then we go to serve a school in cape town that's looking to give disabled people the chance to enjoy the ocean and ride the waves. of christine one girl welcome to news africa i'm glad you're today in nigeria's president mohamed dubois hardy is seeking a second to in the country's election this weekend when he took office and twenty fifteen he made corruption a priority taking steps like improving transparency in government deals now reporter. a public servant who said bihari is missing encouraged him to become a whistleblower but as you'll see in the next report that cost him. the fight against corruption features large in nigeria news papers it's also a huge part of aaron cass's life the civil servant walks for a supervisory body in the police force three years ago he watched his boss embezzle funds earmarked for advanced training the experience turned him into a whistleblower. i was encouraged because the system that was common in the government a promise to fight corruption. i was encouraged because we have to speak out at some point i mean everybody's afraid of saying something

world's biggest money conference indaba investing in africa mining in a moment we'll go live to cape town for the latest but first a look at the industry its drivers and challenges. with platinum chromium gold and diamonds south africa's one of the world's biggest mineral producers but its mining industry is in decline as easily accessible reserves are depleted the cost of bringing metals to the surface is rising. hundreds of thousands of jobs have been cut in recent years in the late one nine hundred eighty s. seven hundred sixty thousand people works in south african mines by last year their number had gone down to just over four hundred fifty thousand which new technologies can make the mining sector fit for the future and what can be done about mining is devastating environmental impact those were some of the questions being asked in cape town at the african mining indaba the world's largest my only conference. gunness president called for more collaboration between companies and governments across africa africa may go all rich with. jerry sturdivant. and hoser rob. this is starting t

needs to turn things around fost well whether he'd be able to do that let's go back to cape town and ellis fund give a list south africa just introduces most severe lectures to rationing in nearly five years energy supply as come might the government bailout what effect will that have on the protests and in the upcoming elections well actually it is an issue that was addressed by the protests yesterday as well they're afraid that businesses will go down and that more jobs will be lost because of this crisis and also of course if you look at international investment who is going to invest their money in a country even if they have no power are part of what they will hamper today in case there was no problem or control clock now afternoon two to four thirty very important hours for businesses to run that right and basically exxon is going to be chemical in full and by april if there's no bailout about them and so filled local press is saying is going to turn things around says he wants to split eskom there's a utility company in three different entity means. that if they're going to do

responded in cape town thank you very much. and out of some of the other business stories making headlines around the world the u.s. has warned european allies against using equipment made by chinese telecoms provider huawei secretary of state mike on pale said on wednesday it would make it harder to work together in germany and poland among countries considering banning products from wal-mart which has close ties to the chinese military. more trouble for german payment services provider y. a card investors in the u.s. have filed a class action lawsuit saying the company violated federal securities laws than those with alleges that why a car has misled investors investors by not disclosing that an executive in singapore was under investigation for money laundering. china's rail operators says more people have taken the train than ever before during this year's spring festival travel rush more than two hundred million passengers put the country's rail network to the test many migrant workers have travelled home for the festival

seven kilometers west of cape town nelson mandela was a prisoner for eighteen years raised in a village in eastern south africa he founded the first black law from in the country appalled by the treatment of blacks and people of color he created the armed wing of the african national congress to fight against the apartheid regime that i many people feel that it is useless and for a future for us to continue talking peace and nonviolence against the government was a block is only a savage attacks. and under defenseless people. in one thousand nine hundred sixty two mandela was arrested two years later he and his fellow accused were sentenced to life imprisonment for sabotage and conspiracy he was forty six years old. during his incarceration and social unrest spread and intensified among the black people who represented almost three quarters of the population in the state who responded with increasingly savage repression. in the one nine hundred eighty s. the country was subjected to the iron fist leadership of peter both are head of the national party regarded as a hard liner he was non

and that's not unusual here in langar a poor area on the outskirts of cape town youth unemployment is running at fifty percent it's practically impossible to stick clear of crime they say i thirty business properties and hires to jobs and be. for two years being involved in car and i was able not to own two cars intervention apartment in tal and we had expensive designer clothes i end up now my lesson for the roadside all of the law because more of the people that were doing. langar is part of the infamous cape flats the slum at the foot of table mountain. it's like a war zone every month around seventy people are killed. dozens of gangs are fighting for dominance and control of the drug trade the cape flats are one of the most dangerous places in the world. ended up in prison eleven years behind bars but he emerged a changed man prison cannot claim that if they've changed to be. what they give to the prison gave me time time to reflect on the life that i was living and being able now to have also ample time now to develop and build on the life that i want to live moving forward. kevi

