30 years after the end of the apartheid regime in South Africa, the South African population is heading to the polls. These elections are the most challenging national and provincial elections since the end of the apartheid. The vote aims to establish a new National Assembly and state legislatures. The ruling party, the Nelson Mandela party, the African National Congress, might lose, according to observers.

Nomavenda Mathiane is a former journalist, witness to apartheid regime in South Africa. She worked for major South African newspapers such as Business Day, the World newspaper.

She stresses on "Your Voice" that she is not a politician. However, as a former journalist she thinks the ANC party fails to respond to the South African needs. She is nearly 80 years old. As a reporter during the apartheid regime, she struggled to work. But she was part of the journalists who witnessed and suffered the June 16 1976 Youth Soweto uprising. For those who do not know, this riot was a high school students protestation for better education. On "Your Voice", Nomavenda Mathiane, points out her challenges during the apartheid regime. She raises concerns regarding to the governance in South Africa today. She is now a novelist, always seeking the truth by introducing her own story, which is also the issue of the blacks in South Africa, the land ownership.

Nomavenda Mathiane is the author of Eyes in the Night: An Untold Zulu Story

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Houmi Ahamed-Mikidache s'est entretenue avec Paul de Preville la semaine dernière sur Radio Era Environnement. Paul de Preville est le cofondateur d'Ensol, une start-up spécialisée dans l'énergie solaire pour particuliers en France. Basé à Paris, Ensol déploie ses activités en Provence Alpes Côte d'Azur. La start-up est membre d' ENR plan, syndicat du photovoltaïque. La jeune entreprise envisage de lancer un site où des entreprises spécialisées dans le solaire partageront leurs expériences.

Comparée aux autres pays européens, la France est en retard sur l'utilisation des énergies renouvelables. D'après le ministère de la Transition Ecologique, la France s'est fixée un objectif de 33 % d'énergie produite à partir de sources renouvelables d'ici 2030. Le mix énergétique actuel se compose de 40 % de nucléaire, 28 % de pétrole, 16 % de gaz naturel, 2% de charbon et 14 % d'énergies renouvelables .

Il existe un paradoxe entre la perception de l'utilisation des énergies renouvelables et son utilisation réelle. Sur Your Voice Paul de Preville explique les objectifs de sa start-up et son positionnement.

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Richard Lu is based in Toronto, in Canada. He is the executive director of SolarBank, a Canadian renewable energy company. Ahead of the United States of America elections, at the end of this year in november, Your Voice returns to the recent announcement of the US president Joe Biden.The US president unveiled indeed recently his long-awaited vision of solar farms to help transition the US electricity grid to 100% clean energy by 2035. But who will be the next president of the United States of America? Will the next president of the US follow the commitment made at COP 28? The 28th Conference of the Parties (COP28) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) agreed at the end of last year to transition away from fossil fuels, triple renewable energy and double energy efficiency by 2030. But what are the challenges and opportunities? Your Voice with Richard Lu is about how renewable energy projects are implemented in the US. It is also a conversation on how farmers and businesses are working.

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