the your system the hello, i'm the middle of january tuned into modus operandi. summer of 2023 was all eyes on africa between the massive brick summit which saw the admission of new members and the application of dozens more to join the block to the multiple crews that broke out in former french colonies. we'll take a birds eye view into the de facto leader of the consummate south africa. all right, let's get into the m o the

. it was all eyes on south africa this summer. as the brick summit was the invite that everyone in diplomatic circles wanted to receive, had vladimir prudent, attended in person. this would have been the 2nd time he was seen around the post address this year alone. the war can not go on forever. war was have to be settled and come to an end at some stage. and we're here to communicate a very clear message slattery would like this was to be ended putting around the post that spart, as some described earlier in the summer, when an african delegation went to saint petersburg in june to present their ideas on a peace plan. for moscow and kids, now, speculation looming on whether or not cooling would attend in person due to that questionable international criminal court arrest warrant that was issued south

africa. the host nation is a signatory to the i, c. c. they had signaled that they would not abide by the agreement should vladimir prudent attend, but couldn't join by video link instead, to avoid making this summit about himself and focus more on the mission of the group. meanwhile, at home, present around the post that is facing an uphill battle to remain in power as he and the amc party began to lose popularity. joining us to discuss all of this is clinton ends all a he is a journalist and political analyst and commentator at african stream. he is joining us now from nairobi, kenya, thank you for joining us, clinton. so 1st, let's discuss the brick summit. this year was posted by south africa. there were a lot of controversies surrounding the summit. so let's 1st start with that rumor that french president, a manual ma crone was handing it wanting an invite to the summit. now france is not

a member state, was this a deliberate move by my calling to sort of put, run the post in this awkward position and obviously my cronin didn't get that invite. so was that the right move on south africa's part, especially now given that the, the recent hunter accrued a todd and other african states who were former french colonies a yes, i agree. i just did say it was an attempt to post i know, but position by any means, like to say, wow, francis. not a member of the big science, but i think that idea didn't got much to go. i think gift you shouldn't have been very strange, but i think what that is and you said i'm of the demand that it made for my crow to to attend the brakes on it. you said, put, you should know that. and so the stage must be done in that puts you have to do

right to be the rush. it's a little res, i'm from. has been registered yet by now to that to the front switch, which i hate instead of making 2 months, which is very strange. is tonight. your friend that uh, i know she's have good. you're waiting waiting. i'm. yeah, no. so they guess it's much easier to, to the guess this, but um, uh, what are the conditions you that's why don't their cousins, we don't do that. i didn't come until the wedding should not attend. so i just registered that as a get into the geography. did you see this doesn't make too much just avoid it was on the other side. so between that i would what did you should get? the description should be more in depth watkins. now you see this out of us from a photograph as well? yeah. did you happen to teach, put it back instead of just waiting to say, just when you finally accepted with that? i do come. you didn't know why should i meet you on to my to say i can come to a b,

c, d. i think so. i can look over the sofa shows that's provided that i didn't want to do that he just wanted you to find a mentor to but the minds i mentioned. ready move on to it was about the survey, i need to just throwing a spot on the subject. so what to see now that i am getting assigned mutual. this might be a much that'd be looking at the issue. ready going to be discussing, besides, a number of countries make easy. uh, so the 1st interest into joining briggs items, guys that i wanted to discuss would be sunday. unfortunately, because of this drama, just hold onto the attendance of people they want to attend. the attendance of put in with us and ask is going to try at least you have, i think taking the photos away from the issues. that's the issue that we have to get done and so now you have to for us on the flip i need to be in. so yeah, so do you by doing that?

