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  • Almanac for the year 2011
  • University to reopen after temporary ‘closer’ ‘klick hear’ for details
  • Circumcision for young boys
  • A family Christmas gathering takes aim at the younger generation
  • Time to show maturity
  • Countries branded as 'Axis of Evil': Are they, really?
  • Taxation of Tanzanians employed in embassies
  • The ‘3Ss’- spend less, spend well and spend wisely!
  • HOW ILALA, MAGOMENI AND TEMEKE QUARTERS FIT INTO COLONIAL HOUSING POLICY (V)
  • Dar floods in December wake-up call to residents and authorities
  • Products from tobacco cause cancers
  • Tanga Fresh’s Award-winning Business Model
  • Disasters and pitiable moments
  • Children who walk in their sleep!
  • This is not ‘the festival season’ the Kenyan an premier is not ‘Laira’Odinga
  • When water turns bad master
  • Medal Awards: Who looks back at the ‘tomb of unknown soldiers’?
  • ‘Reserve fund’ - your best tool in a crisis situation
  • Let us give proportional representation a chance
  • Sublease longer than head lease
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    Almanac for the year 2011
    Welcome twenty-twelve, the year that promises so many things if we can change our minds sets and start to think out of the box. I would have wished to record the almanac of the outgoing year in its chronological order but that is history. As a country, we want to unlock ourselves from the
    Author: By KIANGIOSEKAZI WA NYOKA, Uploaded on: 30th December 2011 @ 11:08, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 374
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    University to reopen after temporary ‘closer’ ‘klick hear’ for details
    It is my sincere hope that you had a nice Christmas holiday. These are changed days though. Unlike in the past, I only got two “hard” cards. They were from corporate bodies and were labelled “Season’s Greetings” not “Christmas Greetings. I did get a number of “soft” cards. The most common one
    Author: By LUSUGA KIRONDE, Uploaded on: 30th December 2011 @ 11:00, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 254
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    Circumcision for young boys
    THE removal of the foreskin of young boys for, cultural, religious, medical or other reasons has been a controversial issue all over the world since time immemorial. Most tribal settings in rural Tanzania have their boys, not babies, circumcised as a compelling cultural imperative. I hail from
    Author: By SOSTHENES PAULO MWITA, Uploaded on: 30th December 2011 @ 11:00, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 279
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    A family Christmas gathering takes aim at the younger generation
    A Christmas family gathering on Mount Kilimanjaro with machalari stewed bananas, roasted goat meat, pilau rice cooked with meat and spices…. That happens by the thousands at Christmas. So, what is there to write about? Well, this one’s different. The difference sneaks in after the eating,
    Author: By YOUNG KIMARO, Uploaded on: 30th December 2011 @ 11:00, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 196
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    Time to show maturity
    Mwalimu Julius Nyerere once said the CCM presidential candidate was the de facto next head of state and it was therefore very important that during election time, the oldest party in East Africa come up not only with a very credible contestant but a highly nationalist leader. Mwalimu went on to
    Author: By MBONEKO MUNYAGA, Uploaded on: 30th December 2011 @ 11:00, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 175
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    Countries branded as 'Axis of Evil': Are they, really?
    SO the leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) or North Korea as the west prefers to brand the country, Kim Jong-il, is no more. His funeral was on Wednesday. It is in the wake of the news of his death which caught international headlines that reminds one of another western
    Author: By MAKWAIA WA KUHENGA, Uploaded on: 29th December 2011 @ 11:00, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 375
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    Taxation of Tanzanians employed in embassies
    I am a Tanzanian employed by an embassy in Tanzania for a couple of years. As far as I know, embassies and all their employees are exempted from income tax but to my surprise, the Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) officials have started following some of us up for failure to pay income tax. I think
    Author: By FB ATTORNEYS, Uploaded on: 28th December 2011 @ 11:00, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 492
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    The ‘3Ss’- spend less, spend well and spend wisely!
