Unreported World: South Africa: Trouble in the Townships

Series 22, episode 0

Channel 4's award winning foreign current affairs series returns with a new reporter, Channel 4 News's Krishnan Guru-Murthy. He introduces each programme and reports for this first edition from South Africa. Seventeen years after it was freed from apartheid, he finds a country in which violent protests against corruption and the lack of basic services mean its ambition to lead the continent as a prosperous democracy hangs in the balance. Simmering with anger, its people tell him they feel a sense of betrayal they will tolerate no longer