ugnet_: Africa HIV rates 'overestimated'
Africa HIV rates 'overestimated' Fewer Africans may be infected with HIV/Aids than previously thought. Friday, 9 January, 2004, 11:54 GMT http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3379707.stm A survey by the Kenyan government has found that 6.7% of its people have the disease. Previous official estimates had put the figure at 15%. The survey of 8,561 households across Kenya is the latest to suggest that HIV rates in sub-Saharan Africa may have been overestimated. Other populated-based surveys carried out in Mali and Zambia have produced similar results. According to UNAids, the UN body responsible for fighting Aids, 26.6m people living in sub-Saharan Africa are infected with HIV/Aids. That figure is based to a large extent on tests carried out on pregnant women at antenatal clinics. These tests are anonymous and the results are extrapolated to give a nationwide figure. According to UNAids, 15% of Kenyans or 4.8m people have HIV. However, this latest survey raises serious questions about that figure. The Kenya Demographic and Health Survey is carried out every five years and is used by ministers to plan health and social policies. HIV tests This latest survey was carried out in September last year. As part of the survey, people were asked if they would be tested for HIV. Some 70% of those asked agreed. The tests were carried out by officials from the US Centers for Disease Prevention and Control. They found that 8.7% of women and 4.5% of men were HIV positive. Infection rates ranged from less than 1% of those living in the country's North Eastern province to 14% in Nyanza. Dr Kevin DeCock, the local director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, called the new figures the best HIV statistics in Kenya to date. "The number of HIV infected people in Kenya ... is lower than previously estimated," he said. Kenneth Chebet, director of Kenya's National AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Diseases Programme, said the findings suggested around 1.4m people had the disease. "The average number of people infected with HIV/AIDS has dropped from about 2.5m people four years ago," he said. "The average was about 1.4 million people and this is the closest and most accurate estimate ever in the country." In Mali, a similar health survey carried out by the government in 2001 found 1.7% of people were HIV positive. It had previously put as high as 4%. Zambia's health survey, carried out in the same year, found 21.5% of people had the disease. It had previously been put at 27%. Other countries in Africa are planning to carry out similar population based surveys to determine their true HIV infection rate. These include Cameroon and Tanzania, with estimated HIV rates of 12% and 8% respectively. Story from BBC NEWS: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/health/3379707.stmPublished: 2004/01/09 11:54:35 GMT Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! Download Messenger Now
ugnet_: Civilisation counter Civilisation- distribute widely
UPDATES http://www.idr.co.ug/dfwa-u/gallery.htm Everybody should be involved- this is a delibrate effort to counter efforts by some elements within our society to destroy what is authentically African, and Ugandan. Do you know how pornographic videos and other sch material reach Uganda? There are a number of Northe American and European gyas possing as evengalicals preaching in day light doing something else at night. We have seen a lot of such gods Try and find out- the only counter force is massive distribution of Black struggles, oppression, slaverly, murder etc,. everywhere in the world to Uganda Univeristies, schools and cinema locations. This can be copied on CDs, DVD etc, and disributed to schools widely. forward this messages every where and to everyday. Bwanika >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: RE: ugnet_: Assist get hold of Videos of African history\ reply >Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2004 15:43:14 -0500 >MIME-Version: 1.0 > >Bwanika, > > The easiest to get are: >1. Malcom X movie. You can buy it even from Amazon .com >2. Rodiny King beating in Los Angeles. You can get this from Africa >American organizations. check Google. > > __ bwanika url: www.idr.co.ug Logon & Join in ug-academicsdb discussion list http://www.coollist.com/subcribe.html List ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your Email address: ~~ ~~ url: http://uhpl.uganda.co.ug http://pub59.ezboard.com/fugandamanufacturersassociationfrm1
Re: ugnet_: Why young women date married men
Jonah, you are responsible for your own carelessness. Stop wondering how AIDS spread so fast and wrap a condom around it. Are you HIV positive? How did you get it? Anyomokolo jonah kasangwawo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and some people still wonder how AIDS spread so fast From: Anyomokolo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: ugnet_: Why young women date married menDate: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 13:02:34 -0500 (EST)I would chose to date a married man over single/unmarried guy becuase a single man would always want to control, dominate and own me. A married man is already controlling his wife. I don't want any man to control my life and freedom. Unlike these Makerere students, I have my own money and will never trade my freedom with $$$. I can have a married man and another, a regular one, on the side if I choose to. If the regular one begin to control my freedom, I will chuck him immediately. The married one will always be around while I loo k for another regular.So, to conclude, for me, a married man is a complete package. I can get what I want and maintain my freedom. I don't know about other women but my freedom is very important.My freedom is very important. Very important. Actually it is the reason I can't get married.AnyomokoloOwor Kipenji <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:Why young women date married menBy Muhwezi G. BongeJan 2 - 8, 2004Most people including my self must be wondering why that cute lady that any man would love to have as his own is comfortably engrossed in the arms of a married man.Why she risks being found out by the wife of the man she is dating? It's much more than you think so let's take time to reflect on what that married man has that a bachelor doesn't.Faridah Nabagereka acting a s Ashiraf Ssemwogerere's girlfriend in Gawandagala, Bat Valley theatre (Photo by Willy Tamale).Some ladies confess that usually married men can't admit that they are married but she later finds out when she has already given too much to leave him. There is a lot that ladies find in married men than you can imagine.Most ladies confess that they date married because married men give them security. Does this mean that youthful guys can't provide that security?The argument here is that although she knows he is married, she can count on him to be responsible and maintain her and his wife. When a woman is dating a married man, she does not have to worry about cheating after all the whole relationship is based on cheating. So she does it for fun.Usually a married man is mature and cares for her feelings more than the youthful men. For example when a married man take s her out he does those 'small' things that really count like opening the door for her to sit, pulling the chair for her and even calling