Africa: The Battle for the Ballot Box - BBC Africa
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- Опубликовано: 26 апр 2024
- 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 home country of South Africa, which three decades into democracy, is facing a new reckoning, Nomsa explores the new challenges this dynamic and critical country is facing.
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Good luck for all South Africans. From here in Ethiopia ❤❤❤
ANC has lost it's direction. We need a new direction, good leadership, good ethics and professionalism.
❤ I agree with you
As a south African....sitting here 5:15 in the morning watching this...brings tears to my eyes ...we need to stand together and fix our beautiful nation!!!!!
As a black American I’m so proud of South Africa, if you don’t fight for what you believe in nobody will
As a black jamaican I have been told over n over that if I want to see real Africa south Africa isn't it now I'm offended by that statement the White English, Dutch who currently has business there saying they get better treatment if we all go together you tell me as a jamaican who was stole many years ago by its OWN kind be comfortable with this when are we going to wake up WHEN
Hopefully 😢 we as South Africans will wake up and smell coffee
@@monak3681South Africa is part of Africa, not sure why they’d say that it’s not the most African country. Sure it’s most developed country in Africa and we have have racial diversity with all races in large numbers there as citizens but the country is majority Black. and for most part quite free and liberal but we are African AF too. Visit for yourself and then you can tell your own experience of SA rather than relying on others biases. Also I’ll tell you that the Western Europeans are here on larger numbers as investors and residents but they’ll lie to you on their global media, the country is very challenged but it’s damn thriving too…we are a young democracy so of course we’ll have wobbles as we are learning who we are and have a lot of apartheid legacy issues to fix, so this is no paradise but it’s one damn beautiful country that you’ll be amazed by on your visit
For starters, 🎉the anc must go
We just need to unseal the CODESA documents to know what it was all about.
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.
Disgraceful that the fact that Cape Town was completely left out, where there is a functional part of South African needs and wants because the ANC have not have a hold on any a state funding.
And the fact that we as South Africans have electricity and water now because the election is around the corner, proving without a doubt that the ANC had full control of our water and electricity supply. I will say it again, disgraceful.
Cape Town is its own universe and indeed a case study showing how the ANC has held the rest of the country back.
South Africa should focus on getting itself right, carrying the whole continent looks to close to being a lost course
South Africa can’t and will not carry the whole continent but SA must help uplift Black People everywhere by shining a light on their struggle, if SA can do it for the people in Gaza, SA should must do it for its own brothers and sisters. Fighting for the oppressed and speaking up for the voiceless is what we do as black people. We are the moral compass of the world.
It’s not just South Africans, Black Americans also have this responsibility. It’s a gift and a curse
@@TheHoodVoice2024 Brother South Africans have done a lot for the continent, a lot, we are even involved in their domestic wars as well. Black Americans have done a lot too and also helped us black South Africans. I think we need to stop spoon feeding many African countries, is time they really pull a weight or the black race is doomed
South Africa is capable of doing both, simultaneously!!Why not? It's not hard!!
@@hopes9451 no SA is not capable of carrying the continent, why cant other people on the continent play their part?
@@hopes9451 Hebanna!! who told you that ? Are you South African ???
Thank you 🙏🏿 for this information on South Africa..
Good luck to South Africa!! I spent a month their last year mainly in Johannesburg. The country faces huge issues - particularly corruption and inequality - but it’s important to remember how far this country has come in 30 years. There is always more to be done and too many South Africans unfortunately cannot enjoy their political freedom as they still live in poverty. Onwards and upwards Rainbow Nation 🇿🇦❤️
Nomusa Maseko's work is always flawless, welldone💯 this was a great watch
Africa will be great
I agree with you more
not with democracy
😂 Copium
When the world is moving fast while africa continues to be left behind
Only when all governments of all African countries stop taking orders from the West to focus on working for their people to improve their lives.
Africa must battle to own their land and wealth
Underrated comment
The UK was a pert of the worsening insecurity in the Sahel#dropped bombs in Libya. Gadaffi, who did not pose any threat to Europe, was killed, and Putin is in, in the Sahel region. Big blunder!
Aluta continua!!!✊🏾❤🖤❤🇿🇦
Praying for a peaceful day on 29th May. South African solution is vote
It's all about the politician....not about their people
If Democracy was that important to Afrika; "They" would not let us have it
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.
