Mundari youth leader accuses Bari community of practicing apartheid-like policies
October 15, 2011 (JUBA) – A youth leader from the Mundari community of Central Equatoria state in South Sudan has accused his neighboring Bari community of allegedly practicing policies similar to those to apartheid-era South Africa.
The Mundari community’s youth representative, Wani Kulang, said the Bari community in Juba, the current capital city of South Sudan, has been denying acquisition of land to those who are not members of their community including the Mundari.
In his expression of discontent published by The Citizen newspaper on Saturday about the denial of land acquisition to non-Bari in the capital, Juba, the Mundari youth leader said the Bari community is seen as practicing the apartheid policies in the ministry of Physical Infrastructure of Central Equatoria state.
Kulang’s statements were prompted by a remark made by the Central Equatoria state’s minister of Physical Infrastructure, John Ladu Tombe, who is also from the Bari community and claimed in an interview over UN-run Radio Miraya FM that the Mundari were part of the Bari community.
He said his community was not part of the Bari but is among a number of communities that speak the Bari language in the state in addition to their own.
Kulang challenged that if the Bari could admit that the Mundari are also Bari, they would not also restrict them from possessing land documents in Juba. He cautioned the Bari community not to undermine the united Mundari community.
He said that his community has been cheated by the Bari, saying their silence is not because the governor of Central Equatoria state is from the Mundari community.
He added that the Mundari community has welcomed the wise decision to relocate the capital city from Juba to Ramciel in Lakes state, which he said would also include some parts of the Mundari land in the federal territory for the capital.
Last month South Sudan’s cabinet resolved to relocate the national capital to Ramciel following the “protracted” dispute since 2005 with the state government over the jurisdictions and acquisition of land in Juba.
The national government wanted Juba under its administrative jurisdiction and to allocate land to citizens from other states while the Central Equatoria state government and the Bari community wanted to maintain full control over the city with very limited allocations of land to others.
The Mundari youth leader called on the state minister of Physical Infrastructure in Central Equatoria state to reconsider his position and seek reforms in the land distribution policy in Juba so that he and his community could also be part of the new capital of Ramciel.
Conflicts and disagreements caused by issues of land and cattle raiding are rampant and the cause of most insecurities in South Sudan.
Last week there emerged a conflict between the Madi and Acholi communities in Eastern Equatoria state over the land issues. Violence caused by the cattle raiding also affects the pastoralist communities in the states of Bahr el Ghazal and Upper Nile regions.
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mafitabu
Mundari youth leader accuses Bari community of practicing apartheid-like policies
please my BARI no need to refuse land to sudanese.
The new capital was transfed to RAMCEL because
of your wrong separation with other states.
Make sure you will face difficulties in other
state like what you have done to us for your LAND.
Katry M.R. Dia
Mundari youth leader accuses Bari community of practicing apartheid-like policies
Mr Kulang you are right,it is good to be sincere other than being blackmailed by some clever triblist of Bari community who are prospering under the cover of greed and sycophancy.
Other members of that community should understand that, they are being isolsted from the larger South Sudanese community by their leaders who are not even doing better to the people they represent.
Abyei Soil
Mundari youth leader accuses Bari community of practicing apartheid-like policies
Bari will remain as jealous as they are Bari from now. Anyway they have rights of ownership of their properties like any other person but they must put that rights into correct manner. I beg pardon if I’m too wordy.
jur_likang_a_likang
Mundari youth leader accuses Bari community of practicing apartheid-like policies
What a disgrace! Is it true that Bari own all the land in and around Juba? I highly doubt that. This guy is not a mundari youth leader but the enemy of peace speaking to drive a wedge amongst South Sudanese. The land is under the government of Central Equatoria that has a commission for land allocation to rightful applicants. I think if this writer is eligible for land allocation he would not miss
BOTH NGUOT
Mundari youth leader accuses Bari community of practicing apartheid-like policies
BARI COMMUNITIES WILL REGRET LATER.
congratulation to the national government for the relocation national capital to Ramcial.Bari are our brothers even if the cause of relocation of our national capital was because they rejected it’s present in their state yet, they are going to be given a land in our new capital.
lastly people should not bother themselves anymore since we already have a new c
Giir Akeen
Mundari youth leader accuses Bari community of practicing apartheid-like policies
Iam realy confused why does Bari community deny other Equatorians land right’they are not Dinka that you are always against.
