i'm speaking of south africa. the one you can easily find on the map. africa, there. cool.til a few years ago, our economy was humming, tourism was thriving and we, too, were celebrating our first black president. remember that feeling? basically, times were good. >> after 27 years, nelson mandela walked out a victor today. >> the 2010 fifa world cup will be organized in south africa. ( cheers and applause ) >> south africa's oscar pistorius won the day. >> oscar pistorius is the paraolympic champion. ♪ >> trevor: oh, man, so many good memories. i was in the crowd when the simba thing was happening. yeah, we had to stop doing that because the next year he dropped the cub. anyway, the point, is things were looking up for us as a nation. unfortunately, in the last few years, things have taken a turn for the worse. the economy stalled. unemployment is at record highs, government corruption is rampant and wasn't just oscar pistorius who disappointed us, last year simba was arrested for securities fraud. yes, so why did this all happen? i'll tell you why. because south african v

i led a tour group in 1994, to south africa and we visited the children in the school's thing to and we danced in was very very moving, but what was interesting was we had a native south african tour guide helping us and he surprised me, alarmed me when he said there were better times during the apartheid because now most of us are employed and we have been fired from our jobs because they have to give us a fair wages and i was thinking like in the hebrew bible and exodus when the jews escaped from bondage and slavery from egypt and then started complaining in the desert. if we want to go back to slavery that's when you are speaking about freedom been so difficult, so i would like your comments because i heard it more than once from other black south africans that they had better times before. >> will say this, i cannot speak for everyone in south africa and i acknowledge that the combination of the hard work of my parents, look on my part and hard work i know that i'm in a position of privilege and so i cannot speak for everyone who may not have the same things i do, but i do know th

i led a tour group in 1994 to south africa and we visited the children in the -- and the school sang to us and it was very moving, but what was interested was we had a native south african guy helping us and he surprised me, alarmed me when he said there were better times during the apartheid because now most of us are unemployed and we've been fired from our jobs because they have to give us fair wages and i was thinking, it's like in the hebrew bible and exodus when the jews escaped from egypt and then they started complaining in the desert, if we want to go back to slavery, that's when you were speaking about freedom being so difficult. >> yeah. >> i would like your comments because i heard it more than once from other black south africans that they had better times before. >> i will say this. i cannot speak for everyone in south africa and i acknowledge that through a combination of the hard work of my parents, lack on my part and hard work, i know that i'm in a position of privilege and i so i cannot speak to anyone that may have the same things as i do, but i do know this, freed

churchill's father had been in south africa a year before. yet traveled much of the country and written letters back home, which were published. he was a correspondent and published in a local newspaper. hadhose letters, he attacked the boers for the lack of education, for their lack of sophistication, and for their treatment of native africans, which is perfectly fair. the boers know about those letters in the hated him. when they found out that they had his son, who was also the son of the lord, someone who had been born into the highest ranks of the british aristocracy, and represented everything they hated about great britain, they were thrilled. himthey made it clear to that they were going to keep a close eye on him. unfortunately, the boers were also determined to prove to the british that they are very sophisticated. and they were very civilized. this is an officer's prison, so they went to extreme length to let them have all kinds of privileges. churchill had a regular barber coming in to cut his hair and give him a shave. they had a

guardian newspaper noted in reference to your selection, this is a big achievement not only for south africa and before the continent. but then i looked up kugel with a 85 million people there is 1.2 billion people in africa. day uc yourself as a trailblazer for as others from south africa by a set j. prominent important but once i was afforded the ability to travel i graciously cross that with both hands and embraced that i always tell people to travel to one of my favorite quotations it is the answer to ignorance and they truly believe that. [applause]m a soleil really proud to come from a country where we achieved the odds and it isn't a perfect country but we managed to shift power from the minority running a dictatorship moving that to the majority running the country and still is. it is not over night to because freedom is a lot of hard work but i feel like a came from an exceptional place and a country that is a trailblazer so i wanted to beat the child of south africa and they celebrate that i still have some much to learn again it is not a country that is a surprise to some people b

