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    Politics and economics of district headquarters
    ONE plausible explanation for the reason why there is such cutthroat competition for the location of a new district is political intrigue and manoeuvring. The other one is economics, pure. If you stay close to politics in Mara region you will realize that every act, every event, every
    Author: By Madaraka Nyerere, Uploaded on: 17th September 2011 @ 14:00, Total Comments: 1, Total people who read this story: 1377
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    Tanzania not yet ready for a single East Africa
    Until recently I had only two words to classify service delivery in Tanzania’s hospitality industry: “good” and “bad”. Recently I have found reason to add a third classification: worse than bad. Several days ago I was constrained to spend a night in a guest house located in a small town in
    Author: By Madaraka Nyerere, Uploaded on: 25th June 2011 @ 13:00, Total Comments: 3, Total people who read this story: 3787
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    At long last, some good news for motorists
    LAST week’s headline stating that Tanzanian motorists will be filling up their car tanks with an ethanol-petrol blend within four months sounds like good news at the outset. Any news that promises to reduce fuel prices, by any margin, is good news for anyone who is affected by the price of
    Author: By G. Madaraka Nyerere, Uploaded on: 18th June 2011 @ 13:00, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 3138
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    How to deliver five-year campaign promises in two years
    LAST week I took a bus ride from Musoma to Moshi through Nairobi and a second round trip between Moshi and Tanga. It was an unpleasant and uncomfortably long trip. The first leg lasted 24 hours. The second leg took 12 hours. The constant dilemma of how Musoma residents face can safely and
    Author: By Madaraka Nyerere, Uploaded on: 11th December 2010 @ 16:00, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 3458
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    Reporting elections: Not an easy task but someone has to do it
    A few weeks ago I set myself the grand task of reviewing the policies of some of the political parties that have fielded candidates in this year’s presidential and parliamentary elections, slated for October 31. I could have picked an easier task. First, getting the parties to reveal their policies
    Author: By MADARAKA NYERERE, Uploaded on: 16th October 2010 @ 12:00, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 3684
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    Uganda has honoured an unsung hero, do we have ours?
    Last Thursday President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda posthumously honoured a Ugandan national, John Komuluyangye Kalekezi, better known as John Kale, in a ceremony marking the 50th death anniversary of Kale who died at 30 in a plane crash in the former Soviet Union. Also posthumously honoured at
    Author: By G. Madaraka Nyerere, Uploaded on: 9th October 2010 @ 12:15, Total Comments: 4, Total people who read this story: 5394
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    Political mudslinging is uncivil, but it works
    The ongoing election campaigns prove, yet again, that the pertinent issues of the election will not always remain the focal point of debate. The media may take partial blame for thrusting non-pertinent issues to the front pages, but it is evident that the public also drives this demand for the
    Author: By MADARAKA NYERERE, Uploaded on: 2nd October 2010 @ 12:00, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 3691
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    APPT - Maendeleo's policies lack detail
    I CONTINUE with the second part of the review of some of the policies of the political parties that have fielded candidates in this year's general elections. The policy documents obtained from the African Progressive Party (APPT-Maendeleo) do not provide much detail; the fact that it is one of the
    Author: Madaraka Nyerere, Uploaded on: 25th September 2010 @ 12:00, Total Comments: 1, Total people who read this story: 5074
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    Dim prospects for the preservation of our cultures
    A WOMAN, who has recently returned to Tanzania, having accompanied her son to India for medical treatment, complained on a television news report how she spent a few days in India starving because she could not speak English. I initially sympathized with her plight, but also realized that the
    Author: By Madaraka Nyerere, Uploaded on: 21st August 2010 @ 16:00, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 3790
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    Wildlife protection should not compromise crucial human needs
    As with last week, I continue to respond to questions raised by a visiting American university student. The latest: Why does an official of the Tanzania Tourist Board get a driver and a car? He tells me any person of equivalent rank in the United States drives himself in his own car. “It was
    Author: Madaraka Nyerere, Uploaded on: 31st July 2010 @ 14:00, Total Comments: 10, Total people who read this story: 4573
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    Who do you bother to vote?
    Of a thousand questions I have had to respond to recently from a visiting university student from the United States is why Chama cha Mapinduzi (CCM) supporters bother to vote when it seems certain that CCM will win the elections. The simple reason is they do not want to see President Dr.
    Author: MADARAKA NYERERE, Uploaded on: 24th July 2010 @ 12:03, Total Comments: 3, Total people who read this story: 4136
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    Search for counterfeits in our bedrooms is now an incredible reality
    I need to attend to attend a seminar to figure this out: an amendment in the law will now allow officials from the Fair Competition Commission (FCC) to conduct house raids to confiscate and destroy counterfeit goods bought by consumers. Apparently this amendment has become necessary because the
    Author: By Madaraka Nyerere, Uploaded on: 17th July 2010 @ 12:00, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 3597
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    The art of prediction
    Friday’s nomination of Dr. Ali Mohamed Shein as Chama cha Mapinduzi’s candidate in Zanzibar’s presidential elections came as a surprise. My continued failure to predict outcomes deserves commendation. Before the start of FIFA’s World Cup in South Africa I made predictions on my blog on the
    Author: Madaraka Nyerere, Uploaded on: 10th July 2010 @ 12:00, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 3780
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    While it lasts, soccer’s World Cup has the power to unite
    The soccer World Cup currently underway in South Africa depicts how a sports event, soccer in particular, is able to unite Africans in a way that politics and economics cannot. As the first match kicked off in South Africa on June 11 there could hardly have been talk of ‘Africa South of the
    Author: By Madaraka Nyerere, Uploaded on: 3rd July 2010 @ 12:00, Total Comments: 3, Total people who read this story: 3773
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