i'm not nothing out of the germans because sometimes i am but mostly laughing with the germans think deep into the german culture. ridiculous grammar there you go it's all out there no i'm rachel join me to meet the germans on the golf course. 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 blacks struggle with the idea of co-existing and those who aren't black or white say they've been excluded as the country tries to retrace the last. we do why do we. were the words we were to predict we were right who. dared to. go to overthrow the you know what is illegal to see that we did do the job. and

chance in seattle we have the story of the games rising stars from playing neighborhoods in nigeria will find out why they have mentors believe that chance or change their lives. and christine little while come to africa. on saturday south africa will mock the twenty fifth anniversary of the country's first democratic election. 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 white people simply don't live together and many feel like they caught isolated racial incidents over the years have pushed some south africans deeply into their prejudices. incidents such as the

one in our next report two whites were sentenced to twenty three years in jail for killing a black teenager. protests rocked this small some 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 although most wow was pushed off a moving vehicle after the farm workers caught him stealing sunflower seeds. since then a reconciliation process led by various local churches have been hard work to cross the racial divide and unite the community. 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 past the bell has lived a life and worked with masterpieces on the reconsolidation project.

we didn't. despite a relative calm over the last two years there still glaring inequalities in colonia that's true across the rest of the country twenty five years after pot hey the most visible reminder of that time is the way many cities and towns remain divided along color lines. and there is a black people. so there things there is no white. this school principal testified about the racial issues in kill any during the murder trial he says that while not all whites were racist this particular crime was racially motivated. they would not even good to be a politician i think they're going to. do he's missing.

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 kenya is calm of the moment but it's a tense calm must whilst 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 coloreds that's a term many people deems to be off mixed race and by the way it's not offensive in south africa but members of the college 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 of a sense of loss if they feel marginalized and ignored by the a.n.c. led government. forces from their marginalizing of the are pressing us down is

if. we in our forefathers were oppressed because there was certainly cream they were not white be not now we because if we not black enough we saw you not feel enough. ok you really want to put the volume up for this one because you're about to hear the sound off the o.d.t. 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. to visit not. all the adults. you see if you go to michigan to. see what i'm actually a pilot 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 if you don't want to see because it's with us. 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. have been 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. to learn music music has changed me to classical music has something very calming about it so much this is help me to reflect and react in my everyday environment may with my

friends and others in the city i think miss any of it me push it to consume. 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 it. collapsed you know nice 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 had gone live you know. now deaf in 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 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 thousand nine hundred 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. lizzie those who wish to play like music a lot ever since i was little when i listen i feel good as in music is the soundtrack to everything. was the church is now building a real music school it 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 diffuse new form work is not too 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. the was. and then they're joined by the orchestra they're rehearsing a container for mendelssohn psalm forty two opus forty two in german. and i think silence once a nuisance and we are not symphonic family many musicians have found their own voice here and the orchestra simply accompanies each musician in the dreams with the. idea the school shapes the musicians of tomorrow he said it in the. air.

america. the 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 calculated every move she makes the nine year old is the champion play at this chess club. was just made the first night it was just me. or do i your only learn to create eight months ago now she's preparing to represent africa at

a regional autonomy isn't that what's in there or not korea is how. he's also found this club chess in slums he coaches children left who come from under 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's in spite of their circumstances they can still make it in that it was enough for them to be just coming into the face 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 that's it you can also become the champion of your. chest is a game of strategy requiring critical thinking and calm situation even adults can struggle to plait let alone children children is actually very

intelligent very intelligent enough to master the game of chess despite all its complexities. 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 first regional tournaments and her coach is there to chair her own . she will be faced. same kids from more privileged backgrounds but she says he's confident of truth do you think you are going to we become the show. out of six rounds or do i always fall and comes in second place coach or no quiesced says the men's leg this can really boost the children's confidence now he hopes the take higher and other kids on the big compensation.

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