karen: it is only now that the university of pretoria has returned to an uneasy calm. is a statue of the late president nelson mandela. a symbol of reconciliation. the city's university was once dominated by whites. the pilot of rubble left behind feels like a bad hangover. the university rugby game turned protestersaos when stormed onto the pitch. was it the work of a minority intent on derailing progress? that is the view of the student leaders. trying to present a united front. >> when i is a black student disagree with another black student in a dialogue. karen: they are still grappling with that sense of identity. >> many of the buildings are still named after political figures from the apartheid era. i can understand that some students are upset about it. karen: the racial harmony that mandela had in mind is still a ways off. but things are changing. africa isin south still seen through the prism of race. they are mixing much more than their parents ever could. the economic fault lines are still incredibly politically potent. mandela's shoes may be hard to fill.

tanya page, al jazeera, pretoria. >> a new political party has been launched in the battle in zimbabwe, the zimbabwe people's party. >> it remains a news around our neck at that system destroys any hope for the people of zimbabwe. this is a dynamic party. >>> the national democratic party in germany wants the consist cour--constitutional coo throw a ban out. the n.d.p. is accused of violating the constitution with its anti immigrant rallies. >>> claims that a pedophile priest a cardinal said was a sad story that didn't involve him decades ago. examining of these cases, dating back to the 1970's and 1980's, gerald tan reports. >> on the second day of testimony, australia's highest ranking catholic denies knowledge of sexual abuse by australian priests. >> i couldn't say that i ever knew that everyone knew. i knew a number of people did. i didn't know whether it was common knowledge or whether it wasn't. it's a sad story and it wasn't of much interest to me. >> cardinal george pell was speaking via video link from rome. the inquiry focuses on a priest who was convict of offenses against

daniel nottingham shows us serena williams response. finding off pretoria in the california desert at indian she found herself defending this directive. >> in my next life when i come back i want to be someone in the wta. the men. >> indian wells ceo raymond moore didn't stop. >> they are lucky. if i was a lady player i would go down every night on my knees and thank god. they have carried the sport. >> we as women have come along way and we wouldn't drop on her knees. >> she denounced these remarks and it set the tone of the response from the women's court. >> williams is a bigger draw that her male counterparts. her presence in the u.s. open women's final tournament for the men. what is believed to be the first time ever. others joined williams and her outrage. patrick mcenroe says more should resign. >> i am livid when i read those remarks and heard that. >> billie jean king pleaded he is wrong on so many levels. we issued an apology. i made comments that were in extremely poor taste and erroneous. daniel nottingham. >>> the women's tennis association calls his remarks disappointin

tanya page is at the court in pretoria. >>> a full bench of high court judges will difficult if the authority was wrong to drop corruption charges against president zuma. it's taken years to get here. >> this is probably one of the most important legal cases since we became a democracy. it goes to the heart of whether there is one standard of justice for the ordinary person in the street and another standard of justice for the rich and well connected. >> jubilant crowds greeted zuma when the charges were first dropped in 2006. they were reinstated by dropped again, clearing the way for him to become president. the charges stem from the conviction for corruption of his former financial advisor, including soliciting a bribe for zuma in connection with a $4 billion arms deal. the national director of public prosecutions dropped the charges because of alleged political interference on what's known os the spy tapes. secretly taped phone calls ben those closest to the case in which they collude over how to maximize the damage from the charges. the prosecutor said that meant he couldn't get a fair t

scandal involving south africa's leader and opponents calling on him to go and we are live from pretoria future of zuma may not be on agenda on the amc meeting but what is the scandal that is tainting him? >> well, so far much of the scandal has developed over the last few days, his relationship with a prominent family here in south africa, the goupta family who immigrated to the country 20 years ago and questions about the president's relationship with his family and the extent to which the family has input in the african national congress, the running of the ruling party as well as the country and the influence they have on government. we've had a prominent deputy finance minister said he was summoned by the family for a meeting asking if he wants the top job in his ministry, that of finance minister and indications were that would be in return rather for beneficial treatment for the family. now president zuma relationship with the gouptas has been under question and going to 2013 when the goupta family landed a private plane at a military air base not far from here. will were question

tania page, al jazeera, pretoria. >>> we can speak to an analyst at an institute for public reflectionu for joining us. all we seem to hear about president zuma are allegations of corruption. how embattled is the president of south africa? >> well, i think it's important to note that the allegations of corruption actually have been there since day one when he became the president of the country. he has been able to live through the first term of his presidency with speculations rife that he will be dismissed or charged. we are now seeing that going into the second term. and this only points to one thing, but despite all of the allegations that are quite serious about corruption, he seems to have mastered internal politics of his governing party, the anc, very well, to a point where there seems not to be resource that the party has against him. so there is still allegations coming forth, but he still continues to survive as political leader. >> is there a case to be argued that all of these negative allegations swirling around the president is actually tarnishing the reputation of the a

