using interactive content to inspire people to take action to belong to the series of global 3000 on t w i don't mind. what you're bringing. your link to school africa the more your link to it simply stories and discussion. of easy and i would say wu comes to mind because joyner something spoke. for. this is did every news africa coming up in the next 15 minutes why is south africa struggling to keep the lights on the national politics he is again rolling electricity blackouts across the country costing the economy billions. and demand supply of clean water and you can be as big of find out why you had to partner with the gangsta to do certain. things beneath capital spruces up its ways housing

trying to head off its annual festival. i'm christine want to welcome to news africa it's good to have your company africa's most industrialized country is bracing for more bouts of pollock cuts of africa's paul utility eskom said breakdowns at its policy stations has slashed the amount of electricity it's able to generate which is state and supplies more than 90 percent of the country's electricity but since 2007 it has struggled to meet demand the the says seen the company results should cutting supply on a rotating shuttle when the national grid cannot meet demand that's referred to as getting in south africa now the apollo cuts are not just an inconvenience they cost the country. billions and last year push the economy to the brink of recession now

to help us understand why problems prevailed at the seaton as he invited chris yellen down to the program he's an energy analyst at a business intelligence to south africa welcome to africa missed again and is quite used to be one of the most reliable power you've seen it seems in the world why is it now in crisis it's a hard thing to explain in in a few words but there's been a series of poor decisions over the yes' poor decisions by the shareholder that he's government by the board of directors and by the message once that if i would put it down to one major issue i would say the but do p. and q. see the coal fired projects which are intended to deliver something like 10000 megawatts of new generation capacity by train t 14 these products have been very long delayed and not coming

on stream as they should have and also at massive cost overruns pushing is going to date. at unprecedented levels and not to end up meeting the increasing demand for electricity in south africa and therefore plunging the country into a pricey a talking about a long term project say the commissioning off power plant as you were referring to but in the meantime there are short term challenges which is a result as these pollock has that we're seeing does the south african government have a pad. well we don't have what is known as an integrated energy plan and this despite the fact that the north quite as the minister of energy to publish such a plan every single year since 2008 it's never been published what we do have thank goodness at last is an integrated resource plan for the address of the so-called i.r. peak this is a plan up until 2030 looking at the amount of generation capacity that needs to be built in order to meet the projected demond. and we do have this plan but it's

being slow in coming and it's not get implemented in any shape or form yet and furthermore that really looks at logan to m. planning happened 2030 years about a limit of 12 years and there are a immediate short term needs that are not addressed in this plan frank government is at the moment during a request for proposals for short term in emergency power and last year and it's on board member told south africa's parliament that there was a lot of political interference in the pilots and it seemed to the extent that the right decisions weren't always taken why would that be the case. it government has kind of seen. and it's going to see that self because state owned enterprise as being some kind of extension of government policy and it in a kind of an in committing agency for government policy so for example they kept the price of electricity on to see should be low. for the benefit of the social

benefit of people in south africa and was also being seen as a place for for employment to increase the number of jobs in the country and it hit me i was soft at the moment one of these things lead to you know the revenue that is in that equips and costs that are too high to the extent where this impacts on investment decisions on its ability to do maintenance properly and therefore it's run into huge debt which is placing huge financial burdens on the company and the plant is getting old and has environmental issues that 80 percent of south africa's picture is the comes from coal and 95 percent of the tricity comes from a system so exactly in a very few boss gets and those boss gets all broken and a lot of this is due to government interference and seeing it's going as a kind of implementing agency of government policy rather than as a business right that's christian and african energy analyst thank you.