    In the recent past I wrote one article which was captioned - “Enjoy your Wealth.” There are two distinct ways somebody may interpret or conceive this message, one rightly and the other one wrongly. Let us first tackle the wrong conception head-on. The moment somebody hears the caption – ‘enjoy
    Author: By Jagjit Singh, Uploaded on: 26th December 2011 @ 11:00, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 493
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    HOW ILALA, MAGOMENI AND TEMEKE QUARTERS FIT INTO COLONIAL HOUSING POLICY (V)
    This is the last of several instalments which delved into the history of African housing in Dar es Salaam during the late 1940s and 1950s. These instalments were prompted by the imminent demolition of various buildings known as “Qusrters” in Ilala, Magomeni and Temeke, which were nevertheless,
    Author: By LUSUGA KIRONDE, Uploaded on: 24th December 2011 @ 15:51, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 510
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    Dar floods in December wake-up call to residents and authorities
    Dar has just experienced the worst flooding in over five decades. A s if we needed a misfortune to dampen our spirits this December, right after we celebrated 50 years of independence from British colonial rule. Movement around was crippled by damage to several key roads and some key bridges. I
    Author: By TONY ZAKARIA, Uploaded on: 24th December 2011 @ 15:00, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 344
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    Products from tobacco cause cancers
    Products from tobacco cause cancers where as products from bees harvesting is anti-cancer Tobacco contains a variety of different noxious substances, but the dangers of three of them are particularly important. Nicotine is the substance that causes addiction to tobacco. It acts as a
    Author: By Dr Ali Mzige, Uploaded on: 24th December 2011 @ 14:00, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 317
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    Tanga Fresh’s Award-winning Business Model
    Not from books, but from experience, I know a good amount about dairy farming. I was raised in a part of the world that has a lot of dairy cattle. In Vermont, a farmer would tend about 50 cows, bringing them inside every evening, wintering them with hay, calving in the spring, and pasturing in
    Author: By ANNE OUTWATER, Uploaded on: 24th December 2011 @ 14:00, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 259
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    Disasters and pitiable moments
    BEFORE the public’s attention was shifted to the heavy downpours that wrought havoc in Dar es Salaam, all ears were on political events that caused devastation of their own. The heavy rains that caused floods could not have been prevented, but the political events were of man’s making thus
    Author: By KILASA MTAMBALIKE, Uploaded on: 24th December 2011 @ 13:54, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 269
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    Children who walk in their sleep!
    EARLY Childhood Development (ECD) experts estimate that 15 percent of children experience sleepwalking episodes, and this sleep anomaly is more dominant in boys than girls. I must mention at the outset that sleepwalking is not a disease but a disorder. It is imperative to mention at the out
    Author: By SOSTHENES PAULO MWITA, Uploaded on: 23rd December 2011 @ 11:03, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 667
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    This is not ‘the festival season’ the Kenyan an premier is not ‘Laira’Odinga
    Christmas is once again with us. Business people always look forward to make some good money around this period as people shop for Christmas and for the New Year. A new shopping mall in Dar has prepared itself to doing brisk business, as is reported in an article titled: “Quality Centre ready
    Author: By LUSUGA KIRONDE, Uploaded on: 23rd December 2011 @ 11:03, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 315
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    When water turns bad master
    We all know “fire is a good servant but bad a master.” However, for all its stubborn power of destruction, man can at least battle blazes and bring their anger and fury under control. It is an extremely different story when water plays the bad master game. Raging waters are impossible to stop
    Author: By MBONEKO MUNYAGA, Uploaded on: 23rd December 2011 @ 11:03, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 270
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    Medal Awards: Who looks back at the ‘tomb of unknown soldiers’?
