thank you very much and i have to say, i'm the university of sorry i even though i'm based in johannesburg, i think the last visit and the whole ukraine issue has divided opinion in south africa. generally. i think it's also important to note that among the ruling african national, congress leads many of the educated and received military training in the soviet union at the time. and a lot of empathy for russia generally and the way at the time. but typically the us and britain on the reagan gotcha was supporting the regime against which the n c was fighting. so those dynamics are quite important to understand in south africa position. and i think, i don't think it's clear as a lead math divides because among many of the black l. e i talk to they may not necessarily support the russian aggression against ukraine box. they tend to be very critical of what they see as well. and the actions lightly us and iraq, which was done without un, all right. ation. so they said divide. it's not so straightforward. rusher a course doesn't that it wasn't even in an aggression compares it to, i don't know

also in johannesburg, jacob maroka, director of erin knight, energy, and former c. e o of s. com, and also with us from pretoria energy expert who's a molest, a thank you so much for being with us. and of course, we also want you to join the conversation, so be sure to share your thoughts and questions directly with us on youtube. so, i want to start by talking about who's being impacted. i mean, businesses are closing daily tasks. we hear like cooking or charging a phone in south africa, requiring planning and economists are warning of a recession. who say, how are you being impacted by this? ah, this impacts on everyone really including myself. as the energy, as you know, is an input, a critical input to the corner, me, whether it's hospitals with what i treatment works, that impacts on the water supply is the industrial use of individuals at home. i mean, i'm sitting yes some way in an office because my house has been no chair. did that impact for me that impacts my business. so it then impacts that is throughout the agriculture sector. heavily impacted in terms

we now from johannesburg in south africa. thank you so much, professor for joining us before we get to the book. i must ask when i should say a book about a un secretary general that wasn't assassinated. unlike dag hamish old famously, your view of olive. rob's visit to africa. i mean, in a donation media, i don't, i knew you were in nigeria at the time during the visit, but i mean all but condemning as an african count about melody pander. oh, for join russia? south africa perhaps shine a military drill, sir. i suppose as a class, divide in all the sorts of things elite in south africa, looking down at the government in south africa for doing anything with russia and a different story for the masses. well, thank you very much and i have to say i'm the universe. so ray, i, even though i'm based in johannesburg, i think the last visit and the whole ukraine issue has divided opinion in south africa. generally. i think it's also important to note that among the ruling africa, national congress leads many of them was educate that

today's conversation with a video sent to us from a small business owner in johannesburg. the rolling part black casa, and predictable, so you can even plan according to them. sometimes you only have 4 hours of electricity a day. and that means that we have to now get our people to work overtime. we have to bring in part time people to come in during the hours in re, to have power in yet you still have to pay a hefty amount every month for the $3.00 phase industrialist tricity supply. whether you use it or not, you have to increase security and transport costs to drive out people home if they have to work overnight. and now a fulfillment rate is at 50 percent. now, because we're not able to fulfill all of our orders on time, and that means we need a lot of money on the table. and that means we can have to take cost cutting measures, such as letting people go or cutting out production lines. joining us to discuss from johannesburg pa, camila, st. louis, missouri la spokesperson for the national union of metal workers of south africa. also in johannesburg, jacob maroka, dire

a dale koran who blew the lid off of a $47000000.00 corruption scandal at johannesburg hospital and was murdered for her revelations. r e d. nicholas is a well known south african whistleblower in his own right. he blew the whistle on police death squads that were using apartheid era interrogation methods on black suspects, including torture and extra judicial killings on people suspected of minor crimes like auto theft. ari was more fortunate than to be to was he and his wife escaped south africa with their lives. welcome back ari. this reminds me to tell you the truth, a little bit about your own case with the south african police and your own, your own whistle blowing. i can see a pattern can ding your case and beat as at the time that you and your wife were fleeing south africa, you said that your lives were in danger. the south african police mocked you and they urged you repeatedly to return. well beat also said that her life was in danger. the police pretended that everything was fine, and now she's dead. tell us about your own experience here. why were you so certain that you we

well, thank you very much and i have to say, i'm sorry, even though i'm based in johannesburg, i think the last visit and the whole ukraine issue has divided opinion in south africa. generally. i think it's also important to note that among the ruling african national congress leads, many of them was educated and received military training in the soviet union at the time. and a lot of sympathy for russia generally and the way at the time. but typically the us brits on the reagan gotcha was supporting the regime against which the n c was fighting. so those dynamics are quite important to understand in south africa position. and i think, i don't think it's clear as a lead that math divides because among many of the black l. e i talk to they may not necessarily support the russian aggression against ukraine box. they tend to be very critical of what they see as what them hypocrisy actions lightly. us them spacious and iraq, which was done without us. all right, nation. so they said divide. it's not so straightforward. russia was, doesn't says it wasn't even in an aggression compares it to