seven kilometers west of cape town nelson mandela was a prisoner for eighteen years raised in a village in eastern south africa he founded the first black law from in the country appalled by the treatment of blacks and people of color he created the armed wing of the african national congress to fight against the apartheid regime and i many people feel that it is useless and for a future for us to continue talking peace and nonviolence against the government was a block is only savage attacks. and under defenseless people. in one thousand nine hundred sixty two mandela was arrested two years later he and his fellow accused were sentenced to life imprisonment for sabotage and conspiracy he was forty six years old. during his incarceration and social unrest spread and intensified among the black people who represented almost three quarters of the population of the state responded with increasingly savage repression. in the one nine hundred eighty s. the country was subjected to the iron fist leadership of peter both are head of the national party regarded as a hard liner he was nonetheles

nine mandela left the victor vasta prison for a few hours he was secretly taken to the center of cape town to detain heis the president's office for the first time the black leader and white president found themselves face to face. i did not have. high expectations of a first meeting with mr mandela and when i did have my first meeting i did not try to achieve much for both the him and me that first meeting was to get an understanding of each other to get a feel for the person sitting across the table to start with mandela was much taller than he expected. and he was also very impressed by president of this demand that is aristocratic bearing because we must remember that that mandela was actually raised to be the prime minister of the paramount chief of the ten booze so you have natural a natural sense of authority very dignified a very charming after that first meeting there was the feeling that yes we can do business with each other so i did expect that he would be positive about the concept of negotiation but we both of voided talking about the real challenges and the real issues at th

the professionals who want to ride some of the best waves the locals do too course one school in cape town is helping to break down barriers for surfing enthusiasm with physical and mental disabilities. a feeling pamela hansford thought she'd never get back watching her riding the waves with a smile on her face it's hard to believe the seventy five year old suffered a broken neck a year ago a terrifying collision with a freak wave on the shores of cape town left tetraplegic but now with the help of volunteers she's enjoying the waves once again and three of the war i feel very proud to. it's really special pamela is one of many disabled surface getting a helping hand from the surf in poor you have a school which aims to get people with disabilities into the water. kids are welcome to while parents can learn how to take care of them out in the surf. we felt like we were flying it was amazing they showed us how to handle him in the war how to actually hold the surf board and how to sit behind him and it was an amazing experience. making surfing possible and practical for disabled people is a

suffered a broken neck and a year ago a terrifying collision with a freak wave on the shores of cape town left tetraplegic but now with the help of volunteers she's enjoying the waves once again and three of the war to i could feel the movement the day. it's really special pamela is one of many disabled surface that getting a helping hand from the surf in poor areas a school which aims to get people with disabilities into the water. kids are welcome to while parents can learn how to take care of the house and this. we felt like we were flying it was amazing they showed us how to handle him in the war how to actually hold the so forth and how to sit behind and then a close and amazing experience. making surfing possible and practical for disabled people is a growing trend across south africa pretty soon they'll be no excuses not to hit the way. coming up on g.w. our business shell made it takes a look at the fallout one high power executives fail that's coming right up to. good. good. good. they live like gods on the mount olympus so business. the top executives. the high flyers the high f

toward saturday pretty much more of the same temper in durban about thirty and down here towards cape town it is going to be a mostly cloudy day with a temperature of twenty four. high in the atlas mountains. the edge women are fending for themselves again as their husbands are forced to find work elsewhere. but training home farm and family is tough with no outside support how much longer is this way of life sustainable algis your world meets my rocker village superwomen. for it. talk about your watching the visit with me celeron a reminder of our top stories venezuela's opposition leader one has accused security forces loyal to president nicolas maduro of threatening his family former military officers have also been arrested accused of plotting to overthrow the dewar. u.s. senators back to measure opposing president donald trump's plan to withdraw troops from syria and afghanistan it says pulling out could allow i still adult kind of to regroup and stabilize both countries. the us president says progress has been made of china during talks aimed at easing a trade spat between the two po

seven kilometers west of cape town nelson mandela was a prisoner for eighteen years raised in a village in eastern south africa he founded the first black law firm in the country appalled by the treatment of blacks and people of color he created the armed wing of the african national congress to fight against the apartheid regime that i many people feel that it is useless and free theater for us to continue to talk of peace and nonviolence against the government was a black is only a savage attacks. and under defenseless people. in one thousand nine hundred sixty two mandela was arrested two years later he and his fellow accused were sentenced to life imprisonment for sabotage and conspiracy he was forty six years old. during his incarceration and social unrest spread and intensified among the black people who represented almost three quarters of the population of the state responded with increasingly savage repression. in the one nine hundred eighty s. the country was subjected to the iron fist leadership of peter both are head of the national party regarded as a hard liner he was none