    THE other day I had guests on my weekly TV Show on Channel Ten: Je, Tutafika? (Shall We Make It?) broadcast on local Channel Ten. These guests of mine were not those with big names people are accustomed to, but persons who are 'big' in their own right. Self-made persons, they have made, to my
    Author: By MAKWAIA WA KUHENGA, Uploaded on: 22nd December 2011 @ 16:00, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 402
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    ‘Reserve fund’ - your best tool in a crisis situation
    IT is Saturday evening and ‘City bar’ is full of activities. Tony, sitting in a distant corner is quietly having his drink but appears a bit uncomfortable, for the reasons best known to him. Every now and then he stares towards entrance of the bar as it seems he is eagerly waiting for the arrival
    Author: By Jagjit Singh, Uploaded on: 19th December 2011 @ 11:00, Total Comments: 1, Total people who read this story: 532
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    Let us give proportional representation a chance
    RECENTLY, Wilson Mukama, the general secretary of the political Party of the Revolution ‘Chama cha Mapinduzi’ (CcM), came out with the statement that the veteran ruling party is considering proposing that Tanzania should adopt the concept of Proportional Representation (PR) as part of the country's
    Author: BY KARL LYIMO, Uploaded on: 18th December 2011 @ 15:00, Total Comments: 1, Total people who read this story: 483
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    Sublease longer than head lease
    I entered into a lease agreement with a company that has further subleased the property. I had a chance to read the sublease whose term is longer than the head lease. The sublease expires in 2014 whereas my head lease expires in 2012. How can I protect my interest. Will I get paid rent for the
    Author: By FB ATTORNEYS, Uploaded on: 18th December 2011 @ 12:00, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 282
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    We are a selfish lot with a passion
    NOT so long ago the National Examination Council of Tanzania announced results of Primary School national examinations. More pupils are said to have passed this year than last year. That’s encouraging. But just before we got too comfortable with the good news; we had to be taken aback, true
    Author: By KILASA MTAMBALIKE, Uploaded on: 17th December 2011 @ 20:00, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 212
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    Power sharing: New democracy for Africa
    Zimbabwe: Mugabe and ‘Shangirai’. Kenya: Mwai Kibaki and Raila Odinga. Zanzibar: Karume and Maalim Seif. Will it be Congo with Kabila and ‘Shisekedi’? Imagine a country in Africa called the Democrazed Republic of Kweusi with 10 million voters. It is election time…This word ‘election’ reminds me
    Author: By JOHN NDUNGURU, Uploaded on: 17th December 2011 @ 11:15, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 424
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    How Ilala, Magomeni and Temeke Quarters fit into colonial housing policy (iv)
    Having covered Ilaal Qusrters, and the Kigamboni Settlement Scheme, we now turn our attention to Magomeni Quarters. Before building the Qyarters, the government had contemplate a temporary African Housing Scheme/ The selection of Magomeni as an area suitable for an African Housing Scheme in
    Author: By LUSUGA KIRONDE, Uploaded on: 17th December 2011 @ 11:00, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 312
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    What do Tanzanians want from rest of the world?
    I am sometimes amazed at the contradictions inherent in what some ordinary and some notso-ordinary citizens of this nation-of-two-states demand from government. Some believe the government is Santa Claus flying around the country every 24 hours as if each day is Christmas. Even if government
    Author: By TONY ZAKARIA, Uploaded on: 17th December 2011 @ 11:00, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 456
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    Sacred Ibis almost sacrificed to the crow eradication campaign
    Thoth was one of the most important gods of the ancient Egyptians. According to historians, Thoth’s Egyptian name originated from the oldest known name for the Ibis. His name means “He who is like the Ibis”. Sacred Ibis (Kwarara mweupe) fly over my house every evening about 6:00 PM in V-formation.
    Author: By ANNE OUTWATER, Uploaded on: 17th December 2011 @ 11:00, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 284
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    An action cannot ensue before another action
    It is our hope that you had something to celebrate about, on 9th December 2011, the anniversary of 50 years since Tanganyika got Independence. I was around then, and recall dad struggling to catch a radio signal from Radio Sauti ya Tanzanyika Dar es Salaam on his Phillips (or was it PYE) radio.
    Author: By LUSUGA KIRONDE, Uploaded on: 16th December 2011 @ 11:00, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 496
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    When a child chokes!
    CHILDREN love exploring objects with their mouths. They also like stuffing things they do not know in their mouths. This means they are at risk of choking on small objects such as buttons or coins. Choking becomes an increased risk once a child starts using his hands. Today I look at reasons
    Author: By SOSTHENES PAULO MWITA, Uploaded on: 16th December 2011 @ 11:00, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 611
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    Watch out: Widening gap between haves and have-nots!
    “When the gap between the haves and have-nots is left to escalate in a given society, that is tantamount for one looking away when there is a petrol leakage in a given household. An explosion is inevitable…” Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere WE are coming to the end of the year. It is therefore
    Author: By MAKWAIA WA KUHENGA, Uploaded on: 15th December 2011 @ 14:59, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 620
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    Mistrust of life insurance companies
    Due to my health I have been advised to purchase a life insurance policy. Who can apply for such policies and how do I get paid in case of a claim. How long are such policies and can I cancel the policy? What else do I need to know about life insurance policies. Are these companies that provide
    Author: By FB ATTORNEYS, Uploaded on: 14th December 2011 @ 22:19, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 816
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    ‘Enjoy your wealth’ - that’s what it is meant for!
