stay in their arguments in terms of why they think jacob zuma should not be standing trial one of the reasons is that these charges brought us late in 2007 when jacob zuma was at defeating president those charges but then with florida later on and again reinstated in the 27th seed these lawyers are arguing that because there's been a long time he doesn't a lot of time this process of charges was just laid the trial should. been hurt then when a specific a.j. consume us financial advisors should be ashamed was found to have been corrupt and guilty of corruption in the scenes with jacob zuma when payments were made to the deputy president at the time and these are the this is where these charges stem from one of the other things jacob zuma as the as the saying is that these charges are politically motivated you have a link to tie me to al ground the charges being laid at the bus charges related to when jacob zuma was ascending to the leadership of the african national congress in that year 1000 and 9 * robber who was then named president of the african national congress the charges rela

shirts but they're also yet to support jacob zuma saying hands of jacob zuma odd jacob zuma so this is an issue that really comes between the jacob zuma as a former president but also it doesn't separates him from being a member of the ruling party and the one that has previously supported him but also won with the upgrade the visions based around these allocations and what happened following various allegations of corruption which a consumerist side and was replaced by see from up close up with the party that way some people are standing behind the president and i the others want to see him have nothing to do with the a.n.c. now the african national congress ahead of the recent elections came out strongly against corruption but they haven't been any high level officials to be in charge related to the most recent avocations so this really is about how the a.n.c. is going to come out and the stunts it takes relates it to corruption the stance it takes what they've got to jacob zuma and who we may see a in quotes wanting to support the president a window not the a.n.c. distances himself

jacob zuma continues to be a member of the a.n.c. he also campaigned to pull the african national congress just ahead of the recently housing election he is the one of the faces of the a.n.c. but the party is that difficulty in terms of distancing itself and also having this from stance with regard to fighting corruption especially given the fact that jacob zuma and his presidency appears to be at the heart of these corruption scandals now we are.

have wanted to create a distance between themselves and jacob zuma with his significant support for jacob zuma from within the party and he does have some influence there he also campaigned for the a.n.c. appearing in the recent elections so this again is one of those issues the coolest thing on the result was a lot of division and factions of fractures within the a.n.c. and i think for many south africans they'd be watching to see what exactly and see says who appears increment in support of jacob zuma which could give him a greater insight into the agency's stance and just what role jacob zuma and his corruption charges. are if not in the live press thank you for media. ukraine's new president says his 1st task in office is reaching a ceasefire in the east with russia separatists comedian turned politician politician vladimir's alinsky was sworn in just a little while ago it incumbent petro poroshenko in a runoff last month with 73 percent of the vote and an address to parliament he said die. with russia could only happen after the paternity cranium territory and prisoners of war. is a

jacob zuma is most challenging days as president involved protests like these demanding his resignation it's 15 months and zuma succumbed to following months of public dissatisfaction and pressure from within his own party the african national congress at the heart of his fall from grace where hundreds of corruption allegations zuma was charged specifically in a corruption case going back more than a decade. rosina was deputy president a french arms company tallis $180000000.00 government contract to build 4 frigates africa's navy state prosecutors say tallis agreed to pay zuma half a $1000000.00 rand at around 34000 dollars the deal for his political protection was allegedly brokered by his former financial advisor should be a shake. he was jailed in 2006 for 15 years but was released 2 years later on medical parole the difficulty for the national prosecuting authority is that when they charge should be a shake with corrupting jacob zuma they chose not to charge jacob zuma the former head of the n.p.a. said this was because while they had a prima fucking case or they had a level of evi

