south africa becomes easy, because the soviet union is against south africa. so makes it easy for robeson to be against south africa. on this italian colonies issue, when you move north you start seeing what those priorities look like. meanwhile, the naacp, in fact, takes on the u.s. state department on this issue. there was a plan to do some carving up where britain would get this chunk where there was a a's and a communications facility. france would get this chunk. italy we get this piece. they were carving as if there were not people there anymore p is if this were 1884 all over again. and wlatalter white went, no, no no, to the point where chester williams and the state department said, you know, that document you wrote you're going to have to destroy and burn it because you have violated confidential information. that briefing was off the record. and walter pushed back. i'm not destroying anything. what you are doing is wrong. you are leading the u.s. down the road to perdition. colonialism is dead. you need to get a new horse. i'm going to help you do t

africa news." news. news. frontline focus. in-depth analysis. covering the coverage. cultural features. this week, reporting these stories. ♪ remember the song "sun city"? the scene of near the reported human rights abuses. we will explain. >> democratic functioning doesn't exist at all in the government. >> covering south africa, abc news blasts nelson mandela. we will dissect the report. while things like a new constitution in the right to vote or vital concerns are they sometimes seem secondary to more urgent needs. >> nobody is helping us. >> not even the man such high hopes were penned on -- pinned on. and in our culture section from zimbabwe, the sounds of -- all of these stories and more on "south africanow!" first, the uncensored news. amy: that was the beginning of the "south africa now!" program people watched around the world. rory o'connor is with us here in new york, co-founder of the tv and film production company, globalvision with danny schechter, where they made the weekly tv ser

but the kind you picked up in africa -- europe. it is still over asia, south america but it used to be all over your. so if he used vivax molar to reduce a fever and allow the fever to go up high enough and they treat the fever with quinine, 30% of the time you could cure the patient of what's called euro syphilis. it's a syphilis that would infect a brain cells cause brain damage. these favors could kill a syphilis in these patients and they would walk away 100% pure. so this became a standard treatment. he won a nobel prize in 1927 for. this became a standard treatment for late stage syphilis, narrow syphilis. and -- there's only been a couple of decades since we figured out that malaria was caused by these parasites carried by mosquitoes saw this as an opportunity to study the parasites because you couldn't grow them in the petri dish. dish. you could culture than the you can pass them around like you could with tuberculosis and should be migrants with other scientist and you could say the joint have an infected person. so the s

i had a good occasion to meet peter a number of times in africa and he has forgotten more about africa then i would ever know. i got to the point at the end of my tenure i would stay to my knowledge ever good to be best summed up by saying i was just beginning to understand how much i didn't know about africa at the end of my tour. sean of course is a noted author and professor. i was a pretty marginal student i think it certainly markets you heard rights for one of our nation's leading publications. i have been known to read "the new york times" on occasion. so anyway i am glad to be here. i will admit publicly that i very much enjoyed the opportunity to read sean's book. i think it's both a timely and important subject for us to talk about. it probably won't surprise you that i don't agree with all of his premises and conclusions. i'm probably less alarmist about the trend of the expanding role for private security companies or private military companies globally. i think he is right to caution us about the direction in which this might be having and i think there are some very real

it will be africa's largest and is expected to be fully complete by 2017. singapore has the gun seven days of mourning following the death of its founding father lee kuan yew. scott haidler has more. >> images of lee kuan yew overlook mourners at the hospital where he died. it's where people have been coming the last few days to deliver their "get well" messages. now they send their condolences. when a teacher heard that lee kuan yew died, he was in pain. he felt it was important to bring his two granddaughters here. >> what he has done,. >> flags of the small nation were lowered to half mast for the passing of who many thought was the father of singapore. born in 1923, the fourth generation chinese singaporean saw his homeland occupied first by the british and then by the japanese. after training as a lawyer in britain he became prime minister in 1959. a post he would hold for 31 years. under his leadership singapore was transformed from a tiny impoverished island with no natural resources into a hi-tech metropolis. lee kuan yew also had a darker side. opp

