president cyril ramaphosa _ government. president cyril ramaphosa and _ government.t cyril i ramaphosa and the ruling anc are in trouble, and they know it. accused of incompetence and overseeing a failing state. we are focused, _ overseeing a failing state. - are focused, in terms of dealing with it. it is an achilles�* heel, and i can�*t tell you tonight, or any time, that this is an easy matter for our government. surely after covid-19, this is the our government. surely after covid—19, this is the biggest challenge that has faced us internally. challenge that has faced us internally-— internally. two years ago, street fighting _ internally. two years ago, street fighting and - internally. two years ago, street fighting and looting internally. two years ago, i street fighting and looting hit several south african cities. this wasn�*t supposed to happen in the rainbow nation envisaged by mandela. now the power cuts are deepening the disillusion. elections are coming next year, and one populist politician senses opportunity in the current crisis.— senses opportunity

you have accused cyril ramaphosa of cosying up to vladimir putin.ofile trip last year yourself to kyiv. is your message to south africans that they need to reorient south africa's foreign policy away from the brics, that sort of close alliance with russia, china, india, brazil, and cosy up to the united states? well, we need western countries to continue to invest in south africa. the uk, the united — sorry, the european union, and the united states account for 77% of all foreign direct investment into south africa. juxtapose that with the 6.2% from china and russia. it makes no economic or pragmatic sense for south africa to be aligning itself with groups when our overwhelming benefits come from the western countries. what's clearly... well, i don't know if you've seen polls, but there are plenty of polls over the last year which have asked south africans, "who do you sympathise with more — russia, china, the brics, or the united states?" and a majority actually say the bric nations. well, i've seen the economist poll which says very clearly that 7

the announcement was made by a south african president ramaphosa. two leaders that i had occasion to speak to, president putin, and president zelenskyy, agreed that they would be willing to receive a mission of the african heads of state in both scout and kyiv. >> most african countries have abstained from voting on resolutions at the un security council condemning russia's invasion of ukraine. russia has been building close ties with states in africa. >> i believe ukraine needs to take steps forward to meet the countries of the african continent. we did not work well for many years. i think it is a big mistake. >> ukraine is one of the biggest exporters of wheat to africa, russia is one of the largest exporters of fertilizer. since the war broke out, food prices in africa have shot up, spreading widespread discontent. the u.n. warns 200 when he million people could face hunger, with red becoming unaffordable. -- with red --bread becoming unaffordable. >> we can see why african countries want to engage in the political process. >> many are questioni

it happened a day after ramaphosa spoke to russian president vladimir putin. has positioned itself as neutral in the conflict. now, because of the russian invasion, ukraine has been unable to host the eurovision song contest — despite winning the competition last year. the uk is holding the contest on ukraine's behalf. maryam moshiri has been following the events in liverpool all week — here she was as the opening ceremony was kicking off. we saw an amazing introduction with the princess of wales playing the piano, andrew lloyd webber amongst other performers. it was really inspirational. it sent shivers down my spine, to be honest with you. this is the culmination of months and months of preparation, lukwesa. the city of liverpool has been preparing for this for so long. the eurovision song contest is 26 countries battling it out, if you like, in terms of music. who has produced the best song? after all of those 26 countries sing their hearts out, there will be a vote, a public vote, and of course those points in the public vote will be added to the jury vote

russia and meet with the leadership of both of the countries , the president of the pair, cyril ramaphosais today . at the same time, he added that both countries meant ukraine and russia had already agreed to receive this delegation, he also said that this group peacekeepers from africa intends to offer volodymyr zelenskyi and putin his own peace plan, which, according to president ramaphosa, can contribute to the implementation of other peace missions and initiatives, well, agree vasyl , it’s really an interesting moment, people come with a peace plan, but they say, well, our peace plan is not exactly a peace plan because it can simply be used to implement other peace plans well , i don't know who is next, i'm just wondering who will propose a peace plan for settlement, as they say, in the ukrainian crisis, they say yes and no , in order to reconcile ukraine with russia, the conflict, the crisis, but let them come and let them present this plan, that is, we will not now. talk, let him speak and let them show these peace plans, we'll see and then we'll discuss, let's move on. china plays

meanwhile, south african president cyril ramaphosa has announced that leaders from six african nations will soon visit moscow and kyiv on a peace mission. ramaphosa said he recently spoke with russian president vladimir putin and ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy. >> my discussions with the two leaders demonstrated that they're both ready to receive african leaders and to have a discussion on how this conflict can be brought to an end. amy: in other news on the war, russia is claiming it has destroyed a u.s.-made patriot missile defense system in kyiv that had been used earlier this week to intercept numerous russian strikes, including six hypersonic missiles. u.s. and ukrainian officials have admitted the patriot missile defense system had been damaged but said it was not destroyed. meanwhile, the head of ukraine's supreme court has been dismissed after he was detained as part of a probe into corruption and bribery. a new report from the costs of war project at brown university is estimating at least 4.5 million people have died as a consequence of the wars in afghanistan, iraq,

