while south africa faces resurgence in infections fueled by the delta variant, floyd, so we know that there underlying issues of course, how does the south african government address this today? look at the fact of the matter is that, do you put mine demand? default government is not disrupted the economy power relations defined a part of pete. so we are living in a new part of the way those that controlled wealth and had access to reaches a client 99. this will continue to have the power but 20 percent, which the world bank is possible because the general one of 95 to same white people who were privileged because of the product. the policies that did not that got black people as human beings or just as a petitions effect please. and that's what comes into minds without meaningful. right. so the biggest problem is that there's not yet been disruptions of the economy. politicians, particularly in terms of ownership of the land in terms of the distribution of the economy. so that is at the center of the crisis and also an incurable and state that always speaks i tore g and is always eng

all joining us from johannesburg in south africa, lindiwe zulu is south africa's minister of social developmentm gumede is executive chairperson of democracy works foundation. and kwandiwe kondlo is professor of political economy in the department of politics and international relations at the university of johannesburg. welcome to you all. if i could start with william, are the protests, the looting, is it all over now, or just taking a break? how do you see it, william? william: it does seem that, although late, the army is there, the police is there, and the situation has been stabilized. but it does appear that there is still some threat circulating across the country, in groups that jacob zuma supported, they intend to try another attempt at a popular kind of uprising. but for now, it seems stabilized. the police is there. they are visible. the army is there. they are visible. and i think people feel a little bit more reassured than a couple of days ago. sami: all right, so stable for now, but zuma's forces may give it another go. lindiwe, has ramaphosa survived the challenge of some of th

in south africa. you are there to help support the health ministry of south africa. why would another adult to say that the health system was being overwhelmed? are you seeing that too? yes. first of all, it me say that the indeed the data variant is really spreading quite a lot and it does become the dominant variant about is driving the same with but we have good provincial differences the, the, the, the, the biggest, upstage we did a video and of course is, is inheriting the other provinces are also increasing, but destroy at 8 and i have not reached yet the state where our team has reached. indeed, in how tank there has been as easy his system as been overwhelmed in terms of the number of patients required in care. this situation was most oh, of course we did have a coming in which is either transmissible. this situation is as a result of that, but just to comment on the issue of via the vaccines as well. yes, it has been a delay in terms of the the out of the vaccine. unfortunately, few a few challenges with the bitter variant area on when some of the local stud

south africa is facing its deepest political crisis of the post—apartheid era. its deepest politicalys of violence and looting which saw more than 200 people killed and thousands arrested, president ramaphosa claimed there'd been a well—planned attempt to provoke insurrection and bring down the democratic state. whatever the truth of that, it's clear the social and economic fabric of the country has been badly weakened. my guest is transport minister fikile mbalula. is the ruling anc being confronted with its own failure? fikile mbalula in cape town, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me, and to all your listeners. it's a pleasure to have you on the show. tell me, minister, how would you characterise the shocking, the terrible violence that swept across parts of your country last week? it was a hyped—up... ..accumulation of anarchy at the highest level, as you know that anarchy is the higher state of disorder, and then it exhibited opportunistic elements like criminality, as a result of the unemployed, you know, jumping into the bandwagon of looting. because of their vulnerabi

what does that mean for south africa as a country? i mean, the and see has been the dominant ruling policy for so long. you know, i mean the, as it is now has been 2 parties essentially and 21. now, president obama port has been trying to hold a 2 parties together in his unity policy. now what has happened the last 2 weeks is your nose from now on was this is, are because we amc, it cannot hold a 2 groups together anymore. so i think, you know, even jacobs, my group or whatever you want to call them, it will be very difficult for them now to return back into the a you except the amc. and then 2nd of all that the links, i think we get to see a splits on it is now in the triple. i mean it has been post further and further if it's supposed to happen perhaps before. because the thing about a symbol is what makes it effective and what maybe a successful the race improvement is that he was a broad coalition. you know, ranging from boxes to capitalist, traditionally. now when you get into government, you know, you have to have a set how we g

