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  • Of religious ‘believes’ and many ‘wifes’
  • Blindness in children
  • There are good East Africans, let’s celebrate them
  • Democracy in form but something else in substance
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    Truth -the first casualty
    IN his book on World War I, British author,Phillip Knightley argued that during human conflict, one of the first casualties is the truth. How right was this observation! It has lived through times and continues to thrive. Events over the past two weeks have shown just how uncomfortable we
    Author: By Adam Lusekelo, Uploaded on: 4th September 2010 @ 12:00, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 194
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    A walking albino for sale?
    It was simply a matter of time. What with all the mostly prevalent nasty belief in our part of the world that a guy could end up rich after selling his fellow human being. Apparently he had been told that there is big money to be had in selling people afflicted with a skin disease, we know as
    Author: By Adam Lusekelo, Uploaded on: 21st August 2010 @ 23:17, Total Comments: 3, Total people who read this story: 681
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    The smear age is here!
    The kick-off is on from 1st October. The campaigns start, although I will boldly say that in some of our diaries, this end of campaigns is just the beginning of the beginning. We now know who is going to be the prez and other assorted rulers. The job of the people will be to endorse what has been
    Author: Adam Lusekelo, Uploaded on: 31st July 2010 @ 22:00, Total Comments: 3, Total people who read this story: 892
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    Time for the show again
    The more I look at those young so-called democracies and the events in Tanzania and all the developing countries the more disillusioned I get. For example presently we are spending quite a chunk of money in preparations for general elections next year.   As CCM ruling party insiders says next
    Author: ADAM LUSEKELO, Uploaded on: 24th July 2010 @ 12:00, Total Comments: 3, Total people who read this story: 735
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    Off go the MPs
    After five years of performing the outgoing Bunge MPs are taking a break. Some have been doing pretty fine, saying things that we, the wananchi, want to hear. Others have been mostly appalling, breathing all that air-conditioned air of the House and emitting more hot air. Really. Some
    Author: By Adam Lusekelo, Uploaded on: 17th July 2010 @ 12:00, Total Comments: 1, Total people who read this story: 865
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    Sangomas win in World Cup
    The sporting world is holding its breath. Will Paul the octopus bestow the winning to Spain or Holland this evening?   All week European witches, and say the world over, have been watching what Paul does. Paul the octopus has been predicting the outcome of many a World Cup match – with
    Author: ADAM LUSEKELO, Uploaded on: 10th July 2010 @ 12:00, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 984
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    Whose ‘sangoma’ will win?
    So it’s England and Germany today? Europe’s great tribalists will be at it. At least they won’t be pointing guns and other terrifying weapons of war at each other. It’s going to be soccer.        They have done everything, including Black magic. Oh, they have their White magic. It’s not only us
    Author: ADAM LUSEKELO, Uploaded on: 26th June 2010 @ 22:00, Total Comments: 3, Total people who read this story: 1058
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    I knew a nutter would strike!
    When the Samba boys hit town in Dar, I vaguely worried about their safety. You see our cops think that only politicians are the VIPs. That they are there to be protected at all costs from the ignorant, starving masses. They were wrong, of course – some student did it.   The nutter rushed
    Author: ADAM LUSEKELO, Uploaded on: 19th June 2010 @ 16:00, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 777
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    When Ivoly Costly meet Ureno!
    WITH this World Cup madness going on, you wonder when it will stop. I saw a diva from Columbia teaching school girls in Sausi. Some of us were a bit confused the lady singer from Columbia should actually be learning from the South Africans – not the other way around. But it happens. In these
    Author: ADAM LUSEKELO, Uploaded on: 15th June 2010 @ 16:00, Total Comments: 3, Total people who read this story: 1264
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    Bongo Boys wallop Samba Boys 1-5
    I HAVE been observing the goings-on, most of them ridiculous, in the soccer world in our country, over the past week and have been and continue to be most amused by it all. The indigenous Bongo Boys of the United Republic of Tanzania on Monday displayed dazzling and breathtaking soccer at the
    Author: ADAM LUSEKELO, Uploaded on: 8th June 2010 @ 16:00, Total Comments: 5, Total people who read this story: 990
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    Incompetent DCs to face music
    I HEAR that Premier Mizengo Pinda is pissed off with some of the work of his DCs. That if they fail to distribute fertilizer and other inputs in their respective areas this season, DCs are going to face the music. "Frankly speaking the government is not going to accept such irresponsibility. It
    Author: By ADAM LUSEKELO, Uploaded on: 1st June 2010 @ 12:03, Total Comments: 4, Total people who read this story: 897
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    JK’s motorcade succumbs to global warming
    NOW, it’s not getting funny. This world is full of terrorists everywhere. Last Monday our glorious Prez Jack Mrisho was busy inspecting the environs of Dar es Salaam in his super long, super sleek motorcade of black four-wheeled vehicles. Suddenly, his car stalled around Mavurunza in Kinondoni
    Author: ADAM LUSEKELO, Uploaded on: 29th May 2010 @ 16:00, Total Comments: 1, Total people who read this story: 823
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    Kick me if I am dreaming!
