push ahead with plans for the expropriation of land from white farmers without compensation cyril ramaphosa says the a.n.c. will try to amend the constitution with the support of the left wing economic freedom fighters the issue of land ownership is one of the most contentious in south africa with some pointing to neighboring zimbabwe's economic collapse after land reform there. the intention of this proposed amendment is to promote redress advance economic development increase our cultural production and food security it will also transform their unjust spatial realities in urban areas to accelerate agrarian reform the sea has further directed government to urgently initiate farmer support programs in depressed areas before the first rains this year this should include supporting farmers with two. fertilizers c extension services finance and access to key infrastructure. amman schroeder is founder and principal of jail markets africa he says this is a political ploy ahead of next is elections. this year is a significant move and certainly the political context is general elections that are

farmers despite white people making it eight percent of the population that's why president cyril ramaphosa announced plans to allow the expropriation of land without compensation the government says it will now speed up land reform in a way that doesn't divide the nation the minute miller has been gauging the reaction from farmers and bella bell and popo province. the debate around london spoke ration without compensation is a very emotive one here in south africa the government says it supports the

president ramaphosa has pledged that the land reform process will follow the rule of law anda its implementationill not adversely affect economic growth, agricultural production, or food security." the state department does not mention that by following the rule of law he has changed the country's constitution to make it possible to steal land from people because they are the wrong skin color. in other words, nothing to seeit here, says mike pompeo's state department. it's totally okay for south africans to steal property for racist reasons because there are "a strong democracy" and held "public hearings." criminals take note, startt rubbing state department employees on the way to work, by their logic they will be okay with it because it's democracy. marian tupy spent a lot of time

mrs may has arrived in cape town and is due to meet with south africa's president cyril ramaphosa laterr visit is part of a trip to a number of african countries in an effort to try and boost post—brexit trade. last year, trade between the two countries in goods and services was worth more than $11 billion with the uk being south africa's second—biggest trading partner within the eu. for britain, south africa is a key market. it's the continent's most industrialised country. it also has a growing middle class. credit suisse estimates it makes up more than 28% of the population. with theresa may is a delegation of 29 businesss leaders trying to showcase the uk's expertise in technology, infrastructure and financial services. annabel bishop from investec group economics joins us now from johannesburg. welcome to the programme. the uk prime minister coming to cape town, meeting with cyril ramaphosa, she has quite an agenda to present, what do you make of her idea the uk can overta ke do you make of her idea the uk can overtake the us as the biggest investor in africa are 2022? very good ne

ramaphosaes -- sites cyril ramaphosa. complex and sensitive iisue. it has been over 20 years since the apartheid, and white south africans still own over 70% of theefarmland, espite making up 8% of the population. the south african government does wwnt to speed up the process offredistricting landd papers point out that soofar no land has been taken without compensation, as donald trump claims. the gooernment is considering it, but it is not something they are going to dd recklessly. molly: some are saying donall trump is recklessly galvanizing the right. alisoo: the majority of souuh africans were enraged by trump's comments. they did please a minority ggoup called affo forum, an advocacy ggoup for white south africans. the united states to meet witho pight-wing politicians.% -pthat is how they wound up on x trump. the narrative of a possible white genocide happening in various african countries has become a very popular idea among white nationalistt, white supremacists in the united states, many of whom are supporters of the u.s. president , and wh

>> a lot of people hope that ramaphosa is playing some sort of a three-dimensional chess. far left of histh political party and the far left in the country, but ultimately he doesn't really believe in what he explicitly says he believes. ramaphosa has said that by expropriating the farmland, the privately owned farm land in south africa he's going to create the garden of eden in south africa. he's going to turn south africa into hell, just like zimbabwe is a complete catastrophe. if so barack obama should pick up the phone, call cyril ramaphosa and tell him that if he wants to continue to enjoy the good press he's been having, he needs to reverse policy that he has set and behave in accordance with normal rules that define and characterize free countries. >> tucker: i wish he had said that in public when he had the chance. but of course he didn't, being a coward. thank you for your deep knowledge on the subject. i appreciate it. >> my pleasure. >> tucker: so that's a tragedy. you just heard that. keep in mind our state department right now supports race-based land seizures

