v.w. news africa christine christine it's nice to have you here so you are from zimbabwe you covered the all star who govern right into 70 and how does his death make you feel you know waking up to that news it was a shock you know i went through the phases every zimbabwean does this specially us younger people who who didn't quite live in the colonialism so we already have a new democratic symbol we're so we we didn't appreciate what he meant to our parents and the generations before because we didn't understand that but you know speaking to my uncles and my parents and hearing about you know the liberties and the freedom that they got from this matter i had to sort of engage that part of him and there was a side to mugabe that was chummy with tales of him before so there was a part of mugabe i grouped to that extent but looking at the brutality as a journalist having covered some of it i remember being in the country having to report i've never been so fearful in my life of being caught doing my job in this country that i called back a country of my birth so i'm sitting here today and i'm

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v.w. . hello and welcome to a new edition of equal africa my name is the films of you and i'm coming to you from johannesburg and south africa if you want to find out to watch a book around terrorists have to do with climate crisis stay tuned and he is my lovely colleague in nigeria. hello there is ian hello everybody yes me here at the live fossett park in lagos nigeria i waited for new have for so here's what's coming up today. here about problems caused by them to decide on things they got on. the land what people in kenya are doing to help think ground grains from a stink ship. now let's start with renewables south africa is heavily dependent on coal about some of the some percent of the country's primary energy in me john made by coal and that's a lot not good for the environment the government is looking to promote the use of solar power but converting to solar is proving to be a slow process can't tell on the southern cape are the front runners for 4th of all tight solar systems equal reports some of the people that are seeking to shake up the south african energy mix. with. the musi