issues so i remind you of these issues so i remind you of these issues so i remind you of the nelson mandelautions from the leader is available now so the mandela effect is still there but for younger voters they want to seek solutions. we younger voters they want to seek solutions.— seek solutions. we will be watching _ seek solutions. we will be watching all— seek solutions. we will be watching all of _ seek solutions. we will be watching all of your - seek solutions. we will be i watching all of your reporting going forward. watching all of your reporting going forward-— before we go — new radar images of venus�* surface are challenging scientists' perceptions of the planet's volcanic activity. scientists from italy's international research school of planetary sciences compared this 3d model of venus�* surface to ones taken in the early 1990s. comparing the images — new rock formations appeared. scientists say they were possibly created by fresh lava flows, suggesting active volcanoes on the planet. stay with us here on bbc news. hello there. we've seen a lot of wet weather around lately.

and here in the halls of the nelson mandela museum in mthatha, his hometown, the hopes and dreams of activist. mandela incarcerated. mandela the president and global statesman. mandela the father of a nation which many say is beset by the same problems it inherited in its infancy. the varied chapters of a life lived like no other are well documented. but to truly understand the essence of the man, we've travelled to qunu, the nearby village where he spent many of the formative years of his childhood. the neighbours of the mandela family say that they are disillusioned that his vision of a new south africa was not sustained. translation: many things that form part of his - legacy have discontinued. we are pained because even though the anc�*s trying, things are not happening the way mandela envisioned. the challenge is that ramaphosa is not the problem. the problem is people that are close to him and serve in lower structures. those at local level should stop being vultures. buyelekhaya dalindyebo is a king of nelson mandela's thembu ethnic group and his nephew. what part of his legacy

saying they are looking for leadership that can tackle some of these issues so i remind you of the nelson mandelabut they are asking for immediate solutions from the leaders available 110w. so the mandela effect is still there but for younger voters they want to see solutions. we will be watching all of your reporting going forward. thank you. you're live with bbc news. let's look at a story making news in the uk. diane abbott has been given back the labour whip after being suspended from the labour party for over a year. labour took the action against her in april 2023, over comments she made about thejewish, irish and traveller communities. the inquiry is understood to have been completed last december. it's not clear if ms abbott will run for parliament in the upcoming election. labour's leader, sir keir starmer, had this to say when speaking to a reporter. you said diane abbott was going through a disciplinary process and it is now reported that the process ended months ago, so if that is right, why are we and she still waiting to hear if she can stand as a labour mp? the process overall is a

even nelson mandela said he was not the same. and he didn't want to be treated as one, and i don't think that's how that because should be treated like a country of states. um, so that because a normal country with deep, deep, deep problems, many historical, but also many created in the present. and i'm looking forward to us having the time in the space to deal with the reality of who's south africa. it's not to the international community imagines it's a one that's all for the special edition of the news africa on the south african elections. this week is off to the end of the policies, will leave you with the voices of the people who have the final say, saw the african verses on their hopes for the future. i'll see you next time by the . 7 us from the trust change here in south africa. the answer is going to win the i'm positive because it's a, it's a, it's going to when people can see this change. education is the key way to know who i want children can post. as we get educated, they will be significant change even better than

and the policy of nelson mandela has been in power here ever since. but the amc is in trouble. the tides may be turning on the policy and africa is old. it's new operation movement is fighting to maintain its political dominance. the government is failing us before amc our clients have in the past like every now and nothing is quoted on the fact that the people and the people stuff a lot especially in terms of unemployment. i personally myself picking. i have used for graduates already, but it's tom that's because south africa is in serious decline. unemployment published, seen in a policy, have dropped many south africans, mostly flat, of a dignified standard of living. the biggest opposition policy says it can do a better job. but it's not convincing enough closes. so what is the democratic alliance has problems and with dozens of pope poles on the ballots, new plays are changing the political scene. polls show them, making ground winning rows of votes. is this the insurances would be established policies? the christine, when do i, it's good to have your company. i've reporte