. >> president ramaphosa says over the weekend he had the opportunity to speak to both president zelenskyynd president putin over this proposed africa peace initiative . about six countries including zambia, senegal, egypt, and south africa, are interested in carrying out this piece mission to try and speak to both leaders in peace settlement, so he says that because these leaders have indicated their willingness to listen and receive these delegations, there are no means to start the discussion -- there are now means to start the discussion on how to constitute this delegation that would have to go and sit down with the two warring leaders. brent: you know there has been talk several times about possible peace plans. they certainly have not panned out. what makes the leaders from these six african nations think that they have a better chance when it comes to mediating or bringing about the end of this war? >> i think for africa, they could believe it in terms of using its soft power in terms of some of the countries that are in the brics like china. and africa has strong ties with china.

when south africa's president, cyril ramaphosa, came to power in 2018, he promised to stop the rot.ecency and integrity that does not tolerate the plunder of public resources, nor the theft by corporate criminals of the hard—earned savings of ordinary people. as part of that process, the president brought in a businessman called andre de ruyter — the tall white man he's greeting here. his task — to lead south africa's energy transformation and to fix the mess at the power utility eskom. the rot was much worse than i anticipated when i took thejob. my rough estimate of the amount of money that gets stolen in eskom every month is in the region of a billion rand. every month. a billion rand. that's $50 million each month. to be fair, there have been some arrests. this man is an alleged saboteur, accused of damaging a local power station on behalf of a criminal gang. but these prosecutions are targeting the lower ranks. the cartel leaders, the politicians seem untouchable and still determined to block the transition away from coal. there are so many vested interests in the coal value ch

south africa's president, cyril ramaphosa, is in trouble and he knows it.ently classified the energy crisis and its impact as a disaster. he declared a state of national disaster as load—shedding worsened, but eskom still reckons outages may get worse as winter bites. south africa's opposition parties sense an opportunity. polls show anc support falling below 50%. when you said not so long ago, "there is a changing of the guard coming in south africa. the anc�*s decline is terminal. it's just a matter of how fast," did you really believe that? of course i believed it and i think it's a fair assessment about where the anc find themselves. in the last local government elections in 2021, for the first time in post—democratic south africa, they lost their majority and fell below 50%. this obviously, allied with the fact that our economy is not growing... we've got 30 million people living in poverty, 12 million people unemployed, and load—shedding, rolling blackouts which have reached into every home and switched off the lights, switched off our factories and s

corresponding ships were loaded, how they were unloaded , the new russia, but as you see, president ramaphosaking every step to say that the republic of south africa is up to all this she is absolutely not involved, moreover, she is ready to act as a kind of mediator in establishing, let's say , a dialogue, which is true, they hardly understand , well, on the one hand, knowing who represents ukraine and the ambassador in south africa to the republic, i understand that kyiv is well informed about such steps and about what and how gramofosa is doing in this situation , and that is another matter. that from the point of view of respect for international law, we will have to spend time on holding meetings that from the point of view and content-wise and organizationally, they will be completely under the control of the kremlin , which , let's say, causes internal concern. warrant of the international criminal court over the past two months, there have been various statements from pretoria about how they will act for putin. obviously, this summit and a possible trip there are also certain challeng

south african president cyril ramaphosa's office has said its �*disappointed by the claims�*.ead the social media platform. he has yet to name the ceo but he did say that she will be starting in six weeks. now if you've seen much bbc content recently, you'll know there's something called the eurovision song contest going on. in the last hour, the second semi—final finished. colin paterson has more. fans flocking to the second eurovision semifinal. there are 16 countries competing for the final ten places in saturday's contest, and there are a lot of belgians. they will definitely go to the finals and will end up second. that's a confident and very specific prediction. absolutely. music. experts said this was by far the weaker of the two semis, but belgium's gustav did indeed prove to be particularly popular in the arena. music. greece's victor is only 16, but his khaki clothes brought back memories of steve irwin. # god, you're such a good writer. # oh, it's not me. # it's edgar. austria's tia and selena sang about the ghost of the gothic writer edgar allan poe. music. ...and

study the question of whether may putin fly in despite the international criminal court warrant, ramaphosa ago about the fact that well, in principle, it is putin who will arrest him, but today we congratulate everyone , the south african editorial office wrote about the fact that the authorities of the south african republic informally warned russia , which will be forced to arrest the russian dictator on the warrant of the international criminal court, can these events, such reports , change putin's behavior when he realizes that he is apart of kyrgyzstan and several countries central asia well, maybe china , he will not be able to go anywhere because there is already an order for his arrest, hand it over actually, it is already happening well, you know, you can have a unanimous opinion against the dynamo-african republic, someone may not like the whole country, but it is a democratic country and the main thing is that he is the leader of africa and this country simply will not allow himself even if there is some politician there. is it the president or the opposition, if he wants to ple

