cecilia, as her mother called her, studied music at the tshwane university of technology in pretoria, and then at cape town university, where she joined the opera company in the city, and that is when the competitions got serious. after an audition in 2019, she won a coveted place on the young artists programme here at the royal opera house. many hundreds apply, but only a handful are successful for each programme. many of those singers who come from all over the world - are in london for the first. time, so of course we have to make them settled - in in london and comfortable, and feeling safe in the - environment that they are in, which may be very new to them. over the course of the two years, it's a combination l of training and coaching, which is often intense i and concentrated in that time. the singers train in master classes with the very best, such as the world renowned music director of the royal opera house, sir antonio papano. yes, you have got tojoin the ideas. the way he has invested in the story, he has so much knowledge, how he knows of the voice, how it should sound,

jasmine is in africa analyst at north 14 strategies as technical based think type of joins us now from pretoria. jasmine, our 1st up, has anyone being held to account for this missing money? no, no one is going to be. no one has been held the count and i don't speak, we must expect that it will be quite soon already. it seems flag the extradition orders on hold. we must keep in mind. they are high profile people linked to this case. so there is a question mark over what will happen next with those that have been arrested and whether indeed he will face justice. a good question, i mean, all eyes are now on the motion beacon judicial system. and i think that's where the problem lies. both from shot africa and the united states is healthy at trial. it will be when it comes to be people being involved and will be used as a diversion from those that actually benefited from a massive amounts of money that started the downward spiral from mozambique and financial position. i do not think at the end of the day, we all go truly see that day will be a conclusive judgment and prosecution and incarceration

but i did go to marches, i worked with sts and i assumed my law degree at the university of pretoria. i saw black students and i was one of the few lawyers would go into the township and represent defendants as a legal aid so i would go in and do that and that's what one of the essays talked about and how i could do that as unfortunately amy beale got murder and people were like it's not fair, you're not allowed to go do that a lot of those cases were actually also drug war related which i think is an interesting parallel to life in america. one of the essays in the book does talk about how i think black people in america actually are worse off than they were under apartheid. and i don't say that lightly but in america we have the largest incorporated population in the world. and the war on drugs has been an abject failure and that is really disproportionately affected our black communities. so in some ways it's ironic to see the extension of the work i did in south africa to actually coming to america being like no, now we've got to do it all over again but that's the reality . it wa

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