no way. no, i mean i definitely just want mine has i'm mainly with the major so it's essentially nothing. yeah. so my goodness meetings with the much a situation which was already seen so far. oh well yeah. i know it's not just korean, it's present, which is great. what did what we talked, impose your stories? 24 had requested you had mentioned, but at the end or me, she attended the additions. that's what we've decided to make the china. so making all these from has taken that we focus on other issues around to see at this, i'm going to see the introduction of the breaks cuttings. i'm going to see more decided to be approved by the election that is going to take. so i can do that, munitions that, that now pushes into the conditions and then push it to the patient. that's how most of it was never for been discussed. but i've seen that for the waste from,

from the beginning. they don't want to see we succeed. quotes and switch to that one, so somebody said that was fine with to so south africa is also a member of state to the i. c. c, the international criminal court. now, months ago the i c. c issued an arrest warrant for the russian president vladimir putin, over the alleged kidnapping of ukrainian orphans. we've heard from south african officials, such as the foreign minister and the lady, pandora, and amc secretary general q a. and baloo, who said they would have waived this warrant in favor of prudence, actually attending the summit. and obviously he didn't go in person, so they were not put in this tough position. but were there any repercussions to them on the international stage for this position that they took? i mean, did the hague respond in any way? which is what life as a 20

a number for us that in the one with districts to see what kind of cost you target to so that you get yeah, nice to the submitting. the 1st thing is going to happen. so like i said, wow. so that's cuz we need to get this out, the solution which one is which is so and then the but you just of like you see the sentiment that come from was politically because you, for given the wind progress for choosing north east. how they nice to see these to see you. so that's like, i guess all the quotes has been discredited and it has done most of these read so. so there's lots of that which is good to go. i think you said, i think i definitely know that one unfortunately to the new position. but like i said, i think this so that's kind of what we should. busy of course, the governments get a response from the political button, which is the nc, and seeking them by the easiest city to general the nc. so you see if i can set it

for his full day mc, most of the, of the places and committed this comes with this. and i see that the has indicated that you put into the dentist that you choose woke up. and so that you might not see a government back in from that position and that is important. so busy, very high chance of seeing you guys in snowing deep. yeah. oh somebody this. how does that seem putting in handcuffs? and of course is going to buttress from the eyes to see if i can see what else and can do. i mean, like what nights, what can they do? so that's what punishment that they went in for so. so that's, so is going to show a little when the last thing is, and i think if they took a better explanation. but also when i talked to you quite a few minutes cuz it looks like you've been so that's, that's it doesn't pull the people from the but it's really just calling for the

country to withdrawal form. that's the easiest 80 to do to just try to use like wisdom countries fix some countries that they see up enemies or didn't receive up into me. so i see, i see you this background check in this and i think i'm just going to give you the bit us to those called for the country to portal dash to see is that means the work in order for me to say these coaches is distributed each is seem to be, i need to capture the majority of the people who really died by the i c, c. i people, some of the got another 2 people from rest searching. they go to another place. people can see can see little to be the width have completed. well, i get this done one people, but mostly, you know, the, for the lens. you see there was actually, it is we, yeah, the i just wanted to prosecute. so do you have successful candidate room so that is enough enough that you can shoot? you seen the full body of time when you minutes?

i'll call you at the kitchens. let's see. people come monday to see, is there any that's an expensive they need to know? the prosecution side becomes very difficult for this and doesn't see the eyes to see if the airports as the cartridge. it just isn't even certain that somebody who's i'm working for the night and it's just definitely come for a gift, which for the quote informing us that cuz it's vision in the global thought. we have it. but as you can see, that it's my, it's so i think before we go into the elements of with a, somebody is due to not what questions and say you've got to that is only enough because he does want me to this kind of friends or maybe that's what you said, you focus of all, that's what needs to attach for the quote if it doesn't have a village because i didn't so so that's we got 3 and so that's why don't quote the i'm on that one of the city sending you sonya one of the one who so all these, these on the west,

the work i'm for the interest. but if you going to join is what you're going to did and you took the semester to seize using the coverage for that risk, which is well the policy not. so i think it would be if that has to be going against eastern time, but also again is what it's used unusual to much. oh yeah, yes. did you then all right, coming up next south african president, serial run the post was embroiled in a financial scandal that had some critics convinced that sofa gate was proof of corruption. we'll discuss it when we return with clinton and salis. a type m o will be right back the the