Feel free to emigrate to Europe if you feel unsafe
Stop generalizing Africa!!!! THIS TITLE SHOULD BE SOUTH AFRICA
Whatever you do, don't vote ANC.
#VukaVelaVoter
Africa 🌍🇧🇯🖤 is the greatest. I love Africa 🌍🇧🇯🖤. Haiti 🇭🇹 and the African Union must join forces in March 2026. Great video 😀📸
I beg to second
Why is the title "Africa" and not "South Africa" ?
This is a compelling video narrative. Kudos, BBC Africa. More of stuff like this.
Let's goooooooooo!!!!!!!
The future won't wait for us. We have to go to it.
This is brilliant, Nomsa.
It is about Africa. Why is the news so much focused on South Africa? This is what I don't like about the world. Africa is more than South Africa for goodness sake. This is very one-sided.
Neither here nor there: fix the continent and break resource-curse legacy and build all-inclusive economies.
Because we decided to challenge the West
A bitter Nigerian. SA is the most important country in Africa deal with it. The rest of the world view SA as the leader of Africa and nobody cares about what a Nigerian villager think
Nomsa Maseko, the Journalist on this Special Case Study, is a South African. It is not about Africa being just about South Africa but rather the journalist making the documentary about South Africa's monumental elections (1994 and 2024: 30 years after SA became the last African state to be politically free from colonial governance). And also, it was about highlighting Africa's problem with its democracies. It is not about one-sidedness, in my view. Because, if the Journalist only made the documentary about South Africa and refrained from highlighting other elections happening, you would still raise one-sidedness. It's okay to accept the fact that South Africa is a special case in postcolonial African statehood. And it is also okay to acknowledge the fact that it is not the only one, as every African state contain their own unique histories and political discourses which deserve to come to light. But tell those stories as well, Africa should stop competing with South Africa. We are all under the same bus!
It would be almost impossible to cover everything in one video by a South African journalist.
Why are you hating 🤷🏽♂️, it gotta start somewhere, that’s Africans problems y’all hate on other black people so much.
Why does it matter, why don’t you make a video about other countries in Africa instead of hating
What is the name of the Iscathamiya choir singing at the end?
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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.
2:34 - And what a choice they've made for the last 3 decades!
UHURU! ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾
That’s a typical South African story. The journalist decided not talk about the xenophobic attacks.
it is time for South Africa ''drop'' the African National Congress after 30 years of Failure
South Africa my beloved country remain concurred nation
It's confirmed!! South African's National IQ test will be written on 29 May.
P off Mzungu!
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
y r u playing west african backround music
Viva EFF!
South Africa is the biggest democracy in Africa, this narrative about people rejecting freedom/democracy is not true.
Rainbow nation rising 🇿🇦❤️🇿🇦
Chamisa mai mwana!!!!!!
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!
This seems to be personal to you…. Nothing about the ACTUAL issues affecting SOUTH AFRICANS…. Land,Economy,Roman Dutch law,redress etc….
But i guess from your perspective i assume you to be foreign…
South African lived in camps! Very few were integrated in to their societies and South Africa has MILLIONS of foreigners not a few thousand… BE HONEST! And STOP being UNGRATEFUL!
How rare, a fair and balance review of SouthAfrica from BBC. Well done to Nomsa, she’s brilliant in her journalism…you can always tell when South Africans tell their stories, even the ugly ones like this reportage.hope ppl really vote against the ANC, can’t wait to not vote for ANC, DA, EFF, Zuma & Co, IFP, UDM
And oh it will be my first vote nationally, first time I’ll be of age to vote on national & provincial ballots #ProudlySouthAfrican🇿🇦
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.
… 12:37 and as long as continued to watch l see that the documentary reaches the same conclusion l was eluding to: Only unity can save us.
China for example, is doing well because it moves as a unit. Afrika is a complicated 54 piece band with members varying playing skills. Some do not even want to be associated with the band at all.
15:14 …ALL THE RESOURCES ARE IN AFRIKA. We need not borrow.
We NEED TO COME TOGETHER AS A UNIT AND DEMAND FAIR PRICE FOR OUR RESOURCES.
At least, it has began with Ghana and Cocoa/ Botswana and the Diamonds.