south africa and was one of the organizers of the africa research group in boston, but i became active in a project called sun city, artists against apartheid. just to supplement what was said earlier, this is not all about lobbying congress. this was about informing america about what was happening. in some cases, it was cultural figures. 58 of the world's top artists who indicted the forced relocation -- experienced forced relocation. that is what sun city was all about. part of an effort to promote a cultural boycott alongside an economic boycott. and it was very successful and worldwide in its impact. and i think that was important. i helped start the tv series "south africa now," that ran for 150 six weeks, every week, and the united states, reporting on south africa through the eyes of south africans. it was their story -- amy: on pbs. >> pbs never officially supported it, but many stations did. it was also in 40 countries throughout suffer for cap doesn't south africa. it had an impact of bringing the movement to a world audience. i think that was critical. and then of course th

southwestern africa so ryan does it appear that the audience is much younger today? many of the foot soldiers came out yesterday, a lot of the sig

africa is the only one that has not hosted the olympic games. so that would be very special to bring that to africa for the first time. so i think we are deserving if we can show that we can do a good job. >>> in golf the first win in the united states or europe in seven years. the irishman beating daniel bearinger in a playoff on monday. there was a rain delay in florida. 119 tournaments have passed since his last victory at the 2008 u.s. pga championship. >>> now, crucial game for the italian league is coming up right now. it's 1-1. second on the table, rome. really need to win this if they're to have any realistic chance of catching u of a. >>> now, one of the men hoping to take the top job of football's world governing body says more transparency is the key to fifa's future. michael van prague is standing in the fifa presidential elections. they're set for may. the chairman of the dutch football association says the full publication of michael garcia's report into allegations of corruption must be made a priority. >> when you act normally, t

first on the ground in africa. we work very closely with government leaders with health minimums sters and community health care workers all over africa and you don't get to the kind of statistics that i just mentioned, those kinds of improvements without those frontline people making it happen. and u.s. corporations, i work with many u.s. multinationals, chevron, g.e. and mack and others who are all investing along side the u.s. government in this particular issue. and not just doing it because of corporate and social responsibility but good business. this is the fastest growing market over the next two decades and committed to making these kinds of commitments. and last is the u.s. government and the leadership that it's providing and i have worked closely with the leaders that usaid and pepfar and i can assure you they are making tough decisions to make sure our money is spent efficiently and for me as a philanthropist, knowing that that leadership is there keeps us inspired to be able to partner with the u.s. g

the africa systems are sorely understaffed. what we've seen is by providing what is essentially inexpensive talent, we can around very specific issues, whether it's malaria, tuberculosis, h.i.v., etc., their rate of improvement is extraordinary. so in states like river state in nigeria where we've seen a 300% increase in 12 months of mothers on treatment, or another state where we've seen 160% increase, that's done by inserting people that health commissioners can use to mobilize their people and train their people in the right way. mr. stavridis: senator, i'd say very quickly i'd take a significant chunk of it and do what you see in this panel using state and aid that have the bureaucracies, leverage the private-public partnership and you see at state and a.i.d. small numbers of people who are expert at doing that. then i have to give a shoutout within this account for the peace corps. i think it's undervalued and underfunded. our largest cohort every year works in the door and they're peace corps volunteers. i hear their stor

no more in asia but most probably two more in africa. >> africa's population doubles in size. >> doubles twice. maybe if africa is very suckedful, three and a half. but there will be twice as many people in africa as in the americas and europe together. look if i take north america and west european 1 billion. this is east europe this is latin america. you have less than 10% of the world population here in the old west. you have 80% of the population in asia and africa. >> now let's tell people the answer to the question. >> this is the question you put, less than 1 billion when i was born 2 billion at the turn of the century. which one of these is right. >> how many children will there be 2 billion, 3 billion, 4 billion, there are currently 2 billion. the answer is -- 2 billion. it may increase a little. it may even increase. but the number increase in africa but decrease in asia and europe. when you asked the swedes they answered like this. in u.s. they answered like this. can you see -- >> 11% swedes got it right, only 7% u.s. government. >> i went to the zoo and i asked the chimps as