international criminal court, mainly because of how the icc decides similar problems, but soon the ramaphosa administration refuted this idea, calling it a silent judgment, and russia has to get used to such diplomatic slaps by political scientists they say - this is one of a whole chain of signs that russia has lost its political authority, the process of changing attitudes towards russia, e.e. disappointment in russia in its power and the power of its influence , this process began last year when it became obvious that russia could not win the war against ukraine, and they got a whole series of humiliating defeats, that's it, that kind of contempt for putin was manifested personally at the summit of the shanghai cooperation organization in uzbekistan, and the next steps when putin did not go to the summit of the g20 and how is it they met lavrov, the icc warrant actually closed all decent foreign policy doors for putin, and they weren’t very happy to see him anyway. and somewhere, they still don’t mind receiving it. although some economic profit from a once influential partner, the very fi

with a group of african countries this week the president of the republic of south africa from the ramaphosaesident of ukraine and the president of russia agreed to meet with the group of leaders of african countries to discuss a potential peace plan, let's hear from ramaforsa, the two leaders with whom i had the opportunity to talk, that is, president putin and president zelensky, agreed that they would be ready to accept the mission of the heads of african states both in moscow and in kyiv. we could discuss how to end this conflict or whether it will be successful or not will depend on future discussions and we have a comment from sergey lavrov, the minister of foreign affairs of the russian federation, we will also hear about this initiative, the initiative is being plastered the president of romafoza actually called president putin on the phone, and they put forward this idea of ​​the presidency, he is always ready to talk with all our partners who are sincerely interested in a stable situation in the world, so that no more similar provocations and similar attacks on international law an

cyril ramaphosa will travel with leaders from zambia, senegal, congo, uganda and egypt.laimed south africa has taken a pro—russia stance and supplied moscow with weapons. an international arrest warrant has been issued by france for the governor of lebanon's central bank. riad salameh failed to appear for questioning by french investigators looking into how he amassed sizeable assets across europe. he is suspected of building his network of real estate and banking assets via fraud. mr salameh denies the charges. this spring has seen record temperatures across vietnam, the philippines, thailand — and hotter than normal weather in singapore — as well as further north in south korea and china. a week ago, vietnam recorded its highest—ever temperature, just over 44 degrees celsius. and in china, there's been a surge in electricity use, as people switch on their air conditioners. and workers who do physical labour have been experiencing health problems in the extreme heat. from a conference in arizona on the topic, associate professorjason lee, director of the heat resilience

under the white ruchenky, let 's still listen to the president of this south african republic, cyril ramaphosauddenly name and if suddenly well, if anyone did not know what he looks like, i am asking for this person who is proposing another peace plan for ukraine, the two leaders with whom i had the opportunity to talk, i.e. president putin and president zelensky agreed that they would be ready to accept the mission of the heads of african states in both moscow and kyiv. we could discuss how to put an end to this conflict. whether it will be successful or not will depend on future discussions, and this is not the same president of the same south african republic. a few days ago, after all, they admitted that they were sending weapons to russia, but they say they don't know how it happened, they didn't film it, so bad , some guards were sitting there in the corridor, well, in a word, it was an inclusion from a briefing that was held with the prime minister of singapore at the echo forest in cape town, this video was given to the agency bloomberg is about how to actually put an end to the so-cal

cyril ramaphosa will travel with leaders from zambia, senegal, congo, uganda and egypt.—russia stance and supplied moscow with weapons. an international arrest warrant has been issued by france for the governor of lebanon's central bank. riad salameh failed to appear for questioning by french investigators looking into how he amassed sizeable assets across europe. he is suspected of building his network of real estate and banking assets via fraud. financial system and the misuse of lebanese public money. mr salameh denies the charges. the cannes film festival has kicked off in france with the premiere of johnny depp�*s new film. the star was greeted by fans and signed autographs before he took to the world famous red carpet. depp plays kings louis xv in the french language film jon du barry. it's his first major role since his highly public trial with his ex—wife, amber heard. also, michael douglas, accompanied by his wife catherine zeta jones and their daughter caris, also attended the opening ceremony. the 78—year—old actor was there to receieve an honourary palm d'0r,