again lisa nelson, mandela and the amc took up the struggle against the policies. for this he and his comrades were branded terrorist and lisa sentenced to life in prison. but the resistance continued inside south africa and around the world by the 1990s. much of the legislation that form the foundation of the apologies the system had been repealed, making the way to south africa's 1st inclusive and democratic election in 1994. the agency won that election, making nelson mandela, the country's 1st black president. raise your right hand. i'm sorry, so it helped me. god saw how the country was full of hope and promise blacks and whites would long been divided. would united and the agency would continue to dominate south africa's policies with over whelming majority support at the better thoughts by any measure the agencies electoral success over the past that he is, has been phenomenal, starting high end of nelson mandela and rising to spanish levels and to tell them babies all time high, just shy of 70 percent, 20 years ago. even the decline of jacob c. my is relati

they said that nelson mandela did get angry. there is a place for anger, scripture says get angry, but sinnott, go to bed, do not nurture it, do not let the sun go down on it or the devil can get a foothold on your life. i think i have been in ministry over all these years because that is ongoing, never completed or final. i don't think i have ever gotten to the point that i feel like i have arrived and know everything about ministry and it is all complete. each week that i am in the pulpit i do not know exactly what will happen. i still appreciate you and gail coming for the christmas service. you never know exactly what is transpiring, what will be transformative or will change people's lives. you keep having the patience and i think bible study is essential to part of that. constantly teaching. i think that should happen. >> you moved suddenly from the individual to the valley of a community. from the perspective of the new year, why should people go out and get involved in a religious community? what is the value of it versu

so it's out because 1st of all, practically elected president nelson mandela into college. so today we're here to find out such as late to how has the political space in south africa changed. we use which i can look back at those african history and what led up to today you know, 60 bates, we find out what young people think of flock to politics and will take you on a v i. p to arouse the west. but 1st, we want it to look back at what those 1st elections in 1994 really meant to people . and we'll do this. we have a very personal account, but also as african correspondence, diane hawkins. i still remember the date 10, even though i was only 10 years old for this feeling of excitement and joy in the country. what i remember most communities, my grandmother, ruth elizabeth, to 75 years old. and it was the 1st time that she was allowed to vote. she went to the town hall with my aunt. and i remember her telling me that she was nervous and excited. she had put aside so she needed some help, mocking her brothers paper. but she did it any way. she had lived most of her life and par

and nelson mandela came, it was actually in the early hours. and mandela was there with us at around three. and when he came, he sat me and my sisters down opposite him. and what he said was, there had come a time when he had gone to hug one of his daughters and she had sort of moved away from him, and he'd said, "what's the matter?" and she had said, "you're the father of the whole country, but you have never been a father to me." and that was his way of saying, i understand what you've had to pay for our political... "what your whole generation have had to pay for our political commitment." you said to me, that, on reflection, you think it's not easy to be a revolutionary and most of all, a revolutionary with children. is that why you've taken a very specific decision in your creative life, not so much to be a revolutionary, but to use the power of your voice and your writing to give voice to the voiceless in a different sort of way? yeah, i don't think it was a choice between revolution or that. i don't think we're having a revolution in this

so went to and i was just curious, you know, talking about nelson mandela's dream. if you want to wake up today and just to attack because it's become, do you think you would be impressed or not? i think you would be the best, the 2 ways of taking the kids being pressed by the fact that there's a multiplicity, and they are diverse options on the table for young people to look at. i think you'd be very proud of the fact that young people, despite the fact that the voting behavior doesn't think up with the, the kind of power that they have in their hands. that they're asking questions ended up being critical of nelson mandela said, and one of his opening speech is after he was released from prison. if the amc does what the apache government does to remove that. and i don't think the spirit of, of the mind dealing legacy needs to be one where it's just rainbow in glitches. it also needs to have 5 questions that i think young people are asking hard questions . that's why you have such a such a crystallize voice of, of, of, of, of, of this disillusionment of not voting.

