this is perhaps the greatest leonardo masterpiece in the collection of the louvre and no, it is not the mona lisa. it is the virgin of the rocks, 2 versions, multiple copies, and a hidden drawing. was there another symbolic meaning to this beautiful painting that perhaps we just don't understand today? search for answers store to february 10th on d, w versus d, w, news, africa coming up on the program called south africa's west and an energy crisis lead to we collapse. so that countries economy it's affected lives and businesses from health care stopping when the power is out to splash an extra cash on generate is also coming out she walk loses is the 2nd lead in infectious kayla after cove

it about with new vaccines and a pipeline there is more hope of fighting it. class young people in nigeria say if they have time to decide the future of the country as they prepare for elections celebrate and african music. that's what the off for my in synagogue was all about . will bring you some of the highlights. i am eddie micah junior. welcome to the program. south africa is facing on energy crisis as the country struggles to prevent a tool tool shut down or the energy sector load shaddon has become a necessity. but at what cost, michael league christine manuel has mall the

this generator is keeping tandem with business running. but the backup power solution is not a cheap one. and it's costing a whole lot more to continue serving the local. some of favorite insulated be a fortunate that we have invested in the generator pods. the costs of running swift look remotely have grown because we need to purchase petrol on a regular basis. the past few weeks has seen some of the worst power cuts on record in south africa with the pow utility s. com. rolling out nationwide blackouts, locally referred to as low shedding for up to as much as 10 hours a day. even hospitals have not been spared, it does affect a lot of our equipment that we do have on site. for example, like i have mentioned, we have elevators that are obviously put onto the generators which keep going on

and off, which is most of the patients in very dangerous situations by being inside, they're not being able to be able to get out in a country that already has high levels of crime, the power outages of further compromising safety and security. in some areas, people are scared to even use the roads at nights. so peach black and sexual right behind me being one of the hot sports people are getting robbed. getting mug cars are being stolen a gunpoint. so those are the issues that we face during low trading, especially when it's leach back at night. south africa, his coal power stations supply most of the country's electricity. but these power stations are not functioning at full capacity of africa uses, on average, about $27000.00 megawatts. the moment re struggling to produce 21.

and in an electricity system, you've got a match supply demand instantaneously. exactly. the reason we have load shading or lead reduction in south africa is that is to prevent the grid from collapsing while the power outages are a necessary evil. public outreach is growing. what really riles people up here is that much of the country village tricity problems have been attributed to endemic corruption at the state. and paul, utility and slowness by the authorities to invest in new sources of energy, especially as the countries coal power plants are very old. they breakdown easily and often have to go for maintenance. that puts them out of commission as being a tricity crisis further deteriorated. the manages of the power utility held emergency meetings with the countries president and other stakeholders. but south africans had been warned, there is no quick fix and that the outages will continue for at least

a nother year from on as let's bring in longer my selling and economist on energy experts will join us from petroleum side africa. hello gala, welcome to the program. now, in a recent tweets about the energy crisis, you said quotes we reached crisis mod. it's critical now. the world is ending. is that a genuine description of the energy crisis? well, you know, thank you for having me and that might be made in a very light hearted manner because i was referring to wine entities or wine fruit juices, basically not being able to produce the quantities that are required. however, the situations of africa is really dire. we faced up to 10 to 12 hours of electricity, cats known as load shading. this doesn't just affect wine, produces it affects everybody from school going children. the ability to make food

in the evenings, from hot water, if it's even the provision of water because this water needs to be pumped from these pump stations to be provided. and so then you have what water shedding as well. and it affects everything from mortuaries to grocery shops, a provision of fuel as well. so it's a never ending night me, especially when you live in the country. yeah, i mean look, we're talking about south africa, one of the richest countries in africa. how did we get here? you know, it's a myriad of issues, but maybe they may start with the political issues in 9097. then leadership is on the state own interest that utility told government that at the rate that they were electrifying, that they were going to run out to be tricity by 2007 and government opted to do

