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Hello and welcome to Behind the News.

My name is Doug Hennwood, three guests and two segments today.

We'll hear Sean Jacobs and William Schokey on why South Africa erupted into riots.

And Max Cray will present a case for economic planning to deal with climate change.

In the middle of July, riots erupted in South Africa shortly after former President Jacob Zuma was jailed for refusing to testify

in a vast and solid corruption case against him.

Why? What happened to the African National Congress, the ANC, which ran an admirable campaign of liberation for decades during the apartheid era,

but has governed less admirably over the last 27 years.

For more, we're joined by Sean Jacobs and William Schokey.

Sean Jacobs, professor of international affairs, the new school, founded the website Africa is a country about a decade ago.

It's grown into an important forum for African writers to discuss politics and culture on that continent.

Will Schokey is a staff writer for the site.

Will Schokey mentions Umkonto is Seasway.

For those of you not up in your South African political history, that was the arm-wing of the ANC.

He identifies himself as a born-free, which is a term for those born after the fall of apartheid, making them 27 or under.

Both he and Sean Jacobs mentioned the fees must fall movement.

That was a series of protests in 2015 and 16 against university tuition increases proposed by the government.

Their rescinded and funding for universities was increased.

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