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which was broadcast on Radio 4 on Saturday the 11th of February 2017 and of course it's introduced by none other

than Kate Aide.

Hello today we ask if sorry has become the hardest word in the politics of South Africa.

In Romania the crowds are on the streets, so are the police, and our correspondent is reminded of

past revolutions. We visit Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Fun and encounter another

view of Islam with the dark lord of Dutch politics. In South Africa the ANC is being warned that it could lose power of the next general election in 2019

because of growing public frustration with corruption and poor governance.

The accusations of corruption go all the way to the top to President Jacob Zuma.

One political party took advantage of the public mood by disrupting the President's State of the Nation address this week.

But if anyone expects President Zuma to say sorry for failings, they continue to be disappointed,

says Andrew Harding. From the start, the expert said it was a terrible idea.

In the middle of last year, more than a thousand mentally ill patients were moved from a reputable institution

and put into the care of a range of highly dubious

local charities around Pretoria and Johannesburg. The politicians insisted it would

save money. Now we know that at least 94 of those vulnerable patients quickly died, some of starvation, some of neglect or abuse.

relatives were summoned without warning to collect emaciated bruised unrecognizable corpses.

Officials first tried to cover up the scale of it, but the facts, or at least some of them,

have finally come out and South Africa is digesting the implications of it all.

Some people are calling it murder, even a massacre.

It's tempting to think that 94 unnecessary deaths would trigger an immediate

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