cape town, south africa, al jazeera. >> the prestigious metropolitan my seem of art has he can priced new technology to try and draw people in. >> even the building that houses the most extensive collection of art is a work of art. it won the believe of the year award in 2013. inside the innovation continues, which is why the art gallery has been invited to new york. >> representatives from 15 facilities have been invited to the metropolitan museum of art so-called global leaders cloak wee um. it's a think tank aimed at keeping galleries relevant and connected to the public, in the digital age. >> 90% of our collection is on line very unusual for the museum but we have no digit allen be engagement when visitors come. i know they have got fabulous programs in this way. >> one goal is to offer visitors new ways to think about art. that's something its current exhibitor has always tried to do. >> on display at the gallery at the moment are the works are new zealand artist billy ethel who collaborated with andy warhol to pioneer the pop art movement. his latest passion is marrying art and

this is in cape town south africa the guy comes in crouched down there to take something that doesn't belong to him. crawls over to behind the register gets something but he doesn't have it very long before he's caught. >> if you sneak around try not to wear a bright white jacket. >> it seems like everybody in that guy's family decides to come out of the back and that guy gets slapped up the head kicked bumped and this goes on for several minutes. that guy is trying to escape. they're not letting him because they want to teach him a lesson. people outside the window standing there looking at what the heck is going on. >> look almost played it to the door. i almost feel sorry for this guy, almost. >> if you live by the sword, they die by the scored sword. they have to be careful. >> somebody driving into something they shouldn't. that right there, a stolen subaru wagon. this is a shopping center. they back into the jewelry store, through the security gate able to get out. they are able to get away with a lot of stuff. they just start packing and shoving into their bags. >> you're not e

erica wood, al jazerra cape town south africa. >>> chinese media says a former assets chief has gone of bribery and abuse of trial. he wassal also chairman of petrol china's state-owned parent company and the target of a swing crux investigation with several senior figures being detained. >>> parents in australia who refuse to vaccinate their children may lose benefits. the government so-called no jab fox, pay policy coulee them miss out on up to $12,000. >> this is essentially a knowledge jabno jabnew york jab no pay policy. it's very important measure to keep our children and our families as safe as possible. >>> a team of scientists in australia says it's developed a technique that could revolutionize solar power production. our correspond end andrew thomas reports from newcastle. >> reporter: it looks almost like an affect worship. but this is science. mirrored pams known as helio stats turn in unison towards a tower, they direct onto it a powerful glow, sunlight this. could revolutionize the way the sun creates electricity. it's the latest frontier for solar power. >> really the

south africa. we had the zulu king a couple days ago say that foreigners who are in south africa legally must be removed. genie: thanks for that from cape town. today marks the first anniversary of the sinking of the ferry in south korea. that disaster left 304 people dead, many of the victims were schoolchildren. speaking today, the president promised to raise the sunken ferry as soon as possible. a commitment made after weeks of demands from victims' families. park geun-hye: i express my sincere condolences to the thick thumbs -- the victims and the missing people. along with everyone in our country, i pray for the deceased. i think now is the time for us to be prepared for the ship's salvage. we'll make all necessary procedures properly. so that the ship can be raised as soon as possible. genie: four more, let's bring in andrew in seoul. one year since the ferry sank. so much controversy and anger surrounding what happened and the aftermath. tell us about that. andrew: there is enormous controversy. to give an example of how much angst there is among the victims or the families of the victims their work two memorial services today. one in

. >>> south africa's cape town university has removed a controversial statute. many say it was a symbol of white privilege. >>reporter: an unceremonious end to cecil rhodes in cape town after a vote on the removal. most of these students were born after the fall of apartheid. >> the university is trying to protect itself and its funding or are they really not interested in integrating and transforming and decolonizing. it's a conversation about decolonization. >>reporter: it provoked a counterdemonstration. elsewhere, other eaveffigy s have also been defaced. row after row of art work from afrikaans history have been removed from buildings that the curator is determined to protect. >> we have to try and cherish the diversity of our culture and i think it's going to take a while but i sincerely hope that they're not thinking that by demolishing or scrapping evidence of the statute. we are all the product of centuries of what they did and accomplished. >>reporter: the final destination for statue is now up to the south african government. sim bobzimbabwe zimbabwe'

