voting twenty five years ago in these very pais it was the first time they were voting in a democratic pope but there were as we stand today twenty five years post a party a lot of people have been recalling that night before election got up was to oppose the president of the a.n.c. of self saying he feels exactly how you fellas in one thousand nine hundred four so certainly so which a very important place very symbolic and there is the sense in this country print that things are changing perhaps that's how people felt twenty five years ago that change was was on the brink and a lot has changed since then brant people are now having a conversation about yes we have been liberated politically but we need to be liberated economically and is it the african national congress that's going to do that for us is very good point. that twenty five years of democracy elections partisan politics we know there's a lot of disillusionment nail some observers say that this is simply the normative state of western democracies in south africa is now

a full fledged member others say that this is the result of gross incompetence and corruption at the hands of the a.n.c. based on what you had seen and heard which is the better as. brant most probably the latter we're talking about a country that is you know coming out of you know it's only been twenty five years i mean if you look at the number of years that it was rife inequality in this country going over a hundred years so people do accept the fact that the a.n.c. cannot have turned everything around in the space of two decades going on two three but the problem is you have black south africans living in squalid conditions in dire poverty and not necessarily because they are no resources in the country or the turnaround strategy just isn't happening fast enough but really because there's been mismanagement at the hands of government officials so it is becoming difficult to go to south africans and make the case of the n.c.l.b. making that we need more time because people have looked at the last two decades for example and seen the levels of corruption in government and so it doesn't make

sense anymore to somebody who is living in dire poverty to say give us more time when these very corrupt very poor politicians are living lives of opulence so people are frustrated with a government that has been breaking promises and this is where this country is today people accept the fact that it's not going to change overnight and that twenty five years barely is enough time to address all the inequality that is rife in this country this is one of the most unequal societies in the world but when we see officials mismanaging and when we see people stealing and that's what's been happening you know officials have been stealing from state cop is money that's been meant for service delivery has been pocketed by politicians so it's difficult to make the case of the evidence to keep waiting yeah that's a very very good point like other western democracies and south african politics have made room for populism nativism. there have been attacks on foreigners in the country how responsible are politicians for this increase in violence are these

scapegoating foreigners to distract from their own bad politics. brant that's a fair assessment to be made in fact some of the violent attacks on foreigners and mostly these are foreign and foreign nationals from the african countries that we've seen happened in the poorest of south africa's communities it also just happens that sometimes you can trace these violent acts back to words by certain politicians for example the health care system in south africans in dire straits we've heard the minister of health talk about the state resources being overburdened by foreign nationals if you look at those numbers you can make the case we've also heard certain officials talk about the fact that foreign nationals are stealing jobs so these are the things that rile people up in the poorest communities who are looking for any reason to make sense of why their lives are still not changing twenty five years into a democracy that was supposed to deliver bread waters sold and food for all quickly

before we run out of time christine how much of this explains the rise and success of this radical left. of the economic freedom fighters. you have julius malema talking about taking back from the white minority talking about the arab the prime land in this country giving it back africans without compensating the white people he's talking about everything is going to change instantly that message is resonating with the young people in this country who are . broken promises these people appreciate that democracy but the idea of saying to these people oh yes this is what we've done we've liberated you politically so accept that things will take time in terms of the economics they don't have patience all they've known is a democratic south africa and so they don't understand why society is still as an equal as it is today so julius malema is talking about leveling the playing fields and as you can imagine for a society like this one of the most equal in the wote that message is resonating

with a lot of young people and if you look at his rallies if you look at those crowds those are young south africans desperate for change in their lives change they've been promised but hasn't come to get that's right generational change makes a big difference christine in johannesburg tonight excellent analysis of this election christine thank you. for now to our series on germany two thousand and nineteen the big issues we've been traveling around the country to find out what's on people's minds germany is aging society this year the country is predicted to have more over sixty year olds than under thirty year olds the country's population has aged dramatically over the past seventy years and it's a trend that's expected to continue this year the average age is forty six by twenty fifty it's set to climb to fifty on the latest stage of her tour around germany reports on the impact of

a great population. the next part of my journey i'm heading east in the state of turin once part of former east germany. once the center of germany's production since the fall of the wall has lived through a long three decades have been declining and is shrinking it's a phenomenal rate since the make nineties as last more than a third of its inhabitants falling to just thirty five thousand and disappearing youth is also a rather unique title. it's now the oldest place in germany the average age is just over fifty years old that's almost four years above the national average. but an aging population has serious consequences smaller pensions a lack of care for the elderly and a shortage of skilled workers. now approach executed by the chamber of industry and

commerce internship is hoping to ease a shortage in cooperation with vietnamese workers one of them is twenty two year old. mr. biden will be your best of our mark colleagues. sometimes the word is very difficult. but if their colleagues are there for a very funny we laugh together. and that motivating. attracting young skilled workers to germany is one thing but come vincent home to stay especially in the rural areas is another but that isn't a problem for. that's what i'll stay in the me. that's fresh air. what else but.

it's the food is good. the sausage here is really really bad there's no no no no tasting sorry tasty but first. book was my favorite. first with mustard and ketchup. i just over siloam has put the german government's plan for law which would ease working rights been on the e.u. skilled work back on home. but for the chamber of industry and commerce interests this is imperative for the potential of projects like to become a nationwide success. we really need skilled workers immigration lawyer to ultimately solve the problems that are involved in projects for thirty countries. we need regulations that make permanent residency and a permanent life in germany. will have to sleep. for germany to be really

relieved of its lack of skilled work as the german government will now have to reach some kind of compromise but time flies like for all of us will always catch up with the one.