jacob zuma is most challenging days as president involved protests like these demanding his resignation it's 15 months and zuma succumbed following months of public dissatisfaction and pressure from within his own party the african national congress at the heart of his fall from grace when hundreds of corruption allegations zuma was charged specifically in a corruption case going back more than a decade. was you know was deputy president the french arms company tallis $180000000.00 government contract to build 4 frigates africa's navy state prosecutors say tallis agreed to pay summa half a $1000000.00 rand that's around 54 $1000.00 a deal for his political protection was allegedly brokered by his former financial advisor should be a shake. he was jailed in 2006 for 15 years but was released 2 years later on medical parole the difficulty for the national prosecuting authority is that when they charge should be a shake with corrupting jacob zuma they chose not to charge jacob zuma the former head of the n.p.a. said this was because while they had a claim of fighting case so they had a lev

is arguing that he didn't start stand trial this is for a number of reasons one of them is that jacob zuma was charged to mold in a take it a go and even though those charges were thrown and then reinstated his lawyers arguing that given the amount of time that's cost the trial should have happened at that time and should proceed now oh his lawyers also claim that the charges against jacob zuma are politically driven and they also say that he has been spied on illegally by the government now these are the arguments his lawyers will use in the coming days as they try to convince the court the jacob zuma shouldn't stand trial people outside certainly believe the former president they say he's innocent they say he's here to support him as long as he meets if they're here until the end however the prosecutors in this case it jacob zuma has been responsible holt's in laying the case it's taken this long because of some of the tactics he was employed those but spokesman that he's managed to get and they believe that jacob zuma assumer rather should be held accountable for what so that frequency

consequences for american businesses especially on the profit lines of south africa's former president jacob zuma has appeared in court hoping that judges will throw out corruption charges against him zuma is accused of food money laundering and reckon tearing some of those charges relate to a controversial expose when he was the deputy president prosecutors say he received money to cover up an eagle purchases of combat equipment for the south african navy i mean it was outside the court in pietermaritzburg. jacob zuma supporters have been waiting patiently won't take to hear from the former president he's expected to address the people here only time from now on and that's off to a court proceeding say pietermaritzburg wrap up on the 1st day of arguments where zuma story is arguing that she didn't stand trial this is for a number of reasons one of them is that jacob zuma was charged more than a ticket ago and even though those charges were true and then reinstated his lawyers arguing that given the amount of time that's poz. the trial shouldn't happen at that time and should proceed now he's goi

south africa's former president jacob zuma is back in court for a 2nd day hoping that judges will dismiss the corruption charges against him music used of fraud money laundering and racketeering some of the charges related to an arms deal his lawyers are calling the case politically motivated mob justice for me to miller is the high court in peter maritzburg force of the media what what are we getting on the 2nd day then. poll has him at this point we're hearing more arguments from these french arms company is that is saying that they will also incorrectly charged with corruption this hearing goes alongside that of the former president jacob zuma to determine whether or not they should to stand trial for corruption in this case both toddlers and jacob zuma arguing that these corruption charges should be permanently dropped no tallis is saying that there were procedural errors that it shouldn't be heard a alongside jacob zuma these are 2 separate cases but we've also heard from the court that they can't be separated or it shouldn't appear that way because one is allegedly the company who p

jacob zuma is most challenging days as president involved protests like these demanding his resignation it's 15 months and zuma succumbed to following months of public dissatisfaction and pressure from within his own party the african national congress at the heart of his fall from grace one hundred's of corruption allegations zuma was charged specifically in a corruption case going back more than a decade. he was you know was deputy president the french arms company tireless $180000000.00 government contract to build 4 frigates for stop africa's navy state prosecutors say tellus agreed to pay zuma half a $1000000.00 rand that's around $34000.00 a deal for his political protection was allegedly brokered by his former financial advisor should be a shake. he was jailed in 2006 for 15 years but was released 2 years later on medical parole the difficulty for the national prosecuting authority is that when they charge should be a shake with corrupting jacob zuma they chose not to charge jacob zuma the former head of the n.p.a. said this was because while they had a prima fucking case or they