create a peace initiative that will supposedly help end the conflict between russia and ukraine, ramaphosaold about this at a joint briefing with the prime minister of singapore lysian loon in cape town , the initiative group will include egypt , zambia, the republic of congo, senegal and uganda, in addition to the couple, two leaders with whom i had an opportunity to talk, that is, president putin and president zelensky agreed that they would be ready to accept the mission of the heads of african states in moscow and kyiv. we could discuss how to end this conflict, whether it would be successful or not will depend on future discussions one hetman ukrainian military will receive 34 more pickup trucks from germany, the german embassy in ukraine informed, i will remind you earlier, german chancellor olafsholz announced the allocation of a new military aid package in our country in the amount of 2 billion 700 million euros , the diplomatic mission noted that mobility is an important factor defense capabilities and stability of ukraine to strengthen the security forces of ukraine, the ministry

president cyril ramaphosa and the ruling anc are in trouble — and they know it.t is an achilles' heel and i can't tell you tonight or any time that this is an easy matter for our government. surely, after covid—19, this is the biggest challenge that has actually faced us internally. two years ago, street violence and looting hit several south african cities. this wasn't supposed to happen in the rainbow nation envisaged by mandela. now, the power cuts are deepening the dissolution. elections are coming next year and one populist politician senses opportunity in the current crisis. let the grid collapse as it is going to happen and see what's going to happen in this country. i'm not wishing it — i'm saying it's going to happen and you'll see what's going to happen. do you think that once the grid collapse, people are going to exchange roses with government? people are going to rise. back in khayelitsha, wiseman, his wife, ruby, and their two young daughters huddle in the candlelight. do you feel safe when there is no power? no, we don't. we don't. actually, what i

that all changed a year ago, he says, when president ramaphosa ordered a task force be formed and investigatorssing the net. >> what message does this arrest give to those who still remain at large in rwanda and in other possible crimes of humanity? >> persons who are powerful today are not powerful any more tomorrow. sometimes you have to wait months, sometimes years, but the message is very clear. there's no limitations for those war crimes. even if it takes years, we will, at the end of the day, get those guys. >> reporter: he was one of the handful of those most wanted for the genocide. rwandan prosecutors are still looking for more than 1,200 fugitives. the hunt is far from over. >>> three other individuals are wanted by the u.n. for alleged war crimes committed in rwanda and remain at large. the u.s. state department is offering rewards of up to $5 million for information that leads to their arrest or conviction in any country. nbati was the mayor of gusuvu, accused of directing police to hunt down individuals who fled into the nearby hills, leading to the deaths of tens of thousands of p

but ramaphosa says his government is looking into the allegation, which one of his ministers has deniedtems from an incident in december, when the u.s. says a cargo ship was loaded with arms at a south african naval base. >> the government of south africa is in fact not honest. among the things we noted was the docking of the russian cargo ship between december 6-8. which we are confident uploaded weapons, ammunitions, onto the vessel as it made its way back to russia. which does not suggest to us the actions of a non-ally country. nicole: our correspondent tells us more about the diplomatic falling out between the u.s. and south africa. privilege: yes. um, the latest we received is the u.s. ambassador, he has apologized to the south african government. i believe this is following his visit to the foreign affairs minister, earlier. the south african foreign ministry had said that they were going to formerly complain to the u.s. government about the aiko's age and submit by the ambassador on -- about the accusations by the ambassador on saturday. so he has apologized. and more to that, t

wow, south african president cyril ramaphosa says russia and ukraine have agreed to a visit by a peacekeepingn countries gramphosa reports that vladimir putin and vladimir zelensky will meet with a delegation in moscow and the kiwis, respectively, to discuss a potential peace plan. this announcement followed african accusations that the southern africa supplies weapons to russia ramofosa insists that his country is neutral. he denies preferring russia. my conversations with both leaders showed that they were both ready to receive african leaders and discuss. how can this conflict be ended, whether it will be successful or not will depend on what kind of discussions take place around 6 countries including zombies senegal egypt oncosaville and south africa are interested in this peaceful mission to try to talk to themselves leaders about peaceful settlement. the conflict ramofosa did not give specific dates for the visit or other details, saying only that the conflict was devastating and that africa is also suffering greatly because of it. south africa, considered one of moscow's closest allies

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armed forces . will not leave the international criminal court , the country's president, cyril ramaphosaated this. he explained that the reason for the previous statement was a mistake during speeches of the leaders of the ruling party earlier, the international criminal court obliged the member countries of the rome statute to arrest putin if he finds himself on their territory china cannot be trusted to mediate in order to end the russian war in ukraine because beijing, on the contrary , benefits from prolonging hostilities about this in an interview with the newspaper the politician said the president of the czech republic, petropavlovsk, in his opinion, the leadership of the celestial empire wants to maintain the current situation because, first of all, this can force russia to make certain concessions in relations with china, and secondly, ukraine's support weakens the west, which is also very convenient for beijing. china respects the sovereignty of all former soviet states , the ministry of foreign affairs of the people 's republic of china reported this after the scandalous inter