locations as you would call it in south africa. so that's because so that's a good topic, right? all those locations don't the black locations look just like they were 7 years ago . that is a simple issue that obviously people feel like they obviously are economically stable. they take care of the, the land that they're in. asha such a delight to talk to you. you can tell your love and pride for the country that you live in, and we will chat again in the future. thanks for joining. thank you. the investigation by a global media consortium has revealed that malware developed by an israeli company has been used by on journalist human rights activists and political dissidents around the world. now there's this program called pegasus software. we're sold by our surveillance company and so group. and they said to tap into hundreds of devices, revealing personal information of those who were targeted. are huge alex, my hell of edge has the story. it can be described as a military grade spying tool software that covertly worms its way int

coronavirus restrictions have worsened while south africa faces the delta variant. we know that there are underlying issues. how does the south african government address this? >> the fact of the matter is that the government has not disrupted what defined apartheid. we are living in a new apartheid state where those that control the wealth and have access to riches continue to have the power. [indiscernible] people who are privileged because of apartheid policies, just as extensions of factories without meaningful rights. the biggest problem is there has not yet been a disruption in terms of ownership of the land, the equal distribution of the economy. and incapable and corrupt state that speaks rhetoric and is always engaging in pr exercises, they are fighting coronavirus. none of that is happening. i think they have to clarify that protests always take different forms in south africa. every time. the government categorizes as criminals. whether it is for xenophobia, it always takes this form. it's not just protests [indiscernible] anchor: let's hear from another g

more than 80 percent of south africa's land was owned by whites. now the world bank says the richest 20 percent of south africans control nearly 70 percent of all resources. a higher proportion of black south africans have historically lived in poverty, but the government data suggests the proportion of black and mixed race. people living in poverty increased between 20112015. this begs the question, linda way, does it not? has the government has the a and seen successive agency governments really failed to make sufficient progress in addressing the inequality from the apartheid era? well, if i am to pay it, which i don't normally deny doing in a situation of our so the government of the african nissan congress. i may say people have 2 judges for what we have said we're going to do. but if you have to make comparison, you can't run away from the fact that the impact of date, the impact on the economy and the impact on the demographics of our people and the impact of poverty. i'm placement in the party and i'm thinking, my, my, my countrymen will jus

i'm joined by osh off guard at the founder of champion south africa. shaw, thank you so much for joining us. is our thoughts and prayers, and our attention has been on south africa these past few days. as you've been going through these trials, you know, i want to ask you how divided right now are the people in the street? so is it as simple as duma versus ram opposes supporters? no, i think it's it's have too much to suggest that people are divided that we would think of the american football team on opposite sides of the fence out in the streets. i think for the, for the majority of people in africa, they are united in being south african. they are united in one thing works best for their families. they are united in wanting food. they are united in wanting jobs. they may be divided some of them to be divided in certain strategies, but by and large, they've been united by you may tell, okay, well, what happened last week and we get to that 2nd, but i think overall, the country or 60000000 people is there are differences the wants is, but the general

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let's stay with south africa now.chancellor at the university of zululand. he helped put the scale of these protests and riots into context. 0ne one must understand that south africa is a country where process occur every weekend, almost every day. but they tend to be very isolated. but what we've seen here was what some people see as cordons. it is simply an expression. —— of co—ordinates. by a majority of the people in this country. you just have to look at the unemployment levels. they have skyrocketed to the extent of about 35% of young people who are black or not white. you look at the black rate of unemployment, it's almost 50%. but what we are coming to terms with is that we have so much of the rainbow nations to ourselves... when leaders do not seem to be paying attention to that, people in this country have been taught to go to the states. we are a protesting nation, but where there is a sense that even the institutions should be trusted and not trusted, then you end “p and not trusted, then you end up with a