and we meet the south africa cartoonist drawing discontent. >>> hello, with the security situation in yemen continuing to deteriorate, the government has appealed for military help from its gulf neighbors. houthi rebels control of the capital sanaa back in september and have now set their sights on other centers like ta'izz. the port of aden is also in his site. president abd rabbu mansour hadi fled house arrest in sanaa and is trying to establish the government in aden. saudi arabia's foreign minister says the standoff in yemen can be resolved peacefully, he won't see a political solution but says gulf countries will take the necessary steps if that doesn't happy. charlie angela has the story. >> residents are not going quietly, in return they're fired on and tear gassed. their city yemen's third largest was taken on sunday. with government buildings and its international airport now under houthi control. yemen is increaseingly divided by a north controlled by houthis and south ruled by president abd rabbu mansour hadi. holding back the houthi advance. >> translator: they are expandi

at first, they talk calmly to africa. when africa dives into his tent officers draw their weapons. about 30 seconds later africa comes out swinging at police. you can hear the sound as officers use their tasers which police say doesn't subdue him. you then hear an officer say africa is reaching for his gun. homeless africa died on the sidewalk outside a shelter, union rescue mission. he did not want the help. africa told this man, who goes by the name nick g. an ex-drug dealer and ex-skid row homeless person all he wanted was one thing. >> he wanted to get away from here. he wanted to go back home. he was very depressed. very depressed. but he had a good side to him, a good heart. >> reporter: how long did he live here? >> at least weeks. i recognize him from weeks. >> reporter: weeks? >> yeah. but time flies here. >> reporter: union rescue missions reverend andy bales doesn't blame the lapd who showed pictures of the officer's gun proves they say a struggle over the weapon. the officers did all they could, given the circumstances. >> the reality is this is much more than a problem

south africa is a largely conservative society but has taken a more liberal stance on civil issues. both abortion and same sex marriage is legal here. the deputy minister of justice agrees the current situation does not work. >> it's happening that criminalization hasn't stopped it so there's a variety of factors that needs to be looked at and we will ultimately have to do what is right. >> many people will take some convincing. but south africa's unenviable status of having the highest rate of hiv in the world that may in itself convince the government to decriminalize the oldest profession in the world. tanya page, al jazeera johannesburg. >> the industry's latest innovations, many of the gadgets involved sensors are taking center stage. tarek bazley reports. >> until now motion sensors have been too expensive and not accurate enough. >> so a lot of the accomplishments we do are performance based what we're doing is bringing in performance measures which help the audience and the judges truly measure what the athletes did all metrics go into determining your final score. >> and da

now to south africa where 60% of sex workers are hiv positive. rights groups say that's why the government needs to decralz the de decriminalize the profession. >> some men pay more so they don't have to wear a condom. 60% ever south africa's sex workers are hiv positive. they argue the law isn't in tune with reality the government encourages condom use but some police use them as proof of contractual. criminality and brings their use to an abrupt end. >> some sex workers fear carrying condoms that almost states i am opursuit. a prostitute. >> she's hiv positive too but the government's first hiv positive program due to the launched this year won't work. >> translator: the health program will only work when sex work has been decralzed. we'redecriminalized. >> there is some precedent south africa is a largely conservative society but has taken a more liberal stance in other african countries on civil issues. both abortion and same sex marriage is legal here. the deputy minister of justice accepts that the current situation does not work. >> it's c

you have the countries of north africa, of southern africa, the sub-saharan africa, niger, mali, chad, sudan, you have north africa, from morocco to egypt and the mediterranean basis and southern europe. places. speaking about destabilizeing, you mentioned people have been stepping up. a youth has been stepping up and this is a quote: even that - there has been pushback, here is an 18-year-old, stepped up and was assassinated. you see his photo on my screen. speaking about the youth, you short shabab libya, the youth of libya, what should they do in this situation where they are being targeted and as sass nated to bring back civic dialogue and country. >> i mean, that's the million dollar question, how we can continue to be involved in the process simultaneously avoiding being killed in the process. so it's something that the civil society and youth continue to struggle with, how to strategise and be involved, and not put our lives at stake. one of those approaches, and i think that's what in this twitter contributor was saying, in the dialogue process, that the u.n. special envoy is