a young nelson mandela once lived on this street — in fact, in this house right here.violent repression in this neighbourhood forced the world into isolating the apartheid regime. but those democratic dividends don't spread far beyond the area around vilakazi street. just a ten—minute drive away is a very different soweto to the one that most tourists see. here, 70 years later on from the adoption of the freedom charter, i meet young mothers still struggling to get by. these women's stories reflect a much wider truth in south africa today — that division is now often between the haves and the have—nots. it's very much clear that people don't feel like we've fundamentally changed the architecture of our country and so, there are some glaring things that you can see about the country that are still very similar. we know that the inequality is now notjust racialised in terms of black and white in the way that apartheid legally created it to be, but you still have amongst black populations high levels of inequality in terms of access to economic opportunities, jobs. it's a

this is the party of nelson mandela.partheid regime. despite that legacy and rich history, there are questions about what is done to transform south african society. there is a focus on the economy, as you'll see anywhere else in the world. there is a slow growth and high unemployment rates, and were some of the key issues that the president had to address when you spoke it on the stage just behind. you spoke it on the stage 'ust behind. , ., , behind. over the next five years, workin: behind. over the next five years, working for _ behind. over the next five years, working for all _ behind. over the next five years, working for all south _ behind. over the next five years, working for all south africans, i behind. over the next five years, | working for all south africans, we will implement a job plan to put more _ will implement a job plan to put more south africans to work. we will build our _ more south africans to work. we will build our industries and invest in an inclusive _ build our industries and invest in an i

and 30 years after the glory days of nelson mandela's arrival in power, south africa marks the anniversaryith disillusion and anger. the poor, disenfranchised black majority that suffered _ during apartheid expected - that they also would have been during apartheid expected - that there also would have been economic freedom to follow political freedoms. - hamas and the israeli government are engaged in a complex dual at present, with hamas, slightly to the surprise of the us and other western countries, accepting a considerable number of israel's demands for a ceasefire. israel insists that hamas hasn't gone far enough. benjamin netanyahu, israel's prime minister, has decided to push into the southern town of rafah, greatly against america's wishes. the un warns of serious danger to the civilians who have been forced out of their homes. a great deal of israel's strategy in gaza is dictated by internal politics, as mr netanyahu tries to keep enough support from his far—right associates in government. i asked jeremy bowen, the bbc�*s international editor, who has had years of experience repo

and nelson mandela and i found ourselves working -- it was ay.ade to live then, we had great time, but we were trying to together a system that would mot laws to be so severe that huge numbers of people would die before we could get any medicine into country a, b or c. and there was an international e just kept trying to work with everybody figuring out ways to do things faster, cheaper, better and we cameon health access initiative. we would way to do things faster, cheaper and after all t, and half the people on earth■i getting aids medicine get it from contracts we negotiated and 80% of the children on earth get it. and all we did was how to maximize production. we helped generic drug companies in and south africa become■g more efficient. we worked on supply chains but i never dreamed and all we■ were doing is give us more money. and one reason public health hat people know that it has dramatically improved the efficiency. and youad lot to do with that too. and how we make investment decisions. i think it's going to be much rder because of the

the anc is a former liberation movement and many older voters will remember nelson mandela and everythingong younger voters, who may not remember what life was like under apartheid, or how the anc helped fight this system? the biggest issue with the anc is it has a mixed bag of results. in the first 15 years or so, results. in the first 15 years orso, it results. in the first 15 years or so, it was very good in that free housing was provided, they overhauled the public health system and they overhauled the education system. and now most recently south africans have been able to go to university, regardless of whether you can afford to or not, through giving grants to young people to get further up —— education at a high university. the biggest issue that south africa has is corruption. we have been able to collect money through taxes but politicians of the anc in particular have been unable to keep their hands out of the cookie jar and therefore there have been constant shortages in, which didn't have to happen if you look at how much they have been able to collect from individuals and co