south africa's economy. huge uncertainty. _ south africa's economy.y, queues are four basic. foodstuffs, vaccination centres have been ripped — foodstuffs, vaccination centres have been ripped apart. _ foodstuffs, vaccination centres have been ripped apart, ambulances- foodstuffs, vaccination centres have| been ripped apart, ambulances have been ripped apart, ambulances have been targeted — been ripped apart, ambulances have been targeted. the _ been ripped apart, ambulances have been targeted. the economy - been ripped apart, ambulances have been targeted. the economy and - been ripped apart, ambulances have| been targeted. the economy and the battle _ been targeted. the economy and the battle against — been targeted. the economy and the battle against covid _ been targeted. the economy and the battle against covid had _ been targeted. the economy and the battle against covid had been - battle against covid had been damaged _ battle against covid had been damaged by— battle against covid had been damaged by what _ battle against covid had been damage

the death sentence was declared unconstitutional in south africa. in 1995. nutes before it lapsed. and he was escorted to prison in this convyo. protests began on thursday. and by the weekend — they turned violent. this is some of the destruction in the city of durban in the province of kwazulu—natal and though the violence did start in kwazulu—natal it has also spread to another province, gautang. by monday the violence turned deadly and the army was brought into help. ten people were killed during a crowd crush on monday night at a mall. others were reported to have died when a stack of goods in a warehouse collapsed. the police started firing rubber bullets at looters. this was at a mall in soweto. people took everything they could fridges, mattresses, refrigerators. soweto is the largest township injohannesburg. and here's the concerns of south africa's president cyril ramaphosa. these shops have been looted and infrastructure has been destroyed. this means that our sick cannot get medication from pharmacies, food does not reach supermarket shelves and he

the other impact is on the countries around south africa that access their medical supplies from southeceipt countries bite -- we see countries like namibia and others that will also start to see the impact of the unrest. ros: on the issue of the vaccine rollout, but is the primary obstacle? access to vaccines? having the capacity to administer vaccines? >> we do have a challenge with supplies that are needed. out of the three-putt one million doses that have been administered around the world, only 2% have been done in africa. so a supply issue. how we try to increase and ensure equitable availability of vaccines is one of the main factors. also, to deliver vaccines, there must be systems in place. there must be demand. working on tailored approaches to increase demand at the community level is another aspect of ensuring that vaccines reach those who need to receive them. ros: in a few minutes, the latest from washington, because angela merkel is there to meet president biden. ♪ ros: the dutch crime reporter peter r to freeze has died after being in amsterdam last week. he was known f

every single person in south africa are on the edge of their seats.— south africa are on the edge ofthe king of the zulu nation has _ their seats. the king of the zulu nation has said _ their seats. the king of the zulu nation has said that _ their seats. the king of the zulu nation has said that these - their seats. the king of the zulu | nation has said that these waves their seats. the king of the zulu i nation has said that these waves of violence and looting have brought shame on the country. how likely are his words to calm things down set against 25,000 troops?— his words to calm things down set against 25,000 troops? well, two thins. against 25,000 troops? well, two thinqs- the _ against 25,000 troops? well, two things. the troops, _ against 25,000 troops? well, two things. the troops, we _ against 25,000 troops? well, two things. the troops, we have - against 25,000 troops? well, two things. the troops, we have a - things. the troops, we have a population of about 10 million in kwazulu—natal alone. and about 70% unemployed, so we would need to enfold the military that has be

then to south africa, where thousands have been arrested in demonstrations against poverty and inequity and the jailing of the former president jacob zuma. >> it is not about zuma. people are hungry. there are no jobs. amy: and we'll look at how the pandemic has affected people going hungry around the world. 1/10 of the global population are undernourished last year. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. another punishing heat wave is set to bring triple-digit temperatures to at least 17 million people in the western united states and canada this weekend as a record wildfire season, fueled by the climate crisis, shows no sign of letting up. in oregon, the massive bootleg fire has burned more than 200,000 acres, over a million acres of the western u.s. and canada now in flames. this is dale kunce, head of the cascades region of the american red cross. >> what we have seen at the red cross is this change from a one big event a year or every five years or 10 years to now chronic events. amy: in northeastern was

