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Mounting disenchantment and bitterness in South Africa as people start to wonder whether they can still rely on the country's mineral wealth bringing prosperity. Plus other stories.

Global insight and colour. In this programme: Russians or locals? Gabriel Gatehouse goes to meet some of those still occupying government buildings in the east of Ukraine. Lives and jobs start to disappear in South Africa as a bitter mining dispute continues amid a mood of deepening disenchantment, a despatch from Hamilton Wende; On one of Rome's holiest weekends of the year, Alan Johnston's been to a non-Roman Catholic corner of the eternal city which enchanted the poets Keats and Shelley; Carrie Gracie starts her new job as the 麻豆社's China editor with a list of hard-to-answer questions while Owen Bennett-Jones is down on the banks of the River Ganges wondering how a journalist can sort facts from the fiction. From Our Own Correspondent is produced by Tony Grant.

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Sat 19 Apr 2014 11:30

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  • Sat 19 Apr 2014 11:30