township where a lot of the apartheid struggle happened and we are a stone's throw away from nelson mandelaleaders of the soweto uprising when students in this area stood up and demonstrated against the apartheid regime., of course hundreds of people were killed during those demonstrations. how far do you think south africa has come in the 30 years since at the end of apartheid. the 30 years since at the end of apartheid-— of apartheid. some of us are still going — of apartheid. some of us are still going through _ of apartheid. some of us are still going through the - of apartheid. some of us are still going through the pain | of apartheid. some of us are | still going through the pain of having — still going through the pain of having to see ourselves leading students — having to see ourselves leading students and children out of the classroom is only to be killed — the classroom is only to be killed and the time came where we thought we are now in our freedom _ we thought we are now in our freedom and we are young democracy are always experiences of many other black people _ experiences

. >> the man who made history with nelson mandela tells his incredible story in just a few minutes. also, former labour leader neil kinnock says the pubuc leader neil kinnock says the public do not love keir starmer. doesit public do not love keir starmer. does it matter? do we need to actually like those who lead us? i'll be asking. britain's best known political double act, the very lovable hamiltons , and why very lovable hamiltons, and why it's very lovable hamiltons, and why wsfime very lovable hamiltons, and why it's time for the king and the country to forgive prince harry. plus is hardworking princess anne, the jewel in the royal . anne, the jewel in the royal. crown. two hours of big opinion, big debate and big entertainment. it is saturday night. mark dolan tonight is your perfect saturday night in. so why don't you crack open a cold bottle of beer, uncork a wine or fire up the kettle and let's get to work? big stories , let's get to work? big stories, big debate, big entertainment and a major celebrity in hot water. after the news headlines and aaron armstrong . and aaron

when able to day basis. 3 decades after nelson mandela lift the amc to victory and the countries 1st democratic elections. many south africans are questioning whether it's lived up to its promises. monday, legs going? no. no, it's all. what time? as we see things, we must see. these different other parties are capitalizing on voters discontent. the main opposition, the democratic alliance campaigned under the slogan, rescue s a n influential political figure. jacob summa threw his weight behind the newly founded m. key party. after a fall out with the agency which he won sled opposition parties, which once had limited influence, could now become a force to be reckoned with. without a majority, the agency would have to build coalitions with labels, potentially compromising its policy. violations in the different maples have also taught us that they're not based on any principle. and if we could have that possibly just doesn't seem to be moving towards a lot of things that ability but it's the voters, not leaders who will ultimately decide if the elections on wednesday will mark a turn

oppressive apostolic regime and it brought south africa's bus democratically elected president nelson mandela into college. so today we're here to find out that to you as late to .

when mr mandela walked out and that whole crowd shouted his name. nelson. nelson nelson.s amazing . amazing. >> you've said that you were shielded from it when you were young.so shielded from it when you were young. so at what point did you realise that apartheid was happening? >> as you say, as a kid you insulated the culture, was that you were never part of the conversation. >> you know, children were. yeah, were seen playing in the garden and never heard. you never were part of that, conversation . so when i went to conversation. so when i went to university then then, i mean, i was south africa was a powder keg, it was in the, mid to late 80s. and the students came and uprising. there was a lot of debates and disagreements and angen debates and disagreements and anger, amongst white south africans. and this is something i experienced for the first time. and you think about these things and you start participating in these conversations . i participating in these conversations. i mean, i still don't know why in 1986, i went to coach a black team in soweto, jabulani hig

and the policy of nelson mandela has been in power here ever since. but the amc is in trouble. the tides may be turning on the policy and africa is old. it's new operation movement is fighting to maintain its political dominance. the government is failing us.

