with the a.n.c. but i do think the a.n.c. place a bigger role in this because if you look at this declining of turnout it is highly concentrated within. us are less in c. want to say to their voters that it's 5 do not show up in the next few elections we are our turnout the turnout in the country's already high in a way that the main cause of this turnout is that the lower turnout it in the subject line reflect the level of disgruntlement of course it is unfortunate that they look for it seems not to see the opposition parties as an alternative but i think that the in c is quite culpable it is happening within it's all unless otherwise the party want to say they're not concerned they just the hippie with a lot turn out particularly if it's concentrated among their core who does i don't think they want to say that. let me bring wilson into this go ahead also of course we point out to come out of things you know the a.n.c. law supports all 9 provinces in this general election and provincial election. law supporting every one of

wizzy causa is an a.n.c. supporter were outside the clinic it's a week away she voted in the one thousand nine hundred four election she still has vivid memories of. the excitement was such that you didn't care where they belong but you just wanted to be seen to be there there were cameras around all wanted to be seen in the cameras so i tried to make a mark to say that we are doing it in the five years that will follow it would be the a.n.c. led by nelson mandela ruling a democratic south africa. outside his hold in so which now it to receive traction . was a recalls how the lives of black south africans changing. them and then let you are trying to project a whole lot of excitement for me as an individual it and probably assisted me in changing professions i had been and mess and elected to in this ng for quite a long time and opportunities that are out there gave me a moment to appear to move from the public sector to join the corporate industry. the successes would continue after mandela the first electio

and his ruling a.n.c. party have been watching their approval ratings nosedive as he struggles to make good on promises to fight corruption and get the economy back on track although the a.n.c. is expected to win this election as it has every time since the country emerged from white minority rule twenty five years ago analysts are predicting that it's margin of victory will fall sharply. now a reduced margin of victory could make it even more difficult for president robert poser to restore his party's reputation and implement the economic and political reforms that he has promised. so many south africans ciro run a pose and body to a new chapter and leader who enjoyed support and trust right across the class and color divides. when he replaced his disgraced predecessor jacob zuma first as leader of the a.n.c. and then as president he promised years of corruption and economic mismanagement were over your door is up or nose and that wonderful door has opened. as a young anti apartheid activist and trade uni

a.n.c. led by several. kind of reverse the downward trend. with one supporter who takes stock of the last twenty five yes. now cemented a bridge in johannesburg. a.n.c. election ban is crowd the overpass symbolic of the party's dominant support base in this region. because there is an a.n.c. supporter who were outside the clinic insulates away she voted in the one thousand nine hundred four election she still has vivid memories of protecting the excitement was such that you didn't care whether it is long but you just wanted to be seen to be that there were cameras around or wanted to be seen in the cameras so i tried to make a mark to say that we are doing it in the five years that will follow it would be the a.n.c. led by nelson mandela ruling a democratic south africa. outside his home in so we're told now a tourist attraction. because of recalls how the lives of black south africans changing. them and then let you have a treasure brought a whole lot of excitement for me as an individual i

the a.n.c. wins a healthy majority but it's also its worst when ever how should we see the result well i mean on the one hand the a.n.c. is still 57 percent ahead of the 2nd strongest party the democratic alliance that is certainly a reason to celebrate but as you rightly said on the other hand they did manage to stop that downward trend ever since the elections 2004 the a.n.c. kept on losing voters. how do we explain the downward trend what's causing voters to turn away. well the a.n.c. did not manage to fulfill all the promises that the party made in the last 2 years and in the last election is still a big part of the population lives in poverty the economy is growing waste too slow more than every 2nd young person in this country is unemployed these are big issues that needs to be addressed inequality is another big problem is one of the most unequal societies in the world and on top of that corruption has been increasing in the last years especially under former president jacob zuma where co

not salute me ever since the election 2004 the a.n.c. has been losing voters and that is a clear sign that more and more people are not really happy with their policies anymore and especially with the success of them remember when they came into power 25 years ago after the end of white minority rule they promised a lot they promised to change the lives of so many people here but largely that has not happened so many people are still living in poverty south africa still one of the most unequal societies in the world and on top of that the issue of corruption is playing the country under the watch of the a.n.c. serum a process harvest to stop that is to go also against his very own people and it will be very soon that we can judge him probably already when he's announcing his cabinet because then we will see if you really will not nominate those people who have been getting into connection with corruption issues ok let's talk about opposition parties this election has changed things hasn't it's opposition parties in south africa what role