her after the date to know if she is feeling fine. More to that, women confess that married men are sincere and gentle. So guys take heed, if you think by not giving your all or by not showing your weaknesses, you are being a man. Wake up, you are missing the point.Married men usually have that financial superiority which sometimes, youthful men don't have and even if he is doing well financially, he can't take care of all her needs.Cynthia a second year student at Makerere university admits that she is currently dating a married man so that he takes care of her needs like food, airtime, service fee, mention it, but still maintains her boyfriend who completed last year and is working right now. Why is it that she doesn' t ask such things from her boyfriend? She argues that she feels that she is exploiting someone she loves and more to that, her boy friend has to work for their future.Then why exploit the married man? She feels he is also exploiting her, so it is a situation of mutual exploitation. Asked if her boyfriend finds out? She says she plays her cards so well that even if she receives a call from the 'big daddy' when she is with her boyfriend she has to divert the conversation to become neutral so that her boyfriend can't suspect anything.Married men treat them like little goddesses. For example a married man will buy her airtime without expecting a call from her but just to please her. She will use all the airtime without giving him a single call and once it is finished she will go back for more.Married men and young ladies in relationships are out there to expl oit one another. So is it ethical to do this? The debate remains open.© 2003 The Monitor Publications-Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! Download Messenger Now-Post your free ad now! Yahoo! Canada Personals_Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963This service is hosted on the Infocom networkhttp://www.infocom.co.ugPost your free ad
ugnet_: Fwd: No change in North through Christmas - Fr Carlos Rodriguez
No change in North through Christmas I have been reading a lot of statements like Christmas has been peaceful in the North or Acholi has enjoyed calmness during the last four months in the Ugandan press recently. I am afraid the reality on the ground tells a very different story. Here are some of the violent incidents I have been able to trace during the Christmas period in Acholi: - Dec. 21. Fierce fighting west of Minakulu in the evening. On the following day, I took two escapees to hospital who told me the story. - Dec. 22. Ambush in Perediam (Kitgum). One killed and three wounded. There was another ambush near Rackoko (Pader), which left one killed and two wounded. An attack in Omiya Pacwa (Pader) left five killed. - Dec. 24. Ambush between Puranga and Rackoko. Three killed. - Dec. 25. Fighting in Omiya-Anyima (Kitgum). One person was killed and several seriously wounded. I personally knew the one killed and one of the wounded, who is the LC 5 councillor of the area. - Dec. 26. A priest coming from Madi Opei on his way to Kitgum fell into an ambush and sustained injuries on his face. He is still in hospital. On the same day the rebels attacked Lalogi camp (Gulu) and during the fighting three civilians were killed. They also entered Pagad camp at night, ransacked all the shops and abducted eight people (I met two of them after being released) while the army did not react. - Dec. 29. Dozens of persons were abducted from villages South of Minakulu (Apach). - Dec. 30. Ambush between Rackoko and Kilak. One killed. - Dec. 31. Attack in Namokora. At least one person killed and several abducted. - Dec. 1. At least eight persons abducted in Kabette (Kitgum). I take no pleasure in putting down these records. I am the first person who would have liked the official propaganda to be true, but unfortunately this has not been the case. At most one could say that during this Christmas season there have been comparatively fewer violent incidents, or that such incidents have taken place, but the press - as it happens often with our war in the North - chose to be silent about the plight of these innocent victims. Fr Carlos Rodríguez, Gulu Catholic Archdiocese. © 2003 The Monitor Publications
Re: ugnet_: Why young women date married men
Hahahah, lololololololol. That's what's up! That's how you're doing it??! @Anyomokolo. Freakish?! Hahahahaha, y'all are something else! Anyomokolo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jonah, you are responsible for your own carelessness. Stop wondering how AIDS spread so fast and wrap a condom around it. Are you HIV positive? How did you get it? Anyomokolo jonah kasangwawo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and some people still wonder how AIDS spread so fast From: Anyomokolo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: ugnet_: Why young women date married menDate: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 13:02:34 -0500 (EST)I would chose to date a married man over single/unmarried guy becuase a single man would always want to control, dominate and own me. A married man is already controlling his wife. I don't want any man to control my life and freedom. Unlike these Makerere students, I have my own money and will never trade my freedom with $$$. I can have a married man and another, a regular one, on the side if I choose to. If the regular one begin to control my freedom, I will chuck him immediately. The married one will always be around while I loo k for another regular.So, to conclude, for me, a married man is a complete package. I can get what I want and maintain my freedom. I don't know about other women but my freedom is very important.My freedom is very important. Very important. Actually it is the reason I can't get married.AnyomokoloOwor Kipenji <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:Why young women date married menBy Muhwezi G. BongeJan 2 - 8, 2004Most people including my self must be wondering why that cute lady that any man would love to have as his own is comfortably engrossed in the arms of a married man.Why she risks being found out by the wife of the man she is dating? It's much more than you think so let's take time to reflect on what that married man has that a bachelor doesn't.Faridah Nabagereka acting a s Ashiraf Ssemwogerere's girlfriend in Gawandagala, Bat Valley theatre (Photo by Willy Tamale).Some ladies confess that usually married men can't admit that they are married but she later finds out when she has already given too much to leave him. There is a lot that ladies find in married men than you can imagine.Most ladies confess that they date married because married men give them security. Does this mean that youthful guys can't provide that security?The argument here is that although she knows he is married, she can count on him to be responsible and maintain her and his wife. When a woman is dating a married man, she does not have to worry about cheating after all the whole relationship is based on cheating. So she does it for fun.Usually a married man is mature and cares for her feelings more than the youthful men. For example when a married man take s her out he does those 'small' things that really count like opening the door for her to sit, pulling the chair for her and even calling her after the date to know if she is feeling fine. More to that, women confess that married men are sincere