notjust cape town either, this is pretoria. people we re either, this is pretoria.hered and dancing in the streets of the city of pretoria. they were also tried to make their point. they wanted him to go, but what happened is parliament, and this is the parliament chamber itself and here for two hours opposition parties in the ruling anc traded barbs and insults and political debate in two hours before casting their ballots. there has been a whole team in south africa watching this story and thinking about its implications. clearly presidentjacob clearly president jacob zuma after surviving this eighth no—confidence vote is now on his ninth life. there was no way he could be compromising now. he feels victorious, he never gives up. remember, president zuma stayed in prison for ten years on robben island with nelson mandela while fighting against white minority rule, so he does not give up minority rule, so he does not give up easily. most people see this as a loss for him, given what has happened with anc mps who voted with the opposition, but for himself he sees th

president mugabe has been attending a regional leaders‘ conference in pretoria on sunday.arance, but didn‘t show up. this african authorities insist that their decision was motivated in order to maintain good relations with zimbabwe. for the victims‘s lawyers, justice needs to be served. this is the 20—year—old model who is accusing grace mugabe of assaulting her with an electric extension cord. she claims she was offered a blank check to make the matter go away. they may she wants the first lady to be prosecuted, and now her legal tea m be prosecuted, and now her legal team is planning to challenge the decision to grant immunity. in zimbabwe as well, opposition members a grace mugabe needs to apologise. you cannot go on and beat somebody‘s child. i think this needs a lot of introspection. i want to say that she certainly needs to go for anger management. mrs mugabe has become a dominant figure in the ruling party. with elections scheduled for next year, she has publicly urged her 93—year—old husband to name a successor. it remains to be seen in the events of last week wil

we have seen protests in the streets, in cape town, pretoria, johannesburg. how high is public anger against zuma? is it concentrated in cities, or more broad? christstine: i listen to local radio stations after this outcome. south africans found him, furious, enraged. on social media, people were angry at the anc for once again protecting the president. you know where it was quiet? the rural areas. this is where the anc support base lies. in those places, people are happy about the outcome of this motion of no-confidence. in the urban areas, you will always have the numbers. you will always have the people screaming and saying the president needs to step down. where it matters most for the anc, rural areas, you are not seeing that. the opposition has a lot of work to do, to convince people in rural areas that this is not the party for you, come the 2019 electionon. the anc goes to an elective conference in december, less than three months. they are going to choose a new president. zuma is not coming back in terms of anc leadership. it will be interesting to

reporter: on to get your views on what is happening in the high court in pretoria later today, pushingg would effectively change the mandate. they want to get that overruled. presumably you sign for the central bank on this. i think that the recommendation that was made by the public protector, she said she wasn't going to oppose the action of the reserve bank, so i think there has been quite a lot of rethinking about that. in any case, if it was to happen, if the mandate were to be changed with a constitutional mandate, i think there are also on whether there would be a 2/3 majority in parliament for a change. these are matters which we are beginning to come around to now. -- [inaudible] even if thereue is -- [inaudible] it moved a while ago from flexible inflation targeting. think we have to explore what room there is in that regard. the last interest rate decision they made was also based on an employment of the overall performance of the economy. reporter: last question on the growth target, it has been cut to .5%. consumer sentiment at some of its lowest levels ever. is that a rea

trouble and strife in pretoria.sidentfrica's survived in motion of no-confidence and iran weakened by 1.5%. critics say he missed a chance to take a stand against corruption. more than two dozen lawmakers voted against the president but he survived, 198-177. he has been rife with scandals and policy missteps and the economy has been in recession. the new controversial constitutional assembly and venezuela seems to be taken the flames of the opposition. they held an initial meeting inside the legislative building to stop the job of rewriting the constitution. 17 latin american countries that they will refuse to recognize any position taken by the new body, saying it is a defeat for democracy. malaysia has launched an inquiry into billions of dollars into foreign exchange losses in its central bank that dates back to the 1990's, but critics say it is just a political ploy to discredit someone to they set up a new -- discredit someone. a report from 13 federal u.s. agencies to record contradicts president trump's dismi

they were in pretoria county where the river was at its crest , 15 feet over its crest, not set to goown sunday. they saw water coming up and use the phone to say, people are not evacuated in us and we need you to make calls and raise concerns . that happened and we saw some of these prisons evacuated. you can see they are very close veryter, in some cases close to galveston so we are glad to see that happen. we know there are many prisons as the storm heads east so we are concerned about what is going to happen and will keep an eye on that. amy: thank you very much. when we come back, we will go to naomi klein, who has a message for the media -- talk about climate change. we will also be joined by one of the country's leading climate scientists, dr. james hansen. then we willll talk about the rd cross. stay with us. [♪ musical break] amy: i know love is all i need by rodney crowell, although i think the people of houston need more than that. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. with renee phelps who is from houston, texas. renee: as we

authorities did not negotiate reasonably and credibly, and the cuban military may have to march to pretoria and oust forcibly the apartheid ruler. and of course, the prospect of that happening made them much more susceptible to sweet reason and led to the first democratic elections in south africa in the spring of 1994, the election of nelson mandela, which is why in 2013 one mandela had his funeral in south africa, one of the few heads of state who was asked to speak amongst all present was president raul castro of cuba. >> [applause] professor horne: in any case, you should also know during the u.s. civil war, spanish cuba, or cuba wereh who ruled in a quandary. on one hand they suspected that whoever won, the north or the south during the double war, that the winners would want cuba because there had been a lust for taking cuba for decades previously. an effort to make cuba of state of the united states of america. that is one idea circulating in the minds of spanish rulers in cuba. another thing circulating was they should be in camaraderie with the slave owners in the south in order to

pretoria is the more work -- north korea is the moruy issue.omeing i think one interesting thing in the way markets have looked at this is, they seem to be taking every individual shock less seriously and they begin to us them that nothing will happen for the next four years. maybe that is naive or overly optimistic, but i think in the absence of anything else, that is how we are looking at that situation. francine: is it naive? or is it levelheaded? you just need to cut out the noise -- and there is a lot of noise. >> there is a lot of noise, but what is quite clear is the current administration is becoming unimportant. now, you really don't now what to trust and what not to trust. i think effectively the market is going to give less and less emphasis. what we are seeing, is the market moves are going to be smaller and smaller. effectively, it will not have much direct influence on the market and how it is progressing. he might have infighting, which could be continuing, and try to get back to the people supporting him. but i think the situati