well about ten percent of the votes are already counted and currently the a.n.c. is ahead was fifty four percent of the vote is of course too early to say whether this is a trend or what the final results will be but to does clear that this elections are largely a referendum on president cyrus he took over one year ago promising reforms promising to fight the issue of corruption remember before him jacob zuma was in power and under his watch corruption was rampant and all all levels of governance promised to tackle that issue but of course he will be judged on his performance of very very soon many observers are saying that he needs at least fifty five or sixty percent of the votes to have a clear mandate is to really clean up within its own party has made a lot of promises but he has to act so far he has established some commissions of inquiry but they haven't delivered results yet and still on the populist for example of the a.n.c. of doing this elections you could see some names that are clearly associated with corruption this is put an exciting election a grin

the a.n.c. itself has been able to argue that they are now that they need to be given a fresh chance and that they should be allowed to clean up their own mess in the scenes but sadly corruption is one of these states of the economy is always looming large the state of personal security crime is always an issue in south africa and of course we have the very emotive issue of land and several parties suggesting that with a legs into power they will be expropriated land without compensation change of the constitution so there's been a lot of issues for voters to consider as they look at these particular elections. in cape town i have been hearing these issues for the last twenty five years every time we've had to south africa elections it's always seems to be the same issue security corruption inequality even land has been discussed but that doesn't seem to be any concrete measures taken. i think grant is right i mean i think the challenge with the facing is that these issues have become fairly ins

and now president ramaphosa of the a.n.c. has jumped on that bandwagon himself wanting to accelerate that redistribution in the hope of luring votes away from. the results of the election are expected by saturday. and w.'s christina is in johannesburg for she's covering the election for his good evening to you the really a.n.c. party it is remarkable isn't it it's been in power for twenty five years it's had basically a free house for a quarter of a century and now would struggling to keep the voters on its side what is the a.n.c. offering voters to keep their support for the a.n.c. is offering settled on a process after nearly a decade off and levels of corruption and mismanagement in government and a lack of service delivery the a.n.c. say add to the leadership. these issues are going to be addressed it is the first time we hear the ruling party talk of having reflected and admitting the stakes that it's made them opposed his message to supporters and people who have not supporting the party is that and to my leadership thi

the a.n.c. itself has been able to argue that they are now that they need to be given a fresh chance and that they should be allowed to clean up their own mess in the scenes but sadly corruption is one of these states of the economy is always looming large the state of personal security crime is always an issue in south africa and of course we have the very emotive issue of land and several parties suggesting that with a legs into power they will be expropriated land without compensation change of the constitution so there's been a lot of issues for voters to consider as they look at these particular elections. in cape town i have been hearing these issues for the last twenty five years every time we've had to south africa elections it's always seems to be the same issue security corruption inequality even land has been discussed but that doesn't seem to be any concrete measures taken. i think grant is right i mean i think the challenge with the facing is that these issues have become fairly ins

there is a very popular possible popular than the a.n.c. so do him damage in the long term do you think. i'm not quite sure i think it's actually very lucky to be more popular than the n c because one he's a very nice guy and two he played a central role in the formation of the new south africa leading to the elections in south africa and i think most of african still give him that credit he's a bargain his trade unions and and of course as i said he he's in his or his in the house guy by and large but i mean that sayed where the mc is a say where particularly zuma juma left it it needed somebody like a room before that who other than being nice other than having a bit of history is also someone who is known and seen to be absolutely intellectually deep south africa needs a leader who is able to use the brain the charisma and if you like the composition of leadership that enables them if you like to bring a coalition of all partners together and i think i'm a horse that is a very good guy to be able to do that unfortunately of course he was

