well you. got some hot tips for your bucket list. magic or no. it's hard for some jack and some great country mornings to boot. double trouble we go. hello and welcome to the 77 percent where in uganda's capital i love *. and this week the show is all about the freedom to say what you want when you want to and how you want does want to go out for you we'll meet a young south african fighting for justice in his community. we find out how zimbabwean comedians use satire to bypass oppression. and we'll hear how young women in south sudan of breaking down barriers to talk

about anything. but it's the strength of the universal declaration of human rights freedom of speech and from the basic principle it means the freedom to express your mind your opinions without the fear that your governments might punish you i take legal action against you but i want to hear from you so we also runs one of freedom of speech really means you. to me for don't have speech wins. where ability my power to express well you know results fair without restraint without its feel. i think is what every boy works. for the most because i love being a citizen. as a person in

a be able to express my view without trying to clamp down without trying to sell me what's it's what is your hobby i'll be teaching. people for the book you're. still maintains that you have. a conscience all i think that you're showing some balls on elm the human as it stands. so video with people you need to look something in such a closely that the color chart you have to close to that environment you find yourself and we were one of the last.

3 speeches the author of the scene are you view or where you feel about something regarding it if you would but but it's also not the most gets to be the way you can see something on the how you feel about folks who don't feel anything for a new war or what your way through the grove of anybody. here's a scenario for you it's election time 100 titian's are throwing around from mrs i quite often money left right and center and assume as the election is over they just vanish so one young man in kitchener south africa was tired of what he considered to be and to promises and when the response of a minister visited we'll just see for yourself. i have never communicated now who i lie and we have you on record but you had your own resources to take and talk nonsense i am saying that i was a confrontation between a politician and an activist caught on camera by social justice activist corsicana swap boy. in the video minister for human settlements lindiwe sisulu ordered swat

boy to switch off his camera and called him a liar. the background of the incident in january 2021 ministers he superceded the taiwan and foremost settlement in cape town. a few days earlier a fire had described 150 shacks. and rendered hundreds of people homeless. because he cannot boy who is part of the group of activists who have been supporting the residents affected by the fire follow the minister during the day on her tour. twenty's who promised support for the victims he confronted her. as they are walking towards their cars i then shouted from the back and said minister let's hope that you want to the same thing that you did in him paul when in march 2020 will you promise to to rebuild 49 structures that were demolished as a result of an unlawful order legalisation she reached for my phone and slipped in

and it fell to the ground and it is in that point that i you know a lot of my safety was a bit compromised because the cuts that are there all day the police officers in tribal told. the minister's entourage manhandled activist and ordered him to delete the footage a bystander filming counter chose swat boy gesturing and refusing to give up his phone. at that moment i fear for my life because we soon get into these things happening and we've seen how activist. targeted and killed as a result of. the story doesn't end there a few days after the incident news portal e.w. and reported that the minister wanted to open a criminal case against. its none found and explained constitutional law expert to force politicians obvious servants of the people of our constitutional court and

so they're accountable to the citizens in many different ways to institute legal action or even criminal action was an empty threat based no law that allows what people in power often do they threaten legal action to try and intimidate people and that's exactly i think what happened. back in the taiwan informal settlement because we cannot meet up with community spokes person. it's been over 3 months since the incident he wants to see what has happened on the ground since minister visited the site where the fire broke out not much has changed. to be movement get any assistance from the from the government people have little to do from the scrap material is a can see these are the benches and so they're not safe at all when the remaining.

people to be flooded. flooding and fire with the people who need a well built homes to protect them from both and says what boy they must learn to articulate their needs and not accept whatever petitions tell them. shy within ourselves and find the. voice out if we don't know what is going to. swat boy will continue to fight for accountability he knows until africa and elsewhere in the world it requires active citizens to defend basic human rights. so it is possible to confront even the highest ministers although as we just saw it's not always a risk free here in uganda for example speaking openly and honestly because sometimes landed in hot water the country is run 235th out of 180 countries on the