and gentle. So guys take heed, if you think by not giving your all or by not showing your weaknesses, you are being a man. Wake up, you are missing the point.Married men usually have that financial superiority which sometimes, youthful men don't have and even if he is doing well financially, he can't take care of all her needs.Cynthia a second year student at Makerere university admits that she is currently dating a married man so that he takes care of her needs like food, airtime, service fee, mention it, but still maintains her boyfriend who completed last year and is working right now. Why is it that she doesn' t ask such things from her boyfriend? She argues that she feels that she is exploiting someone she loves and more to that, her boy friend has to work for their future.Then why exploit the married man? She feels he is also exploiting her, so it is a situation of mutual exploitation. Asked if her boyfriend finds out? She says she plays her cards so well that even if she receives a call from the 'big daddy' when she is with her boyfriend she has to divert the conversation to become neutral so that her boyfriend can't suspect anything.Married men treat them like little goddesses. For example a married man will buy her airtime without expecting a call from her but just to please her. She will use all the airtime without giving him a single call and once it is finished she will go back for more.Married men and young ladies in relationships are out there to expl oit one another. So is it ethical to do this? The debate remains open.© 2003 The Monitor Publications-Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! Download Messenger Now-Post your free ad now! Yahoo! Canada Personals_Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online
ugnet_: [abujaNig] Big fall in sperm counts revealed in UK
Big fall in sperm counts revealed in UK 13:42 05 January 04 NewScientist.com news service The average sperm count of men may have fallen by as much as 29 per cent over the past 12 years, according to a large new UK study. Sperm concentration among men attending the Aberdeen Fertility Centre in Scotland fell from 87 million per millilitre to 62 million per millilitre between 1989 and 2002. Nearly 16,000 samples were taken from 7500 men. The dramatic decrease surprised doctors at the clinic, although concentrations above 20 million per millilitre are considered to be healthy. Aberdeen University's Siladitya Bhattacharya, who led the study, acknowledges that the results might be skewed by the fact that the subjects were attending a fertility clinic. That is an inescapable fact. We weren't able to get a truly random sample, he says. Nevertheless, the drop in sperm counts must cause some concern, and needs to be explained The results, presented on Monday at the Joint Meeting of the Association of Clinical Embryologists and British Fertility Society, may also not be typical of the whole of the UK. Tight trousers But there is growing evidence that environmental factors can cause sperm counts to fall. Drug use, smoking, excessive drinking, obesity, and even tight fitting trousers have all been blamed. Environmental toxins such as pesticides has also been proposed as causes of declining sperm counts, while a study published in July 2003 showed that chemicals mimicking the action of estrogen and found in some foods can impair the normal functioning of sperm. However, despite the large number of studies in many parts of the developed world, no consensus has been reached on why men sperm counts are dropping. Alan Pacey, of the British Fertility Society, told the BBC that the study would help researchers piece together the jigsaw of evidence. British men actually fare quite badly on the European stakes and the region of Europe which is known to have the highest sperm count is Finland, he said. The Aberdeen researchers plan to compare other aspects of the sperm samples, such as motility, to see if their overall quality has declined in the same way as their concentration. Will Knight [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] **Keep Hope Alive!!!* Win upto =N=150,000.00 ... Essay Competition 'HOPE PROJECT ...see the === http://www.iseehope.org Nigeria arise to rebuild Hope ++ Nigerians for Nigeria, rebuilding a Country where No man is oppressed. - --- Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] **Keep Hope Alive!!!* Internet Solution A one stop solution for your web site. It is fully Nigerian, with Hausa, Yorub and Ibo Alphabets and so many resources easy to use and a 24/7 support access. Why go further when a Nigerian, try this one you wont go elsewhere. I ve my signsture to it... PJ Adamz Abuja Nigeria. Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/abujaNig/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ This service is hosted on the Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug
ugnet_: Court orders Kutesa to stop land eviction
While M7 is going around spreading poisonous and polarising nonsense that he and the Banyankole, under cover of the NRM, have had a secret agenda to take advantage of and ride on the backs of other Ugandans, we should never forget the facts: i.e. That he m7, Samwiri Kutesa and immediate families started off by grabbing the land of the poor wananchi brothers and sisters in Ankole. Indeed , one Mwesigwa, a Makerere student and son of peasant neighbours to Janet m7's home in Ankole, was burried alive so that Janet could grab their land. The greed of this criminal cabal has no bounds. Now they are grabbing people's land in Katabi-Entebbe. In the circumstances, is it any suprise to hear speculation that Kony is this cabal's straw-man where their primary purpose is to wipe out the Acholis and grab the land? The saddest part of it all is that all this death, abuse and suffering is visited on us simply because we are not united!! Court orders Kutesa to stop land eviction By Lominda Afedraru Jan 10, 2004 NAKAWA The High Court here has temporarily ordered State Minister Sam Kutesa and two others from evicting a resident from land in Katabi, Entebbe. The complainant Mr Banywa Kanatutanda claims the land belongs to him. Mr Kutesa is the State Minister for Investment. The High Court Registrar Elias Kisauzi issued the order last month following an application by Kafuka Ntuyo Co. Advocates in Nakawa High Court. Court restrained Kutesa or his agents from alienating, damaging and evicting Banywa from his kibanja (land) which he occupies at Kitinda village in Katabi until the main suit is disposed of. Banywa is accusing Kutesa, Mariam Wamala and Erieza Lubojje Kagwa, of trying to take his land illegally. Banywa alleges that his crops and trees on the said land were destroyed by Kutesa or his servants/agents. He is seeking court orders that he is the rightful owner of the land and that he is entitled to compensation for property destruction. He also wants court to order Kutesa to remove the fencing on the land. Kutesa and co-defendants have denied the allegations and asked court to dismiss the suit with costs. © 2003 The Monitor Publications Mitayo Potosi _ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/bcommpgmarket=en-caRU=http%3a%2f%2fjoin.msn.com%2f%3fpage%3dmisc%2fspecialoffers%26pgmarket%3den-ca This service is hosted on the Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug
ugnet_: Should Moslems ( Mengo/Buganda traditionalists) live on another planet?