with plans for the expropriation of land from white farmers without compensation ceremony cyril ramaphosa says the n c will try to amend the constitution with the support of the left wing economic freedom fighters. now u.s. president bill trump has held one of his make america great again rallies in tampa florida and he's trying painting for republicans ahead of the upcoming midterm elections. we've taken the toughest ever actions in response to jungers abusive trade practices. and we're doing very well with china very well and i have a lot of respect for china and i have tremendous respect for president xi have china but this is a big deal many years of abuse five hundred billion dollars a year five hundred billion we help rebuild china we can't do that it. andy gallagher was at the rally in tampa. this was a wide ranging speech from president trump we spoke for a little over an hour he hit the topics that we expected him to do it talked about how well the u.s. economy is doing he talked about supremes court nominations we also judge in a bit about foreign policy in particular his relati

government the government of cyril ramaphosa cannot simply do anything it likes parliament cannot do anything it likes in south africa there is a democratic system in which there's certain resemblances to do you know the united states in that power is diffuse. that's a fundamental misunderstanding i think in this country in this country when ever the words redistribution of land or expropriation without compensation when those words are used people instantly think of zimbabwe and robert mugabe. they do not understand that south africa is a very very different country. ok i am going going forward and do you think that the plan as it has been put forth. can be successful. well there are a number of different land reform plans that are under consideration there is a general agreement in south africa on the need for land reform but there is no consensus about how to go about doing it and there are a variety of ways that it can be done for example the government owns substantial amounts of land there is also a substantial amount of land that is felled by tribal trusts land in those two ca

the process of getting this so sure you couldn't picked assessment was president cyril ramaphosa with one eye and elections next year knows he needs to act he's promised there will be no zimbabwe style land invasions and says the process would be allowed to threats of the economy was the al-jazeera. thousands of south africans have been marching against gender based violence against women is systemic and the demanding government action official figures show an average of around a thousand women are killed each year mostly at the hands of their partners one report estimates the number of women killed since twenty fifteen has more than doubled sexual offenses are also rising last year seventy thousand women were victims overall it's estimated one in five fricken women will experience sexual or physical violence in their lifetime. as a spokeswoman for the so-called total shutdown protest and she says the violence has not been addressed by the government. we were we were discussing it a lot there's a lot of. government we haven't done any. terms of. people and we need to. talk. and talk.

showing that friends and families pay their respects to sue ramaphosa on her final journey the mother of two was cute and zimbabwe's posed in the violence and she was on her way home when she got caught in the crossfire hit in the back by soldiers bullets it's the death of her brother joshua but still it's. your choice that would do it she was a breakthrough in the family. just . when you would just. want to go up and. see. wednesday the position m.d.c. supporters took to the streets and were met was brutal violence by zimbabwe's. what they can and gas rubber bullets and life and the mission to crackdown on opposition demonstrators. president elect emerson has promised consequences that was. in st louis and. i'm going to institute and indeed tended. to inquire into these fears of violence have been subsided the opposition is vowing to challenge the election results nelson chamisa insists the presidency has. lupus. this is. done. to make sure that we. slept but so far has not provided any evidence to back up his claims and the tense situation life and only slowly getting back to normal

president cyril ramaphosa with one or even elections next year knows he needs to act he's promised there will be no zimbabwe style london version and says the process of going to be allowed to threats of the economy. the al-jazeera. politicians in iran have given the president a month's notice to address parliament on the country's economic problems president hassan rouhani is under pressure from the opposition to change his cabinet after relations with the us deteriorated he's going to be questioned about why iran's currency ryall as lost more than half its value since april iran has a chronic shortage of water as well it's estimated there's some form of drought in ninety seven percent of the country some blame the weather others think it's a us conspiracy and environmental experts blame government mismanagement same brush ave reports from tax on every day a small group of iranian farmers meet up at the edge of their town once where the fields of despond lush with crops now barren land by a dry can now they beg for government help. where rainin citizens to we are rainy and to live in th