understanding, what was he doing in south africa anyway?rain and he the he is one ofld, the few civilians on the train and is attacked. ofimmediately takes charge the defense of the train even though there are lots of soldiers on the train. their commander is right there. he takes charge. .verybody listens they listen to him and they do what he tells them to do. aliveman who makes it out forits winston church hill saving their lives. free what is left of the train. half of the train was blocking the tracks. trainere able to get the going while there are bullets. he jumps off because he thinks there are more wounded men. he realizes that they have 40 been taken prisoner. and he reachesrs for his pistol and he realizes that he left it on the train and he was a huge admirer of napoleon in he remembered" saying, if you are alone and unarmed there is no shame in surrender and he raises his hands and surrenders. they take him to a teacher's college and today it is a public library. the building still stands. it was a prison just for officers. sur

three days after the war began, winston churchill, seeing his opportunity, was on a ship to south africa, hired to cover the war as a correspondent. on the same ship was the commander and chief of her majesty's army in out africa. so confident were the british that bowler would make quick work of the boras, they had already nicknamed him the steam roller. but buller was more cow shouaut. he knew the boras. he knew that although they did not have an empire, a navy or a standing army, the boras were masters of modern warfare. unlike most of britain's colonial enemies, they had incredibly sophisticated weapons, some of which were better than what buller could give to his own men. they were extraordinary marksman, having spent two centuries doing little else other than hunting and fighting. they knew every nook and cranny of the territory, and could disappear without a trace, making them an invisible and very dangerous enemy. the boras had learned from one of their first and fiercest enemies, the bandtum, a linguistic family with hundreds of different ethnic groups, including nelson mandela'

in his editorial the paper says south africa and the amc party can no longer afford the luxury of keeping zuma. they advised they get rid of him and it's pretty much the same message from the south applicant -- south african tabloid. >> both hillary clinton and donald trump are facing a lot of heat in the few days before the vote. the reports that african-american early voter numbers have been down for the democrats. theppears the revival of e-mail scandal last week has narrowed the gap the twin clinton and trump even though clinton still remains a favorite to win. one writer writes in the conservative paper wall street journals saying that clinton was the safe hands candidate a few weeks ago. trump is still the underdog but he's no longer a long shot. >> one group of voters surprisingly coming out in favor of donald trump. >> it's a really interesting article in the new york times. some fats are planning to vote for trump on election day despite the fact that trump avoided the vietnam draft. boasted of gathering foreign policy the knowledge by watching tv and he has made lunch attacks on

that started even in a war in south africa. mr. lamb: when did you start your research on this book? ms. millard: about five years ago after i finished my manuscript for "destiny of the republic." i had had this sort of percolating in my mind and was really interested so i started the research right away. but it is a big job. you know, as you were talking earlier, there is a lot to know about winston churchill, even at this young age. and a lot of travel involved and just a lot of time thinking about it. i think that a lot of people that are interested in writing think that writing is sitting at a keyboard and typing, but it is really thinking. you know, you have to gather all of the information, you have to absorb it and then you have to understand it and then you have to figure out how you are going to tell the story. mr. lamb: when you started the research on this one, oldest was about nine. how have you juggled raising three kids and having time to think and read and research and travel? ms. millard: it takes longer than i alwa

anything, youay must tell me when you're coming to south africa. >> the sooner the better 11/28/16 11 . >> when are you coming? visited my south african homeland. i love it as a homeland. homeland as i love you. amy: that was nelson mandela imploring fidel castro to come to south africa. in this is fidel castro speaking in south africa in 1998. >> that south africa be a model of the more just and more humane future. [applause] if you can do it, we will all be able to do it. amy: that was fidel castro speaking in south africa. and before that, nelson mandela just after he got out of jail, visiting castro in cuba to invite him to south africa. bill fletcher, talk about the relationship of cuba, fidel castro come up with the continent of africa and liberation struggles there. >> is interesting because there was a special relationship that existed between the cuban revolution in africa from almost the beginning. the cubans were very supportive of the algerian struggle against the french, which seceded in 1962. they went on to support the various anticolonial movements in africa, including