on twitter the a.n.c. is now a shadow of itself they have lost contact with the electorate but parties like f. f. identifying with people's problems that is it perhaps take but do you feel like we're just saying the same thing about the a.n.c. . well i can discount what melissa d.n.c. is facing massive challenge heading into this election twenty five years after democracy but just touching on the opposition i mean in many ways the opposition has failed as well because in the fairness of all of the mc's failures and problems that they've brought on this country in the twenty five years of governance it should be fairly easy for the democratic alliance or the economic freedom fighters to capitalize on that but the fact of the matter is is there's no poll that gives the democratic alliance the largest opposition party anything above twenty two percent and the economic freedom fighters got a million votes last election which was about a six percent of the electorate and they're due to about double that so even

a lot of people have been recalling that ninety four election so of course of president of the a.n.c. himself saying he feels exactly how you fellows in one thousand nine hundred four so certainly so which is a very important place very symbolic and there is the sense in this country of print that things are changing perhaps that's how people felt twenty five years ago that change was was on the brink and a lot has changed since then brant people are now having a conversation about yes we have been liberated politically but we need to be liberated economically and is it the african national congress that's going to do that for us it's very good point. that twenty five years of democracy away actions partisan politics we know there's a lot of disillusionment now some observers say that this is simply the normative state of western democracies in south africa is now a full fledged member others say that this is the result of gross incompetence and corruption at the hands of the a.n.c. based on what you had seen and heard which is the better as. brant most probably the last that we're ta

the kind of challenges facing around opposer and the a.n.c. back home protests across the country at issues including government corruption a lack of jobs and poor public services. and the troubled state utility eskom rationing power causing rolling blackouts that have hindered efforts to boost growth. in addition ram opposer is under pressure because the a.n.c. is losing voters to the more populist land reform policies of the f.s.f. so he's pressing ahead with the expropriation of white farmers without compensation but risks losing white support and that of the international community. cyril rama poses future is all but certain his preferred path is one of stability and growth but if this election doesn't hand the a.n.c. enough votes from a poser could find himself losing his grip altogether on the divided party. and i agree on ram opposed to he came to power replacing jacob zuma who was plagued by scandals he was supposed to really clean the house in the country and his party how successful has he been in doing that. well it's too early to s

the a.n.c. itself has been able to argue that they are now that they need to be given a fresh chance and that they should be allowed to clean up their own mess in the scenes but sadly corruption is one that the state of the economy is always looming large the state of personal security crime is always an issue in south africa and of course we have the very emotive issue of land and several parties suggesting that with a legs into power they will be expropriated land without compensation change of the constitution so there's been a lot of issues for voters to consider as they look at these particular elections. in cape town i have been hearing these issues for the last twenty five years every time we've had the south africa elections it's always seems to be the same issue security corruption inequality even land has been discussed but that doesn't seem to be any concrete measures taken. i think grant is right i mean i think the challenge with the facing is that these issues have become fairly ins

i mean this is that the narrative the a.n.c. fall fell short in reforming the country economically and if it's coming to that position and say we will deliver that for you and that is why well economically of fighters there is that all these of the these. into the messes that we will do that whether they really will do so or whether the policies are just wild rhetoric remains to be seen many people are rather skeptical of that and the rhetoric is the point there joseph malema has been criticized for his racially charged rhetoric how do you a say is some of his more controversial comments it seems he's made quite a few given of course the country's troubled history in that regard. i think it is it is particularly troublesome we've chatted on the same channel before julius malema of course speaks a billion on racial lines on the one hand but he makes no bones about the fact that he's there to serve the black masses the black this and chinese masses and i think that's absolutely understandable but he feels very close to the wind in

so the a.n.c. has been in power for 25 years ever since the end of apartheid and they made huge promises and honestly speaking they did not manage to fulfill many of them a lot of people here still living in poverty inequality here is a massive problem you have a few people. huge parts of the wealth of the country and a lot of people who don't own anything and the other problem that is very big is the issue of corruption and it has grown over the past 2 years under the watch of the a.n.c. of the african national congress they did not really manage to tackle the issue and this bothers a lot of south africans. what would you say president ram opposing the seed need to do to reverse that downward trend you are talking about. we appear to have lost adrian creatures but will be coming back to him in later programs more details on the results of the south african election. 3 of the 4 foreign hostages rescued from a militant group and burkina faso have arrived in france the 4th an american woman is being