    FORMER president, Uncle Ben Mkapa, who has been our overall boss in the country for 10 years has left the national jaw dropping aimlessly. Uncle Ben has said in hindsight that heavy dependence on aid to African countries is not only a shock but also disgraceful. During the just-ended World
    Author: Adam Lusekelo, Uploaded on: 18th May 2010 @ 22:00, Total Comments: 5, Total people who read this story: 1010
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    Close encounters with the Almighty!
    I was feeling on top of the world in the usual in the Dar es Salaam chaos. And then I felt a bit groggy. Knowing us (Tanzanians) we tend to be our own doctors. I bought some anti-malaria stuff, the shelf of course, and waited for God to do the job of curing me. I hauled myself to the Hindu
    Author: ADAM LUSEKELO, Uploaded on: 15th May 2010 @ 22:00, Total Comments: 3, Total people who read this story: 1127
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    The joys of the hospital
    You walked to the Hindu Mandal Hospital and once there the doc looks at you critically, shakes his head and suddenly you are bundled onto a wheel-chair. At first it is a welcome thing. The atmosphere is agreeable and you enjoy the attention. Nurses and a doctor surround you. Some nurse is
    Author: ADAM LUSEKELO, Uploaded on: 10th April 2010 @ 16:00, Total Comments: 1, Total people who read this story: 1070
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    No contest between man and a mosquito
    Most of us have tended to regard that ka-jambazi called the mosquito with great disregard. I had even forgotten how to spell the word. Then one day I started feeling funny and went to see the doc. What was initially a discomfort turned out to be the mega bug -.malaria. Before I knew it I was
    Author: ADAM LUSEKELO, Uploaded on: 3rd April 2010 @ 16:00, Total Comments: 1, Total people who read this story: 1308
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    Not the age thing again!
    I DON'T know. For some people it seems very hard to understand what Premier Mizengo Pinda said when he suggested that three five year terms for our legislators is more than enough? Earlier this week veteran politician, Uncle Joe Mungai took a dive into a very simple debate and misread the
    Author: ADAM LUSEKELO, Uploaded on: 6th February 2010 @ 15:01, Total Comments: 7, Total people who read this story: 2297
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    How to lose bank friends
    YOU know how it is at this time of the year, when a little slip of the tongue may end up lose you great buddies? Especially bank buddies, when the schools open? It can really be hell. On Monday, I made an impromptu call to my friend’s bank with the sole aim of talking money. Someone I sponsored
    Author: Adam Lusekelo, Uploaded on: 2nd February 2010 @ 21:00, Total Comments: 5, Total people who read this story: 2387
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    How to deal with bullies
    ANYONE who has been to school must have met a certain tribe of students called bullies. Their main job is to push around the weaker guys. It is very nasty. For, it affects how you perform at school. You start dreading going to school and life is miserable. After attending primary, O levels and
    Author: Adam Lusekelo, Uploaded on: 26th January 2010 @ 21:00, Total Comments: 3, Total people who read this story: 2458
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    Bill Ngeleja Show…part two
    THEY sacked the man. Of course you remember the hapless watchman who had the audacity to tell his highness the Minister for Energy and Minerals, Bill Ngeleja, that he was taking too long while in an ATM booth? Well, they gave the poor chap the boot. Apparently, the minister was very busy
    Author: ADAM LUSEKELO, Uploaded on: 23rd January 2010 @ 15:01, Total Comments: 6, Total people who read this story: 2063
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    You cannot dodge biology!
    LAST week when Premier Mizengo Pinda talked about the need for Members of Parliament to retire after a three, five-year term, some legislators baulked. Some argued that being a 'mzee' does not make you dull, it might even make you as sharp as a young fellow. I, for one, would not like anyone
    Author: Adam Lusekelo, Uploaded on: 19th January 2010 @ 21:00, Total Comments: 6, Total people who read this story: 2266
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    Pinda goes public on his poverty!
