DJ Kasbaby to entertain revellers at Drunk at Brunch party

By website writer  DJ Kasbaby who is one of the best DJs in Kampala will this Sunday get to work at Seven Trees in Kololo.  Kasbaby will be the main DJ at Drunk at Brunch Party that will happen for the first time. The party organised by ExW will have revellers Brunch and on top […]
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Rema Squashes Rumours About Disrespecting Her Husband -“How Can I?”

A few weeks after singer Rema Namakula introduced her new found love, one Hamza Ssebunya a lavish introduction ceremony that took place in Nabbingo, Wakiso district, rumours began circulating how Rema allegedly is the 'man' in the house who commands respect to Hamza This week, more recent rumours on the streets had it that, Rema […]

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Pallaso Hits Back At Critics Claiming He Pulled A Publicity Stunt Following Assault In SA

Right now the singer 'Pallaso getting assaulted by a group of xenophobic people in South Africa' on Wednesday evening news is one of the hottest topics of discussion. He narrowly survived death if his narration about way he was tortured is anything to go by. He broke the news about the hell that happened to […]

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Harassing the president: Court orders immediate release of Stella Nyanzi

The High court has quashed the conviction and the 18-month sentence that was handed to Dr Stella Nyanzi by Buganda Road court magistrate Gladys Kamasanyu last year in August.

Kamasanyu convicted and sentenced Nyanzi of cyber harassment after she published a birthday poem on September 16, 2016 for President Yoweri Museveni's 74th birthday. Prosecution sued Nyanzi claiming the poem was too vulgar and ridiculed the person of the president. 

But now, Justice Henry Peter Adonyo has ordered for the immediate release of Nyanzi, saying the Buganda Road Magistrate's court had no jurisdiction to entertain the matter.

Justice Adonyo also noted that the lower court violated Nyanzi's constitutional right to a fair hearing. The poem in question reportedly ridiculed Esteeri Kokundeka, the late mother of President Museveni.

In December last year, the High court also awarded Shs 50 million to the Makerere University researcher for the violation of her rights by the government when it blocked her from boarding the plane in 2017.

The Shs 50m award stemmed from an application challenging the infringement of her fundamental human right when the government secretly placed her name on a "no-fly list" and confiscated her passport. 

Nyanzi was blocked from leaving the country on March 19, 2017, to attend a scholarly conference in Amsterdam. By the time of the action, Nyanzi had already checked in at Entebbe International airport, but she could not get clearance from the immigration desk.

During the time police said it was investigating a possible case of offensive communication and cyber harassment against Nyanzi and she was required to assist police investigations, according to a letter from the Makerere University vice chancellor.

In a subsequent complaint to Joseph Obwona, the deputy director of the Criminal Investigations Department, Nyanzi indicated that her passport and boarding passes had been confiscated making her unable to travel. She demanded in vain to be removed from the no-fly list prompting her to run to court for redress.

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Legendary: Salvado Seals His Position In Comedy History Books After Celebrating 10 Years

The journey started 10 years ago as some would put it, as a joke. But for Patrick Idringi aka Salvado a qualified Telecom Engineer, it wasn't a joking matter when he quit his juicy job at MTN Uganda as Switch  engineer to pursue his dream career as a comedian. It all started in 2009 when […]

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Zzina Awards 2020 Categories Unveiled As Nominations Open To Public

In every first quarter of a new year, one of Uganda’s leading urban-youth Radio stations Galaxy FM gets to recognize and reward the most outstanding Ugandan talents of the past 12 months at the now 7-year-old Zzina Awards. The open nomination process which will be conducted on the station's social media platforms Facebook, Twitter and […]

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Apartheid ‘not a crime against humanity’ - fmr S.Africa president

South Africa's final apartheid president, F.W. de Klerk, has found himself in the crosshairs of the powerful African National Congress - and many others - since he said he didn't believe the racist system was a crime against humanity.

While his comments - made earlier this month - have provoked outrage, African scholars have noted a sense of continental amnesia about the past, and say this misplaced nostalgia is not an exclusively South African phenomenon.

De Klerk was instrumental in ending apartheid, releasing Nelson Mandela from prison and ushering in democracy in 1994. De Klerk shared the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize with Mandela for their role in ending the apartheid regime that treated the nation's non-white majority as second-class citizens.

'I don't fully agree with that'

45 per cent of today's South Africans had yet to be born when that happened. But the wounds of apartheid still run deep, as seen by de Klerk's heated exchange with state broadcaster SABC.

Reporter Manelisi Dubase pressed the former president to agree with the United Nations' classification of the system as a crime against humanity:

"I don't fully agree with that," de Klerk responded, adding, "I profusely apologize for [apartheid]. But there's a difference between calling something a crime, like genocide is a crime. Apartheid cannot be, that's why I'm saying this, cannot be, for instance compared with genocide. There was never genocide."