saying they have had enough of him, enough of state capture, and enough fraud in south africa. political analyst, legal analysts, and organizations have said that today's court ruling is a victory for south africa's constitutional democracy. it also demonstrates that nobody is above the law in south africa, not even the president of the country. genie: how damaging might this be for jacob zuma? are there fears this could cause his downfall? you know thatrse jacob xoma has devised a number this in south africa, but seems to have damaging information in it. that is why resident jacob zuma wanted to suppress the release of the report. he said he did not have enough time to respond to the allegations in the report level led against him, and that is why he wanted the opportunity to question the witnesses. we will have to wait a little just a couple more hours, to see what exactly in this report is so damaging that president jacob zuma did not want it to be released to the public. genie: thank you for that, and we will be checking back with you in a few hours time. she was reporting

narrator: in south africa, as in many african countries south of the sahara, the legacy of colonialismill felt today. with the end of apartheid, the south african government made a commitment to redistribute lands to black residents who were forcibly relocated to homelands. but land reform is a complicated process that will continue for many years to come. for geographers, tools like global positioning system technology can help monitor progress and assess outcomes. africa, south of the sahara, is a region of great natural beauty and great human potential, but it also confronts overwhelming challenges. multiple factors like poverty, underdevelopment, war and political instability collude to make life expectancy in this region the lost ithe world. in the east african country of kya, the hiv virus which causes aids, coupled with many of these factors, has created an epidemic of devastating proportions. here, medical geographers study disease diffusion-- how disease is distributed through populations in both space and time. in kenya, we find that diffusion has been accelerated through mig

three days after the war began, winston churchill, seeing his opportunity, was on a ship to south africa, hired to cover the war as a correspondent. on the same ship was the commander and chief of her majesty's army in out africa. so confident were the british that bowler would make quick work of the boras, they had already nicknamed him the steam roller. but buller was more cow shouaut. he knew the boras. he knew that although they did not have an empire, a navy or a standing army, the boras were masters of modern warfare. unlike most of britain's colonial enemies, they had incredibly sophisticated weapons, some of which were better than what buller could give to his own men. they were extraordinary marksman, having spent two centuries doing little else other than hunting and fighting. they knew every nook and cranny of the territory, and could disappear without a trace, making them an invisible and very dangerous enemy. the boras had learned from one of their first and fiercest enemies, the bandtum, a linguistic family with hundreds of different ethnic groups, including nelson mandela'

[mususic] narrator: south africa's rate of road fatalities is the second highest in africa at 32 per per year. and it's representatitive of many middle-income countries where populations are growing and more cars are on the road. the united states has a relatively high rate for a developed country at around 11 per 100,000, but the good news is that it's been proven that these figures can be brought down. [engine revving] apart from world leader sweden, the united kingdom has halved its level to just under 3 per 100,000 in the last decade. the e key elemements were greatr enforcement, road alterations, and public awareness campaigns like this. the video here is taken from a motorcyclist who had a camera on his helmet and recorded his own death. woman: i knknowe rode fast t tht day. he loved speed. the drivevr didn't see h him and turnened rt across his path. david didn't have time to take evasive action. david: whoa! nanarrator: : given that thehe t 100 years has seen a massive increase in road traffic worldwide, there's now a race between improved road safety on the one hand, and on

do we think south africa will do the same? >> it's been a very messy year in terms of political backgrounds, minutes of finance, is the minister of finance being fired or not. all sorts of questions. in this period there was one solid anchor in south africa, which is the central bank. to be honest, if you go around you see a lot of lazy central banks out ere. definitely not the case of the south african central bank. the monetary policy anchor has been there. that was one of the reasons why rand assets did not sell off more than they did. >> is it your impression that the fund flows are going to continue out of emerging markets and into u.s. asset classes? for example, european? do we think this trend will continue? >> the last six months have been benign. we had inflow in the asset class. now the story is a bit different over the past month given, you know, the price action in the core markets. not only u.s., not only the fear of the fiscal impact on u.s. curve, but also the uncertainty around the ecb policy. we do believe we

is, as, south africa repeat of 2013.interesting ones for me. 2013, it wasck in suffering through everything else. it has not moved this year. it is a different world than 2013. we floated the ruble. we have the sanctions. nonetheless, astonishingly stable against some of its compatriots. that resonates in my mind. clearly people are looking address it in a different way. absolutely, again, here we are in a situation, 12 months ago, we were getting deeply concerned about what was happening with the cmy. think 80 spending, i billion in november. then they spent 100 billion in december, trying to defend the currency. here we are quietly. hints that intervention is starting to pick up from the pbo c. do we get a repeat in november, december and january? yousef: thank you very much for joining us. fantastic conversation. still to come, a french presidential face-off. we will bring you the highlights between the final french presidential republican debate. stay with us. ♪ yousef: yielding results. the euro area officials may n