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and nelson mandela and i found ourselves working -- it was a joy. he had more than a decade to live then, we had a great time, but we were trying to put together a system that would address the cases with more aid, but also not allowing the patent laws to be so severe that huge numbers of people would die before we could get any medicine into country a, b or c. and there was an exception in the international patent arena for such cases so you could save lives. so we just -- i just kept trying to work with everybody in figuring out ways to do things faster, cheaper, better and we came up with the clinton health access initiative. we would find a way to do things faster, cheaper and better. even now after all these years, 30 million lives have been saved and half the people on earth getting aids medicine get it from contracts we negotiated and 80% of the children on earth get it. and all we did was to figure out how to maximize production. we helped generic drug companies in india and south africa become more efficient. we worked on supply chains but

this is the party of nelson mandela, of course.y're only going to gain about 40% of vote. 0ne latest polls show they're only going to gain about 40% of vote. one of the party is hoping to take on the anc is the da. paul's only show that they will gain about 20% of the vote nationally. to unpick this we are joined by ida candidate. thank you forjoining us on bbc news. the bulls in south africa showing that the challenges with the anc losing support, opposition parties like yours aren't really making up the ground to gain those undecided voters. , , .., ground to gain those undecided voters. , , .. ., voters. there is significant ground that has been _ voters. there is significant ground that has been made. _ voters. there is significant ground that has been made. given - voters. there is significant ground that has been made. given our. that has been made. given our history we did not expect it would be easy for us to get to that 50% mark, but we have been working steadily and seem to increase, seeing the growth. it is looking encou

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of wednesday's general election — will nelson mandela's legacy be enough to secure another anc win?ello, i'm lauren taylor. we start in ukraine — president zelensky has denounced a deadly air strike on a crowded superstore in the country's second largest city, kharkiv, as an act of �*russian madness�*. officials said at least two people were killed and more than 30 others injured, when two glide bombs struck the diy store on saturday afternoon. the shop is in a residential area — and ukrainian officials reported that russia also hit a school and other buildings in the city. the mayor of kharkiv says there are a large number of people missing following the strike. earlier this month, russian forces began a renewed offensive in the kharkiv region, in an attempt to break through a weakened ukrainian front line. here's one of the shop workers explaining what happened. translation: i was at work in the furniture section _ when there was a first hit. me and my colleague fell off our feet, went down and hit the floor. there was a second hit after which we were covered in rubble. we were co

so she years ago whole suggests that the governing amc, which was once led by nelson mandela, could lose its absolute majority for the 1st time since the end of a possible right. and almost 8000 people have been evacuated in popcorn. new guinea from the pulse of a still active landslide. of this comes off for an estimated 2000 people were buried in the land slide in the central and the province on friday. and you and agency has said that it is highly unlikely that most of life is, will now be found to the credit in president lot to me as a landscape, receive some good news in belgium. today, the government that announced it was send the c s. 16 site to jets to ukraine. so let's get is visiting belgium as well as spain and portugal. he's finding security agreements to help defend his country against russia's full scale invasion. you defense meters administered, meeting in brussels, pledged an additional $5000000000.00 euros in the military aid. and terry schultz has been following those me things in brussels for us. terry ukraine has been asking for a sixteen's for a long time. how much o

they give him credit and people who oppose him like mandela call him a terrorist and nelson mandela went to prison for 27 years and today apartheid in south africa is over and no one even dares to build a country with an apartheid system . it actually happened to the president. i was giving a speech at the united nations and i said that the united nations should make israel official. again, these are muslims, jews, and arabs. they can talk to each other about life in the holy land. this is a good solution. thank you for continuing to be with us. the presence of delegations from different countries to express the validity of the martyrdom of the president of iran and the failure of the efforts of the past few decades to isolate the west, especially the united states. tehran showed, according to the report of al-mayadeens network. many foreign delegations to iran painted a picture of tehran's diplomatic power even in difficult circumstances. egyptian foreign minister sameh shoukry visited tehran. this is the first time that a high-ranking egyptian official visits iran. it is true that he t