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cuba and south africa have something in common.ion that brought the changes still in charge. let's talk about south africa first. president zuma, who had been convicted of contempt of court. but there are clearly bigger forces at work here. what is your sense of what is driving these protests? an extraordinary confluence of events, a power strugglej within the ruling anc with all the latent dissatisfaction - of a really bad economic experience, massive - unemployment, huge inequality, poverty, l plus, the ever—presence of covid _ shocking rates of cases - and very low vaccination rates. let's be clear, the reports. coming out of south africa, it is very clear now that there | was an attempt by supporters ofjacob zuma, in various ways, to try and destabilise _ the government. so, some of it was organised? no, no, a lot- of it was organised. it hasn'tjust been shopping - centres that have been attacked and looted, it's also been specific oil refineries, - hospitals, specific economic routes where lorries - have been torched. so, in o

what really terrifies me, south africa _ done? what really terrifies me, south africa with _ done?th our _ done? what really terrifies me, south africa with our history - south africa with our history of violence, ethnic and racial divisions, and our recent history of xenophobia, these protests could easily take on these trends and become even more dangerous than they are now. especially if vigilantes roam the neighbourhoods, as seems to be happening. they have to be dealt with in terms of a police response. i hope the military are prepared for what they have been sent to do. i don't know enough about what they are capable of doing. in my view, taking away from dealing with the zuma issue, and he has been lightly prosecuted and in jail right now, awaiting more prosecutions accusations. —— he has been rightly prosecuted. more generally, there has to be some state intervention. a country with 76% youth unemployment is not sustainable. there has to be expanded social grants, a basic income grant. in be expanded social grants, a basic income grant.- basic income grant. in which case, b

you know, the generation that was just born after democracy in south africa. and i think for a large, you know, to a large extent, our activism is really centered and crowded around, holding our democratic government accountable. right, hoping for a significant change in the living conditions of use and just the population more broadly. so we do borrow a lot from the enter party struggle in terms of the music, the songs kind of struggle songs that you thing and also some of the organizing and mobilizing. busy strategies, you know, we really still focus in terms of mass space movement building. and this is quite evident with the feasible for student positive across 26 institutions of higher learning, which saw university students demanding for free colonized high education. but of course, you know, the success of moments such as feasible for a large, the attributed to digital and online activism. and how that has also helped us in terms of shaping our own narrative, syria, you know, something about that. but what would you like to add? yeah, kinsey, we grew up

coming up in the next 60 minutes, riots and looting in south africa were process over the rest of a former president have amplified anger, over spiraling poverty and inequality. in iraq, grief stricken families demand answer is after a fire in a corona, virus ward claims more than 90 lives. we're facing the most significant test of our democracy since the civil war. the us president calls moved to restrict the voting rights on the fault on democracy as federal republican faith. try to enact legislation and turning to technology to police. the border a controversial trial begins in greece, ends for roger federer has pulled out of the po. carolyn picks the 13 year old says a knee injury will prevent him from competing in japan. ah, we begin the news that we're in south africa where at least a 72 people have died and saw the countries worse than rest since the nation became a democracy. more than 1200 people have been arrested. the protest started after the jailing of former president jacob juma, but many believe that south africa has battered the economy, is driving the rest. the unemploymen

here's our south africa correspondent nomsa maseko.er factory, ransacked and burned by looters. two young men lying dead beside a railway line, 48 hours after they died. this is what six days of looting and rioting in kwazulu—natal and gauteng provinces in south africa looks like. violent protests broke outjust hours after south africa's former president, jacob zuma, was jailed forfailing to comply with a court order to give evidence at a corruption inquiry. however, speculation is rife that even though this may have started out as a pro—zuma protest, it was a well orchestrated plan designed to embarrass the current president, cyril ramaphosa, and to ensure he doesn't get another term in office. but yesterday, amid fear and desperation, a moment of hope. people were screaming, "throw her, throw her, throw her!" and i was scared, i was really scared, but there were people down in the streets. i wasn't. .. they weren't always panicking. i was trusting anyone for my baby, to take my baby away from me, because the flames were spreading and

