despite rampant unemployment and out of control debts it looks like voters will return the incumbent a.n.c. policy and its presidents are all roma to office will still face the problems that have been fixed since the fall of apartheid. tightening belts during ramadan soaring prices in algeria i mean many families who will not be able to touch essential food as tradition demands. this is business africa. and berlin welcome south african president. is on course to retain power in the country's elections today he'll face the immediate challenge of fixing a floundering economy that is stoking public unrest while the country is the continent's most industrialized economy it is grappling with stagnating growth rampant corruption ballooning national debt of low investor confidence half way down the country's potential of the ruling a.n.c. it's been in power since the end of apartheid and is widely tipped to win again holding a more than fifty percent of the vote bottom employment is near thirty percent soaring fuel prices and a weak currency are adding to the problems. for the incumbent sarong opposed it

women too good a south africa that truly belongs to the poor little news south africa's governing a.n.c. policy wins the general election thought gets its lowest ever. cheryl vote. plus leading the charge an island in south korea where traditional cars are running out of road. people including 3 gunmen have been killed in an attack on a luxury hotel in pakistan that happened in the southwestern port city of guardia in the province of started a separatist group called the stan liberation army claimed responsibility for the attack on the pearl continental hotel has come up with the latest from islamabad. i have been. able to. get. according to. whatever. however. from the. hall where they were. all 4. were to have been trying. to. that investing tens of billions of dollars and of course. maximize the number of ever time. i had there were made. to see rebels. in their. other groups need to fulfill the yemeni government says it's just a ploy to see faces of pulling back from 3 major ports expected to continue over the next few days under u.n. supervision it includes an important gateway for humanit

black south africans is very slow so even though it's part of the eighty's policy that is a living it's a skeptical about the a.n.c. but that has been a big factor especially the young people who are finding themselves without work yet. now briefly before you see this election to be the last easy win for the a.n.c. so fast forward what is at stake if more support and this one. if you were talking about a party that's enjoyed a landslide victories at the elections in the last five ten of the last year the fact that it happened in this country and they've been comfortable wins with the african national congress the stakes are high what they see wants to do is maintain its two thirds majority that is sixty percent of the electorate and that is it raised at the moment they're just about sixty one percent as we speak and so crucial for the agency is to maintain that majority in parliament and that is in jeopardy and this is the most part we contested election for the agency. and enjoy your time there. is obscene young is the only female paralympic athlete she was the country's flag bearer at the london twenty twelve ga

a.n.c. is losing voters to the more populist land reform policies of the f 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 so what issues do matter most to south africans in this election did he is christine one who has been testing the mood. 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 early risers that you're seeing behind me a few people of course a photo 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 ten days i hear she's in the queue waiting to turn she's

continue to plague this government and also the opposition parties have to come up with policies that address this but the a.n.c. has put itself in a tough position considering what happened in the last few years because i feel that that introduction that we just did about the next election i thought that's the same introduction that we've been doing for the last few years every time we come up to a big election time every important really beautiful here the a.n.c. 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

at the same time there's different reactions to it in terms of what should be the policy implementation what of the a.n.c. and yes they may have greed in a very broad way a brown black expropriation without compensation ideologically they do differ in terms of implementation of that section twenty five of the constitution and of course the proposal that was adopted by the two houses of parliament to take a photo and terms of next going to war that that what you call the revision of the constitution but coming from a convey different interpretations of what happens in the south african context is that when you constantly see how much of the south african coffers the state money that has been utilized in the context of the kinds of issues that they're seeing emerge in the sunder commission around money that has been utilized in an unproductive way in terms of how it has advanced particular interest and economic interest and advance particular people in konami. wealth then of course becomes a critical issue i think this come around people are really frustrated because they come go to the polls they think ab

african national congress its 6th mandate in power but voters also gave the policy a reduced majority in parliament the a.n.c. has ruled south africa for more than 25 years.

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 say because he's only been in power for about a year but he has been coming out with very strong words when it comes to fighting corruption and it was the same also during the campaign time this time around he was really strongly saying that people who are corrupt will be spacing the consequences people who are corrupt will be seen in government offices anymore they will not g

to choose from but it really comes down to the three main policies in this election that will be the african national congress this is the a.n.c. the party that has led south africa in the twenty five years post democracy you have the economic freedom fighters arena you have a new player on the scene but has gained a lot of traction in the few years that they've been on the seabed you've got the democratic alliance and what is at stake in this election the two big parties being the a.n.c. and the da are expected to have snoozed votes and not even grow the only party that people are really confident about the fact that they will grow into course is the economic freedom fighters a lot is at stake particularly for the african national congress the a.n.c. the message is been wanting to send to villages that it's still relevant to south africa and to take south africa to the future twenty five he is into democracy. christine we're reporting from so as our own we'll have more on south africa's election and what it might mean for the country's aiming economy with the business day alex later. now let's take a look at some of the other

at the same time there's different reactions to it in terms of what should be the policy implementation what of the a.n.c. and yes they may have greed in a very broad way a brown black expropriation without compensation ideologically they do this in terms of implementation of that section twenty five of the constitution and of course the proposal that was adopted by the two houses of parliament to take afford in terms of next going to war that that what you call this revision of the constitution but coming from a convey different interpretations of what happens in the south african context is that when you constantly see how much of the south african coffers the state money that has been utilized in the context of the kinds of issues that they're seeing emerge in the sunder commission around money that has been utilized in an unproductive way in terms of how it has advanced particular interest and economic interest and advance particular people in konami. wealth then of course becomes a critical issue i think this come around people are really frustrated because they come go to the polls they think about