nothing. and this is exactly why we are here. couple to with is, comes financial problems which have been exacerbated, particularly over the last decade where they have not been able to receive a cost repetitive tariff. furthermore, they have been issues of miss miss management in the past, particularly the capital projects, the new build me to be and we'll see the projects which had significant time and cost overruns as well as per optics of it linked to them. you then have a leadership crisis at the utility itself that has over the last 10 years had more than 10 c o's. so you're looking at one of them, but perhaps the biggest one and why we are we are at the moment is a lack of maintenance, especially reliability, maintenance that was supposed to have been continued from 2007, but never was due to financial constraints. and yeah, this is why are the situation?

yeah, i'm so we could go on and on and give us so many reasons why. but you mentioned the energy provider ascom. well, it's state controlled one additions, control the state. how much has the political elite been complex? it's in this problem. well, we found ourselves here because when the decision was made to build in a new capacity, it was the ruling party that decided through the investment on chance, the house to invest in these projects. and they made over 5000 percent return on investment. and when questioned about that, they said no, but there's nothing wrong. and we are allowed to be making money that they're basically making money on the infrastructure projects that the country need. now a lot shaddon in itself is not new, right. of african countries are gonna, for example, also suffered chronic low said in, but not anymore what they're gonna do right, that south africa landfill. so garner was very intentional,

gunner realized in 2014 that they were experiencing them. so they were having anything up to 20 hours of no electricity in the country. they basically throw money at the problem. this was through the government, they then said ok, we are inviting anybody who can provide a solution into the country. so therefore you had a deluge of investors coming from all over the world. you had projects that such as, you know, power ships and you had gas plants that were built like 18 months. they basically went on an accelerated pro program of infrastructure development, especially in the energy sector. they looked at big gas of availability in the east of the country and they said, right, we need to expand this. also a waste of the country. look at guess exploration activities issue out locks licenses. they went for out full scale and he threw a lot of money at the, at the problem gunner now is facing another issue,

which is capacity payments. and quite frankly, that's an issue with rather face than not having any tricity. so why can south africa do the same thing? honestly, it's the reason why we're still here is no political will. and every other 6 months, we're told that their plans, their ideas in the hunt same. they looking at this and they're looking at that. but there's nothing tangible, nothing on the ground. over the years we have been implementing renewable energy projects. but those have the invitations in terms of energy. the i was going to ask you about the renewable energy if that is not the way forward, but from what you just said, you don't think that's the solution into certainly not the silver bullets that we wanted to be to be. yes, it will help. and yes, has been helping, if we did not have renewable energy projects, i'm sure we would worry to be a space that was the 8 node shading. so it certainly is helping. however,

in terms of moving forward, is from also needs to do. it's just i making sure that maintenance is being done on its fleet hopefully as, as well and supplementing that with the renewable energy production. yeah. so supplementing will definitely go a long way. now. you've come up with a lot of interesting ideas and ways forward. so i'm gonna let you finish with this . if us at africa as energy minister, what would you do now to tackle the energy crisis? at the moment i'm throwing money at the problem is come, would need to go into a reliability maintenance program. they need to look at the plans that can be salvaged and then say, right, we're now going to work on a 12 to 24 month program reliability. maintenance each go on to procurement, especially for the long lead items. and i would go out on the market and also try and get emergency power, trying to convince a lot of the procurement rigmarole. and the red tape,

which often goes with procurement of energy in south africa. i was going to wrap this up, but i have to ask this because you, you said a statement that though in money at the problem is what you believe s. com should do, but it doesn't seem that s. com has enough money lying around. so what to do next? absolutely. so that is sitting the been our problem, how it went. the last week is from has received an 18 point. 65 percent tariff increased. government has also committed to take him on a lot of is it that combined by 2024 sit in the room is, is comes financial was the position which will then allow him to do the maintenance and the work that is ashley and i it okay. and julia marcelli, economist and energy extract from south africa. thank you. sure what you loses? the lung disease has been declining around the world, but across africa cases, i increase it,

