hello and welcome to the 77 percent we're in uganda's capital how 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 there's a lot of got for you we'll meet a young south african fighting for justice in his community. we find out how zimbabwean comedians use sock science to bypass oppression.

and we'll hear how young women in south sudan of breaking down barriers to talk about anything. but it's a shrine to the universal declaration of human rights freedom of speech and from the basic principle it really is the freedom to express your minds your opinions without the fear that's your governments might punish you i take legal action against you but you want to hear from the so we asked around one of freedom of speech really mean to you. to me freedom of speech means. where really it's like power to express myself you know results here without restraint with all its field any legs that all i think is what everybody wants.

must be just a citizen a lonely as a person in a be able to express my view without trying to clamp down without trying to tell me what's it's what you choose it is very hard to be upbeat speech for you all say what sort of. people from the bottom of your heart. still maintain that you when you need help with. a conscience all i think that you shun some balls on i'll be human as it stands i have souls so deal with people you need to look bumping into each a not so close see the color chart yeah it's opposed to that environment you find yourself and i we were one of the last the.

free speech is the obvious thing are you view world war you few about something regarding that it would buffer to those who must be the most gets to do a currency floating on the how you feel about something you don't feel anything for in your war or what your way through the good of anybody. here's a scenario for you it's election time 100 titian's of 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 cape town in south africa was tired of what he considered to be and to promises and when there is once more minutes to visit said we'll just see for yourself. like you have never communicated now who i like you we have your records but you had your own records you can talk nonsense i am say. i was a confrontation between a politician and an activist caught on camera by social justice activist because

economists white boy. in the video minister for human settlements lindiwe sisulu orders white 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 destroyed 150 shacks. and rendered hundreds of people homeless. because he cannot walk 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. went to school 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 or illegal eviction she reached for my phone and slipped it and it fell to the ground and it is a point that i you know a lot of my safety was a bit compromised because the boarding cards that were there all day the police officers in trying to get hold of it the minister's entourage manhandled the activist and ordered him to delete the footage a bystander filming counter but chose what boy gesturing and refusing to give up his phone. at that moment i feel for my life because we're seeing is in these things happening and we've seen how activists. targeted and killed as a result of. the story doesn't end there a few days after the incident news portal e w n reported that the minister wanted to open a criminal case against. its not unfounded and explained constitutional law expert

to force politicians are the servants of the people 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. meets 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's visit at the site where the fire broke out not much has changed. today we haven't get any assistance from the from the government people of libya

from the motor is you can see these are the benches and so they're not safe at all when it's raining people's lives will be flooded. flooding and fire what the people here need are 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. we must try within ourselves and find the courage to put it in so called and voice out because if we don't do it ourselves no one's going to do it for us. what boy will continue to fight for accountability he knows and of 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 can sometimes

land you in hot water the country is run 225th 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 where. you had to go once but he came and put a block over my head 22 pieces of metal were inserted in me here and here the scars are now he would then be injected me with something here. no see. these are the scars of a parent torture the injuries of kenneth a 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 long time president yoweri was 70 and is much younger opponent the musician turned politician robert otherwise known

as bobby wine but when all was over the fight went on the president with seventies troops raided the opposition offices and actively sought out bobby wine supporters . kenya sigler 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 is one of those through it. called me from the front but then they chained them and hunk off me from behind so i was hung caught like this i was transported in this position when he would. move forward. then the president who was sitting behind came and subtle me like this and told me to surround a password to my form but i refused as we were not going to produce the reason why

i refused to surrender the password to my phone is because i had just communicated with my people i feared they would want to take them to as a result i was beaten up and tortured if your new manager joe you know 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 candidate 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

the wounds where it was in past and blood lay used to beat your joints until you could no longer sit somewhere injective but something in the back and most people were wounded really what the situation was not good at all inside their. soup. he spent several weeks in the holding cell where he was tortured again and again kenneth's wife a year barry was also briefly detained but quickly released due to her advanced pregnancy she gave birth while kenneth was still in jail. when i was not the 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 we knew but when i saw.

