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Always have happy endings. under presidentjacob zuma, the anc, mandela's party, became infamous for the enormous scale of its corruption, and cyril ramaphosa, its current president, is accused of being too weak to flush out the powerful corrupt figures in the party. from johannesburg, nomsa maseko talked to me about what's gone wrong. the south african government is saying that, well, it cannot be at fault here, because the war in the ukraine has had a lot to do with high inflation in this country, fuel prices have gone up, food has gone up, transport costs have also gone up. so, there's a lot...

Enough weapons to ukraine to help it win the war? or can russia hang on and declare victory? russia has huge resources, and in a war of attrition, russia can sustain that for probably longer than ukraine can. things seem to have gone terribly wrong with the rainbow nation of south africa. why is that? corruption levels in this country have been so rampant, it has actually reached proportions that are quite, you know, scary. and the smuggling of priceless antiquities from egypt to the west, who is to blame for it? it's not an easy thing to try and stop the kind of trade that brings millions of ...

Viewed as as they go into what really is a platform for them to showcase to the world the progress that they've made is to say yes we have been behind but we are making changes have a look at us a little bit more closely you know us from the past and it hasn't been really good to be are trying there are certain incentives etc so there is some progress on that front and i would think that is the message and that is coming from african leaders and here in europe i can see lots of people being very critical of european money going into regimes that have frankly quite dubious their human rights re...

>> and i think singapore has the best rating on corruption, the lowest corruption levels in the world. >> that's exactly right. i think there is something to learn there. we've seen so much reform in compensation in the private sector. why not think about that for the public sector? >> you have some things for voters as well. you say, why don't we ask voters to be more aware and informed about issues. >> i would hope that civic responsibility, people should want to be engaged in the process. we've seen voter participation plummet, how little knowledge voters have about their own rights and abo...

Corruption levels in the world. >> that's exactly right. i think there is something to learn there. we've seen so much reform in compensation in the private sector. why not think about that for the public sector? >> you have some things for voters as well. you say, why don't we ask voters to be more aware and informed about issues. >> i would hope that civic responsibility, people should want to be engaged in the process. we've seen voter participation plummet, how little knowledge voters have about their own rights and about the political system. 27 countries around the world including austra...