    THE national jaw has dropped on the utterances of the premier, Mizengo Peter Pinda. Eyebrows have soared to the stratosphere. Is he okay? I mean, how do you just declare your personal poverty to the media and say you own peanuts? There ought to be a commission of enquiry about this. How can a
    Author: ADAM LUSEKELO, Uploaded on: 16th January 2010 @ 15:08, Total Comments: 14, Total people who read this story: 2303
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    MP’s car suffers from hernia!
    AH, so, the juju election campaign is on, eh? At least that’s what one woman MP, Beattie Shellukindo has said. She has been seeing red over matters superstitious. Seeing visions of people with broomsticks wearing pointed noses … and big eyes not dissimilar to mine (watch the picture) casting
    Author: ADAM LUSEKELO, Uploaded on: 12th January 2010 @ 15:03, Total Comments: 8, Total people who read this story: 2512
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    Now... the Bill Ngeleja show!
    I hear energy and minerals minister, Bill Ngeleja on Tuesday flipped at an ATM station in Dar and yelled profanities at the attendant, Pascal Mnaku. His mistake? Pascal told ‘mzee’ that he should please give room to other people in the queue, who were waiting for their turn to draw some
    Author: Adam Lusekelo, Uploaded on: 9th January 2010 @ 21:00, Total Comments: 2, Total people who read this story: 1968
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    Zenj at it again?
    NOW, what? Wags, including the CUF’s Foreign Affairs Director, Ismail Jussa, have started thinking aloud again. That there is need to allow the outgoing President Karume to consolidate peace initiatives in the Isles, so he thinks. After deep deliberation, I have started to wonder – is it
    Author: ADAM LUSEKELO, Uploaded on: 5th January 2010 @ 12:02, Total Comments: 1, Total people who read this story: 2016
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    When Montezuma's struck
    WE were in the middle of the Christmas festivities when I got the call. A loved one in the city of Mbeya, had passed away and gone to her Maker. I had to make a trip, post-haste, to Mbeya. Now I am not your idea of a real foodie, but I had things to eat and drinks over Christmas. You cannot
    Author: ADAM LUSEKELO, Uploaded on: 2nd January 2010 @ 16:12, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 1462
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    In the name of the President
    I THINK I know what the destruction of the Snow Crest fence is all about. It is all too common. Some smart alecs are busy using the president’s name or his office for their personal gain. The way I see it, the Prez, Jack Mrisho, was duped a week ago into opening a 10-billion shilling hotel in
    Author: Adam Lusekelo, Uploaded on: 29th December 2009 @ 21:00, Total Comments: 6, Total people who read this story: 2097
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    Some Christmas it was!
    Recovering from your hangovers and other excesses other past two days, eh? Pole sana. I had a great time, watching the world go by. I even had fun watching some idiosyncrasies at play. The soothsayer (read – con man) Sheikh Yahya Hussein went on campaigns for The Prez, Jack Mrisho. The
    Author: Adam Lusekelo, Uploaded on: 26th December 2009 @ 21:00, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 1619
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    EU aid: Strings attached?
    THE head of the European Union to Tanzania, Ambassador Tim Clarke, has read the ‘riot act’, saying that the EU will no longer bankroll countries where there is rampant graft. I like that, and I think it has long been overdue. Watching events over the past years, some officials have been acting
    Author: Adam Lusekelo, Uploaded on: 22nd December 2009 @ 22:00, Total Comments: 4, Total people who read this story: 1959
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    Eating crap for Christmas!
    PREDICTABLY the season goes with plenty of eating and drinking - good stuff, and mostly crap. At least that's what Tanzanian's Food and Drugs Authority (TDFA) boss, Maggie Ndomondo-Sigonda seems to say. Her set-up has impounded 14,032 tins, weighing 452.09 kilogrammes of junk being sold as
    Author: Adam Lusekelo, Uploaded on: 19th December 2009 @ 22:00, Total Comments: 4, Total people who read this story: 2088
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    Cobras from Canada?
    I HAVE always had the impression that the country called Canada, somewhere north of the USA had some relatively good guys. They are a little like the US, but not that outgoing. Things which can sometimes baffle other cultures. In the 18th and 19th century, when there were tribal wars in Europe,
    Author: Adam Lusekelo, Uploaded on: 15th December 2009 @ 22:00, Total Comments: 8, Total people who read this story: 2857
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    Cobras from Canada?