south africa looking through 55 pages of the report now.ple are really wondering what it will mean for jacob zuma. anchor: briefly, now that the report has come out, not only are there more allegations against this president, but he is losing support politically pu. can he hold on? reporter: there is more pressure on him to resign. we have seen the government is divided. we have to see how it is going to respond. but his position is getting more unstable. anchor: thank you. the united nations has declared today the international day to end impunity for crimes against journalists. to coincide with this the international meteor organization, reporters without borders has published competitors of press, it is -- creditors of -- predators of press, a list. and on that list is the president of turkey, tayyip erdogan. german chancellor merkel has spoken up, describing turkey's actions as highly alarming. anchor: our correspondent dorian jones joins us on the line from is stumble. angela merkel says she is alarmed by the turkish claim down on jour

against hiv, the virus that causes aids, is being tested in south africa. it is the most advanced clinical trial to take place there. is institute of health funding the trial. reporter: the most ambitious hiv vaccine trial is underway in south africa. on the e.u. of world aids day, scientists say this will be the largest clinical trial to be launched in a country where 1000 .eople contract hiv every day if successful, this trial could be to the licensing of the world's first hiv vaccine. >> it is significant because we have been looking for a preventive vaccine for 50 years. quite a few years ago a vaccine trial was run in thailand. .6,000 people volunteered we found a modest but highly significant vaccine of 30%. for the first time, we had any indication that a vaccine could prevent hiv infections. built on it,that, we believe we have a better deal now. aims to: the study enroll 5400 sexually active hiv negative men and women across the country. this is one of the participants in the trial. >> i was involved because i do not like the way my hiv-positive co

south africa managed to escape a downgrade.l of this likely to make it more likely it could be downgraded to junk i s&p? >> who knows. last week they said political turmoil is bound to hurt south africa am a leading up to the national electric conference by 2019mc into next year and when a new president is elected for the country. political turmoil becomes a big has ledr the agency and up to it being almost number one, as important as growth when taking south africa's rate into account. it is a big question mark, budget volatility is bound to come into the markets. it is unsure what will happen with s&p. a downgrade means we go into junk status for the first time in a few years. vonnie: the rand is not suffering too much. below 14, but the central bank did not have to do anything on rates to stabilize the rand. what is the outlook for the currency? >> inflation currently sitting at 6.3%. the rand rallied hard and that was probably because of what with southth regards africa awaiting a downgrade. a lot of positivity has come thr

that is good to south africa.ed to talk about what is happening with this man, jacob zuma, a serious challenge to his leadership. we'll take you to south africa, next. this is a bloomberg. -- this is bloomberg. ♪ this tuesday session. let us take a look exactly where we stand with the european equity markets far from having their cake and eating it. it seems to be a bland session right now. down by 0.2%. the dax is -- cac is outperforming up the moment. matt has swedish data for you. matt: we have swedish gdp actually, guy, which came out at 3.1%, a little bit less than the 3.4% year-over-year figure we saw last time. swedish third-quarter gdp growing 0.5% quarter over quarter but the year-over-year figures are the one you'll want to look at, i guess, a little bit more closely. what i love to look at on the bloomberg is the coun function. i have sweden in the coun function, which shows a number of different things. the profile tab gives you, well, there you see the krone. it gives you less than 10 million people l

what do you see is the outlook in south africa? a well, they're facing quite ifficult period at the moment. we do have a very low growth scenario. but i think we do have a strong sense of responsibility that this is our problem as a country and that we need to deal with this problem. i think we have a strong sense of ownership. out sustainable parkway. i think pepfar did use the sniffs. -- incentives. they were happy with the way that the partners are performing and thaw felt they want to support intervention for young women and young girls. so that was an incentive. but i think it does recognize other countries that are much poorer than ourselves, for example the g.d.p. of malawi compared to ourselves. it's clear that changes do need to happen over a lengthy time period. we are on a period of massive expansion. e need expand from about about six million people on treatment. but we will do what we need to do. best in k we'll do our a difficult climate with the valued help of our partners. >> so doubling the number of ople on there,

