[Ugnet] We support Malema's call for regime change in Botswana.
*We support Malema's call for regime change in Botswana.* *Boksburg.* The ANC Youth League's national executive committee is to send a team to Botswana to consolidate local opposition parties, its leader Julius Malema said on Sunday. Botswana is in full co-operation with imperialists . . . and the government is undermining the African agenda, he said at the committee's closing meeting in Boksburg. We are not going to sit with neighbours that conduct themselves like that. Botswana needed a progressive government, and the current opposition was not consolidated ‘properly' enough to topple it, he said. The team of NEC members would teach and train campaigners and volunteers of a possible coalition party that might be formed. The youth league believed that since former president Thabo Mbeki's departure as chair of the Southern African Development Community, the African agenda was no longer a priority. The ANCYL is of the view that there is a vacuum on the ideological and political leadership of Africa and the sub-regions, and this is reflected by how the issues of Libya and Cote d'lvoire were mishandled, he said. The league planned to convene progressive youth formations across Africa to re-assert the need for the continent's independence and economic freedom. The NEC said it would fight for economic freedom, particularly for the nationalisation of mines, the expropriation of land without compensation, and the provision of free quality education. - SAPA. Comments ___ Ugandanet mailing list Ugandanet@kym.net http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/ugandanet@kym.net/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---
[Ugnet] Mbeki: Africa has lost faith in the UN
*Mbeki: Africa has lost faith in the UN* NKULULEKO NCANA | 31 July, 2011 02:11 Former President Thabo Mbeki has accused the United Nations of destabilising peace processes in countries such as the Ivory Coast and Libya. He said Africans had lost confidence in the world governing body and that Western control over the UN would lead to the powerful nations installing leaders they preferred, to run the continent. Speaking to the Sunday Times, Mbeki called on African leaders to resist interference by the West. Mbeki gave his views on: - THE UNITED NATIONS There is weakened confidence of the Africans in this body. The task of UN peacekeepers in the Ivory Coast was to maintain peace between the North, occupied by the rebels and the South by government. The UN was supposed to make sure that the peace agreement is signed, that the two sides don't clash and find a political solution. But what did the UN do? It opened the door for the rebels in the North to march into Abidjan and carry out operations there side-by-side with the UN forces. These are neutral peace-keepers but they took sides. In Libya, the UN delegated its responsibilities to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) - a military formation of some countries, not a global body accountable to the UN or us. We have the UN acting in a manner which is promoting particular agendas. - RESTRUCTURING OF THE UN The Security Council has not argued that the situation in Libya and Ivory Coast constituted a threat to international peace and security, because they didn't. Yet they authorise the use of military force. The UN needs to be restructured in a way that it is representative of the peoples of the world. In the current situation I doubt if some of the members on the Security Council with veto powers are interested to effect structural change which is urgent. They are contemptuous people and are certainly not in the mood in which they can entertain an African view about the fundamental restructuring of the UN. - HOW TO FIGHT THE UN I think we can (stop them) provided that we act and they can see that if they take this kind of action they are going to meet the resistance of the entire African continent. That would make them rethink. But unfortunately our voice is very weak and we have to do something to strengthen this and speak out about the rights of Africans to decide their future. - MEDIATION IN LIBYA AND IVORY COAST If there was respect for the positions that the African Union had taken to resolving the issue whereby the Libyans get together and decide their future, (there) would have been a process towards democratisation. Unfortunately we saw these major powers deciding to intervene in a way which has perpetuated the war. In the Ivory Coast, President Laurent Gbagbo accepted the decision of the AU that he should step down regardless of the rightness or wrongness of the controversy and allow for President Alassane Ouattara to take over. When the AU was due to travel to Abidjan to implement that decision, they were blocked by the French and the UN to create space for themselves to carry out military operations together with the rebel forces that were