    I HAVE always had the impression that the country called Canada, somewhere north of the USA had some relatively good guys. They are a little like the US, but not that outgoing. Things which can sometimes baffle other cultures. In the 18th and 19th century, when there were tribal wars in
    Author: ADAM LUSEKELO, Uploaded on: 15th December 2009 @ 15:10, Total Comments: 2, Total people who read this story: 1502
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    Good money, high life and early graves
    Last week there was word from an Indian doc, that most guys, especially the nouveau-riche in towns, pile themselves silly with food. Literally, they end up digging their own graves with their teeth. So after randomly studying the hearts of more than 200 adults masquerading as healthy guys in
    Author: Adam Lusekelo, Uploaded on: 12th December 2009 @ 22:00, Total Comments: 1, Total people who read this story: 2093
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    Hail the soothsayers!
    IT must be the season. People seem to be excited with the year-ender. I will forgive the school kids for shifting classes and think that next year things are going to be different. Poor things. But you can’t blame anybody to for imagining how things are going to be. Man’s decision is usually
    Author: Adam Lusekelo, Uploaded on: 8th December 2009 @ 22:00, Total Comments: 3, Total people who read this story: 1452
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    Number of people with BP rising. Why?
    AN Indian heart surgeon, Dr Pujar Suresh, recently paid a tour to give a free check out the conditions of the hearts of 200 people in Dar. He did not like what he saw. The result of their medical conditions did not make sexy reading at all. He blamed bad eating habits, especially in the big
    Author: ADAM LUSEKELO, Uploaded on: 5th December 2009 @ 15:02, Total Comments: 2, Total people who read this story: 1783
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    Kings for life in Africa
    RELIGIOUS leaders in the country have been meeting and protesting against what they have described as excessive presidential powers, establishment of independent Judiciary and building a free Parliament. The religious leaders’ call is contained in a 17-point document issued in Dar last week at
    Author: ADAM LUSEKELO, Uploaded on: 2nd December 2009 @ 01:28, Total Comments: 5, Total people who read this story: 1984
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    Loving each other to death!
    MIDDLE age can be tricky. I hear once you go through the process of procreation, the urge to need each other (men and women, I mean) recedes. With men, they would rather go for an odd chat or a drink or two to while the day away. The things you once cherished increasingly become less and less
    Author: ADAM LUSEKELO, Uploaded on: 28th November 2009 @ 15:17, Total Comments: 4, Total people who read this story: 1739
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    Off to the Land of Reggae
    IN one of the front pages of tomorrow`s newspapers, was the picture of the prez, himself, Jack Mrisho, about to enter his jet ready to zoom off to the Western Hemisphere of planet earth – this time Mzee was about to fly to Jamaica; The Land of Reggae. Naturally, I was most offended! How can
    Author: Adam Lusekelo, Uploaded on: 24th November 2009 @ 22:00, Total Comments: 3, Total people who read this story: 1849
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    Juju – imported from good old Nigeria
    IT must be the abject poverty we are facing as a country. Nearly the entire country seems to run out of ideas to think. Now we are drifting en masse into superstition. Uchawi. Every conman is on a feeding frenzy in Tanzania. And I mean every con-man is on the take. Most politicians jive us
    Author: ADAM LUSEKELO, Uploaded on: 21st November 2009 @ 15:00, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 2162
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    Happy New Year! Maybe!
    SO the president of Unguja, Amani Abeid Karume and the de facto Pemba boss, have suddenly decided to kiss and make up, after a bitter struggle in the politics of the Zanzibar? Just like that? And the rest of us are supposed to raise our hands in praise of the Almighty God. Not me. I find it
    Author: Adam Lusekelo, Uploaded on: 17th November 2009 @ 22:00, Total Comments: 2, Total people who read this story: 1975
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    Fried fish a la John Pombe!
    HURRAY! I hear that the Ministry of Livestock Development and Fisheries is giving out fish – gratis, courtesy to the exploits of the minister himself, John Pombe Magufuli, and his brilliant shock troops within his ministry. The fish was impounded by the ministry after they caught some Filipino
    Author: Adam Lusekelo, Uploaded on: 14th November 2009 @ 22:00, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 1726
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    The crap of labeling people
    I HAVE been watching it with apprehension – this habit, by our media, of labelling people according to their position in government. A former goat herder rapidly changes his position and becomes minister so-and-so. Why isn’t he called goat herder so-and so? Right now we have guys calling
    Author: ADAM LUSEKELO, Uploaded on: 10th November 2009 @ 16:10, Total Comments: 12, Total people who read this story: 2231
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    Let the comedy continue
    LOVELY times. The general population has been beyond themselves in the ongoing game of power shortage. Instead of getting electricity and power, we have been getting plenty of hot air from an assortment of clowns masquerading as politicians. While different government departments have been
    Author: Adam Lusekelo, Uploaded on: 7th November 2009 @ 22:00, Total Comments: 5, Total people who read this story: 1735
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    Hail the true Tanzanian patriots!
