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South Africa to send 22 Ugandans home
Some of the Ugandans held in South Africa meet a ugandan delegation led by Minister Matia Kasaija and Gen. Kayihura. Photo by A. Kloppre
By Faridah Kulabako (email the author)
Posted Tuesday, February 2 2010 at 00:00
Posted Tuesday, February 2 2010 at 00:00
Kampala
Twenty-two Ugandans who were arrested in South Africa over charges of contravening immigration laws are to be deported starting this week. The detainees aged between 23-50, who were arrested during Christmas season, are said to have illegally entered South Africa while others had expired visas.
The 22 detainees, who are being held at South African repatriation centre in Krugersdorp awaiting deportation, came to the limelight last week during an official visit of a Ugandan delegation to South Africa.
Members of Parliament Emmanuel Lumala Dombo, Nathan Byanyima, Rose Namayanja and Lt. Saleh Kamba accompanied the delegation.The delegation was led by Internal Affairs State Minister Matia Kasaija and included the Inspector General of Police Maj. Gen. Kale Kayihura, the Commissioner General of Prisons, Dr Johnson Byabashaija, and ministers Rukia Chekamondo (Privatisation), Charles Bakkabulindi (Sports).
‘Greener pasture’
The Ugandan detainees, some of whom have been incarcerated for over a month, confessed to have gone to South Africa without relevant visas to ‘seek greener pastures’.
“We are not criminals, we only came to seek greener pastures, earn an extra coin and invest home,†a member of the delegation quoted some of the captives as telling the Ugandan officials.
Mr Kasaija confirmed that screening the detainees was on-going and that they will be flown back to Uganda any time. He cautioned Ugandans against using illegal entry means, saying they should always use proper channels for visiting and working in a foreign country.
“Having a passport is a right. No one should risk life again in such a way,†he said, adding that finding the detainees was a coincidence since they had gone for a public-private partnership mission.
Consul Wilson Twinomugisha, the second secretary at the Uganda High Commission in South Africa told Daily Monitor on telephone that as the World Cup, which will be held in South Africa in June, draws closer, more people with illegal documents will be deported for security reasons.
He said Ugandans will be deported in two batches with the first one expected this week.
Some of the detainees are said to have been selling traditional medicine, which they said is a lucrative venture in South Africa.
Others seized include Mozambicans and Zimbabweans.
http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/-/688334/853992/-/whx3kf/-/index.html
www.ted.com – Great site for ideas
TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. Along with the annual TED Conference in Long Beach, California, and the TEDGlobal conference in Oxford UK, TED includes the award-winning TEDTalks video site, the Open Translation Program, the new TEDx community program, this year’s TEDIndia Conference and the annual TED Prize.
Our Mission: Spreading ideas.
We believe passionately in the power of ideas to change attitudes, lives and ultimately, the world. So we’re building here a clearinghouse that offers free knowledge and inspiration from the world’s most inspired thinkers, and also a community of curious souls to engage with ideas and each other.
(excerpted from www.ted.com)
While the entire site is fascinating, the section on «The Rise of Collaboration» (http://www.ted.com/themes/the_rise_of_collaboration.html) has interesting perspectives on technology-enabled collaboration.
Interesting Book Series from Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
Quite an interesting list of books, sent to me from Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
Open Access for Research and Researchers
«Open Access provides the means to maximise the visibility, and thus the uptake and use, of research outputs. Open Access is the immediate, online, free availability of research outputs without the severe restrictions on use commonly imposed by publisher copyright agreements. It is definitely not vanity publishing or self-publishing, nor about the literature that scholars might normally expect to be paid for, such as books for which they hope to earn royalty payments. It concerns the outputs that scholars normally give away free to be published – peer-reviewed journal articles, conference papers and datasets of various kinds.»
– Taken from Open Access: What is it and why should we have it? , posted on http://www.openoasis.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=130&Itemid=390
This website is a great resource for more information on the Open Access Movement
Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook – http://www.openoasis.org/
Author’s Rights
Author’s Rights, Tout de Suite gives journal article authors a quick introduction to key aspects of author’s rights. The guide includes references to online documents and links to pertinent Web sites to foster further exploration of this topic.
700 Million Worldwide Desire to Migrate Permanently
If they could (according to a worldwide Galluip poll), about 700 million adults worldwide — more than the entire adult population of North America and South America combined — would like to move to another country permanently. The United States and Canada top the list of most desired destination countries.
If everyone who wanted to move to Canada actually did, the country’s population would grow by 170%.
More information on this poll is available at the Gallup website.