. >> it is quite refreshing to get. >> you are a black south africa speaking to south africas in different languages. >> i could say yes to a certain level. >> reporter: this artist says he has a lot more ground to break to make african voices more main treatment stream. erica woods, al jazeera, south africa. >> good to have you with us, you have been watching the newshour, i'm david foster, time to hand it over to felicity bar she'll be with you after the break. houthi rebels conned their advance south and yemen's embattled government calls on gulf nations for military help. hello there i'm felicity barr and you're watching al jazeera live from london. also coming up: a handshake in berlin and more pressure on athens to implement structural reform. >>> the son of aing senegalese president and a candidate himself is jailed for cruchtion.

first on the ground in africa. we work very closely with government leaders, with health minimums sters and community health care workers all over africa and you don't get to the kind of statistics that i just mentioned, those kinds of improvements without those frontline people making it happen. and u.s. corporations, i work with many u.s. multinationals, chevron, g.e. and mack and others, who are all investing along side the u.s. government in this particular issue. and not just doing it because of corporate and social responsibility but good business. this is the fastest growing market over the next two decades and committed to making these kinds of commitments. and last is the u.s. government and the leadership that it's providing and i have worked closely with the leaders that usaid and pepfar and i can assure you they are making tough decisions to make sure our money is spent efficiently and for me as a philanthropist, knowing that that leadership is there keeps us inspired to be able to partner with the u.s.

south africa puts backgrounds. i feel we want to bring a difference in the superhero universe so that new franchises can be spawned out of our history, african history. >> we're going to build an app. >> reporter: if african superheroes have been on the ground so are tech start-ups. the crowd graduated from here at the entrepreneurial school of technology. >> i'm looking for $100,000. >> reporter: a school for start-ups, it's pumping out students likes these rehearsing their elevator pitches one minute pitch a project to a potential backer. >> with you -- >> reporter: they're taught to dream big. the school backers chose ghana because they saw ghanaians as smart and creative but possessing a certain swagger. ♪ >> reporter: start-ups are a precarious business across the rickety bridge is the incubator, where fledgling companies are nurtured through the shaky early years. dropfy is is a wedgist, manages client feedback detectings the client's mood from what they're writing. businesses know how to react. >> we are a

we have the story. >> it is dubbed a piece of africa in the philippines. this safari park is home to 300 endangered animals in 4,000 hectares of natural preserve. it is a top tourist destination but the park is the least known attraction. working here for almost 40 years, this man tells me the story of how president former ferdinand marcos envisioned this park after a trip to africa. in 1976, over 100 animals were shipped here, evicting more than 200 families in the process. the mark occasion's were known to have stolen billions of dollars from the government and this was to be their private zoo. he was overthrown by a people power revolution. decades on, caretakers continue to work under limited conditions. often their salaries aren't paid for months. there are no resident animal doctors here, no clinic and not a single working vehicle. poaching is also a problem. at least 20 animals are killed here every year, and caretakers say they do not have enough park rangers to police the perimeters. still, wardens here have stayed for decades all for their love o

south africa's start wasn't ideal. that would be ireland's only joy for a while as he sparked a ton, then his highest one day score of 159. notching a century. a south africa batsman puts him in a commander position, setting 411 for four. after some resistance from their middle and lower order the irish were dismissed for 210 a 201-run win for south africa. they next play pakistan. al jazeera. >> competition host australia are preparing to face having a in their game wednesday. afghanistan are brimming with confidence after their win last week although they know it will be a tough test. australia come into the match having lost to cohost new zealand. they sit fourth in the pool, but could finish second. >> if you're confident you back your own ability, you walk out and have the freedom to enjoy the brand of cricket you play. i think that's what will continue to do. >> australia's the best team, the best side for me in competition, because their own conditions, they are hosting the world cup. they are a good team. they