minted and he came home he became the president of the open society foundation and when he was in south africaions. he was one of the people who was pushing and encouraging publicly to the south african government to take land away from white people particularly white farmers. 30,000 white farms in south africa feed those people and other people across southern africa so when you take that land away and it is not used to farm anymore you starve your people, people saw that in neighboring zimbabwe. is a radical interplay and nobody can tell at this point. impossible to say how much this is involvement south african mediators quickly turned to looking at who is driving this and whether there are other forces. there are eerily similar echoes here. there's a whole ideology with all these affinity groups about joining a moment of a mass movement a revolution and that is what many people are looking for. >> we are not going to hear that anywhere else tonight and china is hiding a smelly secret, the last flush explains. do you struggle to fall asleep and stay asleep? qunol sleep formula combines 5 ke

she joins me now from durban in south africa. good evening to you, christine. the events of the past 24 hours. just how much of a surprise have they been branch. nobody expected that. when that convoy raced out of the room as homesteads shortly before midnight on wednesday bass. what would follow? was the confirmation from his supposed people that that was in fact him going to hand himself over to the police better? because jeff days before after weekend on sunday and i was actually outside his home in the, in the problem when you told his supporters that he would not be doing that, that he didn't deserve to be in prison. and that he wouldn't be adding itself in. so it's for me, came as a huge surprise and i came down to the very last minute. it was a very long night or not. it's not i can get who is lou today kind of bring because it just wasn't payable. was going to happen. what we full where police a messing and approaching. i hear homestead and it appears mr. opted to head in. yeah, i mean we're seeing that video there of the convoy last night when he turne

, south africa is, the system that we haven't south africa as an experiment.nd on an assumption that turned out to be false. the assumption is that you can change people's lead man sees through so they're having your estate and telling other people they need to stay backr from yor your cultural identity girlfriend, and you need to take up. identity. people in africa, they would say, you can't -- but for the south african project to work you have to put that on your backside. and it didn't work. that's a problem. so it created a new friction and this is one of the things where if you just force people together, then you know, friction willto go away over tie and there have been studies about this. it's just not that simple. it's social engineering and trying to sort of use the governmental estate to create a new umbrella identity, it's not that simple. it's likela saying, you can be french or german as long as it doesn't stand in the way of the european project. it's the samef thing. and in t south africa it has ben tried, to a failure of a large extent and thi

south africa rubs in anger and unrest. the nation sees deadly violence and widespread looting after authorities jail former presidents, jacob's whom, the army says, is this the point truth to quell the violence? also coming up crisis in cuba has thousands take to the streets to protest food shortages and rising prices. the communist regime is pointing the finger at the united states, but the protesters are in buying it. also anger mounts after the shocking death of a georgian camera, man alexander lush, got out, badly beaten by a far right mob. last week dies from his injuries and thousands rally against the government, accusing him of failing to protect for porters and emboldened groups and italy, our crown champions. you're a 2020 celebrate of their team to feeds england in a penalty shoot out at wembley. the duty lifts the trophy for the 2nd time in their history. ah, ah, i'm glad i thank you so much for your company, everyone. well, we begin in south africa, country is deploying its army to tackle the unrest, sparked b

i mean south africa as seen as a rape capital globally, not privy. take to have, and by the way, our famous side rate is 5 times higher than the global average. right. and so understanding around in the business and famous that has really been within that conceptual framework. however, as black women coke of, we're saying that it is to serve as well as to reduce gender based violence and fame aside to only physical and sexual forms of seattle political violence, economic violence, environmental violence, social violence, all violence is the country peach. the penalties of women and it's important that when we find solutions and we propose solutions that they must be multi pumped and they must be sexual so that they're able to address the sources of silence. so can you give me an example of what that work looks like or how you bring the solution to the public? of course, a lot of the steps and research than in south africa around in the base islands has attributed to a women's economic participation as a message driver of our ability to gender based.