    THROUGH my weekly column on ‘’Money Matters’’ I always advocate for ‘’wealth creation’’ and seldom do I talk about spending the wealth one has accumulated through consistent savings. The prevailing month of December is a reminder of festive season across the world and there can’t be a better
    Author: By Jagjit Singh, Uploaded on: 12th December 2011 @ 11:00, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 607
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    My prayer: Let us have more ‘TPNs’
    ‘TPN’ is the acronym for ‘Tanzania Professionals Network.’ Briefly speaking, this is a voluntary, non-profit member-based organization seeking to enhance the role of professionals in transforming Society. All in all, the Network’s major role is described as seeking “to influence decisions made
    Author: By Karl Lyimo, Uploaded on: 11th December 2011 @ 23:33, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 520
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    Is it going to be politics galore in Tanzania until kingdom come?
    I WAS talking to a learned member of the clergy recently. You know all clerics are learned but some are more learned than others. They attach a medical the prefix to their names. As in Dr Martin Luther King. The conversation gravitated to the direction the land of the Kilimanjaro is taking
    Author: By TONY ZAKARIA, Uploaded on: 10th December 2011 @ 13:00, Total Comments: 2, Total people who read this story: 546
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    Involvement of target groups in planning essential
    Stories whereby projects have failed to take off in spite of huge financial commitments are too numerous to recount. I’ll cite below some of the more interesting cases. A certain NGO working in Somalia had noted that women were having a hard time grinding grain because they were doing so manually
    Author: By JOHN NDUNGURU, Uploaded on: 10th December 2011 @ 11:00, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 262
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    Special tribute to David Wakati
    ONCE again, the bad news to journalistic fraternity and Tanzanians as a whole swept the country over the death of the veteran radio journalist, David Wakati, last week. Though David Wakati was out of the media for some several years upon retirement, he is no stranger to Tanzanians,
    Author: By KIANGIOSEKAZI WA NYOKA, Uploaded on: 9th December 2011 @ 15:56, Total Comments: 1, Total people who read this story: 586
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    Future the biggest challenge
    FIFTY years of independence are now behind us. The challenge before the nation is to look at the next fifty years and beyond to envisage the kind of future or the present that we would like to lead and inherit. Paramount on the hierarchy of priorities is of course the need to bequeath to our
    Author: By MBONEKO MUNYAGA, Uploaded on: 9th December 2011 @ 15:56, Total Comments: 1, Total people who read this story: 402
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    Brewery plans to manufacture non alcoholic ‘dirinks’ in ‘nearly’ future
    THE Tanzania Mainland soccer team, Kilimanjaro Stars, has been bundled out of the CECAFA Senior Challenge Cup, although, having the advantage of home ground, it should have done better. There were signs that the Stars would not make it to the finals, as for example was reported in the Sunday
    Author: By LUSUGA KIRONDE, Uploaded on: 9th December 2011 @ 15:56, Total Comments: 1, Total people who read this story: 435
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    Health services in East Africa are more or less dead
    TO be admitted to public Hospital is to sit on a conveyor belt to the mortuary literally in this region because the medical orderlies and staff, gave up providing care years after Government stopped giving a hoot. As Tanzania celebrates its 50th anniversary, Doctors in Kenya are on strike in
    Author: By K"OYOO NICK, Uploaded on: 9th December 2011 @ 15:00, Total Comments: 1, Total people who read this story: 392
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    Children with squinted eyes
    TODAY we take a brief look at squints in children. Later on, we look at a few dangerous childhood illnesses. When eyes do not look in exactly the same direction they are said to have a squint (strabismus). There are various types of squints depending on the direction of the affected eye. A
    Author: By SOSTHENES PAULO MWITA, Uploaded on: 9th December 2011 @ 14:00, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 727
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    All bloody fights over borders are unnecessary
    My recent trip to Maputo, the capital of Mozambique introduced me into a discussion of one of the most explosive topics today: territorial borders. There are matters over which there should not be a fight. African states too have disputes they should never engage in a full-fledged military
    Author: By Lawi Joel, Uploaded on: 9th December 2011 @ 13:56, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 851
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    Envisaged East African Federation: Tanzania must be cautious!
