Episodes
| Title | First Broadcast | Repeated | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Deadly Mixture | 20231211 | 20231213 (R4) | In this second episode, in which Fergal Keane and Milton Nkosi re-visit some of the places and people they encountered 30 years ago, they return to KwaZulu-Natal. In the early 1990s, leading up to the country's first democratic elections, the area was a hotbed of political violence. What about today? 30 years after South Africa's momentous changes, what's happened to the hope and promises? In this second episode, in which Fergal Keane and Milton Nkosi re-visit some of the places and people they encountered 30 years ago, they return to KwaZulu-Natal. In the early 1990s, leading up to the country's first democratic elections, the area was a hotbed of political violence. What about today? 30 years after South Africa's momentous changes, what's happened to the hope and promises? In this second episode, in which Fergal Keane and Milton Nkosi re-visit some of the places and people they encountered 30 years ago, they return to KwaZulu-Natal. In the early 1990s, leading up to the country's first democratic elections, the area was a hotbed of political violence. What about today? 30 years after South Africa's momentous changes, what's happened to the hope and promises? |
| Things Must Change | 20231204 | 20231206 (R4) | As the BBC's South Africa correspondent at the time, Fergal Keane, along with his colleague and friend Milton Nkosi, lived through some of the country's most desperate times. It was a period of extreme violence and loss, but also of great hope. Now Fergal and Milton travel through the country, re-visiting some of the places and people they encountered in the lead up to the end of Apartheid. Through this series they will explore how and why paradise was lost. In this first episode they return to Tembisa, a township on the edges of Johannesburg, searching for Cynthia who they first met one winter's morning in 1993, huddling with her children under plastic sheeting. |
| Without Hope, You're Dead | 20231218 | 20231220 (R4) | 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 Series mixed by James Beard Production coordinator Gemma Ashman Editor Penny Murphy 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 Series mixed by James Beard Production coordinator Gemma Ashman Editor Penny Murphy 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 Series mixed by James Beard Production coordinator Gemma Ashman Editor Penny Murphy |