it was remodeled with the late tonight from johannesburg. christine, as always, thank you. art lovers and amsterdam are gearing up for one of the biggest ever exhibitions of works by the dutch master yon fare mer the world famous girl with a pearl earring will be on display along with many of the 17th century masters creations. $28.00 out of around $37.00 known works are on display at amsterdam rags museum. among them the milk made girl reading a letter and an open window and perhaps the most famous of them. all girl with a pearl earring painted in 1665. the common thread that brings them altogether, our depictions of real life in the 17th century. keep it up on for him as in fanny as paintings. don't tell a story in the sense that there's a lot going on. there's no running around horses galloping or something. fording on the ground or people fighting his paintings are always very quiet, very introverted. and this introversion, of course, allows the viewer to enter into a new world of the media. he yawned for mere lived and worked in the dut

b to dia. koran was an official in johannesburg, simbie. so hospital, she stumbled across what appeared to be 850000000 rand, worth of suspicious payments. that's about $47000000.00. and she went to authorities as a result in august 2021. she was targeted by a hip team of 6 men and ambushed in front of her home. she had told her superior and the police that she feared for safety. and she asked for police protection, but it wasn't forthcoming. the 6 killers have been arrested and had been charged with murder, attempted murder, and illegal possession of firearms and ammunition. the alleged mastermind of the plot has not yet been arrested. the 6 killers should already have gone to trial, but that trial has been delayed several times for legal technicalities. were joined by renowned greek south african whistleblower r e. denique us r e. as an official with blueprint for free speech. the australia based n g. busy that recently honored the memory of a beat dale koran and which posthumously awarded her it's international wisdom blowing special rec

the state of disaster was declared to tackle the crisis me to mila has more from johannesburg. joel abraham chicks, the fuel level, on what's become a necessity for businesses in south africa, a generator to keep the lights on. as rolling blackouts persist without power, the cold storage features at this more won't work, sometimes forcing job to bury the dead quicker than usual, the unforeseen over here that are stretching with every day. you've got the budget itself. let's say hypothetically, you have to run a nation 10000 times a week because of the park up. it's not down there because now you've got to inflate your expenditures. these are the worst power cuts in 16 years leading large parts of the country without electricity for 10 hours or more a day. the cause old and badly maintained facilities, poor management, and allegations of corruption at the state owned power utility. s. com. more than $10000000000.00 worth of contracts given by the power utility that companies have been red. flags suspected of being corrupt. graft. s. com is made. the power cuts worse. critics say very little

we now from johannesburg in south africa. thank you so much, professor for joining us. before we get to the book, i must ask, man, i should say, a book about a un secretary general that wasn't assassinated unlike dag hamish old famously, your view of a lab, rob's visit to africa. i mean, in asia nation, media, i don't, i knew you were in nigeria at the time during the visit, but i mean all but condemning as, as african count about melody pander. oh, for join russia? south africa perhaps shine a military drills a, i suppose, as a class, divide in all the sorts of things elite in south africa, looking down at the a government in south africa for doing anything with russia and a different story for the masses. well, thank you very much and i have to say, i'm the university of so re, i even though i'm based in johannesburg, i think the last visit and the whole ukraine issue has divided opinion in south africa. generally. i think it's also important to note that among the ruling africa, national congress leads many of them was educated, received military training in the sovi

vumani mkhize there, from johannesburg.e've been saying, the outstanding economic performer of the moment, it's india, cited by some as the major source of global growth for the future. so, i went straight to the source and i caught up with the man who, as we've said, coined the phrase the brics. jim 0'neill, a real pleasure having you on my show. andjim, once upon a time, it seemed that the brics were a group of nations with some commonalities that you identified, and they've since become a much more formalised bloc. what difference has that made to the way that they interact with the rest of the world? i'm not really convinced that, since they formed themselves into a political club, it's been particularly successful. i guess the biggest thing that it achieves is this constant highlighting of perhaps the inefficient, out—of—date structure of global governance, because particularly china and india have become so big that they're still not really properly represented in the imf, the world bank, obviously the un, and so on.