. >>> if the democratic alliance wins a court case in pretoria. >> 2005, zuma was found guilty of a case, but in 2007 zuma was elected president of the african national congress np 2009, they were dropped again, just weeks before the general election. the reason was that zuma couldn't get a fair trial. a secret telephone call alleged corruption in the investigation. tanya if the d.a. wins does that mean the president for sure will be charged with crungs, stan con tanya? >> not necessarily. it depends how convincing the prosecutor is in convincing that that original decision to drop the charges was wrong. even if they win doafnlt doesn't automatically mean these charges will be reinstraighted. we aren't expecting to have a decision this week, we could wait several weeks for the decision to come through. the d.a. says there was some political interference but the merits of the case against zuma were strong enough, it should have gone to court. now on his behalf president zuma has always alleged there was a political conspiracy against him, that trying to win votes out of this. on the same

four billion arms deal 11 years ago and correspondent tonya page is in the court in the capitol pretoriaeporter: supporters greeted jacob zuma when charges were dropped the first time in 2006, when charges were reinstated and dropped again the final hurdle was cleared for him to be south africa president with the governing party. zuma had been charged with 783 counts of corruption in relation to tax even vagus, fraud and half a billion aids deal with hardware under decades of apartheid and why it happened is controversial and it's known as the spy tapes and secretly taped phone calls a prosecutor and the head of a special investigations unit are among the people recorded talking about the timing of the charges and how to maximize the damage from them. the acting national director of public prosecution at the time dropped the corruption charges because the spy tapes showed political interference that zuma could not receive a fair trial but he said there had been a valid case against zuma. that is why the opposition democratic alliance pursued the case so rigorously since 2009 and wants th

we have this report from pretoria. >> there have been mixed messages over the course of the weekend from the national executive committee of the african national congress, around to what extent it will be discussing these allegations against president jacob tshuma. he's within accused or rather his relationship with a prominent influential family here in africa that originally hail from india have been under question in terms of what influence this family has in terms of the relationship with president jacob tshuma. a number of accusations and revelations have come out in recent days and despite this, the national executive committee or all indications from the committee are that these allegations won't necessarily be high on the agenda, rather than dealing with the president's relationship with this family, they may be discussing the issue of state capture, the influence of corps relate arm of the average national congress, they may be discussing that more broadly. >>> lawyers for the man accused of being the only surviving gunman from last november's paris attacks say he'll fight extra

tanya page is at court in pretoria. >> a full bench of high court judge also decide if they were wrongo drop 783 corruption charges against president jacob zuma. it has taken years of legal action by the democratic alliance to get here. they want the decision set aside and the charges reinstated. >> this is one of the most important legal cases since we became a democracy. it goes to the heart whether there is one standard of justice for the ordinary person on the street and another standard of justice for the rich and well-connected. >> jubilant crowds greeted zuma when the charges were dropped in 2006, but they were reinstated and dropped again, clearing the way for him to become president. it stems from corruption from his former financial adviser, including soliciting a bribe in connection to a $400 million arms deal. they dropped the charges because of alleged political interference on what is known as the spy tapes secretly taped phone calls which they collude how to maximize the damage. the prosecutor said that it meant that he couldn't get a fair trial. they're trying to convin

the south africa leader and opponents calling on him to go and anita miller has this update from pretoriaorter: mixed messages over the course of the weekend from the national executive committee of the national african congress to what extent it will be discussing allegations against the president jacob zuma and accused or rather his relationship with a prominent influential family here in south africa that originally hailed from india has been under question in terms of the influence this family has on the running of the anc as well as south africa and the influence they have in terms of relationship with president jacob zuma and accusations have come out in resent days and despite all in the national executive committee or all indications from the committee are that these allegations won't necessarily be high on the agenda rather than dealing with the president's relationship with the family they may instead be discussing the issue of state capture, the influence of corporates on the african national congress and may i be discussing that more broadly rather than dealing with the presid