he and jacob zuma we know he's a very charismatic leader he appeals to he appeals to the people on a very very sort of real and vibrant level julius malema and jacob zuma would very very close at one stage julius malema even said that he'll take a bullet for jacob zuma now of course they say they almost mortal enemies but that was his style of politics to do that and if you recall but of course jacob zuma came up with this whole concept the marketing concept actually of white monopoly capital such a consumer likes to divide the country into into racial groups julius malema has learned to the same thing and he is following that style of. leadership he's very very clear as to who he's appealing to and he's very very clear about his message he's also very populist and i sometimes get the sense that he's saying whatever. will make headlines he's very active on social media if you look at the social media stats the if and under julius malema is there all the time they're one of the highest spoken about parties but but but still sitting at a fairly low percentage that said they have g

jacob zuma is most challenging days as president involved protests like these demanding his resignation it's 15 months and zuma succumbed following months of public dissatisfaction and pressure from within his own party the african national congress at the heart of his fall from grace one hundred's of corruption allegations zuma was charged specifically in a corruption case going back more than a decade. was you know was deputy president the french arms company tallis $180000000.00 government contract to build 4 frigates africa's navy state prosecutors say tallis agreed to pay summa half a $1000000.00 rand that's around 54 $1000.00 a deal for his political protection was allegedly brokered by his former financial advisor should be a shake. he was jailed in 2006 for 15 years but was released 2 years later on medical parole the difficulty for the national prosecuting authority is that when they charge should be a shake with corrupting jacob zuma they chose not to charge jacob zuma the former head of the n.p.a. . said this was because while they had a prima fucking case or they had a level

jacob zuma continues to be a member of the a.n.c. he also campaigned to pull the african national congress just ahead of the recently how the election he is the one of the faces of the a.n.c. but the party is that difficulty in terms of distancing itself and also having this firm stance with regard to fighting corruption especially given the fact that jacob zuma and his presidency appears to be at the heart of these corruption scandals now we are expecting jacob zuma to address his supporters here outside the courts any time from now and many of the people here are wearing a and c. t. shirts they wearing a n c colors they don't separate to take up zuma from the a.n.c. and they say this is the party that should hold their home and leaders in high regard should protect roma leaders like jacob zuma for me to go live for us there thank you. so had on al-jazeera ukrainian comedian turned president makes serious moves immediately after being sworn into office. and the central tradition in pakistan that's helping poor women make money. and

after the return of ukrainian territory and prisoners of war so that africa's former president jacob zuma is in cold hoping that judges will throw out corruption charges against him zuma was accused of fraud money laundering and of racketeering some of those charges relate to a controversial deal while he was deputy president prosecutors say he was paid to cover up illegal purchases of combat gear for the south african navy. today with headlines. more news coming right up after talk to outta here. on counting the cost as the u.s. ratchets up the pressure on iran we look at the strait of hormuz the most valuable waterway in the world tourism industry takes a hit after these the sunday attacks and flying cars as the future just a rough. cost. to the. city. just months after a journalist was killed in the saudi consulate in istanbul another arab dissident says his life he's also in danger. baghdad he is a pro-democracy activist and strong critic of saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin. the u.k.'s guardian newspaper reported that norwegian officials took him from his home in 00 to a secur

for many that's what i'm opposed to stands for how he replaced former president jacob zuma who was forced out last year of a corruption scandals. corruption got into the way the true nature got into the way and not focusing on the needs of our people got into the way. as the country struggles with corruption crime poverty economic stagnation and an official unemployment rate at twenty seven percent people's wishes a down to the essentials zero would be a drop you know for the people that are employed. i hope they did something up to the next. stage who probably don't have jobs those kind of things so i'm hoping that they get it that it is jobs stop corruption which is the main benefit 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. for more on this i'm joined by a professor. he's chair of the department of political sciences at the university of south africa in for terry a professor of opinion thank you very much for your time now as the results come in it's clear that the a.n.c. has lost even

