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south africans are realising that if they don t change the way they vote, south africa is going to end up in a very, very dark place. there will be anarchy, there will be looting all over this country because nothing will be working. - if certain things are not resolved we will become a failed state. the anc, mandela s party, has ruled uninterrupted for 29 years. is a day of reckoning coming? welcome to hardtalk, on the road from south africa. i m stephen sackur. back in 1994, the one overwhelming emotion in this country was hope. the repressive, racist apartheid regime had been toppled. the new power in the land was the african national congress, promising a better life for all south africans. well, three decades on, it s time to judge how the anc is doing. to too many south africans, this looks and feels like a story of failure. khayelitsha township, cape town. nestled under majestic table mountain, a sprawling reminder of south africa s status as the most unequal s ....
the repressive, racist apartheid regime had been toppled. the new power in the land was the african national congress, promising a better life for all south africans. well, three decades on, it s time to judge how the anc is doing. to too many south africans, this looks and feels like a story of failure. khayelitsha township, cape town. nestled under majestic table mountain, a sprawling reminder of south africa s status as the most unequal society on earth. in africa s most advanced economy, at least half of young people can t find work. life here is never easy but, right now, south africa s power crisis is hitting the poorest hardest. no one in khayelitsha wants to be sick when the power is off, but it happens every day. the main township hospital has had to adapt to what they call load shedding . the man in charge is david binza. with load shedding now in place and the different stages, instead of reducing, they are actually increasing. we ve had to adjust our lives ....
welcome to hardtalk on the road from south africa. i m stephen sackur. back in 1994, the one overwhelming emotion in this country was hope. the repressive, racist apartheid regime had been toppled. the new power in the land was the african national congress, promising a better life for all south africans. well, three decades on, it s time to judge how the anc is doing. to too many south africans, this looks and feels like a story of failure. khayelitsha township, cape town. nestled under majestic table mountain, a sprawling reminder of south africa s status as the most unequal society on earth. in africa s most advanced economy, at least half of young people can t find work. life here is never easy but, right now, south africa s power crisis is hitting the poorest hardest. no one in khayelitsha wants to be sick when the power is off, but it happens every day. the main township hospital has had to adapt to what they call load shedding . the man in charge is david binza. ....
Since you wrote sapiens. It was a worldwide hit, and in essence, it was a very sort of positive explanation of how we humans have come to sort of dominate this planet. It was about our ability to cooperate, to tell shared stories, to give ourselves common purpose. Ijust wonder whether in the last decade, youve lost some of that optimism. I think our shared stories and our ability to cooperate, both as a species, but also on the national level, is collapsing in more and more places. I see it now in my home country of israel, which is really on the verge maybe of a constitutional crisis or even a civil war. Maybe what we need to understand specifically about democracies is that democracy, in essence, is a conversation. You know, dictatorship, there is one person dictates everything. Democracy is trying to reach some agreement through conversation, and conversation is not always possible. For most of history, large scale conversation was just technically impossible. You had small scale de ....
Since you wrote sapiens. It was a worldwide hit, and in essence, it was a very sort of positive explanation of how we humans have come to sort of dominate this planet. It was about our ability to cooperate, to tell shared stories, to give ourselves common purpose. Ijust wonder whether in the last decade, youve lost some of that optimism. I think our shared stories and our ability to cooperate, both as a species, but also on the national level, is collapsing in more and more places. I see it now in my home country of israel, which is really on the verge maybe of a constitutional crisis or even a civil war. Maybe what we need to understand specifically about democracies is that democracy, in essence, is a conversation. You know, dictatorship, there is one person dictates everything. Democracy is trying to reach some agreement through conversation, and conversation is not always possible. For most of history, large scale conversation was just technically impossible. You had small scale de ....