writer gillian slovo, whose parents, joe slovo and ruth first, were hugely important figures in south africa'siberation struggle against apartheid. from teenage, gillian�*s home has been in the uk and her recent writing digs deep into british culture. but how much distance is there from her extraordinary south african backstory? gillian slovo, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. gillian, you have been writing for many decades, but your recent work, particularly your plays, have focused not so much on your own authorial voice, your imagination, they focused on real people's real stories. ijust wonder if you're getting sick of making things up. i'm not, actually, because, you know, there's part of me that wants to go back to my desk to be on my own, to make stuff up, but i've really got a lot from working in the theatre and from the collaboration that comes, not only from the crew and the directors and the actors, but actually the collaboration that comes from the people i've interviewed. and finding a way to magnify their voice onstage has been actually really a wonderful piece of work for me. i've

so he figured it would be better to not take the boat all the way to south africa. as soon as he saw land, which was at the time portuguese, east africa, mozambique, he got off jumped off into the shark infested waters and swam to the shore where he ended up in portuguese africa, in which he could go through the jungle into going into south africa without crossing at a border. and so he know what would have saved him a lot of trouble if he had realized the the british had won the boer war. but that's the importance of news then of course you know. yeah. rana's question to me is, you know, because i my my fascinating is that i didn't know anybody in my family could swim. and he was wondering whether that's still the case. yeah. yeah. you know, so you but these are small acts of courage. i mean, yeah, that was a big, big other thing with the the sharks that only tell you that that i'm not getting to that yet, but moving immigrating is tough. yeah right. i think we have to remember that as the conversation immigration in this country gets tainted the way it has, it is i

he then involved in -- evolved in south africa.e said i was born in india, but i was raised in south africa. he succeeded remarkably in india. but, yeah, the early gandhi was not who we have come to know, and that's. a great story of evolution, that people evolve. he subsequently understood that until everybody has justice, equality and liberty, we cannot count any of ourselves as having those things. >> and, which is quite ill -- illustrative in so many ways. and, of course, we were speaking earlier, about i just read the great biography of king -- >> yeah. important read. people should or -- >> absolutely. and the amount of inspiration that king took in the early several rights movement from gandhi, of course, and it was a great struggle, this issue of do we work within the system or do we work to, you know, overthrow the system. >> right. >> which was the crux of the 91960s, within the civil rights movement, the battle within the civil rights movement. and so, but your family, you know, you, obviously, you're a great grandfather

rico tradition beings in south africa. and we have coming to me over 250000 illegal alcohol often that we have. they are not licensed fremont regulators and it's also quite accept it because of easy starting compact. we all call you as well. and so, um, opposing apostage given back to the opposite government wants to buy a home. so once we have now is about $250000.00 unlicensed outlets that is accepted in communities. we, nobody talks about reports of boxes and you know, tons of it to the blind on to it don't in full. so those that lives amongst a um, alcohol legal office and that increases the availability of alcohol entities and dental is because be sure beans are filed in areas where people love and lock nieces meet in commercial, uh, seems commercially again what are some of the challenges that you're facing, trying to implement some of the policies that you have in place as well. i'll, i'll challenge is that we have yet to have a government. the confusion buys into the idea that we should control alcohol, a governmen

i and i'm from bad from south africa, drink. neil, thank you for joining us. thank you so much for having me. and that's always prepared for you on this special edition of dw news, half because he just came on you from the entire team here. you know, ruby and reading would say thank you for watching the i let me think i got stuck on a piece. here's somebody who knew, but i would just go out to die. millions of people around the world can't attend school even though the un defines the human rights education for everyone. but how logo in 30 minutes on the w. flying high yesterday in the doldrums today, the electric vehicles in your and one more fires are beginning to doubts. claims that the bees are cheaper to run hungry is ranking on a long term recovery courting chinese investors and building new factory made in germany. in 60 minutes on d, w, the lights through the ocean, and mother come back well with a comp time that had to be human. so met johnny. but now the pride of his, of the most of asian conservation tend to, for the living independently rise to our