we are a big player in africa. we continue to extend in africa. it's a continent where there's economic growth demographic growth incredible. 2 billion people in africa in 20 years' time. it is the strength of orange in africa. we intend to grow organically mainly. if there are opportunities to grow by consolidating or operating from assets in countries we are not, we will see. caroline: any countries you would like to be in? mr. richard: we would like to focus on francophone countries. from a cultural point of view and a management point of view it's the best area. there's a lot to do in this part of africa, the western part. caroline: why did you not remain a big shareholder in bt any -- bt and 3? mr. richard: we are in business, digital come -- deutsche telekom has its own agenda. we have a lot of projects in africa. we are the process of acquiring another company. i explained that my preference was to get more cash. i really wanted to have exposure to bt. i believe that the bt combination is going to create value. that's why orange took more c

south africa's state news banned it. but it still got plenty of hits online. >> i think it was hilarious. it captured it exactly. >> it's awesome. pretty awesome, yeah. >>reporter: another of his popular animations featuring an african jesus also got him into trouble. he says he's not setting out to offend, only to poke fun and to push the boundaries. the killings at a newspaper in paris in january have only confirmed his views on freedom of speech. >> people will make fun of you in the real world. people will say bad things about you in the real world. so you just need to grow up about it and just accept it. >>reporter: he says his animations have had around 8 million hits online. that's because he's one of the first south african animators to feature local voices cultures and issues. >> it's quite refreshing for it to be south african. >>reporter: but despite his popularity, he's had to struggle to get his work on tv. do you feel like you're a bit of a ground breaker in a way? a black south african talking to south afr

now, i accept that we have some challenges in africa. i don't have issues. but we are moving forward, 95% of african people today live under better government societies than ten years ago. it's not perfect and it's not by a wide margin but it's a movement forward so the society continues this and we move forward, you know, one step at a time. >> dr. abraham thank you very much indeed for talking to al jazeera. >> thank you for having me thank you. >>> iraqi army has begun offensive to retake the town from i.s.i.l. and held by the group since last summer. >> translator: today god willing we will start an important military campaign to liberate the citizens of the province and includes many towns and tikrit and other areas in the province from islamic state militants and i call upon you and all commanders to deal with citizens well and we want to liberate from them there and should protect citizens and properties. >>> and we are live from the capitol baghdad and jane what details have you been hearing there about the operation to retake tikrit and how has it b

of africa and down into south africa over the last few weeks talking awful flooding around mozambique and circulation there and flooding over the next few days. >>> thanks everton. mp in the uk called for the end of detention of asylum seekers after abuse by one over the country's biggest detention centers and lawrence lee is live from london and what has been happening at these centers, lawrence? >> well there was a documentary on british television last night where they went under cover in this detention center and secretly filmed some of the guards openly being racist and abusive and a private company that runs it suspended them but this is not the first time this happened and there was a more significant case a few months ago featuring a man who was killed called jimmy, he was put on a plane with two private security guards from a different company, the giant company and bet him double and he died. they were acquitted of his manslaughter but subsequently the police found text messages on one of the guard's phones and i will read it to you, it's full of explitives, go home you kid

rfrp south africa's growth slumped to just 1.5% last year. it's too early to tell whether this will have an massive impact on international investment but a power shortage could make companies think twice about coming here. erika wood al jazeera, johannesberg south africa. >>> we spoke to a political analyst, she says early warnings were ignored. >> this dates back as far as the late 1990s. in fact you know, in the decade between 1997 and about 2007 there was a survey done by one of the non-government affiliated unions, which showed that south africa was decreasing supply to sectors such as mining and industry, but of course there was an increased supply to those households that had previously not had electricity, but were now joining the power grid but south africa was also increasing its sale of electricity outside of its borders. we provide firm contracts to several countries in the neighborhood. and we also provide electricity on so-called non-firm contracts to our neighbors in zambia and zimbabwe. and south africans are saying why are we

he says that doesn't mean africa is doing badly. >> i accept we have some challenges in africa. i don't have issues. but we are moving forward. 95% of african people today live under better governed societies than ten years ago. it's not perfect. and it's not by wide margin. but it is a movement -- in many parts of africa. >> there are worrying times. some african leaders look like they want to hang on to powers so they can have a third term in office. some of those countries include togo. >>reporter: some say perhaps the term leader should be defined. >> we have a special kind of press prestige to political leadership. >>reporter: one incentive is prize money of $5 million paid over ten years followed by $200,000 a year for life. but some wonder if that's enough motivation for some of africa's current crop of leaders. >>> just before we go i wanted to show you some live pictures out of montgomery in pennsylvania. this is apparently a major fire a four-alarm fire at a sheet metal plant in montgomery county in pennsylvania. we've seen pictures of a lot of emergency vehicles. we'l