freedom of speech and press in the state to 20 so it's no wonder that one young man here the decision to express himself turned into a 6 week like me. you know i said but he came and put a block over my head and 2 pieces of metal way inserted in me here and here. and now he lied then they injected me with something here. i would have. said. these are the scars of a parent torture the injuries of kenneth are still fresh allegedly inflicted by ugandan security forces in the aftermath of the january 2021 elections it was a tightly 40 election contest between uganda's longtime president you where he was 70 and his much younger opponent the musician turned politician robert chuckle a line otherwise known as bobby wine but when all was over the fight went on the

president was 7 years troops raided the opposition offices and. to be sought out by the wind supporters. can a sickly i remembers how he was lured to a location in kampala on january the 22nd when he arrived he says security forces forced him into the back of a van. who was one of those through it. hunk of me from the front but then they chained them and hunk off me from behind so i was hunk of like this i was transported in this position when he would. move forward. then the person who was sitting behind came and sat on me like this and told me to surrender the pass for it to my form but i refused. not going to which are the reason why i refused to surrender the password to my phone is because i had just communicated with my people i feared he would want to take them to as

a result i was beaten up and tortured if you. like him hundreds of people were arrested and many of them are still missing more than 50 people were killed by security forces according to the united nations the policeman took kenneth back to his house they confiscated all his election related documents campaign material and posters of the presidential candidates bobby wine then they put him in a cell where 80 other prisoners were already being held. inside the cell people were not able to sit where they would lie on their backs like this because they were beaten they were beaten everywhere on their joints like this. and we are wounds where it was in past and blood really used to beat your joints until

you could no longer someway injected but something in the back and most people were wounded really with the situation was not good at all inside there. he spent several weeks in the holding cell where he was tortured again and again cemex wife year berry was also briefly detained but quickly released due to her advanced pregnancy she gave birth while kenneth was still in jail. for a while after kind of was taken and around 2 weeks after i had given birth they came and threw tear gas into our house. not even i was sleeping and it was about midnight and i heard movement behind the house when you are going to be ready.

they came and they threw a tear gas canister right through the bathroom window. you know i just ran away with my baby and she still has problems with her eyes as a result of that tear gas and what i'm going to most of those who are still. cannot didn't know any of this until much later he spent 6 weeks in jail and he was asked to sign a confession over and over again. drago going to ward book away the prosecutor told me to see that it will be one is planning to work through the government using the help of foreignness while president was elected by the people of uganda. they wanted to hear that will be one wants to bring violence in the country yet 70 has to maintain peace in the country then he told me that after agreeing to confess i'll be given 500000000 ugandan shillings well just about 115000 euros and i told them that i can't confessed to that

they told me i am stupid and i do not understand and that this is how i will die die in poverty. woman 2 i'm ready for women who were going to work for kenneth was released on bail and officially charged as a common nuisance for 7 years government strategy seems simple by forcing confessions they want to criminalize the opposition in order to legitimize their rule and regain the trust of the people but that seems difficult after all that has already happened i need justice in my country for nice. people every day every night and for nancy fighting for their mission so i'm doing this because i need tools to swim. wow we can all agree that that's a difficult situation but i want us to stay in the region and hop over the border something that i guarantee you is not that you're going to do doing this but on

let's see what comes from south sudan where we're meeting some young women who thought well we don't only want to change politicians or challenge them we also want to change and challenge our entire society so they started a radio show called gender talk to 11 where they talk about feminism because believe it or not issues like registration or childbirth but also just women raising their voices are still things that people believe we should rather the high school. today is a show day for. she's presenting gender talk to 11 radio show aimed at opening up the conversation around gender equality and women's rights in juba south sudan. today we are tracking the most controversial topic that may happen on this show. and really feminism that's a word that's still to south sudan it's a patriarchal society where women are expected to bear children and you're on the

household they really involved in decision making outside their homes we have nose bases that are comfortable enough for women to talk about their issues or to talk about their struggle there are spaces that give women an opportunity to create ate something better for themselves changing the narrative we want to do with this with this radio show. gender stereotype single motherhood menstruation the discussions covered daily life challenges for women with a clear agenda to shake up the norms and then we have religion and. religion values they go out to be. pressed up on this. but gender talk to 11 is not only by women for women co-hosts. amber a new pipe is determined to prove that men can also be feminists. we feel that