old suffered a broken neck a year ago a terrifying collision with a freak wave on the shores of cape town left her tetraplegic but now with the help of volunteers she's enjoying the waves once again and to be in the ward i prefer feel very frantic. it's really special pamela is one of many disabled surface getting a helping hand from the surf in poor areas a school which aims to get people with disabilities into the water. kids are welcome to while parents can learn how to take care of them out in the surf. we felt like we were flying it was amazing they showed us how to handle him in the world how to actually hold the surf board and how to surf behind and then it was and then lazing it's. the project is the brainchild of south african surfing champion roxy davis who believes everyone should have the opportunity to enjoy the ocean. so it doesn't matter where you are an able bodied superhero somebody with a disability and i just love watching that wave after wave action and the story there with the team weighed one hundred times if we were to very serious time whether they are riding famil

africa well a lot of rain in the forecast anywhere from johannesburg down here towards durban even cape town will be seeing some rain that's all due to an area of low pressure that is spinning south of the region but by the time we go towards monday things look a little bit better for cape town but it is going to get a little bit worse for durban where the start of storms could be a problem and attempt a few of about twenty seven degrees. every armed attack in europe creates fear and division amongst its citizens where stories of loss go on told. a sweeping association of islam with violence leaves european muslims facing the stark reality of being ostracized by the very communities in which they lived loved and moon the tragic loss of life twice a victim on al-jazeera. welcome back you're watching all this is a reminder of our top stories tens of thousands of people have been rallying in venezuela for and against the government of nicolas maduro opposition leader one again called on the military to switch sides just after an air force general became the highest ranking military defector. al

from girl is in cape town to enjoy joins us now alice are these strikes just about high unemployment or against the government.

then we go to the soap school in cape town that's looking to give just able to pull the child.

make it africa prosperous president to monaco for other was speaking to the indaba conference in cape town in south africa he said mining firms and governments need to increase their collaboration he told delegates africa that made the rest of the world rich with its minerals and it's now time for africans to feel the benefits. almost two hundred million people live in nigeria and the population is growing out of the issue of desertification and soil erosion which has led to the loss of arable land and you face a problem how can enough food to be grown for everyone while hydroponic farming could offer a sustainable solution to these basil parsley and lettuce plants are special they're being grown without using normal soil this innovative system is called hydroponics to feed the plants the gardeners use an organic sterile medium made from the bark of the coconut tree to conduct their transfer yours or not. and your chance with chemical additives basically to toss him in their natural state and a special vegetable formula that has all the micro nutrients and that the plants need the gartner

president zero rama pausa as he's addressed the twenty fifth investing in africa mining conference in cape town as the conference comes to a close the aust is africa's mining sector a fit for the future. also on the show how so. taxis in ivory coast move people from a to b. while keeping the city air clean. and in trouble australian carrier qantas council's a large a three eighty order raising new questions over the future of the world's biggest jetliner. alone welcome to g.w. business africa i want to get jones and berlin good to have you with us and we're starting in south africa where a major conference on mining is coming to a close mining of course is a key industry for many african countries the sector is a major employer provided tens of thousands of jobs but times are changing mining is growing more and more expensive leading to massive layoffs so what does the future hold in store what is the stick to fit for the future now that is one of the key questions of the world's biggest money conference indaba investing in africa mining and.

continued to see each other far from the political turmoil like in two thousand and six at a hotel in cape town at frederick declared seventieth birthday. i mean. once they had retired they knew that they the two of them played a special role. in history. and they never became friends but on the one or two occasions public occasions they said nice things about it all we did . at night if i just a. moment of doubt all. all all. right at l o o. o o o o just what. i heard a person in the us will say that our country does not suffer a normal. across all. i've ever gotten or get right. planted with us where the. president mandela made a wonderful short speech. at the function for friends and family. i was deep in touch. by the nickel mission he gave to my contribution to. help to bring peace to south africa i was deeply touched by the personal war. which he extended to me. even god a little bit if i can remember well. al-jazeera explores prominent figures of the twentieth century and how rivalries influenced the course of history steve jobs so much better marketeers than bill gates was apple was goi