happened at that time and should proceed now oh his lawyers also claim that the charges against jacob zuma are politically kilbane and they also say that he is being spied on illegally by the government now these are the arguments his lawyers will use in the coming days as they try to convince the court the jacob zuma shouldn't stand trial people outside certainly believe the former president they say he's innocent they say he's here to support him as long as he meets if they're here until the end however the prosecutors in this case it jacob zuma has been responsible for the naming the case it's taken this long because of some of the tactics he was employed those posts moments that he's managed to get and they believe that jacob zuma assumer rather should be held accountable for what's about frequency of cooling the arms deal in that jacob zuma received payments from a french ohms manufacturer tolley's to use political protection when they were supposed to provide a provide frigates to the south african navy major redundancies about announced a ford the u.s. comic has cutting $7000.00 off

still ahead on al-jazeera day 2 and court and former south african president jacob zuma says he's the victim of a mob justice. look at what a multi-billion dollar i.m.f. deal could mean for daily life in pakistan. we have flooding concerns for parts of japan at the moment some really heavy rain coming in across the country that a 200 share we had a 165 millimeters of rain 24 as this shop cold front is making its way further east was brighter skies coming behind fresher drier weather but we do still have those flooding concerns into that eastern side of honshu over the next 24 hours or so pushing up into her car by wednesday it should be settled and sunny said 24 celsius for tokyo back to you across the korean peninsula getting up into the mid to high twenty's here as well but hot one here 36 celsius on wednesday hotter still for thursday could touch the 40 degree mark that warm sunshine stretches back across the korean peninsula into much of japan had at this time so we can get as we make our way through the latter part of this week not say about so into central parts of china doubts

of jacob zuma of and so on and the jacob zuma group of the a.n.c. one parity they want equal division of power you know they want their people in cap unearths now this really is going to be the test of strength and says here those are nice to see itself and also give it legitimacy in the eyes of those who voted for the a.n.c. albury the votes fell to a post apartheid low low now you know sort of oppose our faces the challenge does you want to unite and see and divide the country or that you want to divide your night and divide the agency and there really is and in needs to unite the country to get the confidence to put us confidence. to get the energy back again confidence in government if you want to unite in a and c. itself you know that it means you will have to bring in some of those people from the zuma account in order to you know to dream up to bring the 2 wings of the party together but that really will bring down confidence ok about it we thank you very much for speaking to us from johannesburg. time for a check on the weather with stuff th

there was of the spode and delays and according to the former president jacob zuma that stooge of the prosecutors in the case and the prosecutors of course say otherwise that this isn't the 1st time that jacob zuma and his legal team of applied for a stay of prosecution essentially having these charges thrown out they did the same back in 2005 and at that point when successful so this is the 2nd attempt jacob zuma has said for a long time that he does want his day in court he says that he's not guilty of any sort of corruption or wrongdoing their crimes and our president says his 1st task in office is reaching a ceasefire in the east with pro russia separatists comedian turned politician waldemar zelinsky has been sworn in incumbent petro poroshenko in a runoff last month and it's a trust of parliament he said dialogue with russia could only happen after the return of the cranium territory and prisoners of war at least 10 civilians have been killed during a government bombardment in the northwestern syrian province of opposition activists say shelling and airstrikes have continued eve

for south africa's former president jacob zuma is back in court for a 2nd day hoping judges will slow out corruption charges against him zuma is accused of fraud money laundering and racketeering some of those charges go back to a controversial arms deal exposed while he was deputy president his lawyers call the case politically motivated mob justice for media miller is at the high court in pietermaritzburg suffer me to what are we expecting today that. well so far as a we've heard from the french military arms company tal is and this is the company that's alleged to have bribed jacob zuma more than a decade ago relating to the supply. frigates to south africa we understand that part of these allegations have to do with a payment that amounts to a few $1000000.00 rand and both tallis and jacob zuma have. said that this isn't the case and have denied any wrongdoing say there's been no corrupt relationship but also tell is is wanting to separate its case from jacob zuma as as you mentioned there is a lot of controversy around the case of jacob zuma and that he maintains that this is mob

