he was charged with threatening the president and neighboring botswana. >> he is guilty of a very serious charges and has damaged the integrity of our party and our country's reputation. his membership is suspended for five years. >> julius malema would like to appeal this verdict but as things stand, one of africa's most divisive politicians has just been thrown. what is the concern is how his supporters will react. when this disciplinary process started, members of the anc youth league ran right over the headquarters. but not today. >> this is a schering tactic by rabbits. >> i think they think that he is an embarrassment. -- this is a scare tactic. >> today, south africa remains one of the world's most -- societies. the issues that julius malema championed and the contradictions he embodies have not gone away. >> you are watching "bbc world news america," still to come -- running wild in the american west, we go to wyoming to see why these horses rent-a-center of a bidding battle. -- why these forces are at the center of a bitter battle. ha cigarettes will be sold -- cigarettes will be

he said that he supports a regime change in botswana. they said and he was entering into politics beyond the borders of south africa. >> julius malema is such a contentious figure in any case. this notion that he is suspended , or response will that create from his supporters? do you expect they will consider their ties with the anc over? >> anc turns 100 years two months from now. they have drawn a line in the sand. they are trying to show that this 100-year-old organization will not be dictated to by a young, unruly leader. now they want to show they are in charge. the anc of nelson mandela is in charge. that means the youth leaders must decide whether to go with the individual who was suspended or stick with the ruling party of south africa. >> thank you. in is will the supreme court has upheld the conviction of the former president on charges of rape. that clears the way for him to begin a seven-year prison sentence in a matter of the next few weeks. he had appealed against the conviction and sentence. but three judges unanimously ru

i found that out on my trip to botswana. you know that?nti river in botswana's okavango delta is hippo heaven. [hippos grunt] my guide, andrew correll, knew just where to find them. that's a big one. boy, i never seen so many hippos. do they stay in the water all day long? >> yeah, this is their natural habitat. >> hippos beat the heat by staying in the water about 16 hours a day, and they need lots of sun block. but who would be crazy enough to rub it on? fortunately, no one needs to. the hippos' own bodies produce a red, oily sweat that keeps their sensitive skin from getting burned. they are so well-adapted to the water, they can even go to sleep while completely submerged. >> what's incredible, though, is that when they're in deep water and they sleep, they have the ability to rise up, breathe, and sink back down again underwater without waking up. [african choir harmonizes] >> hippos dine on grass, not people... but even so, they should never be approached when out of the water, especially after dark. >> because of the fact that they

it's in botswana, i'm not going to l.a. today. you have the ability to be disappointed in the comfort of your own home. >> you can't get that until four hours before. >> you have your options. you know you're not leaving because the plane can't come in, you can talk to them about alternate ways to get there. >> what advice for people in the pacific northwest or in the northeast where there is some significant weather issues ahead. >> time to get out the map and throw it out. what you need to do is reverse everything. figure out one-stop way to get to where you're going. go from l.a. to new york and you can't get the flight, maybe go through salt lake city as opposed to going through chicago. the point is, you have to go where the weather isn't. the folks in salt lake, amazing airport there. with all the snow they have there, they hardly ever close the airport. >> with all this talk, it makes me want to stay home. but i am staying home. peter, thank you, great advice, as always. >> happy traveling. melissa mack joins us now with th

so there is a change in south africa in terms of our commitments as well as in botswana and other countries where success and engagement and economic development allow us to do so. but your point is a big report, a point about the way in which we engage in what we call procurement. and procurement reform is indeed one of the key elements of usaid forward. as we got the way usaid operates, both global enterprises and culture-based enterprises, often there's a merging of the two that allow us to provide to provide services to scales, and we get that integration of multiple components, one very specific, successful platform is our supply change management, for example. so there's an issue, how can we change the way we do our business. to we also want to foster a country ownership, which would then mean that we should be willing to support, transparency and capacity and so what. but also longer ngos. this is not an easy position in is not an overnight decision. but it is to get more of that capacity locally so that indeed our success stake in the long term, there's a change. the change will not