Interview with Archbishop Desmond Tutu
This week George Negus interviews South African Archbishop, Desmond Tutu about the future of his country and its recent political unrest.
Earlier this month President Thabo Mbeki stepped down after bowing to political pressure to resign from his post. Archbishop Tutu tells Dateline the future of the country should be determined by the people, and not the party.
"I believe that all what happened gives us very good justification for saying that we need to have the president of our country elected directly by the people and not by the party".
Archbishop Tutu rose to worldwide fame during the 1980s as an opponent of apartheid. He chaired the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and is currently the chairman of The Elders. He's also widely known for his defence on human rights and uses his high profile to campaign for the oppressed.
The Death of the American Dream?
This week Dateline investigates whether or not the American dream is still alive.
Video journalist Aaron Lewis is in Santa Barbara, California, surrounded by some of the most valuable real estate in America, yet his story unfolds in a car park.
Such is the magnitude of the US’s economic crisis that a new breed of homeless person is emerging: middle class Americans who’ve lost their homes and are forced to live in their cars. To keep them safe at night, the New Beginnings Foundation has arranged for security guards to watch over the sleepers at 12 different parking lots.
Jailing The Innocent
This week, Dateline meets the women of Jordan, who've been imprisoned under the guise of keeping them safe.
Video Journalist Yaara Bou Melhem meets Rita*, who has spent the past 14 years in Jordan's Al Jweidah jail. She also meets Sophia*, who's spent the past 15 years of her life behind bars. Both girls were ordered there by the state – to prevent their families from killing them.
Every year, up to 20 Jordanian women are murdered in honor killings.
In Rita’s* case, a close male relative attempted to kill her in a brutal attack. In response, the country’s 12 governors have been given the power to lock up the innocent victims, rather than go after the would-be perpetrators.
Yet the girls are clear examples of previous long-term detention and thanks to Mizan, a women’s advocacy group, they’ve finally been released.
When Bou Melhem meets them they’re in a half-way house, very soon to move into their own accommodation. It’s the only program of its type operating in the Middle East and under it, the women will assume new identities and re-locate far from their families.
* Not their real names.
About International Dateline
SBS Dateline, which began in 1984, is Australia's longest-running international current affairs program. It has a well-earned reputation for authoritative and incisive reporting. Dateline has taken the traditional way of producing TV current affairs and turned it on its head. Reporters who used to travel with a cameraperson and sound recordist now travel alone and have the responsibility of both filming and reporting their stories. The reporters became video-journalists, gaining access to people and places that the conventional camera crews cannot.
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