    DON’T even start scratching your head and wonder who these true Tanzanian patriots are. They are not even in Bongo. Not even Tanzanians. For patriotism seems to be a very rare commodity in our country since the late Father of the Nation, Mwalimu Nyerere, left the scene, ten years ago.
    Author: Adam Lusekelo, Uploaded on: 3rd November 2009 @ 22:00, Total Comments: 6, Total people who read this story: 2113
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    Drunken driving in Bongo!
    IN one of my sojourns abroad, I was met with a very agreeable couple with their two lovely kids. That evening they invited me to dinner at a restaurant about three kilometres from their home. The family had two cars but, came evening they suggested that we walk to the dinner place. "But why?" I
    Author: Adam Lusekelo, Uploaded on: 1st November 2009 @ 08:09, Total Comments: 5, Total people who read this story: 1655
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    Protesting with action
    In most cultures staying silent basically means ‘no’. In other cultures, silence gives consent. It means a tacit agreement. In most African cultures, silence means you can basically go and stuff it. But if you are wearing the guns and have the muscles, I will keep quiet. That’s what millions
    Author: Adam Lusekelo, Uploaded on: 28th October 2009 @ 04:02, Total Comments: 3, Total people who read this story: 1336
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    Welcome to Dark es Salaam!
    THE citizens of Dar, no Dark es Salaam, have been baying, and still are, for quick action. They want their electricity or else! Not me! Over the years I have learnt not to raise my blood pressure because government incompetence and goofing. It's not news. Having been born an incorrigible
    Author: Adam Lusekelo, Uploaded on: 24th October 2009 @ 22:00, Total Comments: 6, Total people who read this story: 1720
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    Are they insane with greed?
    AS we have been commemorating the 10th anniversary of the death of the Father of the Nation, Mwalimu Julius Nyerere, the nation has been wringing its hands in bewilderment. Just what happened over the last decade when things have been turned upside down and the country now faces disgusting
    Author: ADAM LUSEKELO, Uploaded on: 20th October 2009 @ 16:06, Total Comments: 17, Total people who read this story: 2182
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    Those randy regions!
    ACCORDING to a study, the people in Shinyanga, Tabora, Lindi and Morogoro Regions go at each other in sexual activities as if there is no tomorrow. A Tacaids official has told a seminar that in Shinyanga a man can enjoy the attentions of up to nine babes monthly! Well, I don’t know if that
    Author: ADAM LUSEKELO, Uploaded on: 17th October 2009 @ 12:46, Total Comments: 1, Total people who read this story: 1225
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    What the opposition should fight
    I ATCH the opposition forces in Tanzania with great pity. They are presently busy flailing away at the constant political jabs from the ruling state-party, CCM, and are slowly getting punch-drunk. They are waiting for next year’s general elections and think that miracles will happen then. Mawe!
    Author: ADAM LUSEKELO, Uploaded on: 13th October 2009 @ 12:27, Total Comments: 3, Total people who read this story: 1674
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    Vive la difference!
    I PULLED a haughty look while listening to my newly-wed nephew making the usual complaints about the ‘joys’ of married life. “Uncle, every time my mobile rings, she wants to know who I was talking to,” the nephew said. “So what do you do, tell her that you were talking to your grand-ma in
    Author: ADAM LUSEKELO, Uploaded on: 10th October 2009 @ 16:11, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 1031
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    Easy, easy, Mr President
    IKULU on Sunday played down the incident in which the prez, partially blacked out. He had to take a brief break before going on with his speech at Mwanza's Kirumba Stadium. Later the Mkuu himself said that he had ignored his advisers and kept on working, visiting this, posing here, shaking too
    Author: Adam Lusekelo, Uploaded on: 6th October 2009 @ 08:57, Total Comments: 7, Total people who read this story: 1938
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    Muhimbili: Payday! Payday!
    I hear some ghosts are waltzing around the wards of the Muhimbili national Hospital, busy doing nothing and just wasting the much-needed oxygen there. I can take that. You see there are lots of idlers waltzing in government offices, wasting time, talking hot air and consuming all that oxygen.
