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 βcommon humanityβ in which all South Africans would live βlike the children of paradise.β
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 countryβs 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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- Mon 18 Dec 2023 20:00ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
- Wed 20 Dec 2023 11:00ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4