expect lots remember the a.n.c. has been in power for 25 years and in that time they could not deliver all the promises that they made they still huge parts of the population living in poverty here the economy is down more than every 2nd young person is unemployed south africa is one of the most equal societies in the world where by. just part of the biggest part of the will to still owned by the white minority so there's a lot of things to do a lot of expectations and now it's time for us or i'm opposed to deliver because he promised to make things very different then the governments that where in power before though they were all governments of his very own party b. and c. did lose a lot of support why is that. well because they failed delivering their promises and one point is also the issue of corruption that is really bothering a lot of south africans they're complaining about it that the a.n.c. didn't seem to take it really as a big issue in the past years remember under the government of former president jaco

but for south africans for the a.n.c. itself this is expected given the allegations of corruption the factionalism within the party as well as the the changes in terms of the president of the a.n.c. are no thursday we did hear from the the person in charge of the election campaign of the a.n.c. . and he spoke about the change in presidency he spoke about jacob zuma being removed he actually resigned but that came from after a push from the a.n.c. being removed and then being replaced by sauron up was that he had said that not happened the a.n.c. would have done even worse but i think what observers here are looking at is the performance of the opposition parties while the a.n.c. supported might have dropped opposition parties haven't done particularly. compared to previous years the economic freedom fighters who people have been watching the is an improvement there but the official opposition is rather static and i think this is really key around the south african elections that people have perhaps stayed home and not vot

or they've haunted politicians and unnerved voters today president cyril ramaphosa and his ruling a.n.c. party have watched their approval ratings plummet the party is struggling to make good on promises to fight corruption and revive the economy the a.n.c. has won every election since the country emerged from white minority rule twenty five years ago this year is expected to be no different with one important exception the agency's margin of victory may be the smallest in its history this time around. well we sent our very own christine. to find out what issues matter most to voters. so i'm outside a polling station in so way to about four thousand people are expected to vote here today and these are some of the the early risers that you're seeing behind me a few people of course the folks have told us all process takes about ten minutes once you're actually inside the classrooms where the voting is taking place a lot at stake in this election and of course these are the people who are going to be deciding south africa's future want to have a chat to tending to hear she's in the queue

to choose a new parliament in the toughest test yet for the ruling a.n.c. party a blast targeting a soofi shrine kills at least eight people in the pakistani city of lahore and sudan's military rulers say they will call for elections if an agreement to the political stalemate isn't reached with the opposition in six months. hello iran says it's stopping its sale of enriched uranium and could restart production if world powers don't keep their promises under the twenty fifty nuclear deal president hassan rouhani said the remaining signatories of the agreement the united kingdom france germany china and russia had sixty days to implement their promises to protect iran's oil and banking sector is from u.s. sanctions but he insists iran is ready for negotiations over its nuclear program ronnie was speaking on the anniversary of the u.s. withdrawing from the deal the united states wanted to pull out of the way to make iran withdraw the day after so they could refer the case to the u.n. security council in order to redouble pressure on iran however iran did not f

has thirty five percent less votes then the ac ok so the a.n.c. is still going to be in power but it has lost support is this going to make it harder adrian for cyril ramaphosa to go for. so most analysts have before the election that up was on these at least fifty five sixty percent of the votes to really have a strong mandate to fight corruption within its own party and the way it looks like now you managed to get these mandates you have to remember that before him jacob zuma was in power under his watch corruption was thriving in this country in almost all levels of governance and come up with a promise to fight that he promised to tackle that many times before but now he has to act on it's and actually has got on those mind that by the people to really react now africans are really waiting if you will walk his talk. about opposition parties in this election age or in this bill that brought some changes for then we saw quite a bit of movement there south africa as a whole is is changing what were all of these opposition parties likely to play m

robert posts and his ruling a.n.c. party have been watching their approval ratings nosedive as he struggles to make good on promises to fight corruption and get the economy back on track although the a.n.c. is expected to win this election as it has every time since the country emerged from white minority rule twenty five years ago analysts are predicting that its margin of victory will fall sharply and covering this election for us from johannesburg. and this could really be a decisive election for the country what are the issues at play right now. after talking to some of the voters here at this polling station earlier i asked them what are the expectations for the new government that will come in and beyond was the same like the one i feared and cowed to times before everybody here says they want the new government to fix the economy unemployment rates are extremely high every fourth person if not more is unemployed the economy has been struggling the growth is lower than the growth of the population and this is of