what do you see is the outlook in south africa? >> well, they're facing quite a difficult period at the moment. we do have a very low growth scenario. but i think we do have a strong sense of responsibility that this is our problem as a country and that we need to deal with this problem. i think we have a strong sense of ownership. i think it lays out sustainable parkway. i think pepfar did use the incentives. they were happy with the way that the partners are performing and thaw felt they want to support intervention for young women and young girls. so that was an incentive. but i think it does recognize other countries that are much poorer than ourselves, for example the g.d.p. of malawi compared to ourselves. it's clear that changes do need to happen over a lengthy time period. we are on a period of massive expansion. we need expand from about about six million people on treatment. but we will do what we need to do. so i think we'll do our best in a difficult climate with the valued help of our partners. >> so doubling the numbe

south africa is bracing for more rain, more flash floods like this. the video is just shocking. an entire highway overcome by water. you can see at one point that car right there spinning around it deeper. meanwhile, people in these cars, they are desperate to get out. the flash flooding has already killed at least four people in south africa. >> i have never seen a car spin like that before. >>> if you are someone who likes to drink soda, how would you feel if you had to pay a tax on your favorite sugary drink. voters in four cities have approved the tax. we are talking about cities like san francisco along wi as well as boulder, colorado. now, supporters of the tax, they are argue the drinks are unhealthy and in the long run can lead to higher medical costs. opponents argue the tax hurts low-income families who already >>> some of president-elect donald trump's campaign promises have many in the hispanic communities nervous. his immigration plan has been analyzed over and over again. a mexican immigrant and mother shared their fears with isabel mascarenas. >> reporter: preside

formal legal barriers to full participation of people of color will fall china carrier brazil india south africa will join the global economic community in imprinting peabody life-threatening poverty. americans will reinvent industries to create more wealth in the next 30 years in the entire history of humankind dramatically improving the lives of all americans and those around the globe americans will continue to be the world's wealthiest nation. that would have been not astounding all of which would have come true. but imagine if the speech continued my fellow americans with all the new wealth we produce 95 percent will go to the top 1 percent if you hundred wealthy families will amass more than the bottom of this combined adr 90 percent flossy a dime in the bottom 50% will have to take a pay cut to export manufacturing and deregulate globalize and privatize to break the union bankrupt the pension system for public education to make debt-free colleges thing of the past to turn our backs on the middle-class repaid -- replaced jim crow laws that net economic impact for women doubling the work-fo

he has done a superb job in getting the prime minister of south africa, mr. vorister, to agree that the time had come for a solution to the problem of rhodesia. sk kissinger in his meeting with prime minister smiths of rhodesia was able to convince him that it was in the best interests of whites as well as blacks in rhodesia to find an answer for a transitional government, and then a majority government. this is a perfect example of the kind of leadership that the united states under this administration has taken. and i can assure you that this administration will follow that high moral principle in our future efforts in foreign policy. including our efforts in the middle east, where it is vitally important, because the middle east is the crossroads of the world. there have been more disputes, and it's an area where there's more volatility than any other place in the world. but because arab nations and the israelis trust the united states, we were able to take the lead in the sinai 2 agreement. and i can assure you that the united states will have the leaders

amy: how does climate change affect south africa?it has displaced many people in terms of the land, in terms of the seas, in terms of the food that they want to grow. ish climate change, it impossible. from california. i am part of a delegation representing the invisible tryingto cop22, and also to bring some spiritual values. we believe some of the humanizing spiritual values of life are how we actually accomplish climate justice. amy: your thoughts on the election of donald trump? >> donald trump is distinguishable from the presidency in our countrtry. he is not america. he is also not able to cancel the paris agreement in terms of the united states. the paris agreement envisions what they call subnational bodies will have a big role in accomplishing the goals of the paris agreement. we believe that cities, regions, churches, smaller governments, smaller groups of people can actually accomplish at least 50% of the commitments that the united states has made to the paris agreement. before the deadline of 2020. i am from central virg