so i think that you can co exist high and down from bad from south africa. drink. neil, thank you for joining us. thank you so much for having me. and that's always prepared for you on this special edition of the w news half because he took the money from the entire team, carrying a ruby and reading would say, thank you for watching the shift your guides to life and it digital you know, the latest online trend, navigate your way through the digital jungle global perspective. we'll be your guide and show you what's possible. you decide what really message to you. in 15 minutes on d w, you fed up based management. no jobs are few prospect. thomas, jim z hughes for agents and us times why is the mind types to be match with such brutality conditions? owners come in and i just make it a mobile many people. i think this house has died in the beginning, the 7 percent in 30 minutes on the w, the this shadows. these costs and video shed light on the dog is devastating. colonial har is infected by germany across up, and he employed the scorched coast farms and destroyed ligh

rico foundation beings in south africa. and we have kindly to meet over 2 150000 illegal alcohol ultimate. we have their own not license the mountain regulators, and it's also quite accept it because a visa started co factors we, i'll call you as well. and so the opposing apostage given back to the opposite government wants to supply. so once we have now is about 250000 license alternates that is accepted in communities. we, nobody talks about reports vaulted the know tons of it to the blind on to it done in full. so those that lives amongst a um, alcohol legal office and that increases the availability of alcohol introduce in general, it was because be sure beans are filed in areas where people love and knocking bases meet in commercial uh, seems commercially again, what are some of the challenges that you're facing, trying to implement some of the policies that you have in place or well i'll, i'll challenge is that we have used to have a government the completely bought into the idea that we should control alcohol. a gove

and he wants to, to meet needs to binge drinking, which is a major problem in south africa. right. so other like you're talking about the contemporary marketing trends, but south africa has a very complex history with alcohol. how have you seen these trends evolved on consumption and production and how it be affected south african society as well? i'm the, as soon as we do have a complex e c, and that comes back from the colonizing era with alcohol reviews, to grab the land from being ditches. people are particularly under the optic laws. alcohol was not allowed to be sold to black people. and that lead to in the sits marketing, retaining environment we, which leads to what result of dish beings in south africa. and we have kind of meet over 250000 illegal alcohol alternate. we are not licensed fremont regulated, but it's also quite accept it because a visa started go back to we, i'll call you as well. and so the opposing apostage given that the government wants all black people to buy a home. so once we have now is about 250000 license alternates that is accepted in communities. w

south africa argued that israel had violated its obligations towards the international treaty of the genocide convention. we have today listened to the state of israel, israel suggests that the genocide convention is primary for their protection, and because of that it is not capable of violating its own provisions. the outcome of the legal effort was that based on the 1989 genocide convention, the icj, instead of using the legal terms of ceasefire, which refers to a confrontation, ordered that the genocide. should stop. germany, france, and other western countries that have supported israel had no choice but to diplomatically accept the verdict. at least in appearance, this place is different from the security council in legal terms. from 1948 to 2016, 225 resolutions have been passed in the security council on the issue related to palestine and the zionist regime's behavior, and more than 102 of the resolution. are against the actions committed by israel that violate international law, but all of them were vetoed by the us, and the resolutions became ineffective. it means the secur

he then evolved in south africa and often said i was born in india but made in south africa he. he took the lessons back and succeeded remarkably. the early gandhi was not who we have come to know and that's a great story of evolution, people evolve. until everybody has equality and justice and liberty, we cannot count any of ourselves as having those things. >> i was reading the great biography of king and the amount of inspiration that king took in the f early civil rights movemet from gandhi was a great struggle doing work to overthrow the system and it was the crux of theme civil rights movement, the battle within the civil rights movement and so your family from obviously your great-grandfather comes over from india and there was a great story about jumping into sharkso infested waters. it's not always as prescribed sometimes there are slight detours and this one took a detour. it was right around the time of the end of the war there was no internet. my great-grandfather on his journeyho back wasn't clear on o had won the war. all this dream of coming to south africa to cre

