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of more than 100 species of winters that will tell you what's right make this critical witness. hello i'm christine it's good to have your company a national shutdown of universities has ended in south africa off to violent protests last month the students union at course of the shutdown of the country's 26 university until government of great to cancel all historical student debt that has not happened but the union says its end of the shutdown often meetings with the minister of universities and other stakeholders now in addition to the cancellation of dates black students all also calling for the government to increase funding for them they say they cannot afford to. for weeks now students

across south africa have been taking to the streets fighting against financial exclusion of students the protests started here and would soon adversity in johannesburg more than $6000.00 students were slated to be thrown out because they had accumulated too much to sion dept you see a whole new is one of them she owes the university over 3000 euros i'm not able to do just that at all of course we are angry i am a 1st generation university. my parents didn't go to university especially coming from the player community we understand that these opportunities haven't always be available for us so we are very deliberate and very decisive in saying that this this is not going to be nice to us one more time the 22 year old already received degree she completed her studies with good grades and now wants to go to grad school to help improve her future career prospects but her course doesn't qualify for government support it is

a big deal you know where i come from it's not just about me it's not to my dick lee it is my parents it is my family it is my community it is those who might be you know looking up to me and saying ok i want to do what she's doing but yeah i know the pressure is definitely there saw themselves students in south africa in fees to their universities here davits university alone fees worth more than 50000000 euros that's almost double the amount that it was 2017 the universities are hoping for the governments to intervene but the big question in the end of the day is can south africa really afford free university education for. the budget for the state run this fast program which covers tuition and offer us a stipend for needy students has more than tripled in the last 5 years yet it's not enough says the head of the university's association the university's depend on the income raised by fees. because subsidies in 2 nations are dwindling 50 to 60

percent of students in the system qualify for this 1st percy. education history for the. question is we really don't have. a system. with the system. we don't have such a system for students that fall outside of the of the national. students' federation it's. that is what we think the government needs to focus on. when a passer by was shot by police during the protests it was clear the animosity between sides had 3 each boiling point despite several requests the minister of higher education declined to be interviewed by d w. c who was lucky the student as the ca managed to raise funds to cover her fees nonetheless she plans to continue demonstrating until everyone has free access to university education. and i'm now joined by southern africa our splendid

krishi file the reports that you just saw and he joins me now from capetown good to see adrian so tell us more about this national shutdown which has now ended. so basically the protest started earlier this year already when initially 1st 1st year students tried to register for their courses but they could not register for the in this fast program the state support scheme for poor students because simply the funds where there was no money there anymore and although the government said well we're working on it we will find a solution some students started protesting then afterwards around about the same time actually some universities said we have to exclude some of our students from the classes those that have accumulated so much historical dept that we do not believe that they will ever be able to settle these steps and this is when the whole protest when nationwide we had protests in several big cities happening and it almost escalated a few weeks ago when police used excessive force against peaceful protesters and

that was also the time when we saw as we've seen in the report the case of a young man who was just a bison and was shot by a police bullet right so that national shut down and the process that you have for him to. it came of course as you were saying before the university said that they would be suspending these students who have accumulated all of this outstanding tuition fees. the universities have now made it turn around tell us more about that . well so basically it's not really a turnaround of the universities only it's kind of a solution they found but it is not really a long term solution so basically they have now well for for the academic year last year basically people who accumulated debt they do not have to pay it back for now so that basically means they just postponing the problem to next year and students keep on accumulating even more dempsey especially those who already have such a huge amount of historical dept will even have more next year and then the whole debate will have to start once again for now it seems several players jump in to

solve the problem too to help with these debts student association for example like we've seen in the case of early say hulu in our report the student who was supported by her student association but also some university said ok for now you do not have to pay that's about $22.00 of the $26.00 public universities in the country but we also understand that the government also put in some money although they have not confirmed that and we do not know how much. so as you were saying. this essentially is the proverbial can being kicked down the road the bigger issue hasn't been solved university education remains inaccessible to the majority of black south africans and observers have say that this is further excessive facing inequality in the country. right i mean look at the end of the day you have 3 players to the story here and you can kind of understand all the stories they all do have a point 1st of all you have to students especially those so-called middle missing