toward saturday pretty much more of the same temper in durban about thirty and down here towards cape town it is going to be a mostly cloudy day with a temperature of twenty four. my name is joseph gemma california from a new york every so often did it. because of. my money but still everybody has one. so that's how i came to bear. but we had to go bust city center at least to get ahead begin for not just walking. in the lead in a two meter that depletes we. were the. last. bit up in fact towards detecting to me it's just sad. sometimes they succeed and my friend it's not having something i want to show them . in each. hand. and it isn't poor little bit people. it. is that got you in atlanta. tonight. well i think one of our biggest strengths is that we talk to normal everyday people we get them to tell stories and doing that really reveals the truth people are still gathered outside these gates waiting for any information most of them don't know whether their loved ones are alive or dead or miami really is a place where two worlds me we can get to washington d.c. in two hours we can get i

after this show airs, i'm gonna get a huge amount of mail saying, "why didn't you go to cape town?" missed all of that? >> andrea: i feel like those particular restaurants in cape town are not really representative of what most people in this country are eating. i think a lot of our most basic stuff is really what we do best. this food has absolutely got no interest in fashion. it's never gonna change. there'll still be the monkey gland sauce and the boerewors and the steak and the pap. >> anthony: do you think that white chefs here understand that the greatest advantage they have is that this enormous pan-african larder of ingredients and flavors? >> andrea: hmm, no. if you're a whitey in the city, you're probably gonna eat the worst food of anyone in the city, quite honestly. in every country, i mean, obviously food is political, but it always feels like it's a bit more political here. that there are these layers of things that you couldn't have. like restaurants. i mean, i go to restaurants and i think to myself, "wow, this many years ago, i couldn't have come here with this pers

africa well a lot of rain in the forecast anywhere from johannesburg down here towards durban even cape town will be seeing some rain that's all due to an area of low pressure that is spinning south of the region but by the time we go towards monday things look a little bit better for cape town but it is going to get a little bit worse for durban where the start of storms could be a problem and attempt a few of about twenty seven degrees. as politicians and washington fights are over the border we talked to the people at the center of the story many up then just said oh no it's very dangerous because center many guns are there and it's not it's a very safe place migrants smugglers and people who live along the border talk to al-jazeera. to dissolute mother waits on the border between ukraine and russia occupied crimea for news of her missing son. numerous young three men have disappeared following her arrest these disappeared other victims of a crackdown on the top population of crimea by russia since its occupation of two thousand and fourteen. before the invasion of two thousand and fourte

seven kilometers west of cape town nelson mandela was a prisoner for eighteen years raised in a village in eastern south africa he founded the first black law from in the country appalled by the treatment of blacks and people of color he created the armed wing of the african national congress to fight against the apartheid regime and i many people feel that it is useless and for a future for us to continue talking peace and nonviolence against the government was a block is only savage attacks. and under defenseless people. in one thousand nine hundred sixty two mandela was arrested two years later he and his fellow accused were sentenced to life imprisonment for subatomic and conspiracy he was forty six years old. during his incarceration and social unrest spread and intensified among the black people who represented almost three quarters of the population of the state responded with increasingly savage repression. in the one nine hundred eighty s. the country was subjected to the iron fist leadership of peter both are head of the national party regarded as a hard liner he was nonethele

spinning south of the region but by the time we go towards monday things look a little bit better for cape town but it is going to get a little bit worse for durban where the start of storms could be a problem and attempt a few of about twenty seven degrees. the weather sponsored town and. we're heading to the place so deep in the true. remembers on taking this today is this just to get from the search through. techno look at what is being done to protect one of the region's most iconic creatures. disappearing because legal pad change with the looming. reintroduction of. action to save some of these population pretty good. techno on al-jazeera. book about your watching. the reminder of our top stories terms of thousands of people to be running in venezuela for and against the government of nicolas maduro opposition leader why though again called on the military to switch sides just after an air force general became the highest ranking military defector. a peace deal has been reached between the central african republic discover more than a dozen armed groups the agreement was struck after a wee

nairobi is a k n a executive director of the pan african citizens network joining us on skype from cape town as researcher at the institute for global dialogue that's a south african think tank and in london we have michael are more visiting fellow at the fellow's largely center for africa at the london school of economics a very warm welcome to all of you miss. it is the theme of this year's african union summit so how serious is the african union about looking after refugees i don't think the african union is a serious as it could be about looking after refugees we have had refugee protocol since the sixty's and yet over the years rather than improve refugee protection. to protection seems to have gotten worse there was a time where there was a pride in hosting. africa's refugees there was a price there was a pride in hosting people who had to flee from their countries it was considered as a call after x. or an african ism but lately refugees are kept stranded in camps for tens of years you know how decayed and this is just unacceptable there is no move by. african countries to integrate r

