Wednesday, June 21, 2006
Uganda police ban playing pool in the daytime
Wed Jun 21, 8:23 AM ET
KAMPALA (Reuters) - Ugandan police have banned people from playing pool during the daytime because it encourages crime, local media said Wednesday.
The game is very popular in the east African nation, where pool tables sit under canopies outside thousands of small bars.
But Kampala police chief Grace Turyagumanawe said youths often played while drinking illegal spirits and smoking drugs.
"They also use this as a meeting place to make plans of robbing people of their property at night," he told the Daily Monitor newspaper. "We are not banning the sport, but we are stopping people from playing it during the day."
Bar owners like pool tables because they earn income but use no electricity. Uganda has suffered power cuts for months.
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"Semper aliquid nova ex Africanum"
Who said this? Julius Caesar, Scipio Africanus?
Rather, it should be ; so what! There's nothing new out of Africa!
Corruption, civil warfare, military coups, failure of governance.
Despite great natural resources in many countries, I am afraid that without adequate infrastructure of good governance and education etc., and without the rule of law, personal liberty, private enterprise and free market system,
private ownership, etc., the underpinnings of western civilization and modern development,this tragic continent has with few exceptions "gone back to the jungle', since decolonization.
As a former 3rd generation Zimbabwean, and member of the rapidly vanishing widely dispersed white tribe of Rhodesians, may I mourn for the country of my birth and all Zimbabweans. A country now, beneath Haiti, last in the list of the world's economically poorest From "The Breadbasket of Africa to the begging bowl of Africa".
Will history eventually show that this tragic continent south of the sahara should be colonized again for its own good?
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Who said this? Julius Caesar, Scipio Africanus?
Rather, it should be ; so what! There's nothing new out of Africa!
Corruption, civil warfare, military coups, failure of governance.
Despite great natural resources in many countries, I am afraid that without adequate infrastructure of good governance and education etc., and without the rule of law, personal liberty, private enterprise and free market system,
private ownership, etc., the underpinnings of western civilization and modern development,this tragic continent has with few exceptions "gone back to the jungle', since decolonization.
As a former 3rd generation Zimbabwean, and member of the rapidly vanishing widely dispersed white tribe of Rhodesians, may I mourn for the country of my birth and all Zimbabweans. A country now, beneath Haiti, last in the list of the world's economically poorest From "The Breadbasket of Africa to the begging bowl of Africa".
Will history eventually show that this tragic continent south of the sahara should be colonized again for its own good?
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