Inept Govt

analysis By Zurah NakabugoSouth Africa's crime rates and xenophobia tend to ring loud to an outsider's ears, but the two times I have visited this beautiful country, I have left unscathed and with only beautiful memories. I was in South Africa last month for the famous Indaba, Africa's largest travel trade show.

opinion By David K. MafabiThese days we come across conversations increasingly couched in terms of "us" and "them". And this is especially amongst younger people. What are they talking about? "Young" and "old people" - the "young generation" and the "old generation". The problems - and solutions - are couched in these generational terms. This is erroneous, and extremely dangerous. Modern generation theory is a very wide and broad area of study, spanning the last three centuries.

By Yusuf SerunkumaLand conflicts are by far the biggest crises afflicting Uganda today. Communities have clashed over competing claims to forestland. Families have been ripped apart by land wrangles. Individuals have spent decades in courts, sometimes in a futile attempt to secure legal ownership of both plots and huge chunks of land. The latest, in a bizarre twist, is that someone has laid claim to ownership of the land on which sits Uganda's lone national referral hospital, Mulago.