they came and they threw a chair 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 gas you know what i'm going i'm also going to see the sewerage kenneth 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 board the prosecutor told me to see that it will be one is planning to walk 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 house maintain peace in the country then he told me that after agreeing to confess i'll be given 500000000 ugandan shillings which is about

115000 euros i told them i can't confirm that he told me i am stupid and i do not understand and that this is how i will die die in poverty. woman to ramadi for women to 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 then from my sink fighting for their mission so i'm doing this because justice. well we can all agree that that's a difficult situation but i want us to stay in the region and hope over the border

is something that i guarantee you it's not the easiest thing to do 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 restoration or childbirth but also just women raising their voices as. still things that people believe we should run that if i feel good . today is a show day for. she's presenting gender talk to 11 a radio show aimed at opening up the conversation around gender equality and women's rights in juba south sudan. today we're talking here at the most controversial topic that i had on this show. then is in religion feminism that's a word that's still typical in south sudan it's

a patriarchal society where women are expected to bear children and are on the household they are really involved in decision making outside their homes we have no those bases that are comfortable enough for women to talk about their issues or to talk about their struggle or our spaces that give women an opportunity to create 8 something better for themselves changing the narrative well that we want to do with this space or 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 also religion of christianity religion that has been spoken about to be. turned oppressive on one. but gender talk to 11 is not only by women for women coho salmon are you pious determined to prove that men can also be feminists. we feel

that the minute supposed to handle the issues that they set up by right men come up just like you talk about some of these things are the men who are of it to those who have not been realizing that they have to play a huge joy in that book for me to also speak of us with. gender talk to 11 on the launched a few months ago but this story started i'm 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 floating got sucked into the work process to just say you know what you girls 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 growing up because it was through my life. 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 means you're touching nerves that people don't want to be touched so will convene this challenge in the beautiful thing about minutes to god and i did have a lot of you know young men in the brain 15 minutes. identities and 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 by 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 think for me just fighting back especially or minus been very helpful because i'm going to stay now with the no big 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 on the way. wow some incredibly strong women there making their voices heard but you know in many parts of the world there are unwritten and sometimes even written rules about what you can say or can see in uganda for example absolutely no one would criticize the king of the guns or who still plays a central role in the society but there are similar rules in different countries and there are always ways to bend the 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 in zimbabwe. maybe america. call them over my people here tomorrow no i'm not for to talk. about for. many zimbabweans still don't have access to good health care. and 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. to live out in their babies. who finding mammy lou was one of the flaw so my giving bears in public transport was it's. said the channel bus stop t.v. started as an experiment among friends they posted the skits on social media and

then they quickly grew in popularity. with vote so. they decided to reproduce these conversations skits and spotted by the news and real life experiences. just before the start of the public $900.00 pandemic they even launched the show in a minibus but you to the pandemic that show had to be halted social issues governance national governance service delivery so such issues as it is that we cover but there are still to boot topics insulting the president for example is punishable by law to find a way always find a way to just do a skit and so bubbles you 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 isn't really. and those who criticize authorities are still being silenced. bust up t.v. offers an alternative to the mainstream news and by disguising the 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 see a skit from bus stop and you laugh so bad when you make fun of the situation we're not taking it lightly but we're actually telling you hide things are like when talking about police violence but what i would like to assure the nation that we do 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. things where it was it was tough it was something else going yet he feared for his safety but the reactions of her followers kept her going some are saying you are good at what you're doing really highlighted the same situation in our beloved country. more tragic than fun thank you buster to hear it again while letting this story while letting this sort of state of our nation through committee what we're trying to do. is head like people are watching people are relating saw. it is good. the young team at bus stop t.v. make people laugh and they give them some form of comic relief they're looking for change in zimbabwe and as i 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 vest the fire to and how can we highlight this issue and really get people talking as if all you can write us on facebook and what you or so much that day w dot com now today we leave you with a very special musical performance by authors from the democratic republic of congo their video is called some big truth justice in god and it actually talks about the quantified crimes committed in the name of politics and the coming all this office in the us about that for me have a good week speak your mind and stay fit. 0 is new in new york of course the security didn't go up or. be on the scene in the lock up because one just told lucy. it improves your liberal groups.

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