britain's prime minister theresa may is due to meet with south africa's president cyril ramaphosa later in cape town. the visit is part of a trip to a number of african countries in an effort to try and boost post—brexit trade. last year trade between the two countries in goods and services was worth more than $11 billion, with the uk being south africa's second biggest trading partner within the eu. for britain, south africa is a key market — it's the continent's most industrialised country. it also has a growing middle class — credit suisse estimates it makes up more than 28% of the population. with theresa may is a delegation of 29 businesss leaders, trying to showcase the uk's expertise in technology, infrastructure and financial services. christel aranda—hassel, chief european economist at mizuho international, joins me now. good morning. i mentioned at the beginning of the programme her statement, looking for the uk to overta ke statement, looking for the uk to overtake the us as the biggest g7 invest in africa by 2022, how is she going to make it happen?m invest in africa by 2022

both in the home and on the streets and one of their twenty four demands made to president cyril ramaphosa is to block perpetrators from obtaining government jobs. we have three key main marches right we have legislature which is. fundamentally cape town with the judiciary which it implicate the supreme court of appeal and they think it is the same pretoria they doing it building and what all the key demands that the one of the most important thing that we need the plate that you could meet to. date and time we will all sit down as the clerk of the various stakeholders to say we need to come up with the practical and efficient plan you are in new advocating gender based violence and the reason as to why we chose those three branches of government is that we will be handing over the memorandum to tell them that your policy that baby to tell them that we need to sit down and come up with it to pull you with the various stakeholders in your education gender based by live in the country and today we've seen posts with the hash tag total shut down to encourage women to skip work join the protes

michelle, members of the mandela family, to president ramaphosa, who you can see is providing hope to this country, professor, doctor, distinguished guests, to the people of south africa -- [cheers and applause] mr. obama: it is a singular honor for me to be here with all of you as we gather to celebrate the birth and life of one of history's true giants. let me begin by a correction -- [laughter] and a few confessions. the correction is that i am a very good dancer. [laughter] i just want to be clear about that. michelle is a little better. [laughter] mr. obama: the confessions. number one, i was not exactly invited to be here. i was ordered in a very nice way to be here. [laughter] confession number two, i forgot my geography and the fact that right now it's winter in south africa. i didn't bring a coat, and this morning, i had to send somebody out to the mall because i am wearing longjohns. [applause] [laughter] i was born in hawaii. confession number three, when my staff told me that i was to deliver a lecture, i thought back to the stuffy old professors and bowties and tweed, and

i think ramaphosa is going to be a lot less patient. than maybe jacob zuma was with robert mugabe.ent—elect, who was already the president effectively as a result of the coup last november, which they all said was not a coup, but everyone else did. clearly, robert mugabe says it was a coup. they have applied to return to the commonwealth. is that some potential leverage that could be used? i think that sort of soft power thing can always be used as leverage but i really question whether we should enter into such discussions with someone who was not just a parliamentary colleague or cabinet colleague of robert mugabe, he was his right—hand man. he was mugabe's hard man for a good chunk of time in the office, especially against minorities in zimbabwe. i also think the mdc has asked genuine objective questions that even if they get ruled against in court, should still be heard. people on the electoral roll aged more than 140, i know in a country where mugabe can try and become president again in his 90s, maybe longevity is good but it still seems unlikely. over 100 people at a single

hello and welcome to the program that hamid south africa's president cyril ramaphosa has vowed to crack down on government corruption and he could end up implicating members of his own party a judicial inquiry into alleged corruption at the top levels of government opened on monday but it doesn't have powers to arrest anybody or seize assets it will examine claims of fraud in the public sector during former president jacob zuma time in office zuma was accused of being under the influence of the wealthy gupta family it's estimated billions of dollars of state funds were stolen using corrupt practices some of the miller reports from johannesburg. the commission of inquiry is expected to hold public hearings until of ember this year and the commission could continue its work for another two years so this is just it's early days in terms of what south africans may find out in terms of these allegations of corruption that reached the highest level former president jacob zuma and just how far he might have been involved in these allegations the role he played with regard to an influential fam

