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cross-talk the mali crisis i'm joined by brooke spector in johannesburg he's an associate editor of the daily maverick and a retired american diplomat in london we have i have johnson he is a director at viewpoint africa and an award winning journalist and in geneva we cross to alexander both arrive there he is a professor and director of the international relations department at webster university all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want. i'm going to you first i mean madam secretary clinton is in algeria trying to drum up support for an intervention into mali. is in the africa these africans do it on their own are they really need western help and i'll talk about american drones later go ahead. yeah clearly ms clinton going to. express this as a concerned concern for the world that the rebels who have now been supported by al qaeda in many different capacities are taking a stronghold in that country and it's not to say that the africans cannot do it on their own well clearly with their limitations echo us which clearly has to take a str

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some 800 kilometers from johannesburg is the birthplace of nelson mandela, and it's the home of where there's little economic activity here, so thousands of men leave their families behind many sech of work in the gold and platinum mines near johannesburg. after years of service, they come home to retire feeling weak like this 64-year-old who contracted silicosis after a lifetime of inhaling mine dust as a drill operator. >> translator: i have spent months with an aching chest. i have never worked any place else. mining is all that i have ever known. >> reporter: travel willing back and forth is costly by many, so they save every month returning to their loved ones once a year for christmas. near the mines and far from home they start a new life and new families accumulating additional responsibilities in the process. a lot has changed in south africa since democracy in 1994, but this pattern of a miner's life has remained the same for more than a century. during apartheid the movement of black people is restricted. today miners are free to settle wherever they want, but ip unaffordab

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. >> robin joins us from johannesburg, south africa. excellent piece when you look at this.e u.s. as africa's largest trading partner three years ago. president obama received criticism from some africans, in particularly, kenyans, who had a lot of hope at least because of obama's father being born in kenya, there would be opportunities, greater opportunities for trade. why do you think we haven't seen that? >> just to put it into perspective, president obama spent less than 24 hours in africa during his entire first term. so africans do indeed feel slightly shortchanged. but this massive chinese presence in africa, to be fair, started way before president obama took office, 10, 15 years ago. the chinese started moving into africa. and of course their focus was africa's raw materials, its commodities which helped fuel chinese growth. in a sense, did -- is america now having to play catch up because many governments, 10, 15 years ago looked at africa as a basket case a place that needed conflict. chinese came here and looked at it as an opportunity. the americans and many oth