to undo the damage wrought by his predecessor jacob zuma who presided over in years of the cohen. apart from rooting out cruft reviving the stagnant economy will be the president's main challenge if you unemployment at 50 percent there is much at stake. the election has given ramaphosa a mandate for reform but experts fail position from within its own party many of his loyalists remain in high positions but if the party refuses to change its fortunes will continue to fade. for more on this adrian joins me now from cape town. the a.n.c. wins a healthy majority but it's also its worst when ever the 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 of 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 down which trend ever since the elections 2004 the a.n.c. kept on losing voters how do we explain the downward trend was causing voters to turn away well the a.n.c. did not manage to fulfil all the promises that the party made in the

as you can see the table behind me now since then it's steadily jacob zuma the question. whether the a.n.c. led by several. kind of reverse the downward trend. that's what one supporter who takes stock of the last twenty five yes. now cemented a bridge in johannesburg. in c.e. lection ben is crowd the overpass symbolic of the party's dominant support base in this region. because there is an a.n.c. supporter who are outside the clinic it's a way to wish you voted in the one thousand nine hundred four election she still has vivid memories of that day 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 all wanted to be seen in the cameras to. make a mark to say that we are doing it in the five years that would follow it would be the a.n.c. led by nelson mandela ruling a democratic south africa. outside his hold in so we're told now it to receive traction. because of 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

former south african president jacob zuma was seen dancing in front of supporters. just hours after appearing in court over corruption charges. the seventy seven year old faces sixteen counts of fraud racketeering and money laundering relating to a multimillion dollar arms deal. on the first day of the hearing on monday zuma's lawyers said their client was a victim of a witch hunt. i called in the mall justice. it's it's driven and inspired by something all of us in this room have. to reading degrees. it's by it's zuma is accused of taking bribes from french defense company day less when the south african government bond weapons in the nineteen nineties. he allegedly pocketed around two hundred and eighty thousand dollars. the chargers were first brought again zoom out more than ten years ago before being dropped by prosecutors in. two thousand nine they were reinstated again in. two thousand sixteen after a court ruled there was sufficient evidence to bring him to trial. jacob zuma is no stranger to scandal and controversy that same year the country's highest court

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 you door is a poor us and the wonderful door pairs of eyes thank you. as a young anti apartheid activist and trade union leader from opposer was a nelson mandela protege who led the talks to and white minority rule in south africa. but when he was passed over as mandela a successor to president he turned his back on politics focused instead on business becoming one of the country's wealthiest men. later it was the backing of the business lobby and his boardroom experience that would help give him another edge over other contenders to replace jacob zuma. but scenes like this showed 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 run

performance in the past year or so since he deposed president jacob zuma came to many are nobody actually predicted he would be able to do so it's been slow incremental change and while ms miller is correct in saying that there hasn't been enough change for you to do tangibly feel a change in the world's most unequal society you can't discount the small fundamentals that have been put in place and i'm specifically talking about the national prosecuting authority this is a new attorney general in joy and these two deputies that were accused of all sorts of malfeasance and corruption and oncology brain learns quickly that have now been fired as a result of one of these commissions of inquiry. we see about three or four of them going on concurrently at this point in time in south africa all right so let's hear some some voices a sense i think that it is a reaction. this is just far less free at south africa talking about what they want from the election and what they're hoping for what they're voting for have a listen. we see corruption being investigated but no one is being arrested if it w

maybe the whole point of getting into office before jacob zuma even ended was to really reignite voters all supporters of the party who had now thought twice and thought about defecting and not voting for the party the whole idea was to send the message that the party is changing course that it's back on the right direction that new leadership is coming in refreshing leadership that up also has a very good record and the idea was that it would reignite supporters who were no longer interested in supporting the a.n.c. and in fact in ways he's case it appears to have worked you told me offline that had come up with the not secure the a.n.c. presidency she would not have voted for the a.n.c. today so it seems to have worked for a lot of people in fact there's a term that was going around in south africa for you to basically try and capture what was his presidency did but of course only the poll results come when stays election would really be telling as to how much that room before he has a real face in terms of translating into support bring back into this party. like you rightly said the