without compensation cyril ramaphosa says the a.n.c. will try to amend the constitution with the support of the left wing economic freedom fighters supporters of congolese opposition leader and former warlord jumpier bamber are celebrating was convicted of war crimes and served ten years in prison in the hague but he was released on appeal in may and now wants to run in long delayed elections scheduled for december all one hundred three people on board a passenger plane that crashed and caught fire in northern mexico i've survived emergency services say dozens of people needed hospital treatment but mostly for minor injuries is the stream now. the difference. in this in the marriages of cultures of. al-jazeera. i mean ok and you are in the stream. millions turned out to vote one day in zimbabwe is historic close run election day we ask what's next for the country post mugabe so tweet us a comment in the life you choose chad and you too could be in the street. monday zimbabweans voted in the country's first election since former presiden

south africa's president cyril ramaphosa is staking his reputation on trying to revive the economy ahead of next year's national elections but last week's plan to overhaul how land is owned in the country has alarmed some investors although apartheid ended almost twenty five years ago south african society remains one of the most unequal in the world and has made matters like land rights a burning issue for me to miller has more from stellenbosch. slivers of light shines through the simply furnished home of. she's been living on this land illegally for three weeks there are dozens more roughly built homes dotted across this hill in still and bosh near cape town an area known for its affluent vineyards and estates. it's because of our government that we are here we have us for lent before but they have not helped us we have to make a lot of norris and fight to get this land here the court has ordered that no more can be built and those that are on occupied be destroyed but as night falls people scurry to bring in more building material. is the believe this is our land that was taken from

however south african president cecil ramaphosa who was elected earlier this year is the fifth post apartheid president replacing former president jacob zuma could certainly use the u.k. investment as he is undertaking efforts to ignite the nation's economy after a decade of stagnated growth in july chinese president xi jinping visited south africa and play. fourteen point seven billion dollars of investment in the nation over the years the south african economies begun to move away from once particular will be profitable sectors based upon natural resources those like diamond mining and agriculture and towards where knowledge based economy companies like tech and e-commerce related companies agriculture in south africa has been particularly hard hit recently with regard to drought what we call day zero that's a story you may recall we've covered in the past about the scarcity of water in the drought stricken cape town area while the time while the time for that for days era has moved out to a year from now a year from august drought and water scarcity in south africa is still impacting agric

state schools will no longer have pit latrines under a new programme announced by president cyril ramaphosaply holes in the ground covered by a platform, are used in more than a500 schools. two 5—year—old pupils drowned when they fell into their school latrines. nebraska has become the first american state to use the opioid, fentanyl, to carry out an execution. it was one of four drugs given to kill carey moore, nebraska's longest serving death row inmate. groups campaigning against the death penalty suggest it shows states are having difficulty obtaining the drugs they usually use. swedish police say gangs of youths torched or vandalised at least 80 cars in towns on the southwest coast overnight on monday. two men have been detained, with more arrests expected. the prime minister visited the region and said the disturbances were almost military like in their degree of co—ordination. british anti—terror police are searching three addresses and questioning a 29—year—old man, arrested after his car swerved into pedestrians and cyclists and crashed into a barrier outside parliament, in the mor

private own land but the white owned land in south africa and you heard the statements by president ramaphosa these are identical statements that the government of zimbabwe enacted to ensure that they won their political base over that very difficult and challenging outcome economic conditions that that country faced and so while the elections are still more than six months away the pressure is on the run in the post administration and the and the economic african national congress to ensure that these policy pronouncements are in acted sooner rather than later that has held out to sara i doubt have is about to shake up the political scene in the democratic republic of congo just ahead of crucial elections. and a new factor has been added to the gun control debate in the u.s. trying to firearms. hello there still some flooding on the ground in world two states on the east of the u.s. and to be honest there's a flood risk increase in the next couple days this is a warm feed moist air temperatures something around the thirty mark plenty of potential for a big rain storms here or even hail but i

hello and welcome to the program that hamid south africa's president cyril ramaphosa has vowed to crack down on government corruption and he could end up implicating members of his own party a judicial inquiry into.

