replanting them creating an urban oasis for. 60 minutes. i'm not proud of and i will not succeed in dividing us but i don't not succeed in taking the people off the streets because we're tired of this dictatorship. taking the stand global news that matters. made from minds. this is a state of being used in africa with a special edition. we look back at ordinary people who do extraordinary things coming up on the program the best of local heroes from our cross the continent. moving. to the top taking a different approach to a main. town that we get in the car with africa's moto grabby champion in uganda

the call has. just the women fighting back will meet the granny packing punches in kenya safe to. take you to mali where one woman is raising his voice for peace. hello i'm christine one and i am my cat julio welcome to east pressure the addition of africa where we bring you some obama highlights it's good to have you along we start off in south africa an area outside of cape town known as the cape flats it's often associated with crime and violence we've reported on gang related offenses and the data fit that residents are facing but now we have some inspiring news from

the cape flats 27 year old teacher of his high school as a uniquely of teachin his students he's got them hooked on this. last. big down to dominance all teacher and the producer gone to this interview i speak i know it will have some sort of the way with a trick in my listening to teach me i keep my ideas on the ground i look at what interests me what suits them and then i try to get the country tempus covered with leaking coffee and then i go do research on 2 things at all in line with the content and it can spy of the.

my. music. the side of the song is discussed the. big reveal was the sound of my voice in this constant both mean anything woman not. dumping them and giving them they do face a lot of challenges in their households we talk about poverty we talk but i can't stress them and all other social ills within the community but i've seen a different type of child that has been stigmatized for what people simply should lay this as and for and i always tell them i'm more than what i'm being seen. within the society itself in the living. and supposes alert and helps us when we're going to difficult times the system that has been polled and so

the math and science is killed the creativity of the children still be there in the $7000000.00 is seriously balding something. good to see. that we're back. where we were taught school without a cool my next story men have generally been dominating sports show but tremendous . africa's number one woman in racing she's betting man in the sport oh yes but ugandan she became the 1st woman to win a national rugby title in africa was behind adrenalin sport has a big following among both men and women was but things look quite different in the cockpit. we are just over 50 licensed drivers international rally championship.

almost exclusively men but the phrase one woman ranks among the best. of all when i had just set in little did they know that these so of course i was young by then and that this young lady it would come up to challenge men everybody despised me and that is that lady the speeds. whatever over. mistakes in the national championship are high and susan more often gets nervous when her rivals are on the truck. because. yes. but let our own when you get to the tat when i get to the stats and i drop all they feel. it is not easy. cock or driver knows how to give someone a boost when the competition is steve. so i also tend to

relate to that more in such a moment when she feels likely to be depressed the guys are faster than her and there is still a. no we are fussed. the team strategy seems to be playing golf when she said this super lady she's known to have funds can be and cut. in 2011 want to surprise me when she won ugandans national rally championship. she wanted to get in last year the only african woman if a torch of such racing success she's now another inspiring story we brought you was from kenya's capital nairobi where some brave women are taking their safety into their own happy yes to east africa correspondent melanie crew out about maids a group of grannies you really don't want to mess things. but. just a few years ago this place was known as nairobi's most dangerous slum presidents in

korogocho lived in constant fear especially women like the 65 year old gary. he would hear screams all the time women were attacked by boys who had come to rake them. the grannies of coral gotto as they call themselves regularly targeted superstitions detectives believe the women were free and that sex with them could cure their own infection almost daily one of those numbers older women were sexually assaulted raped on that it. gave it a few months one day we found dead with broken bottles inside her body when we carried her body to the police but they closed the gates and didn't let a sin to get up on his part we took her body to the mortuary has just moved in with with it and on that day we decided enough is enough and we women will start helping ourselves in the planning to decide to do. in

a force like korogocho as only women have had to bear the brunt of societal neglect and crime it is in this very community that many of them have been assaulted often sexually deemed as easy targets it is in here that they fight to take 60 into their own hands. running decided to fight back and others feel the same. as granules while between 65 and 90 years old. and defend themselves. and when i'm walking down the street and an attacker approaches this is how i fight. i'm proud to say that i'm a strong elderly woman. it is with this pride and dedication. they have got a few tackles and raised awareness in the community refused to be

a daily reality with these granny. with no one. now running says she only hears of a case every 2nd day and she will keep on fighting until every woman. and her coming. tough grannies will move from kenya to mali where one woman is doing have to make people live lives yep that's because a jihad is insurgency in the country has resulted in a big change in the way of people's lives and musicians have been uniquely affected yest whether it's a ban on music imposed by islamists in territory to control or you ban on public performances by the governments the result is the same musicians have been silenced in recent years but the devil is fine if a child met with one woman who's determined her voice will be hit. and the sound of peace and hope.

is you has wanted to sing all her life but when she wanted to sing the most she had to stop that was 7 years ago when the war started the jihad it's been music and the money in government still limits public gatherings so no music festivals forbid you could play this is a must it's not like it was before the war for us artists but we hardly play in bamako. the artists are scared to sing at certain places. this stops us from look at as a. jew is singing again in this studio working on a 1st album she does not know where she will perform it in mali but she keeps scoring. we have to stay together as mali and nothing is better than peace music is my weapon through music i can talk to the children of mali or speak for them and speak for the women who have vision for the form.

to restore hope yet she too becomes emotional about the situation around her today she has a very special audience it is public yet hidden from the programmer the temporary shelters for full army people all largely unnoticed demarco. performs for them about 800 people live here they had to leave their village after it was attacked by a rival group they say the children just want to hear be you sing with a lot of. them send off a lot of time out. here why not there are. 0 rules that we should give makes me believe this is too much one has to help these people here. because you keep singing for them giving them a voice because that is all she can do with her music for now she says.

isn't that inspiring and that wraps up this special edition of news africa you can catch all our stories on our website and facebook page so they will leave you with some images off these great african musicians have passed away this year their music and shows they'll never be forgotten by fidel and happy holidays.

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lucky. high tech global fun is will only cheer as he calls this music band the exiled orchestra based in germany with roots all over the world. more funk in a minute welcome to news from the world of arts and culture also coming up today.

more interior design with a vintage touch one of the special qualities of the day more a studio label. and a look back at the career of one of the great lyric tennis peter schreier who died on christmas day. all made sure he fled his native to iran when he was just 14 years old during the iran iraq war he ended up in germany and with like minded musicians founded a band which sounds like something between the classic funk of james brown and the modern electronics of punk then there's a smidgen of what you could be turned into galactic sounds created by his very own instrument which he calls freak. coming from.

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