middle how they're called here those are students whose parents more than 20000 euros a year they are not eligible to apply for government funding at the same time many of the families cannot afford to pay fees that are often $34000.00 euros for one year even at a public university and also the students it's very difficult for them to apply for a loan to cover their for their fees so they have a hard time and you also have other cases like in our report she basically 10 supposed great program that is also not supported by the scheme and because she doesn't have money she would not be able to basically study and this is of course unfair i mean also from my background i studied in germany for me it was given to have free access to education from school to university and enormous privilege so of course i can fully understand her and the students position but on the other hand you also have the universities here basically they are running a business in the end of the day they have to look at their expenditure and their income if they don't get money from student fees they will eventually not be able

to pay lecture us and the last place the government of course and i do sincerely believe that many in government do really want to make university education accessible for everyone there's no doubt about that the big question here is money south africa is an emerging economy and there is not enough money especially if you look at the current pandemic that made things worse the debt to g.d.p. ratio in south africa is almost 100 percent because of the pandemic so that means all that the country makes in one year that's the amount of debt that has accumulated already said will be very difficult to pay that back on the one hand and on the other hand you have to make difficult decisions on what do you want to fund students or unemployed people or infrastructure i mean kristie you know it yourself are some of the schools public schools in the country are looking like they're in the terrible. right and in the end of the day of course the government also has to sort of keep an eye on making sure that you have the right amount of

graduates and that they find you can't just students you have to make sure they find employment afterwards because otherwise what's the point of reading graduates on the market right. thank you. that's a museum capital tunis is home to one of north africa most important weekends but the new good in all its beauty is creating a problem for the people that live around its banks they constantly complain of flooding and swarms of mosquitoes on the water but environmentalist have a different problem they say the wetlands have become a dumping ground for construction waste generates have by the growing number of building projects in the city natural beauty and dumpsite. both the vet and the gates of the capital tunis has been degraded for years but of any zation and construction projects since the early 1972 entirely new business

districts according to government study more than 1800000 cubic meters of solid waste have been disposed off in the lagoon in the last decade. the government is well aware of the problem. look who and there goes daily feelings and this reduced their construction and that kick dumps if you do nothing it will disappear . which would be dramatic because the lagoon is an important wintering site for about $100000.00 my kotori birds including rare species the government has set up a restoration project but environmentalists are not happy about it. only as an s.s.h. and friends of birds are not against the development project in general but to be against a variant that was presented in excepted which does not take into account all the ecological specificities of the site. the project will involve the deepening of the

lagoon a problem say the environmentalists because this little change the character of the vet lent. she give up a little some ducks to feet like ducks that can dive on the other hand the ducks that are surface ducks will no longer be able to find food and that means they will not remain anymore in the sweat land and neither will bathing birds like the pink flamingos as. she called me from or was. by the government rejects this criticism. that i'm reporting that we were going on a project in the long term environmental impact studies are taking into consideration as well as a hydrological and quite thick environmentalists and ecological. when. x. needs to be taken rep a cli because to see jimmy lagoon as

a force most significant wetland in north africa is an important message for coping with climate change in the region. and that is a for a program city be sure to check out. a lot of the stories that is on com forward slash africa we're also on facebook and on twitter and wishing you a wonderful holiday weekend of. life lawyer. culture. car hair. superman. superfood stylish style icon don't let

a. lifestyle you're a. people have to say matters to us. that's why we listen to stories reporter every weekend on t.w. . and. british singer celeste has been called the next queen of soul. for hear about her sudden rise to fame in her own words here on arts and culture a little later on the show fighting to the deaths in style the intricately designed

armor of ancient romans gladiators. and also on the show a german city promoting centuries of jewish history with one of europe's oldest synagogues. welcome to arts and culture well not that many debut albums draw as much attention as the one celeste put out earlier this year she says she made the $21.00 tracks on not your muse not for commercial success but just to be how she liked them and it seems a lot of other people like them too this week celeste was nominated for 3 brit awards. behind the scenes with one of britain's biggest new talents celeste epiphany. this is design is simple the crew's making the best out of the pandemic restrictions.

it's been a year of breakthroughs for the singing despite the coronavirus and look. 7 i think everyone in the last year in everything has been like somewhere in suspense and i just enjoy what i'm doing really and i think the. the sort of stardom thing is never like the thing at the end of it that i'm like looking to see what that point looks like or feels like and i guess some people it may seem like in the waiting room i don't really feel like that because i'm still you know chipping away every day or doing something and i feel like i'm in my stride of things.