offering compensation but for that the constitution has to be changed that is the move president ramaphosa now wants to push ahead with he says the amendment will help drive economic growth. the a.n.c. to. its position that a comprehensive land reform program. that and neighborhood. and. economic growth by bringing more land in south africa to fool you. and they were the productive participation of millions more south africans in the corner plan has been met with sharp criticism from white farmers who have called it catastrophic here's some of the backlash that has happened on mine. and we are going to live happily ever after south africa doesn't have a line problem it has a political problem this is disgraceful what an appalling situation in south africa where are all those protesters de gea and see explained to you that you won't be own in their land but to obey our antonym from them and won't be for free right benny van zeile a south african agricultural union leader told us confiscating land will scare off investors. south africa do have a huge problem with poverty and unemployment and

without offering compensation but for that the constitution has to be changed that is a move president ramaphosa now wants to push ahead with he says the amendment will help drive economic growth. the a.n.c. that. reaffirmed its position that a comprehensive land reform program that and neighborhoods equitable access to lead and. unlock economic growth by bringing in more lead and in south africa to fully use and enable the productive participation of millions more south africans in the economy the plan has been met with sharp criticism from white farmers who have called it a catastrophic here are some of the backlash that has appeared online and we are going to live happily ever after south africa doesn't have a line problem it has a political problem this is disgraceful what an appalling situation in south africa where are all those protesters. and see explained to you that you won't be own in their land by twelve berrington interim them and one day for free. events all the south african agricultural union leader told us confiscating land will scare off investors. south africa do have a huge p

twenty nineteen the economy has underperformed and not met popular expectations since several months ramaphosa was appointed president in february twenty eighth jean succeeding jacob zuma and so this expropriation without compensation is certainly a political ploy to ensure that the ruling african national congress has sufficient electoral support going into those crucial elections next year the political pressure and the support within the ruling alliance the ruling african national congress and its support of parties has really escalated over the recent weeks and months to ensure or to press forward with the expropriation without compensation of not only government owned land not only private own land but the white owned land in south africa and you heard the statements by president run the focus of these are identical statements that the government of zimbabwe enacted to ensure that they won their political base over the very difficult and challenging outcome economic conditions that that country faced and so while the elections are still more than six months away the pressure is on the run

peak of the violence in nine hundred ninety eight it was one hundred fifty three president cyril ramaphosaas announced his plans to redistribute through a series of reforms he says he wants to do it on a way that doesn't further me further racially divide the country. now nearly a million people remain displaced from their homes in the indian state of carolina as it recovers from the worst floods in a century many are questioning though whether due to the disaster could have been avoided as under thomas reports from the town of some blame over some blame overdevelopment some blame the mismanagement of the reservoirs. hundreds of people have died more than a million fled their homes but how that trip was carolyn's disaster the quantity of rain it was unprecedented two and a half times the normal figure for office so far but environmentalists say properly managed its land and rivers would have absorbed it and channeled it to the sea over development in flood plains is to blame left but. claiming that even as an wetlands for other uses that is one of them a good thing which i agree we did was

south africa's president cyril ramaphosa was the first of three african leaders theresa may will meetran africa, her first visit to the continent as prime minister. china is africa's big outside investor and countries like france and germany are alljockeying for opportunities too. for the uk of course brexit is a spa to expand trade beyond the european union, which is by far britain's biggest market —— spur to expand trade. theresa may hopes to get a deal. what all the way down to the bench last night that indicate them, she said you was prepared to walk away rather than accept a bad deal. and the survival of a maritime relic here symbolising this, the hope of closer ties in the future. ben wright, bbc news. our correspondent, jonathan blake, is in westminsterfor us. theresa may might be hoping to forge new links with african countries after brexit, but still looming large, the chance ofan but still looming large, the chance of an ordeal brexit? yes, several matters and several reminders of pressing things ahead in the weeks and months much nearer in the future back home. as ben said