we have one rand, two rand, three rand, four rand, five rand, and most people in south africa thoughthat it's a five-rand thing. >> right. >> trevor: yeah, we were just like, how does he know?! it's a five rand thing -- and we're buying things, it's a five-rand thing. >> it's the tribe. >> trevor: it's the tribe. welcome to the show. welcome to the show. >> yeah ( cheers and applause ) >> trevor: let's get straight into it. >> yes. >> trevor: on your track "we the people" the chorus is all you black folks must go, all you mexicans must go, muslims and gays, boy we hate your ways. how do we sing that on the dunes floor? how did that go? ( laughter ) >> it goes, beans, greens, tomatoes, potatoes! ( laughter ) >> trevor: but it's a really political message you have in this album. >> yes. >> trevor: question is why? >> because, i mean, it's for a very kind of convoluted reason but to try to simplify it and give the summary of it, it's just like you just spoke with george before, you know, you felt it brewing in this country, you felt it in the underbelly that, you know, there was disposab

born mixed race, he grew up in south africa during the racially segregated time known as apartheid. >> it was blatant. you must remember, apartheid was the best racism. this is not in a joking manner. people don't realize how well thought out apartheid was. >> his mother was south african his father a swiss national was whites. their court ship, a favorite subject of his stand up routine. >> my mom was like, woo, i don't care, i want a white man! and my dad was like, well, you know how the swiss love chocolate. >> what wasn't funny was that his parents, legally forbid tone marry, broke the law not only for being together but also by having him. crime." >> i remember my dad used to love rubbing with me. i ran with him in the park and the street then when i got older, he wasn't running with me, he was running from me. this was man who couldn't be seen with this child because then the game would be up. the lie would be revealed. >> though, today, it seems hard fine for his father, arrest for his mother and an orphanage for him. >> my mom was genius. she was friends with a woman who was m

. >> across the atlantic, in south africa, plans to put an open coal pit mine next to a white rhino reserveut the health and welfare of both rhinos and local people at risk. jeff barbee reports. >> poaching has become a crcriss the number of rhino killed for t their horn has gone from 13 in 2007, to over 1,000 in 2013 alone. but a new danger to the park may y be even more disastrous than the widespread poaching problem in the country. a new open-cacast coal l mine on the s southerrbordeder of the parkrk threatens this, africa's most important rhino breeding ground. park officials here worry that this new danger could be a deep dark hole for rhino conservation, because the mine will pollute the air with dangerous gases, like toluene e and benzene, and blow toxic coal dustt over this wilderness area. the mine will also discharge acid mine w water laced with sulfuric acid and radioactive byproducts into ththe umfolozi river, wheere the park's animals and the livestock of the surrounding community alall drink. >> and when we come hehere, we come h here to kind of, lili, to unwind and experience

. >>> from south africa this is about corruption. the south african president has withdrawn an application to delay a report. according to the president's authority. so zuma not standing in the way trying to delay the release of the report. it's about allegations of the political influence. there's a fight between the finance minister and president that's been rocking markets. you can see the trade in rand -- take a longer term view and you see an impact on the rand. >> i had some friends staying over in south africa. we were talk about this issue. and they were saying this is the tip of the iceberg. not making allegations against anyone. they are saying there's all kinds of issues surrounding other avenues not just the family that continue to plague the government for a long time. that's the feeling on the ground in south africa. >> the finance minister and the president who is still in control. >> there's much wider ramifications for the broader government and the way business is done at the government level. >> did you drop south a

the bbc has gone to meet her at her home in south africa. reporter: a welcome-home party fit for an african queen. she has jetted back from a whirlwind tour. the excitement is palpable. the 81-year-old artist is back home for a few days before heading off to london to be part of a major exhibition at the british museum. the artist tells me how she began painting. >> i started painting when i was 10 years old. i would watch my grandmother and mother paint using chicken feathers and i would copy them. it is in my head, it is in my heart. i always wake up with a vision. i dream about it. i just close my eyes and visualize what the finished product will look like. reporter: esther is herself a work of art. from the beading on her clothes to the bells on her neck, hand, and feet. a small art gallery in her house shows her work over the decades. including the famous bmw she painted in 1991. >> i painted the whole car using chicken feathers, and they watched in disbelief. reporter: for esther, doing this for decades, this is easy work for her. she