neighbours of the americas for the first time represents more than a photo opportunity >>> south africa's cape town university bowed to opportunity pressure and removed a statue of a british colonialist. many say the mon oument was a symbol of white soup rem sis. sue turton reports. >> reporter: an unser mope call end to cecil rhodes, as his statue was removed from the university for safe keeping after weeks of protest led to a vote for its removal. most of the students were born after the fall of apartheid. to them this british colonialist represents a university system failing to decolonize or embrace african knowledge. >> is the university trying to protect itself or funding or is it not interested in integrating into the greater area of deolonizing, it's a conversation about decolonization. >> reporter: similar protests targeted the president kruger's statue and the war memorial in pretoria, with a counter aring exchanges at the av carnes museum. other effigies of british going george v and the prime minister lowy bova have been defaced. in the vaults of the heritage foundation in pretoria row

flying to cape town as she leaves she had 170 followers, and tweeted. going to south africat get aids just kidding, i'm white. by the time she lands, there's a hashtag, has justine landed. it's gone viral. she lost her job, her company fired her. and she landed into a storm. i remember thinking she's deserving what she gets. she was internet savvy, she had to know it's other misconstrued or fully understood. sounds racist. >> surely there's a world of a difference between misconstrued and fully understood. she didn't intend for the tweet to be racist. >> racist. >> i met her after it happened and her way to describe it was living in america, putting us in a bubble as to what is going on in the third world. i was making fun of that. there was a tradition in that. colbert does it randy newman, "south park" does it. the difference between justine saga and others is she wasn't good at it. not being couldn't shouldn't be enough to tear someone apart and ruin their reputation. >> you make reference to the fact that there was a time when people would make the jokes, and it would ne

. >>> a statue of one oft south africa's founding fathers has looked down on cape town for decades.he case anymore. the statue was brought down thursday after university students took to social media and rallied behind the hashtag, roads must fall. diana magnay has more of what's behind this fierce movement. >> reporter: hailed away from the spot where he sat for 80 years to cheers. capetown university students have been campaigning this. that rhodes should no longer sit in state over their campus. >> it's about racial equality. >> reporter: racial equality which student leaders say is no where near where it should be more than 20 years after apartheid ended. the campus reflects the south african population. this man wants it changed. >> all the statues must fall. this is our college. to the space has been transformed until to be black is not a liability. >> reporter: other stony faces now in the firing line, one of south africa's founding fathers. a few flecks of green paint left on the statue. there is a police presence here today to make sure that no one tries to do anything else

south africa won a symbolic victory. for weeks they demanded the university of cape town remove this statue of cecil rose. on thursday the school did. removed the statue, rose was a colonial era mining magnat. some saw it as a symbol of the country's ugly past. >> i'm all for it. i'm british. if i was a black south african, i'm walking past this every day %-p. looked down upon at my own university. i think it's a good thing to go down. >> i think if they can take it down and put someone who has a real history of this country because this is a bad history for our country. i think they must teach that this is bad. >> some critics say the statue should be protected as a symbol of the country's heritage. >>> what the newly released dash cam video reveals about the final moments of the victim's life. working on my feet all day gave me pain here. in my lower back but now, i step on this machine and get my number which matches my dr. scholl's custom fit orthotic inserts. now i get immediate relief from my foot pain. my lower back pain. find a machine at drscholls.com i am totally blind. and sometimes i struggle

. >>> caving to pressure and protests a university in south africa removed a statue of british colonialists. sue turton reports from cape town not everywhere is pleased with the move. sue turton reports. >> reporter: an unceremonial end to cecil rhodes, as his statue was removed from the university for safekeeping after weeks of protest led to a vote for its removal. most of the students were born after the fall of apartheid. to them this british colonialist represents a university system failing to decolonize or embrace african knowledge. >> is the university trying to protect itself or funding or is it not interested in integrating into the greater conflict of redressing and transforming redressing and transforming and decolonizing, it's a >>> cecil rhodes has been gazing out from here for a long time. historians say we should learn from the statues. >> reporter: similar protests targeted the president kruger's statue and the war memorial in pretoria, with a countering demonstration at the afrikaans museum. other effigies of british going george v and the prime minister boffa have been defaced. in the vaults of the heritag