one thousand nine hundred you're looking at one hundred fifty three farms killed president cyril ramaphosaas announced plans to redistribute land through a series of reforms he says he wants to do it in a way that doesn't further racially divide the country. it was the news hour from al-jazeera still ahead of dates with the court for ugandan musician turned politician bobby wine some charges are dropped but the case against him is far from over some of the world's most distinctive sports stars that an unexpected dimension to a church service in mexico. hello there the rain has finally cleared away from the eastern parts of north america you can see it on the satellite picture this area of cloud here finally working its way eastwards and behind it it should be a lot of drier and brighter than it has been recently so new york they're getting to around twenty seven degrees the next system very thin too far away to galloping its way across the plains at the moment and on friday it will be him making its way across the great lakes there and slowly edging further east with as we head through the

ramaphosa is pursuing economic orthodoxy, but pursuing jacob zuma. people are worried policies could go away. the rupee of india fell. we saw pressure on italy, with its new populist government, is another country people worry could get worse. you have risk on and risk off, and suddenly, the world is in a very risk off kind of mood. taylor: we talk about not only the volatility of the leaders, but then the strong dollar and how that weighs on emerging market countries, not only the leery -- lira, but turkeys it turn -- internal -- turkey's internal economy. how was their economic situation right now? peter: one of the reasons turkey did hold up so well is its banks seem to be in fairly good shape. the gdp was growing at a good clip, over 7%. it seemed a lot of things were going their way, but as we know, emerging markets -- they have a lot of debt allergy. they cannot handle debt as well as japan or a u.s., because investors get nervous. the fact they are running a current account deficit, ever since 2002, they have had only one quarter of a positive

south africa's president cyril ramaphosa was the first of three african leaders theresa may will meetop tour of sub—saharan africa, her first visit to the continent as prime minister. china is africa's big outside investor and countries like france and germany are alljockeying for opportunities too. for the uk, of course, brexit is a spur to expand trade beyond the european union, which is by far britain's biggest market. theresa may hopes to get a new deal with the eu hammered out over the autumn. but on the way down to cape town, said again that she was prepared to walk away rather than accept a bad deal. the tone here in south africa is far more friendly, symbolised by the return of a maritime relic, and the hope of closer ties in the future. ben wright, bbc news, cape town. our political correspondent susana mendon a is in westminster. it isa it is a big ask, isn't it? it is. theresa may has to wait until we leave the european union until we formally make trade deals. building inroads into future relationships will lead to a better relationship with countries outside of the eu pos

. >> the president of south africa, cyril ramaphosa, has begun, and you may have seen this in the pressithout compensation because they are the wrong skin color. that is literally the definition of racism. it's totally okay for south africa to steal property for racist reasons because they are, quote, a strong democracy. >> moments later, the president asked his secretary of state to closely study the south africa land and farm seizures and the large-scale killing of the farmers. but as vox laid out, it's all a conspiracy theory promoted by neo-nazi and white nationalists, quote, a theory based on the very real and very controversial issue of post apartheid land reform in south africa, but the white nationalists who propagate it have taken what is a genuinely thorny issue and magnified it beyond all objective facts, twisting it into what they see as a nightmare cautionary tale of white genocide. joining me, host of msnbc's "politics nation" and present of the national action network, reverend al sharpton, and national security correspondent for npr, greg myrie. gentlemen, thank you very

south africa's president cyril ramaphosa was the first of three african leaders theresa may will meetsub—saharan africa, her first visit to the continent as prime minister. china is africa's big outside investor and countries like france and germany are alljockeying for opportunities too. for the uk, of course, brexit is a spur to expand trade beyond the european union, which is by far britain's biggest market. theresa may hopes to get a new deal with the eu hammered out over the autumn. but on the way down to cape town, said again that she was prepared to walk away rather than accept a bad deal. the tone here in south africa is far more friendly, symbolised by the return of a maritime relic, and the hope of closer ties in the future. ben wright, bbc news, cape town. our africa business editor larry madowo joins us now from nairobi with more on this. many people saying that the chinese already invest massively in africa as to the united states and the eu and theresa may is a bit late to the party. she is a bit late to the party. she is a bit late to the party but it is something under