Rehema, Thank you for the piece on how freedom and rights of fellow Ugandans (women in Mengo) are being denied under the guise of 'culture'. Boers in South Africa also justify apartheid as part of their culture. It is utter nonsense to claim that one should continue to oppress others because it is part of their culture. Indeed pointing out the folly in the approach of these Malaysians demands that we also do the same to France when the French deny women the choice to wear the 'hijab'. Apparently there are many primitive peoples around the world, I am afraid!! Mitayo Potosi _ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/viruspgmarket=en-caRU=http%3a%2f%2fjoin.msn.com%2f%3fpage%3dmisc%2fspecialoffers%26pgmarket%3den-ca This service is hosted on the Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug
ugnet_: FW: NYTimes.com Article: I.M.F. Report Says U.S. Deficits Threaten World Economy
WFD as in Weapons of Financial Destruction? How else to dominate the world? / advertisement ---\ NOMINATED FOR 7 BROADCAST FILM CRITICS AWARDS IN AMERICA has been nominated for 7 BFCA Awards including Best Picture, Best Actress Best Director, Best Writer, Best Young Actor/Actress, and Best Song. Ebert Roeper give IN AMERICA "Two Thumbs Way Up!"Watch the trailer at: http://www.foxsearchlight.com/inamerica \--/ I.M.F. Report Says U.S. Deficits Threaten World Economy January 7, 2004 By ELIZABETH BECKER and EDMUND L. ANDREWS WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 - With its rising budget deficit and ballooning trade imbalance, the United States is running up a foreign debt of such record-breaking proportions that it threatens the financial stability of the global economy, according to a report made public today bythe International Monetary Fund. In nearly 60 pages of carefully worded analysis, the report sounded a loud alarm about the shaky fiscal foundation of the United States, questioning the wisdom of the Bush administration's tax cuts and warning that large budget deficits posed "significant risks" not just for the United States but for the rest of the world. The report warned that the net financial obligations of the United States to the rest of the world could equal 40 percent of its total economy within a few years - "an unprecedented level of external debt for a large industrial country" that it said could play havoc with the value of the dollar and international exchange rates. The dangers, according to the report, are that the United States' voracious appetite for borrowing could push up global interest rates and thus slow down global investment and economic growth. "Higher borrowing costs abroad would mean that the adverse effects of U.S. fiscal deficits would spill over into global investment and output," the report said. White House officials dismissed the report as alarmist, saying President Bush had already vowed to reduce the budget deficit by half over the next five years. The deficit reached $374 billion last year, a record in dollar terms but not as a share of the total economy, and it is expected to exceed $400 billion this year. Administration officials have made it clear they are not worried about the the United States' burgeoning external debt or the declining value of the dollar, which has lost nearly one-fifth of its value against the euro in 18 months and which hit new lows earlier this week. Though the International Monetary Fund has repeatedly criticized the United States on its budget and trade deficits in the last few years, this report was unusually lengthy and pointed. Fund officials said the new report reflected the views of the authors and not the institution as a whole, whose largest shareholder is in fact the United States. But fund officials also seemed intent on getting American attention. "It's encouraging that these are issues at play in the presidential campaign now under way," said Charles Collins, deputy director of the I.M.F.'s Western Hemisphere Department and a principle author of the report. "We're trying to contribute to persuading public opinion that this is an important issue that has to be dealt with." Fund officials warned that the long-term fiscal outlook was far grimmer, predicting that underfinancing of Social Security and Medicare would lead to shortages as high as $47 trillion over the next several decades, or nearly 500 percent of the current gross domestic product in the coming decades. Many outside economists remain sanguine, noting that the United States is hardly the only country to run big budget deficits and that the nation's underlying economic conditions continue to be robust. "Is the U.S. fiscal position unique? Probably not," Kermit L. Schoenholtz, chief economist at Citigroup Global Markets, said. Japan's budget deficit is much higher than that of the United States, Mr. Schoenholtz said, and those of Germany and France are climbing rapidly. The dollar has lost nearly one-fifth of its value against the euro in the past 18 months, and the dollar hit new lows against the euro this week. Many economists predict that the dollar will continue to decline for some time, and that the declining dollar will help boost American industry by making American products cheaper in countries with strengthening currencies. "In the short term, it is probably helping the United States," said Robert Hormats, vice chairman of Goldman Sachs International. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/07/politics/07CND-FUND.html?ex=1074525865ei=1en=55f14beae5ae12f1 - Get Home Delivery of The New York Times Newspaper. Imagine reading The New York Times any time anywhere you like! Leisurely catch up on events expand your horizons. Enjoy now for 50%