never to allow them to be used in south africa. the moved to them have been put to this age of in south africa over this 2 day conference then will be infected in either the united kingdom or the us and the whole of this. yeah, and i think that's an important and frustration was ronnie. hi, because richard nation side to access to the new drugs develop to treat jersey, but not south africa. northern, unless you had lots of money that is for most of us, h r v infection was a death sentence. we had to find some medical schemes really odd around the exclusion that they had about which person was considered innocent enough to access. and these, those were regarded as nurses who are a needle stick engine is somebody who was right could access and these, but not somebody who has a, the, somebody who had consensual sex and then became a try the positive. those are really difficult and off times and then think of so young lawyer active is it really opened my eyes the the failure of i stop does doesn't lie with science. the failure of not t

not just in south africa, but globally. we loved the few and people suffer and die whether strong commitment to public health and that with this, the political will. everyone can have access to the medicines they need. as a cert wheeler this the hard way an ugly off to a lot of unnecessary suffering. that is now a danger which has become a threat to us all. it is a deadly disease and there is no known cure the sofa and it's being consigned to small groups. but it's spreading. if you ignore age could be the death of. so don't die as many of us were 1st introduced to h r. v. susie's kind of messaging of the plantation was, if you become infected, you only have yourself to blame the people who are most affected by h r v, which somehow narrow down to the for ages, according to the us center for disease control in the 1980s. these were homosexuals, patients, periodontics the we would tell the virus originators enough to monkey which we now know to be true. but the lack of information about how the virus jump from one species to

johannesburg is south africa's economic heartland. the richest city in africa.is getting thirstier. taps increasingly run dry here due to crumbling infrastructure, a growing population and reservoirs vulnerable to climate change, which means demand is increasing for lesotho's water. with life, we need water as well as with the economy. it needs water as well. so the city's water is quite important because it basically drives part of south africa's gdp. and demand is starting to come from elsewhere. a deal has been agreed with botswana to take water more than 700km through a pipeline into the country. but for mantsebo, the balance of the economic benefits are more of a trickle than a gush. andre lombard, bbc news at the katsi dam, lesotho. starbucks and its newly appointed boss, brian niccol, have come under fire for plans to allow him to commute almost 1,000 miles from his family home in california to the firm's headquarters in seattle on a private jet. the swift removal of niccol�*s predecessor and the $100 million deal to poach him from another company has bee

now once again, south africa left a lasting impression in memory of mandela in this palace. stand here before you, not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you, the people. after many years a legal capacity has been created that can put israel on trial for all of its violent and racist behavior, the issue is not only the war in gaza. a few years ago, un special repertoire john dugard reported that a control system including separate roads, discrimination in infrastructure, legal rights and access to land and resources exists between palestinians and israelis in the occupied territories, which differs from the apartide regime, but has similarities with some aspects of it. amnesty international said in a statement that israel has become become an apartide system, and its treatment of palestinians is considered a war crime. racism, murder, genocide, these words now joined each other. the legal path of denouncing israel and completing the genocide case of the regime by setting up legal case in africa was victory. it wasn't surprising, but unprecedented. does this mean that a

he often risk his life combating crime in south africa. and he received numerous police awards for his successes. but it was during those operations that he witnessed something terrible. he witness south african police officers. most of them race is coming out of the old apartheid regime engaging and torture and even murder. and so he blew the whistle internally at 1st. when the word came out or is life and the life of his wife came under threat. although he tried for 4 years to deal with a crisis while running his electronics business and still fighting crime, he was forced to return to greece with his wife in 2008, fearing for their lives. later already gave sworn testimony about these crimes in greece and immediately came under attack from south africa's pro police white dominated press. he was the famed and threatened, but that didn't stop him. it encouraged him. so rather than go silent, try try to fade into the background, already decided to embrace the whistleblower narrative. he began working pro bono with a highly respected bluepri