Congo alone… can lift the whole of Afrika. But we’ll NEVER be unified enough to see that. Unfortunately.
23:41 totally agree. Vote South Africa… while your Democracy still is working.
Great job Nomsa and crew. Thank you, Siyabonga, Tatenda 🙏🏾
People it's better you go with the devil you know all we have to do is change the system within
As a Rural voter, l say Enough is Enough, ANC must go !!!
Please do. Only your votes can make things change.
I know the DA seems boring, but as Cape Town proves.....they know how to run things properly.
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Not sure what African nation is even asking for south Africa's help in lifting them up. How can a drowning man help his friend swim to shore? SA didn't even loosen its visa policies until a few years ago when the disaster had long since been in the making... Its SA that needs to collaborate with the rest of Africa as new gas/oil mineral projects keep popping up all over the continent and not in SA as well as major regional integration projects such as rail/ports/refineries/gas pipelines etc.
South Africa is walking in the inevitable direction that all African states have travelled. Wat they are going thru is very necessary but painful. We have to destroy the apartheid/colonial systems that we inherited from our oppressors and build models that work for africans
South-Africa became a republic in 1961, 31 May, when it stopped being a colony of Great Britain. Not in 1994. Apartheid is NOT colonialism. Nationalism, yes. Colonialism, No. Fun fact, the Afrikaner was colonized twice by the British.
Ooooff...
democracy cant survive on d continent becos the civilians proved to too corrupt.
And there no corruption in the West ..🤔🤔🤔🤔
Sometimes it's sad to see the past now it brings alot of memories 💔 of our loved families fought and died with cruelty in exile while black community busy marching Indian's were brutally murder however women raped and children babies men elderlies were shot dead were ever seen 💔 😢😢😢now however due to negligence our country has been experiencing struggle due to lack of education, no hospitals functioning properly no safety, no future generations, it's sad 😢 our people suffering to the extent were by no justice 💔 children kidnapped, GBV, no job's, no land for farming especially the poor black community who deserves they best interest, Anc must not break 💔 we will suffer the worst scenario 💔 😢however it's the people from different area's now suffering from severe crime and poverty, including lowshedding, water 💧 shedding it was unknown in those year's now is corruption all the way from policing to Parliament....😢😢
If Africa was a car, the wheels took over the show, decided they don’t need the steering wheel and the gear lever, reffed up the engine and hoped for the best. Now it blames the steering for the mess it finds itself in as it flies over a cliff, still looking back at the good old days when they broke the steering wheel.
Keep on dreaming. Your propaganda and brainwashing no longer exists. The reason there is always a scramble for Africa is because the West cannot exist without the resources (human and natural) from Africa. The USA's economy was built on back of African slavery and mineral wealth. Wait until there is "de-dollarization" and "BRICS+++ takes off the ground. We have found a new steering wheel.
Completely wrong analysis, after 400 years of this so called steering wheel they failed to develop the continent.
VOTE EFF if yaw must participate in democracy
The EFF are incapable of doing anything besides making noise. They have built NOTHING. They cannot even govern their own members, so how can they ever be trusted to govern an entire country?
They an EFFing stupid party.
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
Another 100 years for ANC❤
South Africa is the best country ❤🎉irrespective of what our society passed through apartaid we still stood our ground to fight for our land, ❤❤❤we will always vote 🗳 our country Anc Nelson Mandela's legacy is still alive freedom is alive however our challenge to let democracy flow more productive during 30 years ago Black's and Indian's lost thier live's through slavery to murder, manslaughter, history will talk for it's self shooting however Countries stood with Nelson Mandela shoulder to shoulder to win and demolish apartaid due to color Palistine we will never forget you and therefore we live of our struggle many died in prison exile 😢only some young generations can experience to learn more about history believes how and what transpired they will rather March to remove those in corruption, government must attend to people on the ground level, don't forget democracy only came when Anc-African National Congress Nelson Mandela fought for, after then slowly corruption occurred people's lives became increasingly difficult 😢😢😢
Vote eff for African unity and integration
No.
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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" !
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.
The eff is worse. So no.
Xenophobia
Stop selling drugs and impose yourselves upon every country you visit or overstay.
Do white South Africans, including boers, also celebrate South Africa's independence day?
No
@@conceretejungle1150 wazin wena