women as opposed to handle women issues can be set up by red men come up just like to talk about some of these things are the men who up it does or those who have not been realizing that they actually played a huge drawl you had to get from in size with the to also speak of us with gender talk to 11 on the launched a few months ago but this story started on social media 10 a passionate women's rights activist is the person who came up with the idea. i started trying to understand women's rights and i think that's always flirting got sucked into the world process to just see you know which equals human beings and to just realize the oppression and the discrimination the women and girls face to just open my eyes to the right of gender dynamics that i didn't see ask issues grow with now because you assume a lot. like many young south sudanese other well grew up in exile the country was a war a few years after its independence from sudan in 2011 she came back and took up

a fight. the fact that people are getting roughed up mean you're touching nerves that people don't want to be touched soul i mean this is challenging the beautiful thing about him and his insights or her ideas in a better way to you know younger women in the great 15 minutes. identically on the show gained a good number of fans but the negative comments on social media also took that told it's basically an insult it's harassment but i think sticking through it somehow it was sort of you know we're starting to define our spaces as women online as well you know it's not the big one mental inside of me retreat and i people who are just fighting bach especially or minus been very helpful because i'm in a state now where they know they can't break. and while they're fighting back they're holding fast on bringing the message to those who need it most the women. some of us go through things and they don't understand that that's not the norm

it's not supposed to be like that there needs to be a change to happen if we don't have those conversations i don't see any change happening. toeing the line between traditional and modern life while at the same time fighting discrimination is no easy task but the fact that these young women making their voices heard is already proof that some change is underway. wow some incredibly strong women there making their voices heard but you know in many parts of the world there and written and sometimes even written rules about what you can say or can't say in uganda for example absolutely no one would criticize the king of gondor who still plays a central role in this society but there are similar rules in different countries and there are always ways to bend these rules in zimbabwe a group of young people are doing this through comedy and a quick warning before we head into this report the 1st scene shows a woman apparently giving birth but it's a skit by the comedians it's not real and the people involved have given us permission to show it so no worries. this is

a parody but it reflects the reality and zimbabwe. will be lucky. to have a moment here tonight all of the terms of fortitude my counsel. for 2000. many zimbabweans still don't have access to good health care. in their weekly skits maggie and 2 young female comedians talk about the daily issues affecting their fellow citizens. a lot of women are facing difficulties. delivering their babies. who finding mammy lou was one of the flaw so my giving bears in public transport. it's. said the channel bus stop t.v. started as an experiment among friends they posted the skit from social media and then they quickly grew in popularity. referred to the battle.

starts. with so. they decided to reproduce these conversations skits and sparked by the news and real life experiences. just before the start of the cover $1000.00 pandemic and even launched a show in a minibus but due to the pandemic that show had to be halted social issues governance national governance service delivery so such issues are those that we cover but there are still to boot topics insulting the president for example is punishable by law to find a way to always find a way to just do a skit and. know what's going on in the country this is talking of what a.b.c. . after the ousting of former president robert mugabe who was in power for 37 years had hoped for better days but they call me is in ruins and those who criticize

authorities are still being silenced. bus stop t.v. offers an alternative to the mainstream news and by disguising their messages in humor they try to avoid government censorship. yes just not what we're going to get your next meal and in the meantime you'll get from bus stop and she laughs but when you make fun of the situation we're not going to give it lightly but actually telling you things are. like when talking about police violence but what i would like to assure the nation that we did not promote violence it's something that the team members experienced 1st hand i was i don't think last year i guess last year. after doing as cute. kids we were. we're talking about police brutality that's. pretty much

for 3 things where it was it was tough it was something else going yet he feared for his safety but the reactions of our followers kept her going so am i saying you are good at what you're doing truly highlighted the said situation in our beloved country. more tragic than fun thank you buster to hear it again for highlighting this story while letting the story state of our nation through comedy what we are trying to tell is head like people our ching people are relating saw. it is good. the young team of the t.v. make people laugh and they give them some form of comic relief they're looking for change in zimbabwe and as they watch by so many they hope that they too can contribute to this change. will come to the end of the show oh no but you know it would be really great to hear your thoughts what topics do you want to address to a society how can we highlight the issues and really get people talking as if all

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