South Africa's new fight for justice
Political violence has returned in South Africa, where in the last year more than 20 politicians have been murdered. Fergal Keane has returned to report from there 30 years on.
South Africa is a country still wrestling with profound political and economic challenges. In the last 12 months, more than twenty politicians have been murdered there. Most of those are from the governing African National Congress (ANC). A new fight for justice has begun: the struggle for money and power in a country beset by corruption.
It's thirty years after Nelson Mandelaβs famous Nobel Peace Prize speech in which he promised to make South Africans βchildren of paradise.β The worst violence is taking place in the coastal province of KwaZulu Natal - a place that saw a war between Zulu political factions in the run up to the first democratic elections in 1994.
As the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ's South Africa correspondent at the time, Fergal Keane, lived through some of the country's most desperate times. In this episode of 5 Minutes On, Fergal has returned to the country, re-visiting some of the places and people he encountered in the lead up to the end of Apartheid.
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