but that's not a likely problem here in zimbabwe southern africa has been experiencing a prolonged drought scene which 18. increased development is also causing the city's water sources to run dry finding clean water has become a daily struggle for me. this open will of ours is always overcrowded when philip committee members in need of water and we have no choice but to help them if there's an outbreak of cholera we all be in danger because it's exposed. just north and trust has been set up that oversees various environmental organizations and activists to do that they are looking into ways of protecting and restoring the city's remaining wetlands with the help of local communities and donations but the biggest problem is land management say the activists or the country's environmental law forbids the look made on which let's continue to offer land for sale. the legal aspect. concerning red lines is really very important and needs to be address very urgently. at the moment we are working in an environment where. the legal aspects are not be known are not aligned he's linspire not politica

in southern africa the racist white minority regime of radiation the country that is now zimbabwe made the melody of the 4th movement its national anthem. beethoven's music misused by oppressors. in germany. chinese students protested in tiananmen square in beijing to the strains of the 9th symphony. beethoven as an expression of hope. after the berlin wall sell later that year the symphony became part of the soundtrack of german reunification. the american conductor leonard bernstein performed the knives in the eastern and western parts of the once divided city. she changed the text from joy to freedom. to. i. some experts believe that may have been the word schiller originally wrote. it. since 1905 the ode to joy melody has been the official anthem of the european community now the european union. it stands for the common values of the member states freedom peace and solidarity. to avoid favoring one language over any other and instrumental version was chosen as the european anthem. of the. seeds of might if. those are things that need to be. best up. really for a lot of people in hi

zimbabwe appears l. equipped to deal with its potential impact. joining us now from johannesburg is the pros much i know he's the director east and southern africa at the city international most medical staff went on strike in march over a lack of facilities to fight corona has a situation improved since then. well not at all the situation in zimbabwe remains and in fact the state of the health sector is a microcosm of the state of the economy which as you know has been here in consistent decline for almost a decade now so the vitus pandemic moment is a reflection that we know through which we see the dysfunction that is in the economy which is now affecting the health sector it is very difficult right now for citizens to be assured that they is a capacity. to respond to this pandemic because of shortages of medicines and absence of. confidence among the population if you look at how the young journalist. was the 1st person to die from virus died in circumstances that demonstrate that the we can be told which was the most people are designed to respond to corona virus did not have a ventilator and one was privately procured he didn't have the appli

zimbabwe he was seen as this fearless freedom fighter he managed to change the narrative and people in africa love him for that. robert mugabe was born in 1924. in what was then the colony of southern rhodesia mugabe was a gifted boy and even trained as a teacher in his early teens. 4 years later a scholarship took him to south africa to complete further training it was here that mugabe became interested in politics attending political rallies. he was influenced by gandhi teachings and his time at university in south africa at the same university that nelson mandela. was turning point in his life. by 960 a yearning for freedom from white rule consumed mugabi so much that he quit teaching to devote himself full time to the cause. he aligned himself with the n.d.p. the national democratic party led by joshua como in the fight against ian smith. gabi spoke of african nationalism land and liberation and openly called for a guerilla war against the ruling elite in december $963.00 he was arrested as an agitator he actually spent more than a decade as a political prisoner. meanwhile some were growing frustrated with what they saw as a lack of action on the part of income and his party a