    Author: Adam Lusekelo, Uploaded on: 3rd October 2009 @ 17:43, Total Comments: 6, Total people who read this story: 1452
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    Fight AIDS, lock it!
    I HEAR Tanzanian spouses’ have been worrying about the age old problem - infidelity. How can you tell if she or he has been into hanky panky? Hiring detectives is not on. Few have the money to do that? You can hire a close-circuit camera (CCTV) and crew to track your paramour. But again, that is
    Author: Adam Lusekelo, Uploaded on: 27th September 2009 @ 10:02, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 1917
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    Not the Isles violence again!
    THIS is very depressing. Are we going to witness violence after violence after every five years in Zenj? Why is particular attention being given to the Pemba Islands, not to breathe easy and suffocate democracy? This just cannot go on forever. From what the nation hears and sees -- women in
    Author: Adam Lusekelo, Uploaded on: 23rd September 2009 @ 00:50, Total Comments: 4, Total people who read this story: 1958
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    Take it easy Steven Kanumba
    I SAW a video of young Steve Kanumba complaining and sulking that most of his age-mates in Bongo seemed to be overjoyed, that his butt got kicked out of the Big Brother thing in Sausi. He said that the dogo dogo media in Bongo seemed to mock him that the way he pronounced his English words was
    Author: Adam Lusekelo, Uploaded on: 20th September 2009 @ 01:12, Total Comments: 18, Total people who read this story: 3898
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    Take it easy Steven Kanumba
    I SAW a video of young Steve Kanumba complaining and sulking that most of his age-mates in Bongo seemed to be overjoyed, that his butt got kicked out of the Big Brother thing in Sausi. He said that the dogo dogo media in Bongo seemed to mock him that the way he pronounced his English words was
    Author: Adam Lusekelo, Uploaded on: 19th September 2009 @ 17:00, Total Comments: 13, Total people who read this story: 2338
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    No, thank you, this is our land
    WHILE Africa was fighting for independence in the 1960s, ‘Black’ people in the US were fighting for their civil rights. One of the Black civil rights leaders was the legendary Malcolm X. His main fight was against those civil rights leaders who had sold out to the Whites. These were called
    Author: Adam Lusekelo, Uploaded on: 15th September 2009 @ 10:25, Total Comments: 10, Total people who read this story: 2131
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    Govt to build pyramids in Dodoma
    OKAY, we know that human beings are all equal -- or rather, are supposed to be equal. But over ages, humanoids have come to realize that some human beings are more equal than others. Now we are sure about that. Even in death there are others who are more equal than the rest of us. Rulers all
    Author: Adam Lusekelo, Uploaded on: 9th September 2009 @ 00:22, Total Comments: 21, Total people who read this story: 6248
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    Death throes of the kaputniks
    THEY are in their dying days, those political fakes. They are now desperately trying to stay on the centre stage of the Tanzanian political scene. They have been bankrolling some ‘opinion polls’ to show who is still in the national psyche. They are the political kaputniks. They cannot accept
    Author: Adam Lusekelo, Uploaded on: 2nd September 2009 @ 00:16, Total Comments: 3, Total people who read this story: 2517
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    Sitta, who dares wins!
    THE Speaker to the Bunge, Sam Six, is now basking in unimaginable popularity and adoration in the United Republic of Tanzania. He was recently crucified for siding with the good guys. When the Speaker asked for more security around him last month, I though the guy was simply being over the
    Author: Adam Lusekelo, Uploaded on: 26th August 2009 @ 00:13, Total Comments: 8, Total people who read this story: 2978
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    Cops run a protection racket
    For ages the talk in the Dar es Salaam grapevine has been – the Tanzanian police has been running a protection racket in the country. My spies tell me that the police have also been very creative in their money-making schemes within the force. Entrepreneurship is now the norm amongst cops.
    Author: Adam Lusekelo, Uploaded on: 12th August 2009 @ 01:45, Total Comments: 4, Total people who read this story: 3012
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    Cops run a protection racket
    FOR ages the talk in the Dar es Salaam grapevine has been – the Tanzanian police has been running a protection racket in the country. My spies tell me that the police have also been very creative in their money-making schemes within the force. Entrepreneurship is now the norm amongst cops.
    Author: Adam Lusekelo, Uploaded on: 12th August 2009 @ 01:43, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 3638
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    Cops run a protection racket
    FOR ages the talk in the Dar es Salaam grapevine has been – the Tanzanian police has been running a protection racket in the country. My spies tell me that the police have also been very creative in their money-making schemes within the force. Entrepreneurship is now the norm amongst cops.