ugnet_: FW: NYTimes.com Article: Africa Quandary: Whites Land vs. the Landlessness of Blacks
/ advertisement ---\ NOMINATED FOR 7 BROADCAST FILM CRITICS AWARDS IN AMERICA has been nominated for 7 BFCA Awards including Best Picture, Best Actress Best Director, Best Writer, Best Young Actor/Actress, and Best Song. Ebert Roeper give IN AMERICA "Two Thumbs Way Up!"Watch the trailer at: http://www.foxsearchlight.com/inamerica \--/ Africa Quandary: Whites Land vs. the Landlessness of Blacks January 6, 2004 By SHARON LaFRANIERE and MICHAEL WINES GABON, South Africa - At first blush, the jumble of corrugated-steel shacks sprouting from 123 acres of flat countryside is a mirror of thriving towns all over the nation. Thousands of barren yards, marked by chicken-wire fences and festooned with clotheslines, face dirt lanes dignified by hand-lettered wooden street signs. There are also a taxi stand, a shoe-repair shop, a soccer field. About 15,000 black South Africans call Gabon home. It is their home - but not legally. For this city of squatters is built on part of the 13 square miles of farmland where Abraham Duvenage, its white owner, has grown corn, sorghum and soybeans for half his 73 years. Indeed, Gabon was a hayfield until about three years ago, when families from a nearby township decided that the land was free for the taking - and took it. "I've been farming there more than 35 years, and now it is going downhill," he fumed as his 18 employees tilled the remaining open pasture. "I, an individual farmer, have to take the brunt of all these lawless people." Eunice Rosila, 30, a resident in one of those chicken-wire enclosures, begged to differ. "The main point is, we don't have a place to stay," she said, sitting beneath an umbrella to escape a blazing sun. "We've got a right to be here, because the owner was not using this land." The tug of war is part of an intense conflict over land in southern Africa. It pits tens of thousands of white landowners, beneficiaries of a system that denied blacks property rights, against millions of nonwhites left landless by colonialism. For close to a decade, many landless have waited fruitlessly for democracy to end that disparity. Experts worry that their growing impatience threatens the black-white compact that has been the linchpin of South Africa's stability. The government has promised its 40 million nonwhites a radical redistribution of land, but such hopes have been largely dashed. Upon ending apartheid in 1994, government leaders pledged to use the treasury and the law to transfer 30 percent of white-owned farmland to nonwhites in five years. Nearly 10 years later, they have transferred 2 percent. A minuscule sliver has been sold privately to nonwhites. More than 9 of every 10 acres of commercial farmland remain in the hands of 50,000 white farmers. How far land reform can alleviate injustice is a matter of debate. In a nation where more than half the population is urban and one in three workers is unemployed, jobs and building a developed economy are more pressing to many people, including leaders in the governing African National Congress. "People know perfectly well that if they are going to improve their livelihood, they aren't going to do it on the land," said Steven Friedman, a senior scholar at the Center for Policy Studies in Johannesburg. Other experts say that argument overlooks the value of a plot of land for a vegetable garden to countless families with no income, particularly in a nation where rural poverty is crushing. In addition, they say, it underestimates the wealth that could be spread by breaking up the vast white-owned farms that dominate commercial agriculture. What is indisputable is the tension. White farmers say they bear the full brunt of growing black resentment: since 1991, more than 1,500 have been killed. Government reports attribute most of the murders to robbery, not race or class resentment. Many farmers say that glosses over the problem. In parts of KwaZulu-Natal Province, a fertile expanse bordering the Indian Ocean, the jockeying approaches low-level guerrilla warfare. Farmers employ security men and ring pastures with trenches to fend off attacks by peasants. A fast-growing political faction called the Landless People's Movement has threatened to start taking over white farms in early 2005, at the climax of the presidential election season. "We are going to shake them," Magaliso Kubheka, who organized the group in 2001, said in an interview. Black peasants and laborers have lodged claims with the Land Affairs Department for 70 percent of all KwaZulu-Natal's commercial farmland. A similar share is claimed in Mpumalanga Province, to the north. Some claimants are not waiting for government rulings. Squatter invasions of farmland are now an everyday occurrence, said Glen Thomas, the deputy director of the
ugnet_: Unelectable, My Ass!