especially in sub saharan countries. but now there's hope with new vaccines in the pipeline. at a well, the economic forum in davos, the head of the world health organization said that one of the most important lessons from the coven 19 response is that solutions can be delivered fast if they are prioritized internationally. so then we have no 16 candidates and a level of mm hm. many of these vaccines, by the way, where there are the candidates before the ban cove, it and the difference between cove it and the 16 guided aides is the whole world focused on really finding a solution for coverage. so the accelerated, the development of the club vaccines while dbi that started decades ago, some of them are lagging behind. we have the besieged, which is 100 years old, 100 years. that's it. so what's now needed?

is there a new word commitment. real one? i own roemer, really action with a sense of him with a sense of urgency. herb, believing that we can do it, that it can be done if it was done for cove it, there's no reason that this cannot be done for this. and we have a lot of information on the 16 candidates are already are and we said for cove, it accelerate. so we can accelerate this one to to talk more about this as my next guest. evelyn keyboard, she, she is the chief national coordinator of the stopped tv partnership, kenya. hello evelyn, welcome to the program. now we just had the w h o director general, that sets address given us see if we can fast track if you were close as vaccine. what would that mean for your work?

that would be really exciting news because we have, we are wanting to know so many people get you back losses just in 2020 a lot. the white last about 1600000 lives with tuberculosis, which is preventable. so if we had a vaccine, then we would greatly reduce the number of legs that we're losing to cuba, losses. ok, but we already have the b, c, g vaccine against you, but closes, how might the new candidates be better? we all know that the b, c, d vaccine. first of all it's very old. it is not effective. it's only meant to prevent the most severe forms of tuberculosis. and right now we are saying even people who have been vaccine, knitted with busy getting infected, we are getting children of 3 months who received the bcu vaccine getting infected with tuberculosis. that means the busy g vaccine is not effective at all is not

helping us in any way. in reducing the number of new infections and deaths related to t be saw in a new vaccine, would be very welcome. ok, now, am mast vaccination. we all know requires a lot of money. now we're talking about introducing new vaccines. where is the funding going to come from? if we can learn from the experience of javion we had copied and within about 2 years, we had in new vaccines. and we had been able to give mass vaccination to almost everybody in the wild. if that has been possible that the see that has just renovated the one for 2 years. then they believe the same fine best or the sim grands that have been used for corporate vaccine. am sure, those are institutions of will be generous enough within the standing. the said they're saving legs to invest a similar effort and symbol invest meant to ensure that we get our tim b vaccine that is effective, affordable,

equitable end. that is going to stop the cents less in new infections just so that people can really understand the situation on the ground. tell us about the scale of the tv problem in kenya or your country, for instance. kenya is one of the countries that are high in value, some of the high to be. but in countries, this is our list of countries that contribute to 80 percent of their total global by then carriers among those countries. i'll we have been losing about 21000 in 2021. we lost 21000 lives to tuberculosis that compared to the number we lost to reach a 2 covey, which was about 7000. we can see it's more than 3 fold. the late last 2 tuberculosis in one year, enemy, we have still fractions. we have drowned as density been fashioned, and the still having children getting in figures bank from t b. so it's still

a huge public health men us. yeah, that sounds like a dire situation. so, oh, what are you saying? what hope is there for someone who catches tuberculosis? now there is hope out. see in that we still have, we still have a treatment that is effective and is affordable. well, in fact, is it offered free in the good in not government hospitals. so this hope in somebody will get infected. what i am not very sure of is the hope in somebody who is not get infected, who we could have prevented had we had to vaccine, and not from missing that hope until we have any fixed the uninfected vaccine. the ok, now i quickly before i let you go, how can people protects themselves against tv? we can protect ourselves by a fast understanding what caused this to be. that is staying at somebody who is

