Uganda: Labour Day – When the Only People Who Don’t Labour Are Those Meant to Be Celebrating the Day

[Independent (Kampala)] Comment -- Every 1st May, like clockwork, Uganda joins the rest of the world to honour workers, by ensuring the actual workers stay hard at it, while officials in crisp suits wave to the cameras and give speeches on "dignity" and "solidarity" from the comfort of shaded tents. It's a national holiday that's anything but for the vast majority who make the wheels turn.

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