from electricity in south africa it's now 2 boys in kenya people living in nairobi it's biggest one kara have mostly lacked x. a supreme running water now with the government failing to provide the service so cold water cottle's have filled the gap but they sell residents overpriced and hygienic what one man who grew up in good bear made it his mission to supply keen water to the slum but it meant that he had to patna with a gangsta. does either kibera slum in nairobi pipes we pray sure to run through through a tunnel. for a long time residents have been suffering under this and i genie conditions but there is hope now a connection of blue pipes run above the slums shanties they provide residents with clean and hugh porter all thanks to kennedy or did. growing up in this community it

was a tough life of war what was custom was i remember looking to. to go and fetch water there you know cutting it on my shoulder. also my neighbor at night who are sick and dying because no health care having grown up in kibera an experience the effects of unsafe or to face hands kennedy or did he founded the n.g.o.s show of course but he would soon face fierce opposition from the so-called water cattails. idea of water was so the question to me it was a little bit dangerous at the same time because people who makes a lot of money because the very powerful powerful men in this community the cartels run their own want to system selling of a prize in an a genie quarter and they put an end to any competition with brutal metal. my dream was to bring clean affordable water to the community. but like pipes were cut

to pieces. although he was afraid of the cartels kennedy decided to approach monday of one bag then he was a gang member and leader of the water mafia i knew from wonderful. how to be the minister of water i shuffle. like what we. were talking a little bit over to the public would have for you if you really quit a really small amount of money if it were not. that's how it started and nobody ever touched the water. for monday it was an easy decision to switch sides and wait for the ngo instead of the cartel. it took 6 months for me to agree to work with him because i feel like i can pass on that is a young one for me he cannot be my employer i was

a little sleepy but now he's happy with his new job. i feel very proud. because i'm doing what i see due to the community reaching out to former gang members like mandela who was the key to making this community service work the price of water reduced to one 5th of the former price and the quality is better to ensure the water meets the safety standards kennedy installed a water purifying system is the only one in the kibera slum. the water come from the wall but all its power to the ro water tank our side which is 24000 liters comes in to be now to be treated so now the water is no drinking and then we pump it now to the bigger tank from here the water is then distributed so this is our clean water on

a roof to show you that. it's clean. test good there are some tests i feel because well treated water. kennedy truly in war does the spirit of the thing what is life he and his employees a helping their beloved community one drop at a time norma. that's inspiring now in the tiny west african nation off binny the 10th of january is a public holiday celebrating the ancient beneath off for 2 footed errands believe the spirits of family and sister. and worship many a day to head off this year's festival dozens of ways in binion's capital portland oval has been spruced up after years of neglect. putting the finishing touches to whom will haunt 2 square important oval it's one of the capitals $44.00 square

us the squares used to be run down tended just by a few as they leave who do believe us left st spend part of nova got funding from the french twin city to renovate them. people united will just renovations give more visibility to the political and encourage people to believe in the existence of our gayeties i'm delighted because my people are also increasingly interested in the state he said he live. the worship of voodoo date well spent by the french colonise us and the government which succeeded them today just over 10 percent of binny's population practice the traditional religion those that do say they asked the date for help to save the sites of course ship. going off in a sort of mutiny back shall not surface we held the sacrificial ceremonies we did all we could and then the renovations started in less than a month we've redone the square root. and that's for those who don't believe in them mr far right now we can all enjoy the square of. the squares for locals into

a city like to enjoy by the fetishists and voodoo science belong to the families who worship there and. the good lord it. so. this is a heritage that we have to share with the world tourists are welcome guys explain who he is how they protect people what offerings are suitable we want to understand that food isn't black magic it's rather about the close relationship between people and nature and people and their ancestors are not you. after being banned for decades voodoo is enjoying a quiet comeback in the name in fortune over around 20 young people were initiated into the religion in december alone. that is if an album deja news at the capitol this week catch what our stories on our website and facebook page shall be named in

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people feel for their lives and their future so they seek refuge abroad but what will become of course who stay behind it's a. battle my husband went to peru because of the crisis that if he hadn't gone there we would have died of hunger and now. displaced stories for nearly 15 on. welcomes the news from the world of sun culture disney ols smiles as their movie frozen 2 is breaking box office records but a picture postcard village in austria is not so thrilled and we'll find out why also. a very personal. photographer who has

a friend. this week the film frozen 2 officially became the most successful animation film of all time it's a process the 1st movie which was top of the box office list before but now frozen has already taken 1300000000 dollars since its november release great news for disney but funnily enough not such good news for a small village in austria which has a serious problem with this success is why. home to snow queen. is a place you won't find on any map will you. please.