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a religion the, the walking back to the m o. m l a chance. so every year, millions of people lose things in the couch. cushions regularly. do your spring cleaning and you'll find, you know, a cell phone remote controls loose change old snacks. but how about half a $1000000.00 in cash? that was just one of the fights, serial rama posts that was facing, losing big money in the sofa, a clinton ins. all a is back with us to discuss it. thank you for sticking around. quinton, so let's get into these domestic affairs within south africa. 0 around the plaza was not that long ago charged with a corruption scandal more than half a $1000000.00 worth. he was recently cleared of any wrong doing. but can you, can you tell us more about that case,

but many outlets have called sofa gate. ok. yes, so these kids you from us in the us, canada, so the name was from that to then suit on the one is the book is which is not all joint inspection. so that's an a gift card to, to kind of 2020 by the 20 came to the bucket of this incident to so the story is that some principles will we can cause we finally commit to break up from the store about 500. and i put these to $582000.00, that will suffice new for the phone. so i put into the reason for the gifts individually vision i just said the reason for my applicant is to get into the dental vision exams. and that's what we did, it was done, and they said this might have gotten into especially into something like you said, the store money. i don't know because i discovered that she did not report to the employees,

but she instructed when you put it into each of those security tools that okay, they had those criminals or those individuals around that to charge. and then just some of the money didn't they? weren't pay some money to, they will be getting the motor company can so that it can keep you from the properties to keep it as a secret. so what did you on the 1st one for this age? that'd be my name. and then you also, what do you say he put them in the private provision? what do you say, why don't you not if you look every time or the transfer me just somebody and you just 2nd us and then also these up to say in my new check engine for the initial 550000, you should give you money you saw jason question to see how did you in mind it was manufactured into that you're going to put it into the face

habitate, texas. well, the money i saw the venetians, that's been pushed on the product. so the plan that was conducted by the project always get clear to me. so they said it was not on 3. the said on my part i, when he discovered it, to replace it to keep visual secure, excuse me, 0 security with the police officer for the statement that you blast the security. and unfortunately the jacket has nothing to be done before that you said you previously, maybe you should have the 4 digit one which is higher. so, but oh yeah, it does run up was for condition. because the question is when the general to mos impeached or the beast on that list to be just sort of the gym when i come to see when to reach the insult of what i see it tact but just think of you know, being associated with a bunch of more like almost every, every month that new medicines kind of sort of opposing community to me when he

becomes the head of the n c. i'm the president. it was an implant change from the judge c. ready now getting the budget on the. ready i don't know if it is that is a fresh but night to used on the line just as simple as the rest of the additions. yeah, mr. roma post as party the and see still maintains a majority in the 400 seat parliament. but it appears that the opposition party f f is gaining traction among voters in the country. did the money scandal that we called sofa gate impact party popularity at all. and, and can you explain for us the fundamental differences between these 2 parties? yeah, so for somebody to be, they might just kind of, it's like it's kind of getting it is going to the didn't in the, from us all the see, but unfortunately the, that's what you that's well this is already as

a student so much for us. that's people i don't know when these us that's kind of like working for them. it's kind of conflict strips to see what options. very someone westbridge and then see i'm just the front of what is the festival if i was support, has been displayed in the previous admin fee and the recent directions. so for instance, the last elections that the incident was going to 19. and if i just put 57 percent of the initial form that was in the drum overboard, i to say because i'm pretty 14 that pulled down 62 percent. so even though it's part of the top truck from uh, 249 seats in 2014 to 250 seats extension 19. so it shows that it pops up. we do a lot of support losing support and the people like that the middle school easy understand the reason why the moving towards the bottom it's we don't fight does