at the same time there's different reactions to it in terms of what should be the policy implementation what of the a.n.c. and yes they may have greed in a very broad way a brown black expropriation without compensation ideologically they do differ in terms of implementation of that section twenty five of the constitution and of course the proposal that was adopted by the two houses of parliament to take a forward in terms of next going to war that that what you call the revision of the constitution but coming from a convey different interpretations of what happens in the south african context is that when you constantly see how much of the south african coffers the state money that has been utilized in the context of the kinds of issues that they're seeing emerge in the sunder commission around money that has been utilized in an unproductive way in terms of how it has advanced particular interest and economic interest and advance particular people in konami. well then of course it becomes a critical issue i think this come around people are really frustrated because they come go to the polls they think

ever democratic general election the african national congress the policy of nelson mandela has won every one of those elections the a.n.c. has led the country since the end of apostacy and white minority rule in ninety ninety four but is malcolm with reports also west so in johannesburg its popularity is declining. i. went in five years after south africa became a democracy these people are tired of having no jobs no land and poor housing these kinds of protests happen every week and more say with an election coming this one last month in a township in johannesburg. has lived in a shack for thirteen years politicians have always promised better housing but she says they don't even organize trash collections. we don't have enough space we need someone i'm not going to avoid up until they took us to have saved a place. not the same for everyone south africa's the most any country in the world since apartheid most white people remain relatively wealthy economically things improved to some black people. but not in the shanty towns each one of these toilets is shared by dozens of families they smell bad their only. about onc

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 hardly 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. through a force us 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 he 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 at all position parties in south africa what role of they now like a to play well the biggest opposition party the democratic alliance did not manage to get more v

continue to plague this government and also the opposition parties have to come up with policies that address this but the a.n.c. has put itself in a tough position considering what happened in the last few years because i feel that that introduction that we just did about the next election i thought that's the same introduction that we've been doing for the last few years every time we come up to a big reaction time every important really peaceful here the a.n.c. on twitter the a.n.c. is now a shadow of itself they have lost contact with the electorate but parties like 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 mcs 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

continue to plague this government and also the opposition parties have to come up with policies that address this but the a.n.c has put itself in a tough position considering what happened in the last few years because i feel that that introduction that we just did about the next election i thought that's the same introduction that we've been doing for the last few years every time we come up to a big reaction time every important really beautiful here the a.n.c. 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 mcs 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 o

africans choose from but it really comes down to the three main policies in this election that will be the african national congress this is the a.n.c. the party that has led south africa in the twenty five years post democracy you have the economic freedom fighters agreement you have a new player on the scene but has gained a lot of traction in the few years that they've been on the seabed you've got the democratic alliance and what is at stake in this election the two big parties being the agency and the da are expected to have snoozed votes and not even grow the only party that people are really confident about the fact that they will grow in support is the economic freedom fighters a lot is at stake particularly for the african national congress the a.n.c. the message it's been brought into. and to feel it is that it's still relevant to south africa and to take south africa to the future twenty five he is into democracy. all right and christine joins me from johannesburg she's moved from so whether johannesburg good evening to you christine you were in so weather as we saw there earlier today and we know that's what is considere

conference day and see a jump to the same policy which is taking that land without compensation people that it's been slow to the neck back so the feeling is that while the a.n.c. since the mrs if that's what they do that's not what it's really going to do they seize been in government twenty five years now the rate at which it's taking it's giving back the land to black south africans is very slow so even though it's part of aids he's going to see a lot of south africans are skeptical about that and see that that has been a big factor in specially the young people who are finding themselves without work here. briefly before you see this election to be the last easy win for the a.n.c. so fast forward what is a stake if more support in this one. if you were talking about a party that's enjoyed the landslide victories at the elections in the last five ten of the last year the fact that it happened in this country and they've been comfortable wins for the african national congress the stakes are high what they see once again is maintained its two thirds majority that is sixty percent of the electorate and that is interest at the moment do just about sixty one per

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policy. polls have closed in south africa where the ruling a.n.c. is expected to win another majority in the national assembly if it does its leader cyril ramaphosa will remain president but opposition parties are expected to make some gains in the four hundred member of parliament they accuse the a.n.c. of failing to grow the economy or provide jobs u.s. president on trump has used executive privilege to keep the democrats from accessing the full report into russian meddling during the two thousand and sixteen election meanwhile the house judiciary committee is expected to vote on whether it will hold the attorney general william barr in contempt over that report released the censored version of special counsel robert miller's investigation last month his refusal to submit the edited version to accusations that he was lying to congress about who will lose concerns. a pakistani christian woman who spent eighteen years on death row during a blasphemy case has left the country bibi's lawyer says she's now in canada six months ago she was acquitted by

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a.n.c. that these massive reformation and the sense they selling is that. is your man the far left e.f.-s. party is predicted to get iran and i think leaders policy around fourteen percent of the vote now that would be double what i received in twenty fourteen are we seeing ashraf a shift in south africa do you see for instance any parlors to what's happening in europe. well i didn't hear that the latter part but i got the point about the shift ok the the economic freedom fighters there's been a massive success story in the last five years five years old six percent in their first election they expected to get nothing less than ten percent and perhaps as much as fifteen percent in this election either way they they are clearly positioned to be a kingmaker if the a.n.c. triples in any way so or other troops in any way so kingmaker is where they want to be the stance has been effectively to try and fight the economic struggle that the a.n.c. did not fight all these years having given all of us freedom the a.n.c. 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

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