the process, violence and looting that has been going on in south africa at the announcement by the southany troops into the affected areas to try to quell the violence. i'm joined by steve bhengu — a journalist with east coast radio, who's been on the ground in kwazulu—natal during the disturbances. what is the sense that you get from being on the ground? is the violence escalating or is it plateauing and winding down? it has been happening for quite some time now and there is hope that things would slow down a bit. in recent years we have seen not only property being burnt to the ground but even being on the ground i have also witnessed various elements such as violence and racial profiling, so we have seen the army being deployed, as well. there isn't much visibility unfortunately as far as the army is concerned but we are hoping that somehow we will see things starting to slow down and law and order essentially prevailing. and law and order essentially prevailing-— and law and order essentially prevailing. what do you think is motivating _ prevailing. what do you think is motivating t

and it is one to watch, including the situation in south africa.ave left to tell us about some other things you think we should be watching that have not had enough attention so far. michael first. we'll, there's something going on in america. there's always something going on in america. this is vocal politics — a lot of us here in britain and around the world think, well, joe biden's president and donald trump is making noise down in a mar—a—lago, but he's done. the republican party and the crisis in american democracy is not done. and, earlier this week, the democrats in the texas state legislature fled — a loaded word — but they flew to washington so that there would not be a quorum, so no business could be transacted in the texas state legislature. why? because the republican majority wanted to change the rules on voting and to sharply curtail the ability of people to vote, particularly african americans and people from poorer communities. voting day is usually a tuesday — well, you know, a lot of people have jobs where they actually can't tak

certain policies that people in america are flirting with that have already been implemented in south africa you can see the consequences and they call of the south african experiment in the early 90s, this new experimental of this is what we are going to try, we are going to have this new identity, status identity, however you want to save it and superimpose this, almost globalism because it's a very diverse country, multi-communal country otherwise a bunch of different cultures, languages and now we are being told that there was a saying that for the nation to prosper, the tribe must die and what that effectively means is for the south african project to prosper, these natural identities that people have should be suppressed for it it's like saying on a bigger scale, the same thing as saying for globalism to prosper, nations have to die and you can be an american and you can believe in the american dream but only in as far as it doesn't stand on the way of this globalist project and i think south africa is an experiment that has already been implemented and we can see what happened. we can

their dissatisfaction with other issues in play in south africa. yes, there was a sense that something would happen following be arrest of mr. juma. i think what was unexpected was the broad scope, and the white extent to which we've seen the uprisings in a number of different cities and towns across at least 2 problems is indications that the province of western kate might also have some uprisings, as of today. widespread looting, as you mentioned. but i think the key point is that there's really reveals the multi layered nature of the crisis very complex situation. and so he'll be, could make disparities and social exclusion that goes back to the apartheid legacy in south africa. combined with years of ms ro, paradoxically by, by mr. jacobs, do the between 20092018. so i think the extent of the scope of this uprising was unexpected. but there was always a sense of something that of this magnitude could potentially happen in south africa. push your reading, given that the government has kind of misread this, i guess what, you're reading of what we

sami: christopher, 90% of eswatini's imports come from south africa.ountry relies, eswatini, on aid and assistance from countries like the u.s. how do you read the mood right now in regional and international areas toward eswatini? >> when we wrote our report, now eight years ago, we called it swaziland, southern africa's forgotten crisis, for exactly this reason, this has been bubbling for a long time. we were trying to garner international attention on it. because the international capital says this is not high up on the agenda. what's really interesting at the moment is two things, one, this is a situation that's come out of the fact that the money that's been going into eswatini has not been used to deliver the development. citizens are seeing what's going on elsewhere and not feeling the benefits of development in the country. that points to one person, which is the monarchy. the relationship with south africa has always been very complex, for multiple reasons. pudemo has a relationship with the system and aligns in south africa. the former presid

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patrice the pandemic in south africa? africa is exneriencing _ the pandemic in south africa? is experiencing a third _ the pandemic in south africa? africa is experiencing a third wave, - the pandemic in south africa? sit ca is experiencing a third wave, or wave that is much higher in terms of the number of cases compared to previous waves. we hit 6 million cases this week earned south africa accounts for a6% of the cases that have been recorded in the past week and so, we are concerned seeing the evolving situation in south africa because it does have an impact on the already existing measures to cut the already existing measures to cut the pandemic and where we see crowds and increased contact among people, these are conditions that are facilitating the spread of the virus. we also have observed these decrees number of people reaching vaccination sites and over the last few days, with the unrest and with the 1.3 million people who have so fervently vaccinated in south africa for from where we would like to be, this is a concern. and the other impact is on the countries aroun