    Author: Adam Lusekelo, Uploaded on: 12th August 2009 @ 01:43, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 3587
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    Love strengthens the union
    ANTI-Union sentiments have been the fashionable thing to do lately. Politicians, mainly in the Isles, have been venting venom about fears of the survival of the Union. Most have been ranting on and on about the non-existent oil and gas, and in the process emitting as lot of hot air in the already
    Author: adam lusekelo, Uploaded on: 5th August 2009 @ 01:30, Total Comments: 7, Total people who read this story: 3198
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    Designer colonialism of sorts
    OF course, ours is a free country. Got our independence from the Her Majesty’s Service men in 1961. Nice going it has been until now when I have noticed flashes of colonialism by other colonisers, wanting to steal the economic show in this land of ours. Designer colonialism! Don't play the
    Author: Adam Lusekelo, Uploaded on: 30th July 2009 @ 00:22, Total Comments: 15, Total people who read this story: 2805
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    Stop the hypocrisy!
    WATCHING our lawmakers performing at the show in Dodoma, I am quite impressed by different talents in public speaking amongst the honourable chaps. There are those who are unashamedly apologist for the system (walaji), social climbers, real patriots and some who don’t even know what they are
    Author: Adam Lusekelo, Uploaded on: 22nd July 2009 @ 00:21, Total Comments: 5, Total people who read this story: 1979
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    Aid with strings attached
    OVER the years, we have been hearing our politicians let off some hot air that Tanzania will only accept aid without strings attached. It was good for the media, but hardly practical. If you believe that then you will believe that the Roman ruler, Julius Caesar was born in Yombo Kijichi! Aid has
    Author: Adam Lusekelo, Uploaded on: 8th July 2009 @ 02:27, Total Comments: 8, Total people who read this story: 2641
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    Go well Prof Haroub Othman
    You know, Mwalimu, when you were teaching us about dialectics in the early 1980s, we thought that it was the usual bombast students get from their lecturers at the Chuo Kikuu. Now we know it was not bombast, it was the truth - a successful birth guarantees a successful death. The sages should
    Author: Adam Lusekelo, Uploaded on: 30th June 2009 @ 10:22, Total Comments: 8, Total people who read this story: 2583
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    Zenj advised to have a baby boom
    People of Zenj have been strongly advised to go for each other, like there is no tomorrow, and make babies so that the Isles population can increase to respectable numbers - something like the Mainland population. The Civic United Front (CUF) legislators in the House of Raps, sorry, House of
    Author: Adam Lusekelo, Uploaded on: 28th June 2009 @ 00:37, Total Comments: 1, Total people who read this story: 1953
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    High drama in Dodoma
    LAST week, some MPs seethed with rage and vowed that this year’s Budget, tabled by Finance Minister, Mustafa Mkulo, will never see the light of day.But now we know that it was drama all along. The MP for Ilemela in Mwanza Region, Tony Diallo, told Braza Mkulo that his mates and himself were going
    Author: Adam lusekelo, Uploaded on: 23rd June 2009 @ 22:00, Total Comments: 1, Total people who read this story: 1925
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    EPA Two 'coming'
    I've heard about the stimulus package offered by the government and immediately winced painfully - welcome back grand corruption. If you are in Dar you can see the rot oozing and smell the stench from as far away as Chalinze. Eti, in it's so-called stimulus package the government plans to bail
    Author: Adam Lusekelo, Uploaded on: 16th June 2009 @ 11:20, Total Comments: 4, Total people who read this story: 1767
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    Party cadre preaches heresy
    VETERAN CCM cadre, Steve Mashishanga has been preaching heresy to party zealots who see nothing wrong with the goings-on in their political party. Mashishanga has recently dared in Morogoro town to suggest that all CCM party bosses who have been tainted with accusations of grand corruption be
    Author: Adam Lusekelo, Uploaded on: 9th June 2009 @ 11:00, Total Comments: 2, Total people who read this story: 1957
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    Great bores of today
    On Friday I was sitting, minding my own business and watchig the world go by. I sat watching this budding new middle class which is fast developing in Bongo. On my left was a fellow loudly talking about the virtue of his car. His vehicle was so-fast that it could hit Arusha town in northern
    Author: Adam Lusekelo, Uploaded on: 7th June 2009 @ 00:36, Total Comments: 2, Total people who read this story: 1971
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    The hear no evil, see no evil and speak no evil MPs
    Looking at our honourable MPs perform before the cameras in Tanzania’s unbuilt ‘capital’ of Dodoma, you start to wonder. It seems the majority of them have travelled all the way to Dom for a long siesta – and for the money, of course. How come among the 200 plus parliamentarians we have, only a
    Author: Adam Lusekelo, Uploaded on: 3rd June 2009 @ 01:42, Total Comments: 5, Total people who read this story: 6692
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    1.5m Kenyan men thumped by wives
    This is definitely an EAC matter. After the common market talks going on, it now emerges that the aggressive Kenyan men are usually being thumped dizzy by their wives. A report, a lobby group championing the rights of men has revealed that more than 1.5 million ‘nyayo’ men in Kenya were everyday
    Author: Adam Lusekelo, Uploaded on: 31st May 2009 @ 00:52, Total Comments: 7, Total people who read this story: 2050
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    Sex in 'official' papers?