I appreciate the government of the RoSS for relocating capital city to Ramciel.
Be there in Juba you the tribalist’GET IT.
nyapuata
Mundari youth leader accuses Bari community of practicing apartheid-like policies
the artile doesn’t even show the person who wrote it. is it not one of those people like to come and occupy other peoples places? i doubt this article was written by mundari youth leader. the person who wrote is unhappy the ces of handling their land issues as far as land grab is concern.
please leave mundari and bari alone. go to your state you enough land there.
Jay
Mundari youth leader accuses Bari community of practicing apartheid-like policies
The Bari and their Juba seems significant now because of all the other ethnic groups, but when Juba is abandon by the Dinka and all other ethnic groups, its significant would be non existent!
Let’s wait and see, then prove me wrong, the most highly informed Equatorians would not deny this reality.
Alway the less informed see to believe it
Lomungory
Mundari youth leader accuses Bari community of practicing apartheid-like policies
base on your statements i know your stage of understanding, my brother you still very youth why don’t you wait until you passed through your childhood.you don’t know about the land but i will tell you so that you understood it .if you go to allover the world the land belong to com as a legal properties given by God, government is you who comes from com to represent people not to own land.
Nuerone Mafitabu
Mundari youth leader accuses Bari community of practicing apartheid-like policies
BARI,
Murlei is better than BARI, even if they are killers, they can allowed people in their land so that they may get their kinds at night.
Remember, since BARI can not cultivate, soon they will run to NIMUL, YEI, and YAMBIO for food.Make use of your land like MUNDARI.
No man from any tribe can marry BARI ladies because of high price and the are lazy unable to cook only bring me ready food.
Ambago
Mundari youth leader accuses Bari community of practicing apartheid-like policies
Take it slow “loju”. You don’t have to sight apartheid when you’re a Central Equatorian. Juba is the capital of CES, and the Dean of all cities past, present or new.
The conflict between some Acholi & Ma’di is not what can build a nation. In the 1960s, everybody from those sides referred to themselves as the people of the “Eastern Bank”.
Notice that no tribe was mentioned. what a shame today
Joseph
Mundari youth leader accuses Bari community of practicing apartheid-like policies
Jur-Losu alosu,
Please be informed that what Mr. Kulang has said is very true. I do not see the reason for denying it. Personally i am from Juba County yet i could not get a piece of plot in Juba. You Bari are the worse tribe ever found in CES. But let me advice you and your community to be fairer atleast to the other Bari Speakers.
Lokeji
Mundari youth leader accuses Bari community of practicing apartheid-like policies
Bro Wani Kulang, the word apartheid is a very big terminology,i don’t think it’s fair to apply it in your argument.Don’t allow your self to be push to say something that is not correct. if we are to examine all the occupy territory of the Bari community and more specifically Juba, most of the occupants are not Bari.please check kator, munuki and other areas,you will prove my point.
Mila Eluzai
Mundari youth leader accuses Bari community of practicing apartheid-like policies
Dear Brother Wani Kulang I would like to suggest that you revise the way you can frame your words.Divisive words are always dangerous to the development of the nation.
I can see that land owned in Juba is not only by Bari tribe.Any tribe in South Sudan owns a land in Juba,Do not give up in following for your own land.
Mr Neutral
Mundari youth leader accuses Bari community of practicing apartheid-like policies
Ha ha ha ha,what a selfish?only a fool does not know how to analyze things before reacting.Let me just tell u something,the baris are very civilized,peauceful,non-tribalic and judge things by wisdom.if i may ask,which community in south failed to get a land in Juba compared to other places?keep the answ 4 u.now if iam to tell u that iam bari and yet don’t have a piece of land,how would u regard th
Losu
Be good
Friends,
i call you friends in humanity, the case of Wani Kulang, if he is really an actual Wani Kulang or a potential concorded Wani Kulang seems had not proper foundations, because, the article is not signed, and when you see in to the matter, it seems someone somewhere had become “Wani Kulang” he wanted to instigate the two communities for the case of the land, this maight be an enemy of peace
Losu
Be Clear
If someone has a problem with somebody let him be opened and face his opponant, not concording a story with someone name. if Wani Kulang do exist, let him follow his documents very well, and if someone become Wani Kulang, let him come up very clear. for it is not good to use those terminologies if he is. Land is owned by community and the government has not land of its own unless that of the commu