what is your view of africa? >> we like africa, in particular north africa and ethiopia. if you look at algeria, for example, some of its gdp is 250 billion. it has over $200 billion in its reserves and the country has no debt. a population of 40 million people and the second largest arab country and obviously it's been a very controlled economy, but it's beginning to open up. it has enormous opportunity and very literate population, multilingual, sophisticated in their own way and to a large extent, battered and bruised because of the civil war that they experienced, but there's an enormous opportunity for people like us to go into that market. >> carlos, your view of africa? >> i think you need to be, to look at it with a global vision and you cannot put a label and say africa is like this. they are many countries, different sizes, different levels of development and south africa is different from central africa and north africa is also a different stage, but you cannot say africa, but it's clear for me that the society, the civilization moved from the original agricult

. >> it is dubbed africa in the philippines. this safari park is home to animals on 400,000-hectares of reserve. the park is it's least known attractions. they have been working here for almost 40 years. he tells me the story of how former president ferdinand marcos envisioned the park after a trip to africa. in 1976 over 100 animals were shipped from kenya evicting 200 families in the process. the marcos were known to have stolen billions of dollars from government coffers and this was to be his private zoo. he was eventually overthrown by a revolution. caretakers continue to work under limited conditions. often they're not paid for many months. there are no resident animals doctors and no clinics. poach something also a problem. at least 20 animals are killed here every year, and caretakers say they do not have enough park rangers to police the perimeters. still they have stayed for decades all for the love of the animals. >> my dream is to become a-- >> for many years it was closed off from the public. neglected by the nation

>> well, they have a lot of linkages, you know, center africa, west africa. >> what i mean is, they were chased out of these towns and villages, where do you think they've gone to now? >> that's what i'm saying, the pressure is on them, they're killed. of course, some of them, they die in the process. a number of them just have killed. some of them even bleed back to reintegrate into the civilian population. >> the hope, of course, has always been for the families of the 219 abducted schoolgirls from chibok, that this operation would find them alive, but this week, we're told by the military, that there's no clues at all as to where they are. >> we ask that question every day. we are looking, we have not seen dead girls. that is the good news. so i believe they're still alive. i believe we'll get them. >> do you know where they are? >> no, i can't tell you where they are. we are suspecting that they may be in some forest. we cannot speak categorically, but we suspect that the bulk of them may be in some forest. >> many people are questioning how on earth has it been that during these las

south africa's state news broadcaster banned it but it still got plenty of hits online. >> i think it was hilarious. it captures exactly what it is and what it's about. >> it's awesome pretty awesome yeah. >> reporter: another of his popular animations featuring an african jesus also got him into trouble. he's saying he's not out to pock fun but to point out the satire. >> confirmed his freedom of speech. >> people will say bad things about you so we just need to grow up about it and just accept it. >> he says his animations have had about 8 million hits online. because he is one of the first south african animators to feature local issues. >> it is quite refreshing to be south african. >> he's had to struggle to get his work on tv. >> do you feel you're a bit of a ground breaker in a way? you are a black south african speaking to south africans in a different way. >> i could say yes to a certain level. >> but he says he has a lot more ground to break to make african voices more mainstream. erica wood, al jazeera johannesburg, south africa. >> you will see stories behind the stories a

of africa. for instance, where i come from originally it is - it's the whole f g.m. process, it is run by a society, a secret society. it's a woman's society. and they take the girls into the bush. and perform f g.m. on them. no outsider is allowed in the bush while they are doing it. >> okay. hang on, this is probably shocking to a lot of people, it's shocking to me. women are the ones taking the girls into the bush, women are the ones performing the procedure. presumably they have had it done to themselves. why are they perpetuating it? >> because it's a culture, a tradition. mary mentioned it was had gram and mother -- grandmother and mother. normally it's the grand aunt. >> does anyone come out the other end saying that was a great idea. i'm glad it happened to me 20-30 years ago? >> no, no one has come out and said that. the female elders in the village mother and grandmother, so i want it done to my daughter, because it's a tradition. >> so it's a tradition among the winners. it keeps you