infected, who has not gone for treatment, living you could just and places having upon your tree, shun, and not seeking and stay with somebody who is infected and has not sought treatment . so if we landed was things that we avoid in being in congested places, opening windows and doors, wherever we can, whenever we include places, angles we infected to seek and the treatment that will we can keep away from. we can reduce the chances of getting infect, you know that we can keep a week. okay. evelyn k bocce, chief national coordinator, stop tv partnership. thanks for sharing your expertise with us. thank you. ah, political campaigns are already kicked into gear nigeria. i had of next month's general on presidential elections. voter apathy has always been

a concern in previous elections, especially among young people. but that now seems to be changing. many are talking about to get in the permanent voting carts, pvcs, so they can help decide lee, this of africa, largest economy. he has more from deed of use or lisa shakuma. it's early. we are in the outskirts of lagos, normally chicken, my lobby would. she would be going to his chicken far, but to day is prepared in what he calls his morning cry. com. yahoo! home to 1000 to go to the warden has been doing this every morning since the start of the year. determined to get people to vote. i think that the butler responsibility rests on me because i realized that i'm, if i think i'll be lang, i am 40, started to be complete according to my,

my views in from my own and have to be involved. so financial that you want, you have to invest, you know, do something just wanted to change the thought to school. we've been 93000000 nigerians had registered to vote in the selection. nearly 40 percent of them are 54 years old. from different parts of the country, young people can be seen, mobilize them ahead of the electrons. they say it's time to decide the future of nigeria. and they want yeah, boards to count the huge and sas protests like this in late 2022. as seen as to root of this new young political movement, dns us was about philadelphia where, by the same time, in many young people understand the power of organization, power of organizing, coming together to look to demand. so biondi ends up being

a trigger. the electron law was now electron was what now switzerland, the horton that has given this rise, younger voters seem to be looking for something new and fresh. do you want something you saw? they just want to learn to their voices and see if it will make any difference. basically, i'm woodson, i've got to might be recei. i'm young and i just feel like this is the right time for me to do it on our device. what i use to go and get our pvc so can get a bit of an issue that we have to do. these guys wants to force milfey meal junk. people are just very tired and that's it. as may jerry and prepare to vote, young people are also preparing to jesse ah, now the all africa music awards after mom have just wrapped up in synagogue capital

. the car even celebrates africa, musical talents who are rewarded for the hard work. but it was not all about the big stars. ass correspondence. maria garrett. nicholas school reports from decker. it was song stars, and some of the synagogues finest at the all african music awards. an eclectic outfits of the red carpet to miguel his guest clearly proud that their country was hosting the glittering spectacle. a chance for the countenance, brightest talon to shine in the card. it's a pleasure to be here. it brings together many nationalities, many young people. many singers, and i think it's a big step for art, for music, for synagogue, and especially for africa in general. well, i think the african musicians and african dance took center stage, the nigerian thing, or else the skill sets the tune,

the congolese musician rogow. rhoda also captivated the crowd. the and one of synagogue 6 mommy, nice local heroes. seated yet lit up the duck or arena late into the night. with a focus on awards, regional helen, a prima, was also a chance for emerging artists from all music genres to showcase their creativity canyon soul. artist mood packer received the prize for best female artist from east africa. what i felt would be, and i applied country

international organization such as the un see music as a bridge to empowerment and cohesion. thinking about what it can do with it can send message is out. now the agency of why we need to be together to be as one. and it's very important that we have this so that we can for that nice all artists and help them from what them so that they can do more. and so that they can also write songs that are about our continent that i bought the problems we have and also give solutions to, with the car. a pre my edition was the 1st to be held in a french speaking african country. the next is set to take place in ivory coast. the event is receding global attention. yet more proof of the surging interest in the continent rich musical tapestry. and that's where we draw the catins from all of our stories. go to d, w dot com slash africa. you can also visit us on facebook and twitter. we leave you

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