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 dissent struggle with the idea of co-existing and those who are all white say they've been excluded as the country tries to redress the process. we do like to be good with the words we wouldn't read from the right. to overthrow the you know we're going to read your good things always. and chase in seattle we have to story of the games rising stars from playing neighborhoods in nigeria will find out why they have mentors believe chance or change their lives.

i'm christine wonderwall come to news africa today and on saturday south africa will mock the twenty fifth anniversary of the country's first democratic election after apartheid back in one thousand nine hundred four it was hoped that the years that would follow would bring healing and reconciliation achieved a 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 the next report with two white farmers with sentenced to twenty three and eighty 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 must wow was pushed off a moving vehicle after the farm workers caught him stealing sunflower seeds. since

then and reconciliation process led by 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 pastor bell a mortal has lived in colonial all her life and worked with pastor peters on the reconsolidation project. despite a relative calm over the last two years there are 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 that black people.

so there things there is no way. 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. decision i think they were going to. do this 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 continues 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 meaning people deems to be off mixed race and by the way it's not offensive it's other members of the college community have started occupying land in the eldorado area that many of the activists complain they've been sidelined or social housing some have been. nearly two decades now in the twenty five years since a sense of loss if they feel marginalized and ignored by the a.n.c. led government. from their marginalizing of the op but i think i was down to the week when our forefathers were oppressed because there was certainly cream they were not white enough now we because we not black enough we saw you not use 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 the 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 conductor armande says this is how he gets the best from his students. to visit. all the. you see if you go to the logistical. support 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 it is a present. 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. seriously 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. learn music music has changed me classical music has something very calming about it some of this has helped me to reflect and react in my everyday environment may with my friends and others in the city i didn't 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. 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 m.m.'s had gone 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 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. those who wish to play like music

a lot ever since i was little when i listened i feel good music is the soundtrack to everything. 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 you to see for work is not too difficult afterwards a four o'clock last night 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. and then they're joined by the orchestra they're rehearsing a container from mendelssohn psalm forty two opus forty two in german.

and it's either once a nice absolute clear or 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 musicians of tomorrow the city the mo. of 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 prophecy one man has set out to change that of

a today or now who is using the game of chess to educate children and teach them there's a way to overcome life's obstacles. look. carefully calculates every move she makes the nine year old is the champion play at this chess club. because i just need to see firsthand that it wasn't just an obviously smart well do i your only learnt to create eight months ago now she's be perrie to represent. at a regional autonomy but what's in there or not korea is how coach he's also found this club chess in slums he coaches children left who 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 i just telling them that if you can live in this game of chess or you can become a champion that's it you can also become the champion of your life chess 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 its complexities. i'm not korea also grew up in a slum neighborhood he says playing chess from a young age give him a new perspective on life now he's determined to do the same for other children.

are dwyer is at first regional turn a man and her coach is there to cheer her on. she will be faced. since kids from more privileged backgrounds but she says he's confident of how he chewed do you think you are going through we did come to the show. out of six rounds or do i always fall and comes in second place coach or no quiesced says tom the man's leg this can really boost the children's confidence now he hopes to take heart and other i kid on to compensation. i think we just made africa's future a chess champion and that is that for now for data it is africa and you can catch all our stories on our website and paste on make side by back. with. the first.

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