Unelectable, My Ass! By Arianna Huffington, AlterNet January 7, 2004 I swear, if I hear one more Democratic honcho say that Howard Dean is not electable, I'm going to do something crazy (maybe that's what happened to Britney in Vegas this weekend). The contention is nothing short of idiotic. Consider the source. The folks besmirching the good doctor's Election Day viability are the very people who have driven the Democratic Party into irrelevance; who spearheaded the party's resounding 2002 mid-term defeats; and who kinda, sorta, but not really disagreed with President Bush as he led us down the path of preemptive war with Iraq, irresponsible tax cuts and an unprecedented deficit. Dean is electable precisely because he's making a decisive break with the spinelessness and pussyfooting that have become the hallmark of the Democratic Party. So, please, no more hand-wringing about Dean being another Dukakis. And no more weepy flashbacks about having had your heart broken by George McGovern, whose 1972 annihilation haunts the 2004 Democratic primaries like a political Jacob Marley, shaking his chains and warning of the Ghosts of Landslides Past. There is a historical parallel to Dean's candidacy, but it's not McGovern in 1972, as the DLC-paranoiacs would like us to believe it's Bobby Kennedy in 1968. Like Kennedy, Dean's campaign was initially fueled by his anti-war outrage. Like Kennedy, Dean has found himself fighting not just to represent the Democratic Party but to remake it. Like Kennedy, Dean is offering an alternative moral vision for America, not just an alternative political platform. And like Kennedy, Dean has come under withering attack from his critics for the very attributes that his supporters find most attractive. He could be intemperate and impulsive... the image of wrath his forefinger pointing, his fist pounding his palm, his eyes ablaze. Sean Hannity on Howard Dean? No, Theodore White on Bobby Kennedy in The Making of the President 1968. It's the same ludicrous charge of being too angry that's being constantly leveled at Dean. Have his Democratic opponents (and the notoriously decorous Washington press corps) suddenly morphed into Miss Manners? Personally, I could never trust a man who does not occasionally get hot under the collar. Of course Dean is angry. Take a look at what's happening in Iraq, where another 236 American soldiers have been killed or wounded since Saddam was dragged out of his spider hole. And take a look closer to home, where we have 12 million children living in poverty, six out of seven working poor families unable to afford quality child care, record levels of personal debt, and more and more U.S. jobs being outsourced overseas. If you still have a pulse (are you listening, Joe Lieberman?) you should be royally pissed. I have traveled and I have listened to the young people of our nation, Kennedy said during his announcement speech, and felt their anger about the war that they are sent to fight and about the world they are about to inherit. And young people have been the spark that has lit the fuse of the Dean campaign. As he pointed out this weekend in Iowa, One-quarter of all the people who gave us money between June and September were under 30 years old. So while the Democratic establishment is once again dusting off its tried-and-untrue swing voter strategy, Dean is running, as he put it, a campaign based on addition, not subtraction. We want to add new people to the Democratic Party so that we can beat George Bush. It's the only way we can beat him. Kennedy was drawn into the '68 race by his indignation over the direction of America's foreign policy. This nation, he said, must adopt a foreign policy which says, clearly and distinctly, 'no more Vietnams.' Dean has been saying, clearly and distinctly, No More Iraqs, even when 70 percent of the public said they approved of Bush's policy. That's leadership, and that's the kind of boldness the Democratic Party has been sorely lacking. Far from Dean not being able to compete with Bush on foreign policy, he's the one viable Democrat who isn't trying to compete on the playing field that Bush and Karl Rove have laid out. No Democrat can win by playing Whose swagger is swaggier? or Whose flight suit is tighter? Instead Dean unambiguously asserts that We are in danger of losing the war on terror because we are fighting it with the strategies of the past... The Iraq war diverted critical intelligence and military resources, undermined diplomatic support for our fight against terror, and created a new rallying cry for terrorist recruits. In the same way that Kennedy was able to take his outrage over Vietnam and expand it to include the outrages perpetrated at home, Dean has gone from railing against the war to offering a New Social Contract for America's Working Families that harkens back to the core message of FDR: The test of our progress is not
ugnet_: Happy Kwanzaa: Long (L)!
Happy KwanzaaBy Paul MulshineFrontPageMagazine.com | December 26, 2002On December 24, 1971, the New York Times ran one of the first of many articles on a new holiday designed to foster unity among AfricanAmericans. The holiday, called Kwanzaa, was applauded by a certainsixteen-year-old minister who explained that the feast would perform the valuable service of "de-whitizing" Christmas. The minister was a nobody at the time but he would later go on to become perhaps the premier race-baiter of the twentieth century. His name was Al Sharpton and he would later spawn the Tawana Brawley hoax and then incite anti-Jewish tensions in a 1995 incident that ended with the arson deaths of sevenpeople.Great minds think alike. The inventor of the holiday was one of the fewblack "leaders" in America even worse than Sharpton. But there was nomention in the Ti mes article of this man or of the fact that at that very moment he was sitting in a California prison. And there was no mention of the curious fact that this purported benefactor of the black people had founded an organization that in its short history tortured and murdered blacks in ways of which the Ku Klux Klan could only fantasize.It was in newspaper articles like that, repeated in papers all over thecountry, that the tradition of Kwanzaa began. It is a tradition not out of Africa but out of Orwell. Both history and language have been bent toserve a political goal. When that New York Times article appeared, RonKarenga's crimes were still recent events. If the reporter had bothered to do any research into the background of the Kwanzaa founder, he might have learned about Karenga's trial earlier that year on charges of torturing two women who were members of US (United Slaves), a black nationalist cult he had founded.A May 14, 1971, article in the Los Angeles