presidency have been headed by jacob zuma a lot of corruption allegations have emerged and a lot has been taken out of the country's cough is by way of corruption they are commissions of inquiry right now and revelations coming out to the extent of that corruption so yes needed to go out there and convince young people that the party's taking a new direction and that was the whole point of him being in office now getting about about a year before he before the election really to prove to south africans that he wants to keep house and it's a difficult thing that he has to do it's also has to do with if you look at his cabinet compositions and whether or not he was going to get rid of certain corrupt officials some of those people didn't go from his government and people really convinced by that but the the really telling result will be how they see phase of this poll this is largely a referendum on him and whether or not those supporters of aid see who have left the party because of these things will come back because he is on him but because he is the president of the party and how m

which is ironic because the leadership actually came out of jacob zuma's having last decade.es of when jacob zuma anc has struggled to face the realities of whenjacob zuma and his footy were in power. the eff has been very strident in its opposition. they are able to do so, unlike the da, which is still largely white and associated with the old parties of apartheid. there able to levy those critiques and by their constituency response to that. —— they are able. land is part of it, but i think there are other issues that are more pressing and that people in south africa vote on. very interesting to talk to you. thank you very much. syrian government forces are attacking the provinces of idlib, northern hama, and western aleppo —the rebels' last remaining strongholds. a takeover of some areas by extreme islamist fighters has led to the collapse of a recent ceasefire, as our middle east correspondent quentin sommerville reports. with barrel bombs and air strikes, bashar al—assad is clawing at the edges of syria's last rebel province. this most indiscriminate of weapons has kille

elections can be seen as a ramaphosar anc and who replaced jacob zuma.he latest p poll suggested d ty would get between 55%-60% at national level. it is relative. report, the in the new president will have to face major challenges such as sluggish economy, education reform,equiring major problems of high unemployment. so you have major challenges and those he will have to face in a difficult contest, with a vocal anc mired in corruption. the economic freedom fighters are expected to reach 10% of the national vote. --the context of this trust distrust, a recent poll suggests 40% of south africans do not believe in any political science. level, the provincial which is even more complex, the wealthiest provinces will probably not remain in common with control of the anc. they will remain in the hands of the democratic alliance. the situation is difficult for anc, who n needs to prove e it n do it right after 25 years in power. >> you touched on lots of issues. a couple of them. notably, the president has been in office for 15 months. more specifically on hi

interesting for many south africans that while they are a number of former south african president jacob zuma the most recent former president appears to have chosen not to attend we do know that the relationship between zuma and president elect loom up or so has been quite tense and i think many would view this as a snub but we expect proceedings to continue for the next hour or 2 and by 1 o'clock local time i would have taken that oath of office following he is posed election by parliamentarians earlier this week. and certainly we're after the celebrations the real work begins who is ahead for president rather a poser. well we're more positive said that he's very much working towards rebuilding a unified south africa and that's especially the case after the design divisive nature of jacob zuma as a presidency. says this is about an inclusive south africa and repairing some of the damage and many times referring to assume us presidency as well as 9 wasted years and even looking at the inauguration itself it's moved away from the union buildings where it's traditionally taken place and is hap

to jacob zuma. all right a i usually ishmael will be a following those results as they come in for a sec. are fronts for for love to see if they reach 60% -- bar that said the anc are. hoping to gas as the election results con continueue to come . no to saddam -- whwhere protest and opposition leadeders called for campaign of civil disobedience on wednesday protesters have been appealing for swift transition to civilian rule after the ouster of omar al bashir? what with the transitional military councncil s so far faig to satisfy at those demands of protesters the presence of protesters were camping action central khartoum on wednesday evening? earlier we spoke to france reforms nadia massey who is in the sudanese capital she gave us to the test. and hi to him outside the ministry had. gone down ramadan. this place is robbing with the energy thousands of people the one to tell the ministry generals just over that. it's time for you to see authority to the demonstrations in the it's it has gone on no