victory for the a.n.c. is assured but if the party wants to halt the slide in support these are the concerns they quickly have to deliver on. from on this i'm joined by a professor kalibo who. he's chair of the department of political sciences at the university of south africa in for terry professor thank you very much for your time now as the results come in it's clear that a.n.c. has lost even more supports maybe not just marched us to it but how long can they rely on old loyalties as the national liberation movement. montreal the whole of the liberation movement the that we have liberated you is the african national congress we have been in previous elections for instance in the twenty four elections and even beyond the time when they fought president jacob zuma to. two thousand and nine in my view is that at the out they don't because they have their current generation. these are the ones who are on during the time of my nelson mandela's presidency just off the ninety ninety four or many of them in the

and a bittersweet election victory for south africa's longtime ruling party the a.n.c. . and it will begin in yemen where rip the rebels have started redeploying fighters from 3 key ports the proud comes as part of a stalled united nations sponsored peace deal yemeni government agent has dismissed the pullout as a ploy aimed at deceiving the international community the ports include rust. and crucially data and important gateway for food and humanitarian aid that millions of yemenis rely on so high iraq has the latest in the battle for the port of data has been at the heart of the humanitarian crisis in yemen aid agencies have pleaded with the warring factions to withdraw from the strategic port a gateway to desperately needed food and medicine millions are facing famine after more than 4 years of fighting between the forty's and the coalition led by sad eurabia and the united arab emirates. according to united nations healthy rebels would you deploy from the data and the ports of 75 useful grain and there are safer and entry points for oil we have huge problem terms of t

or they've haunted politicians and unnerved voters today president cyril ramaphosa and his ruling a.n.c. party have watched their approval ratings plummet the party is struggling to make good on promises to fight corruption and revive the economy the a.n.c. has won every election since the country emerged from white minority rule twenty five years ago this year is expected to be no different with one important exception the agency's margin of victory may be the smallest in its history this time around. well we sent our very own christine to south africa to find out what issues matter most to voters. so i'm outside a polling station in so way to about four thousand people are expected to vote here today and these are some of the the early risers that you're seeing behind me a few people of course the folks have told us oh process takes about ten minutes once you're actually inside the classrooms where the voting is taking place a lot at stake in this election and of course these are the people who are going to be deciding south africa's future want to have a chat to tending to hear she's

or they've haunted politicians and unnerved voters today president cyril ramaphosa and his ruling a.n.c. party have watched their approval ratings plummet the party is struggling to make good on promises to fight corruption and revive the economy the a.n.c. has won every election since the country emerged from white minority rule twenty five years ago this year is expected to be no different with one important exception the agency's margin of victory may be the smallest in its history this time around. well we sent our very own christine. to find out what issues matter most to voters. i'm outside a polling station in so way to about four thousand people are expected to vote here today and diesel some of the early risers that you're seeing behind me a few people of course the folks have told us all process takes about ten minutes once you're actually inside the classrooms where the voting is taking place a lot at stake in this election and of course these are the people who are going to be deciding south africa's future want to have a chat to tending to hear she's in the queue waiting th

and his ruling a.n.c. party of been watching their approval ratings plummet as he struggles to make good on promises to fight corruption and revive the economy. every election since the country emerged from white minority rule twenty five years ago this year is expected to be no different than analysts believe the margin of victory will be small. christine has been talking to voters finding out about the issues that concern them most. i'm outside a polling station in so where to about four thousand people are expected to vote here today and these are some of the early risers that you're seeing behind me a few people of course the folks who have told us all process takes about ten minutes once you're actually inside the classrooms where the voting is taking place a lot at stake in this election and of course these are the people who are going to be deciding south africa's future want to have a chat to tending to hear she's in the queue waiting their turn she's actually very close to the cue so says time dat

jacob zuma the economic freedom fighters that was the party was founded just 6 leaders were former a.n.c. politicians who were pushed out so they set up a party that's promising radical economic changes promising to address the gross inequality in south africa which prevails particularly along racial lines so they won about 6 percent of the vote in the last election in the use of seats in parliament to disrupt proceedings to hold the a.n.c. to account for corruption. for delivery of public services and now they've got more than 10 percent of the vote so certainly for the 30 percent of the vote but it's an increase they'll be considering that result a success malcolm thank you. to venezuela where the opposition supporters gather in the capital caracas for another day of protest against president nicolas maduro but it was a smaller turnout for. who called for nationwide demonstrations against a government crackdown on opposition politicians. his deputy. was arrested and later sent to a military prison for taking part in last month's failed coup attempt to raise a boy who was at the protest