with western sanctions and cut off their ties with russia cut about a tattler, a correspondent, johannesburg. thank you. so now, india has been hosting its energy week for him with top russian industry executive signaling. what is clearly a boost in economic ties between those 2 countries? despite continued western sanctions accompanies from around 50 nations and more than 30 senior government officials from all around the world of all been taking part of his route and sharma. now explained, noble c. e. o is the industry and so and says, and policy makers are all of gathering in the bank to lose city in india. and holding crucial conversations around a now do security. net 0 commitments and the future of oil industry. in fact, india, the 3rd largest consumer of oil, is expected to use its g 20 presidency as a platform to set up international biofuel alliances. in you'll see it's proposed biofuel lines. could draw interests from countries such as russia, brazil, amongst others. and this me could be a new road ahead in the, in no g sector as the own diplomacy in order in the world is fast chan

to have these, christine mud, what is in johannesburg, and she says, members of parliament are deeply divided over from a poses disaster declaration. if for, for those of us who knew the audience in the room, those clapping and cheering would have been from the president's party right. so we saw that many of the opposition parties the necessary applaud at that announcement effectively. what this now does is it allows the government to operate with less checks and balance. and in fact, that is prompted many concerns or by people in the opposition who are opposed to this measure, by the way, because they say it's going to open up at the floodgates to looting on mass, because the suddenly as spending will be unaccounted for, they don't have to go through the normal checks and balance of a parliamentary procedures, for example, under the, under the auspices of we are operating in a state of disaster. so that is the main concern. in fact, the opposition has gone as far as to say that they're going to be challenging the constitutionality are off. this provision that the president has announ

while thousands of other small businesses have already shut their doors for me to mila ultra 0, johannesburg. ah, this is al serra, these, your top stories. so to be encountered in nigeria as presidential and parliamentary elections. delays and polling stations on saturday left people waiting for hours to cast their ballots. coming some reports of violence. hermit hossa has more from a new go in se nigeria a day off to the votes. thing seemed relatively calm across the country. officials from the literal commission did they work late into the night into the early morning counting some of the votes. they say they taking a bit of a break until about noon local time, and then they will resume the process. they say in general, voter turnout was high in some areas where this was a lot of young people under the age of 35 lighting up to vote. but they said there were problems and disruptions in some parts of the country. for example, reports of people snatching ballot boxes than armed men attacking people at voting station, sunday, march 20 years since the start of the war and our for which has kil

brent: johannesburg, kristin, as always, thank you. lovers in amsterdam are gang up -- gearing up a one of the biggest works ever. the world-famous girl with a pearl earring will be on display along with many of the 17th century masters creations. >> 28 out of 37 known works are on display at the bricks museum. among them, the milkmaid. girl reading a letter at an open window. and perhaps the most famous of them all, girl with the pearl airing painted in 1965. the common thread that brings them together israel life in the 17th century. >> paintings don't tell a story in the sense there is a lot going on. there is no running around, horses galloping, or people fighting. of his paintings are always very quiet, very introverted. this introversion allows the viewer to enter into a new world. >> he lived and worked in the dutch city of delft. he was 43 years old at the time of his death. it was only posthumously that he and his paintings gained world right -- worldwide recognition especially for the use of light >> accuses natural light as

the water will flow to south africa's financial hub, johannesburg, 400 kilometers away for the 16000000 people in the city and surrounding province la. so toes dams a vital and already provide 60 percent of their water since the project is financed with south african taxpayers money, eula, kline hands has been monitoring it for a long time. he works for the organization outer, which seeks to expose corruption and mismanagement, urbanized ations taking place and future development. then expansion of business needs more water. the problem is we are only very limited to the water that we have in south africa. we don't have innovative technologies and circulated infrastructure yet to recycle water. and currently we highly rely on the las darlene's face to scheme to provide future demands. it's one of the largest infrastructure projects in africa and is supposed to benefit both sides. south africa, paisley soto, nearly $70000000.00 euros a year for the water. and the soto uses the dams to generate electricity for its population of the local project manager from the list. so time, highlands a

we came here to windsor one of the multicultural hot pods in johannesburg to speak to communities of zimbabwe to ask them about whether the sanctions of the last 20 years or so have actually had a positive impact window. you are part of a movement that ality sanctions particularly and then tell me what spurred this on and what are your being you'll achieve? well, one of the things that we realize is that sanctions, we're taking a huge tolliver and bubble there were killing the economy. and by so doing, there were destroying jobs, destroying factories, destroying industry, and in the process to stabilize things. and bob will end up displacing above with in 2 neighboring countries and cetera. so one of the things that we wanted to do was to create unity 1st above it. so give awareness, just above ones is what is destroying the economy to displace people in inter trend unites above winds to try and see how we can fight discourage that is making people coming to south africa. look at a neighborhood like this. i mean is full of displays, people, predominantly zim. bob wills. is this the r

