also hinted at movement on one reform promising to redistribute some

government land to the poor. now as part of accelerating learned reform we have identified land apostles' that out owned by the state for redistribution. start to gigli located. will be released to address human settlements leans in and. the a.n.c. is vulnerable about issues radical parties want to seize with mostly white held private land without compensation from a post i want against undermining post apartheid unity which at times it just seemed like that moco fumin kindness that allowed us to reconsider in one thousand nine hundred four had gone sour. i want to bring in professor to neagle malaya now he is a south african political analyst based at the university of pretoria professor

it's good to have you on the news africa perhaps trot out professor by by telling us what was the overall message sort of a pulse ahead for south africans and perhaps make sense of the milk metaphor for us while you're at it. i think at the center of true speech. was the whole load of. the economy really it was a speech of art the south african economy and what needs to be done to revive. it it was full of issues that are made today economy that didn't need to fall and that it can invest learned that we made to the result of the gene that allows people to come in so we can boost our two lives in. a sector in the country and of course also large corruption but. over enough our it

was about the economy and i think he wanted to say to south africans. there is a hope we can fix this if we work together i have a plan in fact i have several plans to seek to say to the south africans and in terms of what he meant with the milk metaphor is he speaking to the fact that south africans at this point in time there's a lot of disunity within the country. there is definitely a lot of disunity and it shows at several levels at one level it is as you know we have very few. incidents that go viral on the internet and people get very upset. at another american class because there is in this video which country and quite a high percentage of people living in poverty yeah so that is i'm not a source of of the lack of color he's in in society is also gender based

because there is a lot of violence against women ok professor let's hold that thought because we're talking about the an equal society that is south africa at this point in time and we know that and issue has is looming over south africa right now let's hear from one of the people in leading the debate of the land reform that led this party to our people what. to. me. we two are bad six in three to five of the constitution to allow expropriation often without compensation. to be. false they killed our people. our people. lead with not that he was the rapist we're kind not that we want to rise we

want our learned packed issue it's not a question for a professor coming back to you that isn't an emotionally charged julius malema is this sentimental widespread amongst black south africans. i would say that it is widespread what is widespread of course is the sense that the lead issue needs to be dealt with. what is widespread is that the a.n.c. government for twenty five years now has not dealt with the learned issue very well but i don't think that's my limit or present in my judgments of so that's the terms at which is why he his party has only six percent in the last election so but he doesn't present some people i don't think the majority don't ok professor let's wrap this up here my last question to you is about the upcoming election which we now know will be and may many all some people have called it

a referendum on the a and seen it is that how we can read this particular eight action well every election has been a referendum with barry and c because the a.n.c. has led action so far so they have the government they have the better of proof as it where they have to prove to the citizens that. they have downs whereas it's their fault that they were given less time and they have to do have a plan that there's a desire to buy into so in that sense it is a referendum on them but i think it's enough of them on all the political parties that are coming in because all of them have to offer something better i don't see is it where and and i think this it is and will make up their minds you know on the eighth of may i think that's when the general election will take place ok professor . political analyst in south africa base at the university of victoria thank you

for your time. and pure. ok let's turn our attention to nigeria now it's a warning of a growing humanitarian crisis in the fall in the east tens of thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes ofter an upsurge of attacks by the is not missed militant group boko haram the violence is concentrated in borno state you can see on the map there many of the new displaced people all seeking refuge in the state's capital that will be by to glory when camps they were told already overfilling the nigerian president obama recently acknowledged setbacks in the fight against boko haram and now we hear from vincent pushing the international red cross he told me that they are extremely concerned about the impact the intensifying violence is having on civilians what we have been seen in the last two months is one of the most important move afoot relations since the last two years

in maiduguri alone i mean more than thirty thousand people have arrived late here just in a matter of a few weeks so that's creates a lot of problems in terms of overcrowding of the comps that's why so tourists is a to do about a new camp so that people can be assisted properly you have the feeling there's an adequate response by the authorities on this deteriorating situation it's always a challenge i mean to cope with them agency and to provide adequate adequate answer to my dear he said it's a protest in the streets by b.p. is. related to are related to the assistance they are receiving but there is a problem there is that you get thirty thousand i.d.p.'s that is scattered throughout fourteen camps and miller in more than hundreds of thousand of these that were already there some i've been there for for many years so out to distinguish between those who newly arrived that have some specific needs because some left with almost nothing and whose we have been there followed

a long time so that's a that's a very challenging. and for the time being and i said he's going from one come to another try to identify the other him interactors i mean resume and we have been able to ask more. than that to write them and we started when we could go out of the sense with some essential household items so basically blankets mats i mean muskets and that's because these people just left to his was nothing to do and was women. during an attack last year two of your workers were abducted and later on killed do you by now have the feeling that your staff there can work under conditions that are safe and convenient for them or exists these killings were a big shock for us i mean for for all of as i said this stuff worldwide i mean and even within the nigerian relation we've got a lot of misinformation patty but it highlights one of the biggest challenge you mentor actors and i see face in the northeast that's access to be teams and that's

why we need them and support from all communities i mean for all stakeholders to be able to access as a people to deliver them with some assistance. as now as we're speaking i mean we mentioned thirty thousand people that did access my degree to get some assistance but many others did go to places where human access cannot have access for safety reasons for security reasons we shouldn't be the case i mean according to international min show you my tractor should be protected and access to the people in need i mean to deliver them which food was made it seems. so i suppose. right that's where we'll leave it from africa for now you can catch all these stories and more on our website at facebook page at because they're just too beautiful not to show it will leave you with some stunning images of the damage in south africa i think i'll.

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