supporting Ouattara. This matter was going to be resolved but unnecessary force was used to produce a particular outcome which has created more problems for the Ivorians. - STRENGTHENING THE AU The problem here is us the member states. The AU Commission complains that they are unable to do their work properly because the member states are not making their contributions to provide the necessary funds to enable the AU to do its work. So you have a situation where the AU wants to carry out an operation - it has to appeal to the EU for funds. The weakness of the commission is a reflection of the way that member states have dealt with the AU. http://www.timeslive.co.za/africa/2011/07/31/mbeki-africa-has-lost-faith-in-the-un ___ Ugandanet mailing list Ugandanet@kym.net http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/ugandanet@kym.net/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---
[Ugnet] We must address the absolute power monster
We must address the absolute power monster Posted Wednesday, August 3 2011 at 00:00 Share This Story Sharehttp://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.monitor.co.ug%2FOpEd%2FCommentary%2F-%2F689364%2F1212378%2F-%2F12sq04tz%2F-%2Findex.htmlt=Daily%20Monitor%3A%20%C2%A0-%20Commentary%C2%A0%7CWe%20must%20address%20the%20absolute%20power%20monstersrc=sp Recently, the Netherlands’ Institute For Multiparty Democracy sponsored an Inter-Party Organisation For Dialogue workshop to discuss the 2011 elections. The opposition dwelt on the need to level the electoral ground while government insisted all was well! I agree with the opposition’s lamentations but recollect that all pre-2011 elections in Uganda were manipulated. We must, therefore, examine the genesis of electoral malpractices in Uganda rather than take them to be the problem per se! Uganda’s first elections, held in 1961, were won by the Catholic-dominated DP but an influential section of society cried foul, causing a repeat in 1962, to the satisfaction of the Anglo-Saxon-Protestant umpires, who I am sure, would have died before leaving the colony in Catholic hands! Prior to independence, it had been agreed that in 1964, a referendum would be held in Bugangaizi and Buyaga, for residents in the two “lost-counties” to decide whether they wished to remain part of Buganda or go back to Bunyoro, where they had belonged prior to colonialism. Since only residents of the two counties were going to vote in the referendum, Kabaka Mutesa of Buganda, set up residence in Ndaiga, a locality in Buyaga, the intention of which was to lure loyalists to follow him, settle there and vote in Buganda’s favour. Luganda songs were composed urging people to follow the Kabaka to Ndaiga. One such song ran “… tuvuge tugende, e Ndaiga Omutanda akuze….” Loosely translated, it urged motorists to follow the Kabaka to Ndaiga. Buganda lost the vote and Kabaka Mutesa, who was also President of Uganda, was so understandably irked that he would not perform the President’s Constitutional obligation to endorse the referendum results. If, like the colonialists, DP leader Ben Kiwanuka and Buganda’s Kabaka Mutesa had power to enforce their preferred positions regarding 1961 elections and the 1964 referendum, respectively, Uganda’s history would read differently today. The 1962 Constitution provided for five-yearly elections, but President Obote called off the 1967 polls. His successor, Idi Amin, did not care for elections so we didn’t hold them in 1971 and 1976. The 1980 elections were held on the terms of Paulo Muwanga and UNLA, Head of State and the army, respectively. There were no elections in 1986 and 1991 because Museveni, President and Commander-in-Chief had things to do, first. The 1996 and 2001 elections were under the Movement system because Museveni thought that was best for Uganda. We all know about the 2006 and 2011 elections. The moral in Uganda’s elections’ history is that all elections and referenda have been manipulated and who held State power has been a common factor in the manipulations. The logical action plan then should be to deal with that power! Electoral malpractices is just one of several consequences, features and indicators - not the cause - of poor governance. We need to diagonise the causes, and if Uganda’s history is anything to go by, absolute power has a lot to do with the questionable electoral process, even during colonialism. Uganda can smoothen her path to democracy by addressing the absolute-power-monster. Uganda must objectively examine the entire post-independence governance system instead of examining piece-meal frustrations such as electoral laws! *Ms Kamya is the president, Uganda Federal Allaince* ufapresid...@gmail.com ___ Ugandanet mailing list Ugandanet@kym.net http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/ugandanet@kym.net/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---
[Ugnet] Humour For Today Tomorrow--Do U Have E-mail?