we're in the courts in the capital of pretoria. >> a full bench of high court judge also decide if the prosecuting authority was wrong to drop 783 corruption charges against president zuma. it has taken years to get here. they want the decision set aside and the charges reinstated. >> this is probably one of the most important legal cases since we became a democracy. it goes to the heart of whether there is one set standard of justice for the people on the street and another standard of justin for the rich and well-connected. >> charges were reinstated and then dropped again, clearing the way for him to become president. the charges come from allegations of corruption. the prosecutor dropped the charges because of political interference on what is known as the spy tapes, secretly taped phone calls between those closest to the case which they collude and how to maximize the damage from the charges. the prosecutor said it meant he could not get a fair trial. the democratic alliance is trying to convince the judges that the political interference was limited and insignificant and there wa

we're in pretoria where the touch a survive a case against the president is back in court. >>> in sport, we'll hear from the new fifa president about his plans for the 2016 world cup. >>> macedonia deployed more soldiers and police to its border with greece. monday, hundreds tried to force their way through a razor wire fence into the country. the crowd was dispersed when police tried tear gas. over 7,000 people are camping president border, waiting for authorities to allow them to crib their jenny. >> 51 refugees were rescued in the aegean sea, babies and children crammed onboard a rubber dingy trying to reach greece. more than 120,000 have arrived sips the start of this year. >> demolition teams in front continued to tie down the jungle refugee camp tram calais. the governor wants them to move into new accommodations. the first day saw violent crashes with riot police. >> day two of this clearance and demolition operation has gone rather efficiently, from the point of view of us looking at it. this morning, it had plywood shacks, tinder buildings and it's now completely cleared to an

. >> many things live from pretoria. we're at the midway point on the news hour. still to come, the controversial futuristic hong kong film hitting a nerve in beijing. >> stopping the next generation of isis recruits. teaching the youth on the front lines. working towards a better future. >> this is one of the most important sites in the century. >> proudest moment of my life. >>> this is the news hour from doha. turkey says the suicide bomber behind the blast in istanbul is a suspected isil member. five arrests have been made in connection with the attack on saturday, which killed five people. >> greece has begun the process of sending refugees on the island of lesbos back to turkey as part of the deal struck between the european union and turkey. even more refugees have arrived. >>> the republican of congress order add communications blackout for 48 hours. the government said to stop illegal publication of results from the presidential election. the president is seeking to prolong his 32 year rule. >> the man accused of being the only surviving gunman from last

the university of pretoria, cape town -- the medical community is successful.he first open heart surgery ever was done there. they have a very well respected -- there may be a program at rhodes university. there are a lot of opportunities like that, but i don't really know much about that. yes, ma'am? >> we were in south africa a couple of years ago. one of the questions that came up or seemed to be a dilemma was the language used in the schools. i wonder in the village you were and ifnguage was taught they did not use english or afrikaans? how was that working where you were? >> she asked about the language that was used. there are 11 official languages in south africa and everybody thinks that everybody and africa speaks swahili. i wanted to get a big map of africa to show how small the area where people speak swahili. english is everyone's second language. if i speak zulu and we want to talk, we talk in english. in that regard, it is the preferred second language. you will see black people talking to each other in english a lot because there are some in the

significant changes is the rise of isis and behavior of title with the south china sea the development of pretoria iran remains a concern that if it was predictably has written but in the four other areas the capabilities of behavior or a combination of the two that teaches the operating did byron it over the last couple years. >> the american people need to understand the guidance and as you have stated to deny another aggressor with your statement it is challenged to respond to a major contingency of the shortfalls called to respond to a second contingency of the overlapping timeline. there is a significant risk with a beecher siegel contingency operations and. is that true? >> there is a of picaresque and to accomplish the objective. >> the guided called for the contingency operations defeated one aggressor and the idea there. but that current force today while at the same time defending the homeland? >> we are challenged to do those three things but it would take more time than we would see more casualties than we would want. >> it has cut the structure of the assumption with those assumptions