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Without hope, you're dead

Three decades after the momentous transition from Apartheid to a democratic South Africa, Fergal Keane returns to see what happened to the hopes and promises of a better nation.

Three decades after the momentous transition from Apartheid to a democratic South Africa, Fergal Keane returns to see what happened to the hopes and promises of a better nation.
In a famous speech thirty years ago, as he collected the Nobel Peace Prize, Nelson Mandela spoke of a β€œcommon humanity” in which all South Africans would live β€œlike the children of paradise.”
In this final episode, in which Fergal Keane and Milton Nkosi re-visit some of the places and people they encountered 30 years ago, they are in the Western Cape, around Cape Town. They visit a school in the sprawling Khayelitsha township, and the university in Stellenbosch, once the centre of white and Afrikaner intellectual thought.
With the country’s high crime rates, lack of jobs, violence and intense corruption, is all lost or can South Africans still hold onto hope?

Presenter: Fergal Keane and Milton Mkosi
Producer: John Murphy
Series mixed by James Beard
Production coordinator Gemma Ashman
Editor Penny Murphy

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28 minutes

Last on

Wed 20 Dec 2023 11:00

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  • Mon 18 Dec 2023 20:00
  • Wed 20 Dec 2023 11:00