not just in south africa, but globally. we loved the few and people suffer and die whether strong commitment to public health and that with is the political will. everyone can have access to the medicines they need. as a cert wheeler this the hard way an ugly off to a lot of unnecessary suffering. that is now a danger which has become a threat to us all. it is a deadly disease and there is no known cure the sofa and it's being consigned to small groups. but it's spreading. if you ignore range, it could be the death of. so don't die of the many of us were 1st introduced to h r. v. susie's kind of messaging of the plantation was, if you become infected, you only have yourself to blame the people who are most affected by h r. v was somehow narrow down to the for a choose according to the us certainty for disease control in the 1980s. these were homosexuals, patients, parent attics the we would tell the virus originated enough to monkey, which we now know to be true. with the lack of information about how the virus jump from on

organized by se tourist on august 6 in collaboration with the sector and the tourism trade council of south africa. he said that the share of tourism in the gdp is expected to be until the end of this year. south africans can also travel in their own country. minister of tourism of south africa citing oxford economics forecasts, it is expected that the number of entries will reach 10.7 million by the end of 2024. so that the number of tourists exceeds the pre-pandemic period of 2019. the south african government aims to increase government revenues through this sector, which has a larger share than transport, mining and agriculture, and roughly matches the government's share of gdp. urethane money a polymer compound for the production of shoe soles that does not break during heating and shaping. this shoe now specifically consists of two layers, our middle layer and outer layer today, alhamdulillah, we not only supply the domestic market , and these raw materials are easily available to domestic producers, secondly, we easily export this product to neighboring markets , some of which are raw mater

south africa is the largest trade partner with israel in africa and over the past eight months it has shipped over 500 thousand tons of coal to the brutal regime, placing it among the top three suppliers globally, but as exporting coal to israel, we are effectively aiding and abeting their genocide, but we are also taking it a step further and it's not just limited to coal, we believe very firmly and this has also been the case in our apart south african history. any economic or any other relations that you have with the state of israel is aiding and a betting and propping up genocidal state a very state and apart state a stark reminder of the vicious consequences of the misuse of vital resources is the congo where uranium exploited from congolese minds was used in the american nuclear bombs dropped on hiroshima and nagasaki. almost 80 years later congose activists say africa must exert its right over these resources. the experience of congo must make everybody to see what is the next move of the leading force of corporate. which is trying to to push the killing machine to become in a

for example does have a competition commission, south africa does have a digital strategy that has been approved by government that seeks to deal with things such as these, but south africa alone cannot cannot tackle these big tech giants, we need regulations, we need to regulate globally what a... i can do and cannot do, we need to regulate the the the the the the bad effects, the bad side of ai, for example, so that we we together can act to make sure that this whole arena is not totally unregulated as it currently is, and it can be just an african problem or a south african problem. well, unfortunately our time is up for now. i would like to thank our guest professor tinyiko maluleke, the vice chancellor of the shuana university of technology in south africa for his incisive analysis. well, and that brings us to the end of this week's edition of africa today. it's always great having you watch the show. you can watch this episode and all our previous shows on our website pressv.ir. for me mubarak kenya and tag crew, it's goodbye for now. that minds israel's air strikes hit two school

i don't know, you could as with south africa, it was basically banned from the from the general assembly, un general assembly, i think that was, i don't want to get my dates wrong, but but that was part of the process of apartite overcoming a party, so that's something that people are talking about, but then if if we did that israel could just cut off all uh aid and let them let the as long as the us is supporting israel it can do whatever it wants it it's murdering people all the time and no one is held account accountable it murders un staff mr wbrick so why why the international silence well it's the us it's imperialism it's ruthless it's "the british empire was no better, it was full of genocidal, it was the one that got us into trouble with israel in the first place, and that was a roth child, whatever, conspiracy that brought the jews on side in world war one, so that that's you know, it's all quite documented, it's the power of, and that's why ' you now we're very hopeful that justice will try it, but the south africa was was just so obviously black, anti-black, slavery, it had al

