this is news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes south africa is settled i'm opposed to just gave one of the most important speeches of his presidency we're asking what is the stage of the rainbow nation just months ahead of the general election that could definitively change the country's political landscape. and as tens of thousands of nigerians flee an upsurge in violence told here from the experts warning off a new make humanitarian crisis. i'm christine window welcome to news africa i'm glad you're chewing then the stakes were high when south africa's president sorghum up also gave he's state of the nation address on thursday evening also has been president for just shy of a year 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 drama 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. cyril ramaphosa 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 harder to advances made in the last twelve months. over the past year we are focusing our efforts. celebrating inclusive growth. increasing. levels of investment and putting in place measures to create more jobs we answer those efforts have yet to provide the desired effect growth has sluggish and one percent unemployment remains high at twenty seven percent and then this corruption

a 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 road to cause social and economic transformation we seek 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 do clean located and will be released to address human settlements. and perry. the a.n.c. is vulnerable about issue by vehicle parties want to see mostly white held private

land without compensation from a post a want against undermining post apartheid unity which at times it just seemed like the moco fumin congress allowed us to recall the ninety ninety four had gone so. i want to bring in professor to needle malaya now he's a south african political analyst based at the university of pretoria professor it's good to have you on the news africa perhaps start 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 start up again quantum leap and what needs to be done to revive

. it it was full of issues that are made today economy that do need to follow and that it's going investments that we made to the result of the gene that allows people to come in so we can boost though are two lives in. a sector in the country and of course also large corruption but. over and above 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 live in class because there is in this very rich 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 oh he's 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 noumena over south africa right now let's hear from one of the people in leading the debate of land reform. led this probably to our people what i've. learned is comedy

we. had six in three to five of the constitution to our law now expropriation all for lent without compensation. to be by to pacify or false they killed our people. our people they stole lent we're not that he was a rapist we're kind not that if you met us we want our lent back issue it's not a question for. a professor coming back that isn't an emotionally charged julius malema is this sentimental widespread amongst black south africans. oh don't say that it is widespread what is widespread of course is the sense that there. 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 there were but i don't think that's my limited present and my duty 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.n.c. it is that how we can read this particular eight election well every election has been a referendum variances because the a.n.c. has what it takes and 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're down whereas if their votes that they were given last time and they have to do have

a plan that they're this incident will buy into so in that sense it is a referendum on them but i think it's enough of them when 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 i think this deserves will make up their mind you know on the eighth of may i think that's where the general election will take place ok professor to political analysts 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 way 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 just 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 would be by way camps they were told already overfilling the nigerian president obama recently acknowledged safe bets in the fight against boko haram and now we hear from vincent pushing a off 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 of population since the last two years in maiduguri alone i mean more than thirty thousand people have arrived lately just in a matter of a few weeks so that's creates a lot of problems in terms of overcrowding of the condoms that's wiser to reach inside 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 was emergency and to provide adequate adequate answer to

my dear he said in some projects in the streets by b.p. is. related to related to the assistance they are receiving but there is a problem there is that you get thirty thousand piece that scattered throughout fourteen camps and miller in more than hundreds of thousands of i.d.p.'s that were already there some by 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 for a long 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 with other mentor actors i mean we swim and we have been able to ask more or less hard for the population that i write them and we started when we could go see sense with some essential household items so basically blankets mats i mean muskets and it's because these people just left with 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 to start worldwide i mean and even within the nigerian relation we've got a lot of impact here but it highlights one of the biggest challenge you mentor actors and i see face in the north is that access to be kids and that's why we need them and support from all communities i mean for all stakeholders to 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 to it to get some assistance but many others did go to places where humans access cannot have access for safety reasons for security reasons it shouldn't be the case i mean according to international main show you major actors should be protected and access to the

people in need i mean to deliver them which food was made it seems. so i thought police. right that's why i will leave it from africa can catch all these stories and more on our website at facebook page at because they're just too beautiful not to share we'll leave you with some stunning images that now move. to africa i think our.

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