Africa: The Battle for the Ballot Box – BBC Africa
Africa: The Battle for the Ballot Box – BBC Africa
The BBC’s Southern Africa Correspondent, Nomsa Maseko, asks where democracy is headed across the world’s fastest growing continent in a year when nearly a third of African nations are heading to the polls amid a surge of military takeovers, worsening security and greater repression. We hear from experts, academics and thinkers. And in her…
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Coups are happening in West Africa not because of weak government, its because Africans are tired of Western exploitation and taking their countries back. Thats why.
Im voting for eff its our hope anc has lacks leadership in their 30 years rule they enriching their family pockets our black people in power are selling their poor people its very sad.
It's confirmed!! South African's National IQ test will be written on 29 May.
Praying for a peaceful day on 29th May. South African solution is vote
African countries should enhance cooperation and trade with each other, Africa by itself has immense resources and a large source of labour. Africa can develop from within rather than relying on the West or East who only use African countries for their own strategic purposes thereby further creating division and disunity within Africa.
ANC HAS FAILED TO DELIVER. ITS AN AILING AND TIRED LIBERATION MOVEMENT. VERY SAD
BBC should be banned from africa by the AU. they are part of destabilising africa
ANC has lost it's direction. We need a new direction, good leadership, good ethics and professionalism.
What did south africa do with the freedom? Bully people in their country. Xenophobia. Tsk tsk tsk, I have more words but I rest my case
y r u playing west african backround music
Nomusa Maseko's work is always flawless, welldone💯 this was a great watch
As a Rural voter, l say Enough is Enough, ANC must go !!!
Whatever you do, don't vote ANC.
#VukaVelaVoter
This video states at 5:25 that "General Robert Guei is driven from power by a popular revolt" in "Ivory Coast" in 2002. That is incorrect. Laurent Gbagbo was president of Cote d'Ivoire in 2002. It was 2000 when Guei, who ran for president and lost but refused to accept the result, was forced out of power in a revolt.
What is the name of the Iscathamiya choir singing at the end?
Xenophobia
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🌟… "THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO CIVILIZATIONS FLOURISHED IN AFRICA WHICH DID NOT SUFFER AT ALL COMPARED TO THOSE OF OTHER CONTINENTS". "DURING THESE CENTURIES, AFRICAN PEOPLE WERE POLITICALLY FREE AND ECONOMICALLY INDEPENDENT". "THEIR SOCIAL PATTERNS AND CULTURES WERE TRULY THEIR OWN AND NATIVE". … "HAILE SELASSIE" ♦
🌟… ACCORDING THAT IT IS "WRITTEN" IN THE "BOOK" OF "ECCLESIASTES" : "THE ETERNAL BRINGS BACK WHAT HAS PASSED"… ! … "AS IT WAS BEFORE, SO IT SHALL BE AGAIN"… ! ! ! "AMEN" !
South Africa is the biggest democracy in Africa, this narrative about people rejecting freedom/democracy is not true.
South Africans voted not Knowing what the CODESA agreement was.
As a black American I’m so proud of South Africa, if you don’t fight for what you believe in nobody will
I see so many comments that are focused on the self… both South African and other Afrikans, all seeking for the focus to shift towards their countries and communities.
The reality as seen at this mark 11:23 is that WE ALL HAVE MORE IN COMMON than without.
If the South Africans do better (with our continued help, even moreso than pre ‘94) we ALL do better. Same goes for every country on the continent.
We are ALL only as good as the one struggling the most among us.
Please can the blacks in johannesburg stop useing the streets as toilets its disgusting
South Africa should focus on getting itself right, carrying the whole continent looks to close to being a lost course
Freedom? Is life behind electric fences freedom? Is having constant vigilance and anxiety freedom? Is not stopping at the traffic lights in case of carjacking freedom?
We never got freedom, we traded one for one but still most have nothing and progress seems impossible… I'm still young and love my country but I feel very afraid of the future.
Please…. America, Europe and other allied western civilizations….please help free us from the surge of communism. The Chinese and Russians have a keen interest in keeping the ANC and its alliance partners in power. They have infiltrated and corrupted our government so as to gain a greater foothold into our and other African economies! Please don't let that happen😢😢
For once we have to get rid of the ANC who have been destroying the country for over 30 years. The ANC keep stealing and corrupting everything they touch, load shedding, potholes, neglecting South Africans and allowing our infrastructure to collapse. All they do is make empty promises to the people while everyone is living in poverty…. This is not the dream Nelson Mandela wanted for South African or South Africans.
Do white South Africans, including boers, also celebrate South Africa's independence day?
That’s a typical South African story. The journalist decided not talk about the xenophobic attacks.
Funny how half the video was dedicated to explaining in detail the crimes of apartheid, yet it’s supposed to be a video about the African 2024 Election year of the continent, why was it given so much video time and so little dedicated to the actual title of the video?🤨 almost like they’re trying to get us to focus on something
It confounds me hearing a black refering herself as a coloured person! To mean what now? An Uncle Tom mentality
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Your colony looted afrlca.Why do you care so much. You want to put you puppets so you can continue looting . MK,EFF ANC nationalism combo is coming. They
Will take all stolen assets your colony looted and chase you out
There will never be change until you have economic freedom. You took political independence whilst your mineral wealth is being looted by the West. The moment you cancel all those mining rights of White Western Companies, you mine and beneficiate your minerals, you will gain real freedom. Nationalize the banks and mines now!
Good luck for all South Africans. From here in Ethiopia ❤❤❤
Never trust what the bbc says
Momsa: Thanks for making this documentary. I think you should add a few items as topical issues for the video:
1) The silence of repeated administrations in South Africa (SA) to speak out against undemocratic rule on the continent and in particular in the SADC region. A specific example is Zimbabwe where because of the close ties between the ANC and ZANU PF, sanctioning Harare has been a faut pas. This has led the a flood of undocumented immigrants especially from Zimbabwe that only lends to adding public frustration to the ANC government not providing public goods like water, transportation infrastructure, healthcare etc.
2) Mention the xenophobic violence that targeted African migrants in successive years since democracy. Highlighting the irony that Frontline States that helped SA topple apartheid, are having their citizens attacked and killed via vigilante groups linked to nefarious political players.
3) On foreign policy, SA has engaged strange bedfellows. It supported Russia in spite of the fact that it invaded a sovereign country, Ukraine. It has engaged in military exercises on the day Ukraine was invaded. In addition to this, SA maintains close relations with China and has not used its soft power diplomacy and the residue of the moral voice of Mandela to speak to the ill treatment of Uigers and the continued exclusion of the Dalai Lama from Tibet.
4) I also think SA is faced with a crisis in leadership, good governance and transparency. The Commission on State Capture and the violence that erupted on Zuma's arrest, show transformative service leadership is required.
5)In addition to this, SA's foreign policy is ambiguous. It is not clearly articulated and in many respects, is contradictory. For instance SA rides the high moral horse of condemning western powers for hypocrisy on human rights but remains silent when those rights are violated in its back yard (Zimbabwe). In addition to this, SA struggles to balance the weight of its national ideals on the international stage, with its national intetests. It is still very dependent economically on Western investment. A man cannot bite that feeds him. SA will need to do better to revive the "African Renaissance". Thanks again for this documentary. Keep it up!