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it's. nine pm and w at any time he plays you see names in the band as you have under the leg of the squad so missing along to you tube is the combo to you from super good seats. to. interactive exercises. like everything is online and interactive and german to frame with d w. this is deja news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes south africa commemorates twenty five years since the country's first democratic election on saturday but a quarter of a century on why is that black struggle with the idea of co-existing and those who aren't black or white to say they've been excluded as the country tries to redress the past. we do like to be black with the words we wouldn't break through white who
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. said to the globe regrettably you know we're going to really reduce its own weight. and chance in seattle we have the story of the games the rising stars from playing neighborhoods in nigeria to find out why they have mentors believe that chance or change their lives. i'm christine wonderwall come to news africa graduation day and on saturday south africa will mock the twenty fifth anniversary of the country's first democratic election ofter apartheid back in one thousand nine hundred four it was hoped that the years that would follow would bring healing and reconciliation but today racial tensions in the country are still very high in many parts of south africa black and
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white people some. we don't live together and many feel like they caught isolated racial incidents over the years have pushed some of africans deeper into their prejudices incidents such as the one in our next report two white farmers were sentenced to twenty three and eighteen years in jail for killing a black teenager. protests rocked this small something african farming town in two thousand and seventeen after the alleged murder of a black teenager by two white men the court heard how sixteen year old muslim almost wow was pushed off a moving vehicle after the farm workers caught him stealing sunflower seeds. since then and reconciliation process led by various local churches have been hard work to cross the racial divide and unite the community communes communities will have to decide we make this broken world a better place for ourselves and if we don't do it no one else will do it for us
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pastor bell a mortal has lived in colonial all her life and worked with masterpieces on the reconsolidation project. we didn't. despite the relative calm over the last two years there are still glaring inequalities in that's true across the rest of the country twenty five years after . the most visible reminder of that time is the way many cities and towns remain divided along color lines. and there is that people. who. saw the things. she. says this school principal testified about the racial issues in killing me during the murder trial he says that while not all whites were racist this particular crime was racially motivated.
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the men were convicted of murder in october last year last month they were handed jail terms of twenty three and eighteen years the situation in any is calm at the moment but it's a tense calm must wiles' murders are planning to launch an appeal in may. if you thought racial tensions in south africa were only along black and white lines you'd be mistaken apostate legally divide us of africans into groups of whites blacks indians and kunitz that's a term meaning people deems to be off mixed race and by the way it's not offensive it's other members of the colored community have started occupying land in the eldorado area many of the activists complain they've been sidelined or social housing some have been. nearly two decades in the twenty five years since a part is since a posse if they feel marginalized and ignored by the a.n.c.
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live coverage. from their marginalizing of the briefing i was down to the week when our forefathers will approve because. they were not white be not now we recorded. so you're not. ok you really want to put the volume up for this one because you're about to hear the sound of the only symphony orchestra in central africa here's a story of a group of self-taught musicians who want to build a classical music school for adults and children in the democratic republic of congo. he's tough and demanding conduct armande says this is how he gets the best from his students.
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so i'm actually a pilots but music is my passion. but it's true i don't have academic training but passion is what helps us get to know instruments and to learn to play. and everyone here shares that same passion for classical music barely anyone has professional training instead they all train right here together in this orchestra . i'm happy here and i have a lot of friends. to be modest started learning the violin at the age of twelve and right from the start she was determined to join an orchestra. duffy and lives in this district music she says has helped her enormously. music
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music has changed me classical music has something very calming about it so much that has helped me to reflect and react in my everyday environment with my friends and others. family lives in a modest house her father sings in a choir and was supportive of his daughter learning an instrument it was only possible because the orchestra subsidize the cost of the lessons but the conditions were far from ideal when he. collapsed there were thirty students but only two violins in the mornings i went to school and in the afternoon. i had violin lessons but actually i could only hold the violin briefly then already it was the next child's turn to see a member this said go and live you know. now dauphin practices every day and she rehearses with the orchestra five times a week she's also studying and doing an internship with the foreign ministry. the
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twenty eight year old hopes she might get a job there later something that's not easy in the democratic republic of congo the orchestra is run by a free christian church that offers people support and has also built a number of schools and hospitals in one nine hundred ninety four it's set up the orchestra. music lessons take place within the church building there are no music schools in the democratic republic of congo so how is anyone supposed to learn to play an instrument. is it those who wish to play i like music a lot ever since i was little when i listen i feel good within music is the soundtrack to everything. the church is now building a real music school and wants to give more people access to the power of music. everyone here is prepared to roll their sleeves up and get digging even the musicians. you. see for you she soup for work is not too
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difficult afterwards at four o'clock i go to the choir. the church also runs a large choir and until the building is finished the eighty or so singers rehearse outside. was. far. and then they're joined by the orchestra they're rehearsing a can tot of from mendelssohn song forty two opus forty two in german. i think it's a once i mean essentially we are large symphonic family many musicians have found their own voice here and the orchestra simply accompanies each musician in the cream's. idea the school shapes the
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musicians of tomorrow. a beautiful sound now growing up in the slums of lagos presents children with a host of challenges among them is also the belief that there is even a way out of poverty one man has set out to change that but today or now is using the game of chess to educate children and teach them there's a way to overcome life obstacles. carefully calculates every move she makes the nine year old is the champion play at this chess club. i know just because i just made the first and that it was this
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woman not the only smart well do i your only learnt me eight months ago now she's preparing to represent africa at a regional autonomy but that's only or not korea is how coach he's also found this club chess in slums he coaches children left to come from on that privileged communities like this communities that awful luck quality education and even basic amenities robertson is goal is to use the principles of test to see each of the children that in spite of their circumstances they can still make it in that it was for them to be just coming into to face a lot of challenges so he's got to address them in them that if he can live this game of chess you can become a champion at it you can also become the champion of your. chest is
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a game of strategy requiring critical thinking and calm situation even adults can struggle to play needs let alone children children is actually very intelligent very intelligent enough to master the game of chess despite all its complexities so i'm not korea also grew up in a slum neighborhood he says playing chess from a young age gave him a new perspective on life now he's determined to do the same for other children. are dwyer is at her first regional tournaments and her coach is there to share her own. she will be faced. since he's from more privileged background but she says he's confident of how he treats yardbirds when the call gets to show. out of six rounds a door you always form and comes in second place coach are no quiesced says the
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man's leg this can really boost the children's confidence now he hopes to take higher and other kids on the big compensation. i think we just africa's future chess champion and that is it for now from africa you can catch all our stories on our website and also a page the next time i backed. your supply chain reaction was. to get around six hundred years ago. in the midst of the revolution and saw the table dismantle its people became aware of their abilities and strengths in
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a new way there was an outpouring of self-confidence i mentioned the. darkest. w. . place the flame. welcome to news from the world of arts and culture and coming up on the show today. europe's most comprehensive exhibition of the past is blue and rose periods is currently on show switzerland. less is more is used by
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design is urging simplicity but literally means when it comes to this design trend maximalist. but first off we are constantly confronted in the media by the ideal figure of a woman but there is no such thing of course as we all know now some very witty instagram as have been addressing this subject with their own versions of famous posts or perhaps undressing the subject will be a better way of explaining it i colleague melissa holroyd will be here to explain all of this. just an average day at the beach with britney spears on instagram. and he is serious. news tribune is hailed as one of the funniest women on the net with her parodies she holds up a mirror to the glittering illusory world of social media. she's
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in north. melody mitchell from hamburg also wants.

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