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How do South Africans feel as they mark 30 years of democracy?

This year South African mark 30 years of Democracy but is it hope or despair since the country's first free and fair election?

It is 30 years since South Africa held its first democratic elections. Three decades on, is it hope or gloom for the 'rainbow nation'?

Also did a national emergency against sexual violence set up 5 years ago, make any difference in Sierra Leone?

And we meet the Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama, using cloth to wrap up the brutalist Barbican centre in London and revealing a hidden history.

Presenter: Audrey Brown
Producers: Rob Wilson, Patricia Whitehorne, Nyasha Michelle and Paul Bakibinga
Editors :Andre Lombard and Alice Muthengi

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