*What is your story? Happy and Successful August 2011! * -- Forwarded message -- From: Brian Buzu br...@spacenet.co.ug Date: Tue, Mar 7, 2010 at 8:46 AM *Subject: [LUG] Humour for the day! *To: Linux Users Group Uganda l...@linux.or.ug ** A jobless man applied for the position of office boy at Microsoft. The HR manager interviewed him then watched him cleaning the floor as a test. You are employed he said. Give me your e-mail address and I'll send you the application to fill in, as well as date when you may start. The man replied But I don't have a computer, neither an email. I'm sorry, said the HR manager, If you don't have an email, that means you do not exist. And who doesn't exist, cannot have the job. The man left with no hope at all. He didn't know what to do, with only $10 in his pocket. He then decided to go to the supermarket and buy a 10Kg tomato crate. He then sold the tomatoes in a door to door round. In less than two hours, he succeeded to double his capital. He repeated the operation three times, and returned home with $60. The man realized that he can survive by this way, and started to go everyday earlier, and return late. Thus, his money doubled or tripled everyday. Shortly, he bought a cart, then a truck, then he had his own fleet of delivery vehicles. 5 years later, the man is one of the biggest food retailers in the US. He started to plan his family's future, and decided to have a life insurance. He called an insurance broker, and chose a protection plan. When the conversation was concluded, the broker asked him his email. The man replied, I don't have an email . The broker answered curiously, You don't have an email, and yet have succeeded to build an empire. Can you imagine what you could have been if you had an email?!! The man thought for a while and replied, Yes, I'd be an office boy at Microsoft! Moral of the story M1- Internet /email is not the solution to your life. M2- If you don't have internet / email , and work hard, you can be a millionaire. M3 If you received this message by email, you are probably already an office boy/girl, and not any close to being a Billionaire... Have a great day !!! P.S - Do not reply me by email, I' m closing my email going to sell tomatoes!!! *Happy Day Everyone!* ___ LUG mailing list l...@linux.or.ug http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ ___ Ugandanet mailing list Ugandanet@kym.net http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/ugandanet@kym.net/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---
[Ugnet] THE HAIRCUT--ENJOY!
*Have a good laugh and a Happy Day! * -- Forwarded message -- From: kALEGA Joseph kale...@yahoo.com Date: Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 11:07 AM *Subject: THE HAIRCUT *To: Assumpta Kintu assumpta.ki...@gmail.com ** *The Haircut!!! * One day *a florist* went to a barber for a haircut. After the cut, he asked about his bill, and the barber replied, 'I cannot accept money from you, I'm doing community service this week.' The florist was pleased and left the shop. When the barber went to open his shop the next morning, there was a 'thank you' card and a dozen roses waiting for him at his door. *Later, a corp* comes in for a haircut, and when he tries to pay his bill, the barber again replied, 'I cannot accept money from you , I'm doing community service this week.' The cop was happy and left the shop. The next morning when the barber went to open up, there was a 'thank you' card and a dozen donuts waiting for him at his door. *Then a Politician* came in for a haircut, and when he went to pay his bill, the barber again replied, 'I can not accept money from you. I'm doing community service this week.' The Politician was very happy and left the shop. The *next morning, when the barber went to open up, there were a dozen Politicians lined up waiting for a free haircut. *And that, my friends, illustrates the fundamental difference between the citizens of our country and the politicians who run it. *BOTH POLITICIANS AND NAPPIES NEED TO BE CHANGED OFTEN AND FOR THE SAME REASON! * You know that laughter is not in your future, but in the now! * [authour not known]* ___ Ugandanet mailing list Ugandanet@kym.net http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/ugandanet@kym.net/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---
[Ugnet] ICOB 2011 in Review ~ Banyakigezi raise Shs. 42 million UGX at their London Convention
http://redpepper.co.ug/welcome/?p=15233 http://www.unaatimes.com/2011/08/icob-2011-in-review-banyakigezi-raise-42-million-ugx-at-their-london-convention/ With Kind Regards, Johnson Mujungu ''I would, in writing this, like to remind the settlers that even if they become rich and change their mother tongue, they should remember the proverb 'Gatagata munonga gateebirwe wa beene mbeho’ “They must never forget the good customs and characteristics of the Bakiga, nor forget their own language; and they must feel in their bones that they are Bakiga, remembering where they used to live.” - Paulo Ngorogoza Mr Paulo Ngorogoza was the first African Secretary General of Kigezi, and he wrote his book 'Kigezi and Its People', in 1967. His reference to Bakiga alone was because they were predominantly the ones who had migrated from Kigezi to other lands such as Nkore, Toro and Bunyoro in the preceding two decades. Had he been alive today, Mr Ngorogoza, one of the most visionary leaders Uganda has produced, would have addressed himself to all Banyakigezi and all Ugandans who have left their homelands. ___ Ugandanet mailing list Ugandanet@kym.net http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/ugandanet@kym.net/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---