and we de miller as more from johannesburg, joel abraham chicks, the fuel level, on what's become a necessity for businesses in south africa, a generator to keep the lights on. as rolling blackouts persist without power, the cold storage fridges at the small won't work. sometimes forcing joel to bury the dead quicker than usual the unforeseen overheads. the last 3 june was the day. it was, the budget itself lizard was vertically la, turning us off to run a business of his nature. 1110000 brunswick because of the poor cause its logged dull that he was now you gotta inflate your expenditures. these are the worst power cuts in 16 years, leaving large parts of the country without electricity for 10 hours or more a day. the cause, old and badly maintained facilities, poor management and allegations of corruption at the state owned power utility. s. com. more than $10000000000.00 worth of contracts given by the power utility to companies have been red flagged. suspected of being corrupt. grafted eskimiya made the power cuts worse and critic save very little has been done to fix it. just a handful o

former director of the institute for pan african thought and conversation at the university of johannesburg on yugoslavia. and it has to be said, i mean, obviously on iraq in those sanctions, some sector generals might have resigned over half a 1000000 deaths in iraq. as regards the yugoslavia, i'm not sure whether you think that was aggression, nato bombing yugoslavia and destroying last place completely white. why was he not more vocal in stopping up the breakup of yugoslavia, which nato went for time? and tim began during his tenure, and that was the worst was in the 2nd world war, that was the beginning of things. maybe even the seeds of the grain will well, you see, i mean, my understanding of the yoga la was, is that these were, will. so session so you had a lot. ready basically, so crow mostly all who are basically seek into cow, ethnically, peer territory want i think you cannot use, the west style is neglect on you caution and failure to intervene to way, sorry, i'm sorry. profess, i've what there are so many books and how about the war in yugoslavia? no, i'm chomsky who's been on

i'm in the band and mine done in the city of johannesburg, which is home to thousands of people. they live under a cloud of radio active dust. the result of an australian company, mental became long operations. me a di. although the mine is now closed for years environmental, it had sounded the alarm resident know too well, these health hazards they face. mother is date course on this page. he dag, who doesn't and save it to us, diagnosed with t b r. so then they told me that that does this and say hey lance. then she passed away. i have 4 children and i take them to the cleaning every time for the usual immunizations. but that falls do not come off. i have to take them to the medication. for today they came in and to the doctor to see what is wrong with them. and no result. they had to tell me what is extra run with major when the people of to yourself have been here since 1995. ah, to do something for my settlement is as old as democracy in our country. and he says, all this is safe remembrance commission. it is very, very unfortunate that i've done 25 years of democracy in our

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while thousands of other small businesses have already shut their doors for me to mila al jazeera johannesburg. ah! hello again. this is al jazeera and these are the headlines, and palestinian man has been killed and some palestinian homes, torched, and another day of violence and he occupied westbank. the latest clara happened in the town of horror and followed the killing of 2 israeli settlers israeli forces. they are searching for palestinian suspects. dismal troops have been deployed and security checks of and stepped up earlier on sunday. officials from israel and the palestinian authority held talks and jordan and had agreed to deescalate tensions. sorry, heritage is in west harrison. a statement was released from this meeting where they said they have agreed to de escalate tensions. they also agreed to maintain the status quo oxer must compound over the ramadan will be coming up very soon and narrow concerns that things could escalate within that area. but since not statement husband release and just in the last hour, these rarely prime minister benjamin netanyahu sweets and saying that

built 1st with a discovery of diamonds later, gold and then platinum mineral discovery has made johannesburg coating province crucial to south africa's economy. so much so that to this very day, john is big is still known as the city of gold. the mineral council of south africa says that the industry's direct contribution to g. d. p grew by 36 percent in 2021 to nearly $27000000000.00. about $7000000000.00 more than it did in 2020. but despite these numbers, there are few for the future due to problems with exploration, to incredibly long term love that you need. and the fact that a long time, le, south africa has been short considerably because of the political uncertainty and policy uncertainty. the good of also the corruption that's involved in dealing with the whole biling, licensing and exploration. because if the factors, the ruling party wants to sit themselves in all the deals, that's made south africa, very unattractive place to actually expend buddy fleets flirtation for the purpose of money. they are 2 types of mineral exploration, brownfields, and greenfield. brownfields explorat

it says also jackie. pamela say, we meet the author in an upmarket hotel in johannesburg, but what say is well known for her book, which spills the beans on the blessing and bless the culture, but more say, experienced the fluid borders between transactional sex and human trafficking. i've read one of you one or 2 here at your, with this hotel a you with i remember old that and with on as a young girl, she ran away from a violent time and became involved with a very wealthy man, a few months into their relationship he took her on a private yacht with politicians, business men and their mistresses, being trapped in the middle of the ocean. she had no choice but to enjoy being raped multiple times. ready you can be changed like this in a heartbeat. if the minister wants to buy you, they'll buy you regardless of who you dating in the group. so even if you're dating the wa, yes man in the group, he can trade you off a business deal because the ministers after 4 traumatize a years, a mont saint managed to escape the grasps of have lesser. she fled abroad, wishing, wrote a book about her exp