nothing has changed at all and what is at stake particularly for the african national congress the a.n.c. at the message it's been wanting to say and is that it's still relevant to south africa and to take south africa to the future twenty five has ensued democracy. to our viewers on. yes in the united states and all around the world welcome we begin the day watching iran do what it can really only do today a year after the u.s. withdrew from the iran nuclear deal iran announced that it may do the same now this comes as no surprise it has been a year of nonstop efforts by washington to squeeze the economic life out of tehran sanctions now threaten to cripple iran's entire economy observers say iran has always respected its obligations under the nuclear deal and even with today's announcement iranian president rouhani said that the plan remains to save the deal not destroy it well that will depend a lot on europe on whether it can come up with the money and the means to keep the deal intact minus the u.s. what today u.s. secretary of state might pump aoe was in london meeting with british

and with the world at large the party always knew this would be a tough election in the past year a.n.c. president jacob zuma resigned while fighting various corruption allegations and was replaced by solar on the force and the wind is important for him up or so who's leading a divided party the agencies criticized for its slow delivery of basic services and the poorly performing economy for many south africans their view of nelson mandela's rainbow party of liberation has dulled in 2016 the a.n.c. got to wake up cool when for the 1st time since the advent of democracy we received 53 percent in local government elections we had to urgently respond and the wrist the downward slide as it became crystal clear that there was a discontent with the people the a.n.c. views this returned to office as a 2nd chance and says the confidence of voters is returning but at 66 percent this election had the lowest voter turnout in south africa's democratic history the number of voters has steadily fall and over the last 3 elections observers say growing apathy and disillusionment with politics may be to

and with the world at large the party always knew this would be a tough election in the past year a.n.c president jacob zuma resigned while fighting various corruption allegations and was replaced by solar on the force and the wind is important for a month or so who's leading a divided party the agencies criticized for its slow delivery of basic services and the poorly performing economy for many south africans their view of nelson mandela's rainbow party of liberation has dolled in 2016 the a.n.c. got to wake up cool when for the 1st time since the advent of democracy we received 53 percent in local government elections we had to urgently respond and the wrist the downward slide as it became crystal clear that there was a discontent with the people the a.n.c. views this returned to office as a 2nd chance and says the confidence of voters is returning but at 66 percent this election had the lowest voter turnout in south africa's democratic history the number of voters has steadily for the no over the last 3 elections observers say growing apathy and disillusionment with politics may be

are always does money make nowadays ok the a.n.c. run the company in seeing that there's. corruption how else could they have. to gain support for the party. what are we doing to use what we call them out for you meaning that. the happiness around them up was up because as you hit it in your. lips he was talking about that he knew. that he has been talking about since november twenty eighth during the african national congress conference here in johannesburg where he announced this new dog so apparently i associate you with a you know every invention of the agency and that is the message that you have yet if used to move away from their own would tie at nine years off last year is the quality in some of the god of jacob zuma in the sense that if you want to miss that he's the one that they have used to say we have a new president is going to fight corruption he's going to deal with the legacy of the past trust you give us on the edges of this now according to the early results the democrats. have not really taken advantage of the fallen support for the a.n.c. why is that y

one of the key reasons that the a.n.c. is vote share and the turnout was to create and series of corruption scandals of affected the ruling a.n.c. let's take a look around at the process that's going on here to see in this area alexandra since the early two thousand there's been protests against full public service delivery and similar protests have been seen in soundstage all over the country. here and got xandra those protests stepped up just in the last month or so before the election. several policemen every polling station that we've been to there's also been a police helicopter circling above but no sign of any andress today on voting day itself everywhere in the country so far has been calm and peaceful. as you mentioned just before the african national congress is expected to win this election that's what opinion polls suggest but with a smaller margin than it's. before because the democratic alliance is not a steadily increasing vote for about the last ten years as an economic freedom fighters which was founded si