As Dubase then noted, thousands of people - most of them black were killed in internecine violence during apartheid. Additionally, countless protesters were killed in police detention or by police action, and millions of South Africans were subjected to daily indignities, restrictions and unfair treatment solely on the basis of their race.

De Klerk's comments have provoked widespread anger, including from the foundation of fellow Nobel Peace laureate Desmond Tutu. Last week, parliamentarians from the youth-oriented Economic Freedom Fighters party protested De Klerk's presence during the president's annual speech.

And the African National Congress said the former president's comments were "a clear and deliberate attempt to incite race hatred."

"Apartheid was a brutal system of oppression and underdevelopment, and the United Nations in 1973 correctly declared it a crime against humanity," said ANC spokesman Pule Mabe.

"The nation is therefore indeed shocked, and we are all asking: Mr. de Klerk, was apartheid anything else than this definition by the entire world?"

Hate speech is not legally protected in South Africa, although the ANC did not explicitly call for punishment. The EFF, however, is calling for a case to be opened against De Klerk.

'It is my own fish; leave him to me'

Independent political analyst Ralph Mathekga said he is worried about what he sees as a continent-wide attempt to revise what is often painful history. He pointed to the nostalgia over recently deceased Zimbabwean strongman Robert Mugabe, longtime Kenyan ruler Daniel Arap Moi, and others. 

"When I look at how we reflect on Mugabe, we reflect on some former dictators, it's almost like we're saying -- and this has actually been a Nigerian saying, 'It is my own fish; leave him to me,'" he told VOA. "It's like cutting off your nose to spite your face. Because if you look at the performance of those dictators, what have they achieved locally? There is no material benefit that justify this attempt to whitewash history."

Mathekga was a high school student when apartheid ended. When asked if he thought apartheid was a crime against humanity, his reply was swift.

"Of course, there was no doubt about it...Forget about the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The killing, mass killing, of black people, in Thembisa, in  Katlehong, in Sebokeng -- I've seen those with my eyes, so I cannot imagine any system that has been as atrocious as apartheid."

De Klerk's foundation, which had initially supported his comments, on Monday withdrew them, saying apartheid was a crime against humanity.  

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Popular Rwandan gospel musician found dead in police cell

A popular Rwandan gospel musician who in 2015 was found guilty of conspiracy to murder or harm President Paul Kagame was found dead in a police cell Monday in the capital, Kigali, authorities said.

Kizito Mihigo, 38, an ethnic Tutsi survivor of the 1994 genocide that killed more than 800,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutus who tried to protect them, killed himself in the morning hours, a police statement said.

The official account of a suicide was expected to be met with skepticism in a country where the government is frequently accused of targeting perceived critics.

Described by many as Rwanda's biggest cultural icon and a devout Catholic known for songs promoting healing and forgiveness, Mihigo had been pardoned in 2018 but was re-arrested last week. Police asserted that he had been trying to flee to neighbouring Burundi to join groups fighting the Rwandan government.

"He has been in police cell for three days as police investigated why he was crossing the border illegally and cases of bribery," police spokesman Eric Kabera said in a statement. He didn't respond to calls from The Associated Press.

Police said Mihigo had been allowed to meet family members and his lawyer. It was not immediately known whether he had been in a solitary cell. A family member declined to comment. The news of the death was met with disbelief.

The Rwanda Investigations Bureau tweeted on Thursday that the country's security organs had handed over Mihigo, saying the charges against him included illegally crossing to Burundi, joining terrorist groups and corruption.

Mihigo was arrested in 2014 and sentenced the following year to 10 years in prison after he was found guilty of conspiracy to murder or harm Kagame and other top leaders. He was also convicted of complicity to overthrow the government and conspiracy to form alliances with negative groups to destabilize the country.

He pleaded guilty to all charges, leading the judge to say he was given a lenient sentence because he had made the court's work easy. He was pardoned in 2018 by Kagame alongside Rwanda's leading opposition leader, Victoire Ingabire. But last week, police said his attempt to escape constituted a breach of conditions of the presidential order, meaning the revocation of the pardon. 

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Black Roots Unlimited Serenades Revellers With Reggae Vibes At Ciroc Pop Night

Being Valentine's Day, Kampala party animals were treated to a Ciroc Pop Valentines Special Live concert at top Industrial Area-based night spot, Guvnor. The mood was buoyant as Black Roots Unlimited featuring Tonya Michelle Ahenda, Julius Sese and Lisa Sonia performed classic soul R&B love ballads. From the décor to Celine Dion to Mariah Carey, […]

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