he established the foundation to focus on leadership and governance in africa. tell us what made him worthy of this price. >> became into office and focused on the young generation the role of education and made education free for young kids. economically, he moved the country forward from the least into the middle income can countries. he is a consensus president. he did not try to marginalize political opposition. he included everybody in his program and that is wonderful. >> can this award really helped bring better leadership and good governance to africa? >> absolutely. it is a number of efforts we are trying to do here. the index is a very important tool because it holds the governments accountable. i brought the score sheet -- what has been delivered? we have 130 barometers that we test out there and we honor and acknowledge the excellen leaders. what that does is it moves the conversation about govnanc and leadership to the center of the debate in africa. today, everyone is taing about governance. you and ire talking about governance. once you start to t

you know you have us -- those british protectorate sitting in the middle of south africa and you might have to take those over. and the british were like, yes we know. when jan christian came at the beginning of 1946 and said we are going to annex south west africa, the south africans were expecting to get a little

in south africa there are fears that power cuts could threaten the economy. the state electricity company has been struggling to provide a steady supply and has erica wood reports from joe -- johannesburg are concerned about business. >> reporter: it's old and cannot cope with demand and new ones are being built but it will be sometime before they are online, the state owned energy company has warned people and industry they will have to endure regular power outages. >> and we have given them our word we are working on restoring these probability of the power system but it's going to be a long and painful process i'm afraid. >> reporter: south africa chamber of commerce says interruption for supply is not good for foreign investments. >> we are concerned about the impact this could have on international investment if you are going to invest you need a secure supply of energy and needs to be at a reasonable cost and that certainly might be a tipping source for a decision not to invest. >>. >>> that reasonable cost is set to rise in april but this justifies say

>> it is a bit late. >> reporter: south africa's growth slumps to just 1.5% last year. it's too early to tell whether this will have massive impact on international investment but a power shortage could make companies think twice about coming here. >> you can keep up to date with all of the news on our website. there it is on your screen the address, aljazeera.com. that's aljazeera.com. ♪ >> hi, i'm lisa fletcher andy are in the stream. ajunct professors fight for a living wage. how their working conditions could impact the quality of higher education.

and meet the dog helping to save south africa's wildlife. in recent years, the global trend has been torn the removal of legal restrictions on women's access to abortion has been relaxed in a number of countries. but a number of countries -- in asia, africa and south america -- have laws which criminalize abortion altogether, even in cases of rape. of these el salvador is perhaps , the most draconian -- and the most zealous in its prosecution of women suspected of having had illegal abortions. as a result, women are finding that the state regards their miscarriages as murder and in some cases, they go straight from hospital bed to prison cell. >> i got up one morning and went to the bathroom. i must have fainted, because when i woke up i was lying on the floor in my own blood. at the hospital, they told me i was pregnant but that there was no longer a baby inside me. i didn't even know i was pregnant. they accused me of murdering a defenseless, unborn child. it wasn't a miscarriage, they said. and i was arrested in hospital. the judge wasn't

in south africa it's the leading cause of death in their country. erica wood reports from a township in cape town. >> every day, he goes to his local clinic to be monitored for progress and take his medication. >> i take 16 tablets a day. >> he has extreme drug-resistant tuberculosis. the only regime available takes two years to complete. it's highly toxic and is not even guaranteed to work. he once he got his diagnosis he was convinced that it was his death sentence. >> you just crash in front of you. you wait for the day you're going to cough blood and then you die. >> but he has a good prognosis because he has specialized care through a pilot program being carried out in his township. this there is the highest number of drug-resistant tuberculosis. the reason where why tuberculosis is able to get such a hold here is because people live in such close confines. it has gotten so bad that officials want it cleared as a hubble healthhealth emergency. the community based care is better, more accessible and cheaper. if you're depending on a hospital sys