elected by the people and won the elections consecutively since 1994 with its historical leader, nelson mandela examine the south african elections , we are hosting mr. alireza masoumi, a senior expert on african issues, mr. masoumi tell us about this election, what is its importance and what competitions took place in it. a boss likewise , i would like to offer my condolences to mr. amir abdullahian, and also thank you and greet and offer my courtesy to the dear viewers. as you mentioned, the south african elections have started today, and various parties, including the ruling party , the african national congress party, are at your service. let me tell you that one of the so-called main stage managers in this election is the parties. last year, we witnessed the victory of the african national congress party in the elections that are held every 5 years in this country, and this time there is a strong presence, but this time due to the decrease in votes of this party. there is a lot of talk in municipal elections it is very likely that the party will not be able to win the majority, which is 50

with south africa's general election just days away — will nelson mandela's legacy be enough to secureaiti in three weeks' time. the former post office boss paula vennells has completed three days of public questioning at the inquiry into the horizon it scandal — in which more than 900 sub postmasters were wrongly prosecuted after faulty software said money was missing from their accounts. her answers included more than 20 apologies, four tearful moments and boos from the gallery. our international business correspondent theo leggett has more on how it unfolded. after years of keeping a low profile paula venables was thrust into the spotlight this week and making her way through a scrum of cameras may have been the easy part. she started with an apology. i would just like to say, and i'm gratefulfor the opportunity to do this in person, how sorry i am for all that subpostmasters and theirfamilies and others have suffered as a result of all of the matters that the inquiry has been looking into for so long. there were tears as she was asked about the death of a subpostmaster who took his

nelson mandela after azadi made a special trip in 1990 to thank students and professors for their rolen the fight against racism and called these people his blood brothers and sisters. 2014 harvard medical school students to declare their support. of the black lives matter movement, and in response to barris' acts of violence against african americans , participated in symbolic mossom to dine protests, during which participants lay on the ground and pretended to be dead. these protests are in response to two court rulings to prohibit the filing of criminal charges against police officers who in two genie murders. two african americans played a role. these two people were michael brown from missouri and eric garner from new york. these two incidents caused intense anger in american society and led to protests within the framework of the black lives matter movement, which was started to condemn police brutality and organized racial discrimination against african americans. student protests against the gaza war started at columbia university. hundreds of students gathered in the universit

find out why the outcome could test nelson mandela's legacy. that story up next.berg. ♪ paul: south africans are preparing to vote at the end of the month in an election that could see the ruling anc lose its majority for the first time. we have more on president cyril ramaphosa's battle for another term. >> on the day anti-apartheid hero nelson mandela was freed from 27 years of prison, he was the man at his side. cyril ramaphosa was a future nobel peace prize winner's favorite to succeed him as president of south africa and the ruling party. but this was not to be cyril ramaphosa's moment in the political spotlight as he was overlooked by the enc. instead, he became a businessman, acquiring business stakes in nearly every key sector of the country's economy. as a result, he became one of the country's wealthiest individuals. yet 19 years after the anc first overlooked him, cyril ramaphosa returned to politics, elected president in 2018. >> i will be faithful to the republic of south africa. >> he appointed market friendly technocrats to his cabinet. the market r

since its first racially-integrated elections, marking the official end of apartheid and making nelson mandelaation's first black president. here in the u.s., a south african musical group continues to spread mandela's message of racial reconciliation and healing, while also reminding us that the fight for equality in both nations is far from over. special correspondent megan thompson reports for our arts and culture series, canvas. ♪ megan: dance lines, whistles, electric guitars, and the full minnesota orchestra. the house was packed with school children at this recent performance in minneapolis by the south african group "29:11 international exchange." ♪ >> the country of south africa was ruled and governed by a system of racial discrimination and segregation known as apartheid. ♪ megan: today's themes also included inequality, resistance, and reckoning with history. >> we stand for truth, we stand for transparency. we stand for openness to speak about difficult topics like race. >> we are here initiating forgiveness and reconciliation. not to just look at each other in color, but look at e