nairobi is a k n a executive director of the pan african citizens network joining us on skype from cape town as researcher at the institute for global dialogue that's a south african think tank and in london we have michael are more visiting fellow at the fellows largely center for africa at the london school of economics a very warm welcome to all of you miss. it is the theme of this year's african union summit so how serious is the african union about looking after refugees i don't think the african union is a serious as it could be about looking after refugees we have had refugee political since the sixty's and yet over the years rather than improve refugee protection. to protection seems to have gotten worse there was a time where there was a pride in hosting. africa's refugees there was a prize there was a pride in hosting people who had to flee from their countries it was considered as a call after x. or an african ism but lately refugees are kept stranded in camps for tens of years you know how decayed and this is just unacceptable there is no move by. african countries to integrate r

on my commodity radar, monday, south africa's mining begins in cape town.sday, tyson, total, marathon petroleum. thursday, the final usda report. that wraps it up for bloomberg commodities edge. this is bloomberg. ♪ place, the xfinity xfi gateway. and it's strengthened by xfi pods, which plug in to extend the wifi even farther, past anything that stands in its way. ...well almost anything. leave no room behind with xfi pods. simple. easy. awesome. click or visit a retail store today. carol: welcome to bloomberg businessweek. jason: we are here inside bloomberg headquarters in new york. carol: in this issue, we full fat steps. -- stacks. jason: and is anybody watching facebook watch? carol: and the social network still has a lot to prove when it comes to hollywood.

twenty twenty for south africa that means doubling the area currently protected at the university of cape town seizo puts together data on marine biodiversity and coastal sites of interest she also models the social impact of potential new m.p.'s a lot of the time what we do is we don't acknowledge that people are part of the system we think conservation has to be on the one side people on the other side but we are part of a system and so if we are able to do that i think we will be successful in expanding the marine protected area me to a can ensuring that it is representative of all our ecosystem time to south africa is to meet the goal by next year and double the extent of its marine protected areas there's still a lot of work to do. research should help the authorities decide exactly where to locate them and help ensure south africans will enjoy the benefits. i'm afraid that's all from this edition of africa i have you enjoyed our reports i'm fully fit and this be saying settle from johannesburg south africa and until next time to find out more check out our website all of us adults on our

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a life of luxury huge parties costing up to a quarter of a million euros in his private villa in cape town and in germany what he called customer acquisition business was deemed strictly pleasure by the company he worked for. his then employer and international media marketing agency had him charged with embezzlement. subsequently arrested put on trial and found guilty. he had never felt lonely or. visitors for twice a month when the monks moved. so as good as no visitors. when they did you make the most of it. hundred percent. my family and my best friends. and that. was one of the most important managers at the agency responsible for planning and booking advertising campaigns for global airlines and other clients. his job also involved defining target groups for consumer item producers developing communications content and promotional films he delivered sales of three billion euros a year. also negotiated discounts on advertising broadcast time and concealed the proceeds in a network of companies his employer was left. in the dark. the court later found him guilty on sixty eight counts o

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are those the owner of the cape town because he had the camera ripped it's a black flash so he can't see it he's wearing. what this says the animals should be allowed to live in brandenburg permission to shoot wolves is unnecessary and only a cause for scaremongering because these twenty one days is an endangered species the few wolves we have ongoing to wildly multiply about thirty percent a year i can't listen to this argument anymore we barely have one thousand wolves in germany. barely one thousand but for most hunters that's still too many the brandenberg hunting association demands a more limited population they say this large predator doesn't fit in the modern landscape they want fixed shooting quotas and more freedom to decide when a wolf must be shot some say just a single pack in an entire german preserve would be enough. if you ever think you are or one track is about four to six animals they can live sustainably or they can rear their young navajo it's clear to everyone if you want to see more wolves go to the zoo. getting everyone on the same page is going to be a challe

this is cape town, south africa. and it's the red bull king of the air competition.he crowd is absolutely stoked. boom. hu huge, massive -- like they lit a rocket under the board. >> like they're trying to get into orbit. >> what are they being -- okay. >> that was pretty awesome. >> get down -- >> isn't this insane? >> sometimes it looks like they're higher than the mountain. >> how high are these guys? >> they're able to keep their routine in mind. able to pull off their trick -- pull the board off their feet. put that around, and managed to put it back on before they landed. there are judges scoring these riders for each individual trick that they do. >> you might be asking who are these people. who are these superheroes -- the winner for the third year is kevin langry. >> 2019 -- >> and kevin talks about what it takes to win a competition like this. >> put your fear aside, and just go big. >> that trophy is money. >> how cool that is. >> kevin, go fly a kite. ♪ >>> it was a matter of time before these guys were caught, and i'm assuming that the people in johannes