behind it. target once it's become south africa, answer to you versus israel. but more importantly, once it becomes south africa circuit and many other states that joined this movement. and there seems to be some moments some gained, the interest the on could of has shown, could in one form or another, encourage others to step up. and this is one of the fundamental reasons as to why the charter state is involved in this case. but of course, we have to understand that the das here that on to the will provide to the hague, is going to be kept under wraps. this is an ongoing legal legal case, but it will become public knowledge sooner rather than later. and what we understand is the church government is trying to apply pressure against these. we have a government, yes. this is in support of the palestinians, but it's also to apply pressure. maybe even convinced, persuade leverage these really government to come to terms, take a step back, maybe even take a deep breath and realize what it's options you are. and then the words of the turkish president of the ship ty

maluleke, the vice chancellor of the swan university of technology in south africa. thanks lot professor for your time today. thank you very much for inviting me for this conversation today. i look forward to talking to you. thank you very much. now, mata says it disagrees with the fine by nigeria and will be filing an appeal. in addition to the 220 million dollars fine, nigerian authorities want meter to... take specific actions to comply with the country's law and see similar conduct in future. now uh, professor, first tell us why was this tech giant deliberately violating nigerian laws? so it is not easy to work out whether they were deliberately violating the laws or they are simply doing what they always do ' which is to take advantage of situations in countries which do not have strong regulatory environment to regulate their operations, so when these big tech companies arrive in a country and there are there are no laws or regulations to regulate them, they take advantage of it, and i think that's what they did in nigeria, they wouldn't be able to do it in a c

activist say that south africa, which is one of the largest exporters of coal to the zinis entity, is aiding the regime's criminality in gaza. hasan seriya has more. south african cole is responsible for powering 15% of israel's power grid, and this needs to stop immediately. says: south africa's attempt to hold israel accountable at the international court of justice is not enough. they're demanding that the government sever all trade tires with israel and impose sanctions against the regime. south africa is the largest trade partner with israel in africa and over the past eight months it has shipped over 500 thousand tons of coal to the brutal regime, placing it among the top three suppliers globally. but as exporting coal to israel, we are. actively aiding in abating that genocide, but we are also taking it a step further and it's not just limited to coal, we believe very firmly, and this is also been the case in our apartted south african history that any economic or any other relations that you have with the state of israel is aiding and abeting and propping up a genocidal state,

south africa has registered the largest economy in africa with a gdp of nearly 400 billion dollars. last year, when the commission was held , it was at a very important point in time because south africa was the rotating president of the brics community, and with the special efforts and support of the south african government and mr. rama fouza, the president of this country. doing we became a member of brics with the understanding that the global perspective goes beyond traditional trends. it is evolving in international relations. my government is committed to strengthening mutually beneficial relations with emerging international actors, especially with african countries. this is part of the president's article entitled my message to the new world. mohammadan nakmin, radio and television news agency. the united nations children's fund (unicef) declared gaza a graveyard for children. has become and there is no end in sight for their suffering. according to the turkish network, according to the reports, more than 15 thousand children martyrs and tens of thousands of people were inj

we look at conservation efforts in south africa. we're talking about the quality of life is it is there is for nothing more important that the air will breeze compulsion of cause and trucks and noon to pump all emissions that palm rolls the environment and public health. so active is the experts in i will be gathering hard and fast data on a pollution for paul or the citizens to become chain because this is the device that's good health transform every day. life in a row, be a small since i'm measuring air pollution in the city center, mainly to blame for the quality of the pixel to as motorcycles and diesel tall. i mean he finds going asthma touches for the kids up and planning advocates, humphrey, or html. as close, they will be home, you walk right, joins projects between the city, government and the un exploding ways to make 10 skeptical. rena. he's particularly concerned about them attacked his shots in the copy those streets. uh they are coming from different thoughts, lots of different tools. they are it's, i mean it's into t