    A FORTNIGHT ago, the good news there was at the conclusion of the summit of the East African Community (EAC) in Bujumbura is that Tanzania has said ‘NO’ to an attempt to include the question of land on the list of matters for mutual ownership in the envisaged East African Federation. According
    Author: By MAKWAIA WA KUHENGA, Uploaded on: 8th December 2011 @ 11:00, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 936
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    Delay in filing VAT return
    I got delayed in submitting my VAT return due to heavy traffic. By the time our accountant reached the TRA offices in Ilala from Pugu Road, the offices were closed and they very unfairly refused to open the doors for him. The next day when we submitted the returns, we were assessed with a
    Author: By FB ATTORNEYS, Uploaded on: 7th December 2011 @ 22:42, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 514
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    Celebrating 50 years of independencelearn to achieve ‘financial independence’
    WHEN Tanzania is at the verge of celebrating 50 years of independence, I could not choose a better topic than the one which would assist my avid readers as to how they can achieve ‘’financial independence’’ in their respective life. ‘’Financial independence’’ is a buzzword that sounds very sweet to
    Author: By Jagjit Singh, Uploaded on: 5th December 2011 @ 13:21, Total Comments: 1, Total people who read this story: 709
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    Tanzania: A government of national unity?
    I SEEM to get bright ideas from what other brighter sparks write in different papers, and I’m not ashamed to heartily associate myself with them. The latest such idea came from a Tony Zakaria column in the government paper, the Sunday News, published November 27 this year. Wishfully titled ‘If I
    Author: By Karl Lyimo, Uploaded on: 4th December 2011 @ 22:44, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 476
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    THE HISTORY OF MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH SERVICES IN TANZANIA
    School Health Programme was officially started in September 1921. In that year 144 students from Kichwele Primary School (presently Uhuru Mchanganyiko Primary School) were examined for their health in Dar es Salaam. School Health Services were offered in several regions such as; Tanga, Lindi,
    Author: By Dr ALI MZIGE, Uploaded on: 3rd December 2011 @ 15:56, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 516
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    Sacred ibis extinct where it was once honoured
    In ancient Egyptian societies (from about 3000 BC to about 300 AD) all three ibis (Kwarara) species (Sacred, Glossy and Hermit) found in Egypt were worshipped as the god Thoth. The most prominent was the Sacred Ibis (Threskiornis aethiopicus). The Sacred Ibis (Sw.Kwarara Mweupe) is the same Ibis
    Author: By Anne Outwater, Uploaded on: 3rd December 2011 @ 15:56, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 367
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    Tales from the medieval part of the country
    I once travelled to Sumbawanga in Rukwa region and it took two days and a sore back to get there. My initial impression of the place was that it would be like a huge medieval village of mud huts without any modern facilities. My imagination proved to be wrong but you can’t really blame me, what
    Author: By KILASA MTAMBALIKE, Uploaded on: 3rd December 2011 @ 15:55, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 385
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    Constitution must be above party politics
    THE plane crash in the ice capped mountains did happen. Due to the difficulty of sending a search and rescue party under the terrain and weather conditions, people had lost all hope of finding survivors. Weeks later, when the crash investigation team got to the scene of the accident, expecting
    Author: By John Ndunguru, Uploaded on: 3rd December 2011 @ 15:19, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 413
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    A look at the last thirty years of Tanzania in the eyes of one scribe
    Every year the Wachagga make a pilgrimage from all corners of Tanzania to the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro to spend Christmas with clan members. That is time to eat, drink and be merry with kith and kin. Many lambs are sacrificed ostensibly to appease spirits of ancestors long gone but in
    Author: By TONY ZAKARIA, Uploaded on: 3rd December 2011 @ 14:53, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 423
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    HOW ILALA, MAGOMENI AND TEMEKE QUARTERS FIT INTO COLONIAL HOUSING POLICY (II)
    IN our last article we presented a peep into colonial housing policy in Tanganyika in the 1940s and 1950s, arguing that in the early colonial days the government did not see the need to house Africans. In the 1940s, particularly towards the end, African Housing became part of the colonial housing
    Author: LUSUGA KIRONDE, Uploaded on: 3rd December 2011 @ 14:34, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 390
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    Indefatigable Mchauru soldiers on without friends
    IN the fifty years of Tanzania’s independence many things have changed, but for Frederick John Mchauru there has been almost a complete reversal of things. Mr Mchauru was one of the first Principal Secretaries in the first five years of Mwalimu Nyerere’s government of Tanganyika. Little denial
    Author: By LAWI JOEL, Uploaded on: 2nd December 2011 @ 12:20, Total Comments: 1, Total people who read this story: 494
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