in songs like strange. almost like. a song becomes the map of my understanding of like myself and how i see the world and how i see my relationships with other people and. i used to write diaries and then i used to write poems and so. i really needed that outlet it could have been anything really it's just music became the thing that presented itself was so fluent to me.

california parents. british mother. she grew up here in the dean. fishing village on the edge of the city. the city. of. something that had always been so significant even before i started to make music myself was like those times from my grandad to hear it always usually have like me mr franklin i left that stone like in the cd in the back of the call and i was hearing i put

a spell on you by me miss martin for the 1st time and i remember kind of like going like that in my seat because her voice was so deep and it kind of just like frew the car put a spell on you. celeste experimented with folk music cause electronic music but she kept coming back to jess and so following in the footsteps of great african-american singers and just and have music. goal was to go to. the i used to what we had set up i had strength all those high and one summer i just took out and i saw in my head after the fast time some mothers had come up to me and said all of my daughters have like yours but she feels too shy to come i

take a picture to show her just to just to show her that my you know that the way you have that you can thank. be yourself that's the message of celeste debut album not. since a sudden rise to stardom comparisons to amy winehouse adele and aretha franklin have been on avoidable. now. i guess something that comes with. a heightened level of expectation for where you should be it's kind of just up to you to kind of set that aside and make your own way and kind of show people like why you're

different. today it's all about music but an ancient rome pop star status was given to the strongest fighter gladiators who battled wild animals and each other to the death to entertain crowds a new exhibition and looks at gladiator history and legend. on the big screen they alone heroes fighting for justice in reality plenty of us fought for fame money all their own freedom. this exhibition at the national archaeological museum in naples shows the history on display here. and their weapons. paintings of gladiators risking their lives.

it is mostly came from the fathers reaches of the empire. they were captured slaves other times they were exogenous but they could also be free men who decided to pursue this career. most. twice a year at most and yet very few made it past the age of. there deadly shows in the in reno where in some ways not so different from big football matches today. it's little bit more difficult for you there were many stalls outside the amphitheater selling takeaway food. it was also very noisy and there would be music marking the various performances. there's no doubt that gladiators were at the center of ancient rome entertainment industry visitors can

now see the part they played in roman society on the museum's website and when italy's code restrictions on the states in person as well. from italy now to germany where 76 years after the holocaust the city of all sorts is now rediscovering and probably promoting its jewish history the city boasts remnants of jewish communities dating back to the 11th century. is famous for its medieval city center attracting millions of visitors exploring the city's rich jewish history. it's for this reason that air force is applying to be included on the unesco world heritage list. after its old synagogue a major tourist attraction has been very well preserved. has been working on efforts unesco application for over

a decade. after art applied because we believe that these edifices are so unique that they should be protected as part of humanity's cultural heritage just even once. as a mentor should we know of many jewish settlements and communities that existed during the middle ages but most remnants of them have vanished this would be got kind of token some. time to. rabbi alexander who moved to enslave several years ago to become part of the local jewish community reestablished after world war 2 efforts jewish community now has some 800 members. there is hardly a synagogue anywhere in europe or to has existed as long as this one. that is why i would recommend coming to our 1st to see it was exceptional synagogue.

the synagogue cellar boasts a vast collection of 13th century gold and silver coins jewelry and other items. upstairs in the former ball room historic hebrew manuscripts are on display. next to a medieval jewish bath or mix discovered in central air force in 2007. major construction work was needed after a section of the riverbank wall collapsed. we discovered vestiges of an old cellar in the process. we continue digging and found brick work not found in any cellars in this city. doesn't quality it was clear at that point we had found a make. for. the city's so called

a stone house isn't far dating back to the 13th century it was once home to jewish residents. the city began carefully analyzing the stone edifice in 2015 foot ceilings feature unique real themed paintings which were created by the residents. here over 100 gravestones from the former jewish cemetery are on display. after your wish medieval heritage could make it onto the unesco list the 1st in germany. and this year germany is celebrating 1700 years of jewish history keep tuning into arts and culture and check out d.w. dot com slash culture for more i'll leave you now with the royal opera chorus in the london in their 1st performance all together and a year and you may recognize the anvil chorus from various opera about saudi season

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