Times described the testimony of one of them: "Deborah Jones, who once was given the Swahili title of an African queen, said she and Gail Davis were whipped with an electrical cord and beaten with a karate baton after being ordered to remove their clothes. She testified that a hot soldering iron was placed in Miss Davis' mouth and placed against Miss Davis' face and that one of her own big toes was tightened in a vise. Karenga, head of US, also put detergent and running hoses in their mouths, she said."Back then, it was relatively easy to get information on the trial. Nowit's almost impossible. It took me two days' work to find articles about it. The Los Angeles Times seems to have been the only major newspaper that reported it and the stories were buried deep in the paper, which now is available only on mi crofilm. And the microfilm index doesn't start until 1972, so it is almost impossible to find the three small articles that cover Karenga's trial and conviction on charges of torture. That is fortunate for Karenga. The trial showed him to be not just brutal, but deranged. He and three members of his cult had tortured the women in an attempt to find some nonexistent "crystals" of poison. Karenga thought his enemies were out to get him.And in another lucky break for Karenga, the trial transcript no longerexists. I filed a request for it with the Superior Court of Los Angeles. After a search, the court clerk could find no record of the trial. So the exact words of the black woman who had a hot soldering iron pressed against her face by the man who founded Kwanzaa are now lost to history. The only document the court clerk did find was particularly revealing, however. It was a transcript of Karenga's sentencing hearing on Sept. 17,1971.A key issue was whether Karenga was sane. Judge Arthur L. Alarcon read from a psychiatrist's report: "Since his admission here he has been isolated and has been exhibiting bizarre behavior, such as staring at the wall, talking to imaginary persons, claiming that he was attacked by dive-bombers and that his attorney was in the next cell. During part of the interview he would look around as if reacting to hallucination and when the examiner walked away for a moment he began a conversation with a blanket located on his bed, stating that there was someone there and implying indirectly that the 'someone' was a woman imprisoned with him for some offense. This man now presents a picture which can be considered both paranoid and schizophrenic with hallucinations and elusions, inappropriate affect, disorganization, and impaired contact with the environment."The founder of Kwanzaa paranoid? It seems so. But as the old saying goes, just because you're paranoid it do esn't mean that someone isn't out to get you.ACCORDING TO COURT DOCUMENTS, Karenga's real name is Ron N. Everett. In the '60s, he awarded himself the title "maulana," Swahili for "master teacher." He was born on a poultry farm in Maryland, the fourteenth child of a Baptist minister. He came to California in the late 1950s to attend Los Angeles Community College. He moved on to UCLA, where he got a Master's degree in
Re: ugnet_: Happy Kwanzaa: Long (L)!
Prof Lugemwa, Happy New Year! The last place I would look for for fair and balanced reporting on Black issues is FrontPage magazine. Much like finding a refuge for goats in a lion's den. After recanting Marxism, the magazine's founding editor, David Horowitz, has discovered his true calling as a right wing nut whose atonement for his lefty years appears to be relentlessly beating up on Blacks. This article you posted is a classic example of White supremacist thinking. The mainstream assumption in U.S. America is that the institution of slavery destroyed all links between U.S. Blacks and Africa, so any attempt by African Americans to reclaim their African heritage provokes so much foaming in the mouths among the high priests of Eurocentricity. The simple explanation for this apoplectic rage is that culturally, spiritually, intellectually, Blacks are never supposed to escape from the plantation. This is a verbal attempt to hunt and take them back in slave chains. For all his faults, Maulana Karenga has displayed rare genius in inventing Kwanzaa. So, the vicious nature of these attacks. The tragic truth is that not many Blacks can trace with precision and accuracy their villages or towns of origin in Africa. Even those who do would most likely embrace the whole of Africa as the Motherland. It is the institution of slavery and the White supremacist mentality that produced it that should be the real target of the rage of well-meaning White people, not Blacks, who owe no apology to Whites for attempting to reclaim their African heritage. In any case White supremacy is pan-European in orientation. That's why, an Irish American will never be excoriated by the likes of Paul Moonshine Mulshine and his editor Horowitz for claiming the mantel of Plato and Aristotle or the toga of the Romans Cicero and Cato -- never mind the fact that no Celtic blood flowed in the veins of those Greek and Roman thinkers . Only proponents of apartheid would insist that Black people in Africa or elsewhere belong in Bantustans, mental or material. So, I say let African Americans celebrate their African heritage in any African language of their choosing. vukoni --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.557 / Virus Database: 349 - Release Date: 12/30/2003
ugnet_: 8,000 Militia Fighters Quit
8,000 Militia Fighters Quit Email This Page Print This Page Visit The Publisher's Site The Monitor (Kampala) January 9, 2004 Posted to the web January 9, 2004 Mercy Nalugo Kampala More than 6,000 members of the Amuka militia group have quit. Officials in Lira told The Monitor last evening that the militiamen, who were recruited to help the army fight the Lord's Resistance Army rebels, had grown restless. The militia fighters also cited harassment from their instructors and poor conditions within which they were training. "They had very little food and at times trained on empty stomachs," said an official, who declined to be named. The decision to quit followed a meeting with officials from the Resident District Commissioner's office, which failed to solve the impasse. The meeting was held at Aler Farm Training Camp in Erute North County. Relevant Links East Africa Uganda Arms and Military Affairs "The boys raised their complaints but somebody from the RDC's office said all those who wanted to go should leave immediately and they walked back to their counties," the official said. Army spokesman Maj. Shaban Bantariza declined to comment when contacted by telephone last night.
RE: ugnet_: Re:Should Moslems ( Mengo/Buganda traditionalists) live on another planet?