the of, if you see as the. ready well, so that the provision of the n c state university does that and do the victim from the decision was if i happened to be the old dnc and many other people looking to the people to that the n c has moved from the structural positions 80 studies just looking through the center, i can fix it, right? some states, not just to do the right. so they have to make us like united provision will be mc . you said partridge to speak today, or is it the decision that the mc we didn't to so to genetic but it seems like you the not just be she is usually pretty good because it comes with uh, uh the, the vintage isn't, isn't it just a little bit confusing, but i didn't wanna just throw 10 percent of the lot in the country. so these are the issues with the agency had committed itself to and so,

but i think being of for now it's ridiculous, but much of it. and it looks like a bunch of tracking speech. so i can go that nation that's defined, choose from the, from the energy from the yes, if nothing in c has furnished for any of the purposes, i'm able to communicate that to it. so just to the position will support it and try to do the device and struggle. so i've got to do that in, so you have to do the but i've been losing who that person about to be. if, if we stay through that, this seems, i guess, to patients. so, yeah. so lastly, on the topic of energy independence for africa as a consummate. so despite south africa being the continents largest economy, it to suffers from many rolling blackouts. energy is perhaps the biggest single driver for economies. there are a lot of infrastructure projects being worked out between the african union and

china. how do you see those various partnerships, panning out in the years to come in this, in this pan african view of it? or android, so i think like, yeah, so why don't speak english? i wanted to highlight to say the division between china, and that's the kind of goose by this. i think you'd get from 2000. but china had been nothing much and i think one of the it is projects that took me to stick it in some yes. united to submit the transactions on good evidence. well yeah. title when you had a budget and so that's because the government didn't see about we sat there which is dependent on which is, which is good. well you need to, it's losing by what through. so that's got to be support, need to be today to the, to tennessee. i'm the only, well, 2 phones that jack in 2000. yeah. to the point of death. i'm from yeah. first, and that was listed on the oil change done because these agents and feasible,

i need to know i was looking for the ticket project. it was china that this event before it's i know if you can just do it for just going to because each just abuse this intervention into the inside. i need to go to put it back in. so that's the key presses oil or fill out the support of the data because of the situation to then southern virginia from china did getting to the 2000 you typed in there. and if you can definitely, what do you see is that you do go that's in the country. it's not going to be no. and then you have all of these, but it's just that there's a lot of like to the total sum. yeah. the taking over the up, which is the, i mean, china sticking over the importance of just doing what can you see this moment? i know, fortunately, you know, like china, jen doesn't even be really the media on something like people. the listing was wondering about the concepts inside this plans. when it comes to this issue,

it's china. we have to wait for me and i think that this too and nothing that'd be lived on. but i can get to see the can what we've got for the indian. it's an issue, evenings a snake in your house during the been the whole house to get rid of this. next, the find means of getting this neg, from the house or mentioning the house. so like as it goes, trying to do that, you know, for me, this is shina, finds these are what this and also interesting to do this is you who like what, what happens when punches able to access. and then to find those from china to find these project easy to use readings best instead of getting money, which was to be a match for each additional for yours. they will get that money from china to view for the at the, the good. and that's to be able to find that you did you get your budget was because they are actually not to be getting, you know, light duty to the airport. i'm sending sort of images. so we develop the that just

gives the sake of only someone who is not even someone who's dishonest with just 2 to these 2 rules is the present that we needed. i think for the country to be able to leave the most of the people from 4 to become being kind of postage 522205558 needs to develop is what is the what incentives? so, and the only way that, like i said, if you do the financing it to be glued to the cost of touch money, which was meant for the need to take those. are they going to yeah, as they say when the chinese com, you get a road or a bridge. when the americans come, you get to lecture clinton ends all a political commentator at african stream. thank you so much for your analysis today. all right, that is going to do it for this episode of modus operandi the show that dig deep in the foreign policy and current affairs. i'm your house,

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