Apartheid and the police baton are back

The Apartheid philosophy is being re-lived. The exception this time being that with little variations to the original script authored by former South African President Daniel Francoise Malan, it is being practiced in Kenya and by our versatile neighbour, Uganda.

Apartheid in the Afrikaans language means ‘separateness’ or ‘living apart’. In Kenya and Uganda, it is basically about four individuals, four major parties, their affiliates and millions of loyal acolytes living apart and separately. Here, especially, it is the ideology of ‘us’ versus ‘them’.