Last I checked Mengo is a cultural entity. As such the officials would be remiss if they made no attempt to uphold its raison d'etre -- the cultural values of that very institution. About the only legitimate objection, with respect to the subject matter, would be for women to insist that male employees of the institution also dress traditionally. Case closed. Perhaps the asymmetry between the two situations, which appears to have escaped some, is that in Malayasia Muslims are demanding non-Muslims to adhere to Muslim standards -- in what should ordinarily be expected to be a non-secular sitution. Original Message Follows From: Rehema Mukooza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ugnet_: Re:Should Moslems ( Mengo/Buganda traditionalists) live on another planet? Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 18:44:41 -0800 (PST) Ssemakula: Moslems should stay right here on earth, their home just as other people of different faiths.All the moslems are doing is exercising their freedoms to dresss a certain way, they want.Now people of other religions should stop trying to force moslems to dry in a way they (other faiths) want. Talking about " 'sexy' clothes banned in Malaysian state ", let's talk about pants or trousers banned at Bulange, Mengo by the deputy Katikkiro of Buganda, Kaaya Kavuma.The deputy Katikkiro strickly took away all female employees' rights to dress as they want as long as they are not naked in the name of "tradition".Can we talk about that Ssemakula??Maybe "Mengo traditionalists" should live on another planet away from Buganda?!Mengo traditionalists should stop impossing their views and ideas on how to dress onto others who don't like them.Many female employees at Bulange, Mengo were fired as a result of dressing in pants on Kaaya Kavuma's orders. While maybe some intolerant moslems in Malaysia are suffocating others' rights in the name of "religion", some intolerant people in Mengo are suffocating other's rights in the name of "tradition".So, where do you draw the line in this mess??Ssemakula, are you going to condemn intolerant moslem Malaysians and praise the intolerant Kaaya Kavuma on the other hand or what?? Mengo/Buganda traditionalists have gone way too far in their determination to take away females rights.They are even trying to suffocate the Nabagereka of Buganda from dressing in pants, short dresses, short/mini skirts, swim suit, sleeveless brouses/dresses, bear back.The Nabagereka can not even show us some skin as she would have loved to because of the nonsense of the Mengo traditionalists.People who knew the Nabagereka before she married the Kabaka claim to have seen her wear short/mini skirts and dresses.She was even seen in public swimming pools wearing her swim suit fighting the pool water.I heard rumors that she even used to show off her beautiful bear back, belly, and legs in the sun. What has happened to the then Nagginda and the Nabagereka of today??Why the sudden change in her rights to dress as she wants??Where her personal rights taken away??What would she have worn today if we had no Mengo/Buganda traditionalists dictating to her and society what to wear??Could things maybe have been different??I still have questions and I am wondering. I don't understand what kind of Islam these intolerant Malaysian moslems are following because the Holy Quran encourages tolerance of other faiths in moslem societies.Mengo/Buganda traditionalists should live on another planet, and leave Buganda people's dress rights alone.What do you think?? Rehema M. J Ssemakula <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: AFP,Mon Jan 5, 2:40 AM ET 'Sexy' clothes banned in Malaysian state KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - Non-Muslim Malaysian women in opposition-run Terengganu state will not be able to wear short-sleeved blouses, tight-fitting jeans, long skirts with slits or mini-skirts to work in the future. They are also barred from wearing figure-hugging or revealing dresses, said assemblyman Sulaiman Abdullah. "The PAS (Islamic Party) government will not tolerate females, including those from different religions, wearing such clothes during working hours," Sulaiman, who is also Kuala Terengganu municipal council president, was quoted as saying by the New Straits Times. Sulaiman said non-Muslims, although free to wear skirts, must wear them to their knees. Muslim women working in the private sector would now have to adhere to the Islamic dress code and wear headscarves and loose clothes, he said. The council will distribute circulars on the dress code to businesses and visit premises with Islamic preachers to advise Muslim women who flout the ruling. Employers whose workers are found to be wearing improper attire could be fined up to 250 ringgit (66 dollars) or lose their licences, he said. The hardline Islamic Party controls just two of the 13 states in multicultural Malaysia, which has large non-Muslim
ugnet_: Muhoozi: seriously injured or oba what?
Netters, Has any one heard about Museveni's son Muhoozi's whereabouts? ySTOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* This service is hosted on the Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug
Re: ugnet_: Muhoozi: seriously injured or oba what?
In a message dated 1/9/2004 8:52:44 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Netters, Has any one heard about Museveni's son Muhoozi's whereabouts? y He is said to be "absent". nursing his bullet ridden limbs somewhere Matek
ugnet_: Re: [theafricanobserver] 8,000 Militia Fighters Quit
Smartest move so far by this so called "AMUKA MILITIA". Why sacrifice your lives in this Hopeless Museveni created wars. Let those UPDF soldiers who are still stupid enough to fight in Yoweri Museveni's wars, do the fighting. Matek 8,000 Militia Fighters Quit Email This Page Print This Page Visit The Publisher's Site The Monitor (Kampala) January 9, 2004 Posted to the web January 9, 2004 Mercy Nalugo Kampala More than 6,000 members of the Amuka militia group have quit. Officials in Lira told The Monitor last evening that the militiamen, who were recruited to help the army fight the Lord's Resistance Army rebels, had grown restless. The militia fighters also cited harassment from their instructors and poor conditions within which they were training. "They had very little food and at times trained on empty stomachs," said an official, who declined to be named. The decision to quit followed a meeting with officials from the Resident District Commissioner's office, which failed to solve the impasse. The meeting was held at Aler Farm Training Camp in Erute North County. Relevant Links East Africa Uganda Arms and Military Affairs "The boys raised their complaints but somebody from the RDC's office said all those who wanted to go should leave immediately and they walked back to their counties," the official said. Army spokesman Maj. Shaban Bantariza declined to comment when contacted by telephone last night.
Re: ugnet_: Muhoozi: seriously injured or oba what?
Next ... y From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ugnet_: Muhoozi: seriously injured or oba what? Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 21:01:09 EST In a message dated 1/9/2004 8:52:44 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Netters, Has any one heard about Museveni's son Muhoozi's whereabouts? y He is said to be "absent". nursing hisbullet riddenlimbs somewhere Matek Protect your PC - Click here for McAfee.com VirusScan Online This service is hosted on the Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug
