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after coven, about with new vaccines in a pipeline. there is more hope for fighting it. class young people in nigeria. i say it's that time to decide the future of the country as they prepare for elections celebrate and african music. that's what the off mama in synagogue was all about. bring you some of the highlights a i, i'm eddie mike, a junior welcome to the program. south africa is facing on energy crisis as the country struggles to prevent the total shut down or the energy sector load shredded and has become a necessity. but at what cost, my colleague christine wound well has more

the this generator is keeping tandem was 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 them as abraham insulated be a fortunate that we have invested in the generator pods. the costs of running switzer creamery 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 is come rolling out. nationwide blackouts, locally referred to as low cheating 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, for 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 night. they need to, so pete black said that the sexual right behind me being one of the hot sports people are getting robbed, getting mug cause or being stolen at gunpoint. so those are the issues that we face during low trading, especially when it's peach black at night. south africa's coal power stations supply most of the country's electricity. but these power stations are not functioning at full capacity. sub africa uses on average, about 27000 megawatts. the moment re struggling to produce 21.

and in an electricity system, you've got to match supply and demand instantaneously. exactly. the reason we have load shedding, all load 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 countries electricity problems have been attributed to endemic corruption at the state and power utility and a 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 the electricity crisis further deteriorated, the managers of the pal utilise, he held emergency meetings with the countries president and other stakeholders. but south africans have been warned. there is no quick fix and that the outages will

continue for at least a another year. from honors, let's bring in long gaily mazili, an economist on energy experts will joins us from victoria, south africa. hello lou, gilly. welcome to the program. now, in a recent tweet about the energy crisis, you said the quote, we reached crisis mode. 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 have been made in a very light hearted manner because i was referring to wine entities a wine produces basically not being able to produce the quantities that are required. however, the situations of africa is really dire. we face 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 more cheri's to grocery shops and provision of fuel as well. so it's a never ending night me, especially when you live in the country. yeah, i mean local, we're talking about south africa, one of the richest countries in africa. how did we get here? you know, it's a myriad, those issues, but maybe they may start with the political issues in 1997 then leadership is on the state owned it, 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 up to,

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 being billed 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 all of that, 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 so many reasons why you mentioned the energy provider ascom. well, it's state controlled politicians control the state. how much has the political elite been complicit 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 chancellor 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. but they're basically making money on the lack of 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 ghana 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're 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 the new power ships and you had gas plants that were built, that 18 months. they basically went on an accelerated program program of infrastructure development, especially in the energy sector. they looked at big gas of availability in the east of the country and the same, right? we need to expand this also to west of the country. look at guess, exploration activities, issue out rocks licenses. they went for out full scale and he threw

a lot of money at the, at the problem gun and 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 concept, they're 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. it is by 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 you s, i'll 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 to 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 but ask them has enough money lying around. so what to do next? absolutely. so that is sitting be been our problem how it went. the last week is come, has received an 18 point. 65 percent tariff increased. government has also committed to taking on a lot of is it that combined by 2024 set him the root is, is, comes financial was the position which will then allow them to do the maintenance and the work that is actually i it okay. and clearly i'm a shelly economist and energy expert from south africa. thank you for sure. ruckel osis the lung disease has been declining around the world. but across

africa cases, i increasing the, 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 in 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 go did it, is the whole world focused on really finding a solution for koby. so accelerated, the development of the club vaccines while d b 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 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. it can be done if it was done for gov, if there's no reason that this cannot be done for us. and we have a lot of information on the 16 candidates are already are and we said for gov. 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 stop tv partnership, kenya. hello evelyn, welcome to the program. now we just had the w h o director general, that sets address given us, saying 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 did you back last? yes. just in 2020 a lot. the white last about 1600000 later tuberculosis, which is preventable. so if we had a vaccine, then we would greatly reduce the number of legs that we're losing to q back losses . okay? but we already have their 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 is very old. it is not effective. it's only meant to prevent the most severe forms of tuberculosis. and right now we are seeing 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

besieged vaccine is not effective at all, is not helping us in any way in reducing the number of new infections and deaths related to 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 with a disease that has just renovate the one for 2 years. then they believe the same fine best or the sin grants that have been used for hobbit vaccine. am sure, those are institutions will be generous enough with understanding the said they're saving legs to invest a similar effort. and similarly, invest meant to ensure that we get out to be vaccine, that is effective,

affordable, equitable. and that is going to stop the senseless in new infections just so that people can really understand the situation on the ground. tell us about the scale of the t. v 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 their list of countries that contribute to 80 percent of their total global by then can years among those countries i'll, we have been losing about 21000 in 2021. we lost 21000 lights to tuberculosis that compared to the number we lost to heater to copied, 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 actions. we have drug as is density been fashioned and the

still having children getting infected and bank from t b. so it's still a huge public health men. us there 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, you're not government hospitals. so this hope in somebody will get infected. what i am not very sure off is the hope in somebody who is not get infected, who we could have prevented had we had to vaccine, and not from seeing that hope and t rehab. and he fixed the unaffected vaccine, the ok in our quickly before i let you go, how can people protect themselves against tv? we can protect ourselves by a fast understanding what caused this t

b. that is staying at somebody who is infected, who has not gone for treatment, living in congested places, having a poor nutrition, and not seeking and stay with somebody who is infected and has not sought treat to me. so if we landed those things that we avoid in being in congested places, opening windows and doors, wherever we can, whenever we include the closest angles we infected to seek alley treatments. that way we can keep away from we can reduce the chances of getting infect, you know that we can keep a week. okay. evelyn can bocce, she's national coordinator, stop tv partnership. thanks for sharing your expertise with us. thank you. ah, political campaigns are already kicked into gear nigeria,

the head of next month's general infrastructure 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 need of use or lisa shakuma. it's early. we are in the outskirts of lagos normally, chico, my low beat. would she would be going to his chicken farm, but to day is prepared in what he calls his morning cry. com. yahoo. com, 2000 people. the warden has been doing this every morning since the start of the year. determined to get people to vote. i think that the button responsibility rests on me because i realized that i'm, if i think i'll be lang,

so i'm 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 to thought to school. over 93000000 nigerians had registered to vote in do selection. nearly 40 percent of them are 54 years old . from different parts of the country, young people can be seen mobilizing ahead of the electrons. they say it's time to decide if you show up nigeria and they want. yeah, boards to account is huge and sas protests like this in late 2022. as seen as to boot of this new young political movement. the, as us was step up 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 and sam being

a trigger. the electra law was now electra law was what now switzerland, the houghton that has given this rise. young voters seem to be looking for something new and fresh. do you want something you saw there just once? landed our voices and see if it's 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, i used 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 nigerians prepared 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 fever and 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 songs, stars, and some of synagogues finest at the all africa music awards in eclectic outfits. on the red carpet senegalese guests, clearly proud that their country was hosting the glittering spectacle, a chance for the countenance, brightest talon to shine and decor company. it's a pleasure to be here. it rings together many nationalities, many young people, many singers, and i think it's a big step for odd for music, for senegal. and especially for africa in general, i think with african musicians and african dance, took center stage. ah,

nigerian singer elsie skills that the tone ah congolese musician rogue i roba also captivated the crowd. and one of synagogue 6th mommy neve local hero seeded. yep. lit up the duck are arena late into the night. with a focus on awards, regional helen, a prima, was also a chance for emerging artists from all music growers to showcase their creativity canyon sol, artist mo taca received the prize for best female artist from east africa with satellite lights with

elaborate international organizations such as b, u. n. c. music as a bridge to empowerment and cohesion. again, what he can do is consent is out now the agency of why we need to be together to be is one. and it's very important that we have this so that we can forget nice all artists and help them promote them so that they can do more. and so that they can also write songs that are about our continent that about the problems we have. and also give solutions to with the car. a prima 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,

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