pretoria run across or is due to serve a full term as president he took office last year after jacob zuma resigned amid corruption allegations the african national congress who won the general election earlier this month but it was the party's worst performance in 25 years. from pretoria to talk us through today's proceedings. from a person has began the 1st address he's making to south africans as president of south africa in the 1st full term following elections and he's begun that address by thanking south africans for what he said is the trust that's been stowed on him but he's also 1 made a reference to the last few years of governance in south africa especially 25 years into the democracy and the freedom that south africans have enjoyed he says that while south africans have made massive strides in that time it's also been a time where they've been a number of challenges and this is where he referred to the arrow where jacob zuma was president now it's difficult to look up for certain what he's calling a new dollar without looking back at the last few years which the president has d

jacob zuma would you agree with that characterization would you think the a.n.c. still has structural problems from welby fall. and to the extent that the n.c. . sort of inherited a massive job that there is i don't know any political organization or political party in the world today that would have probably found the job that the n.c. inherited in south africa in two thousand in one thousand nine hundred four that is it unless they're prepared to be as radical. radical political parties and organizations could be but of course the n.c. opted to take in moderate line that say it really to their credit then c. has been large down the best of what they could in terms of force i think i think the jury is rather out i think he's going to win these elections what's going to happen in the next four years will probably determine whether or not this is a new n.c. or not and the reason is that actually unfortunately jacob zuma when he was elected to replace a tumble becky the vast majority of the members of the n.c. and ordinary africans in south africa thought he was pro

he points out jacob zuma had nine wasted years. rem opposer was amaphosa was- rom oppos not around? goolam: the deputy president can .rgue he was impotent the power vested in the president jacob zuma as well as the former president. especially the criminal justice system, it all meant he had an astonishing amount of absolute power that left of the former ramaphosasident impotent to affect change. the amc and of both state, the authority he is able to wield to reform his agenda has already been shown over the last year. voters going to reward him for the job he has done thus far? do they think he has done well or will it be difficult to convince them to give him the time he wants? goolam: already president ramaphosa has been able to affect significant change, especially with regard to leadership positions at a variety of government institutions. that he isprising quite towering in terms of poses. he towers relative to former president jacob zuma and to opposition leaders. and also the economic freedom fighters. president the former

the vote is the first test of public sentiment since the president replace the scandal hit jacob zuma last year.. our reporter covering the election joins us from johannesburg. there's a lot to talk about here. the anc apparently is going to retain power, but at the r riskf its worst perfoformance in 25 years. what are the reactions today? krisis: that's right, brent. we heard a senior official today talking about the fact that they are quite happy with the decision they made in 20. they say that if that -- if that had not happened, they could potentially be looking at worst. whatever the outcome would be, the anc obviously hoping for more said it potentially could have been worse. friend: we know there have then complaints about how this look was carried out. -- brent: we know there have been complaints about how this vote was carried out. hahas there been a f free and fr election? >> the indndependent electctoral commission h has taken pains to ensure s south a africans t thas has bebeen a free d fafair election. there have beeeen isolateded incidents including thingsgs lie electora

the fact that, although he has said he would deal with corruption, in practice that is not true. jacob zumaled by the partyjust to campaign on the anc after he was recalled by the party just shows that commitment is not true. we have a country full of young people, how engaged are they in politics?|j think they are very engaged. there is movement from students and they are very engaged. within universities, they have a very robust student representative council ‘s which are usually politically affiliated. however, that does not translate as well in terms of the youth turnout in elections. unfortunately, by looking at the registration numbers, it looks like there was a low turnout of young people, people below the age of 35. if you like, political parties have to do more in terms of enticing younger people to turn up to vote and engaging with them more. thank you very much. here's our briefing on some of the key events happening later. the parent group of airlines including british airways, iberia and aer lingus returns its first quarter results — investors in iag will be hoping for more of