    I was reading our august government publication last Wednesday when I saw an unlikely front page story -- a guy in Mbezi Beach had decided to be a ka-chick. And as if that was not enough, the guy/ka-chick had committed suicide because of jilted love! Oh, you hear quite a few stories about guys,
    Author: Adam Lusekelo, Uploaded on: 25th May 2009 @ 00:00, Total Comments: 3, Total people who read this story: 2136
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    CCM campaigning for CUF?
    I HEAR that CCM is proving to be smarter in the incoming elections due in the Busanda constituency on Sunday. The reason is obvious enough -- to split the CUF, Chadema vote. Of course the beneficiary will be CCM. The enemy of my enemy is my friend, remember? Predictably, as soon as it splits
    Author: Adam Lusekelo, Uploaded on: 20th May 2009 @ 04:04, Total Comments: 3, Total people who read this story: 1908
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    The guy can’t pay – he’s dead!
    The charade, only unique to Bongo, continues. Some smart Alecs who looted at least $180 million from the Commodity Import Support (CIS) fund have changed tactics. They blatantly say that they are not paying back a cent to the government. Period! The executive director of the
    Author: Adam Lusekelo, Uploaded on: 17th May 2009 @ 00:53, Total Comments: 2, Total people who read this story: 1753
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    And now let's rumble!
    I had a lovely weekend. Fights. Philippino Manny Pacquiano silenced a noisy British lightwelterweight, Ricky Hatton, with a left hook in the second round in Las Vegas. Pacquiano simply switched off the lights for Ricky Hatton and that was it. Then at home, there was another fight -- the shark
    Author: Adam Lusekelo, Uploaded on: 6th May 2009 @ 00:00, Total Comments: 16, Total people who read this story: 2504
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    Mengi reveals state 'secrets'
    The nation's collective jaw dropped in amazement last Wednesday when IPP boss, Reggie Mengi called a press conference and revealed a state secret. He publicly named five alleged "corruption sharks" in the country, saying they were allegedly responsible for the looting of billions of shillings of
    Author: Adam Lusekelo, Uploaded on: 28th April 2009 @ 10:02, Total Comments: 26, Total people who read this story: 3050
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    The cell-phone madness
    The other day I was having a walk and minding my own business when I spotted a young ka-chick coming towards me. She was fiddling with her phone – now opening her mouth, now sticking out her tongue, now frowning and now smiling. I then stood to let her pass by. But, believe me dear reader the
    Author: Adam Lusekelo, Uploaded on: 25th April 2009 @ 11:42, Total Comments: 2, Total people who read this story: 1744
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    When oil imaginations run high
    Some members of the House of Reps in Zanzibar seem to suffer from an acute bout of boredom. Now as most of us know, when boredom sets in, one’s mind succumbs to illusion. You start imagining things which are simply not there. No reality at all! From the tearooms of Stone Town to the lovely beaches
    Author: Adam Lusekelo, Uploaded on: 21st April 2009 @ 11:26, Total Comments: 15, Total people who read this story: 2326
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    A fool and his money...
    GREAT! So the heads of the controversial Development Entrepreneurship Company Initiative (DECI) and their funny money company scheme are doing something which even the government of TZ has dismally failed to do. The guys claim that they are freeing their fellow countrymen and women from the
    Author: Adam Lusekelo, Uploaded on: 18th April 2009 @ 10:14, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 1581
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    Madonna on the rocks
    POP star Madonna will not be allowed to adopt a second child from Malawi, the threeyear girl Mercy James Chifundo, Malawi's High Court ruled last week. The ruling will please campaigners who say that authorities have given the singer special treatment, which is a load bull crap. The Malawi supreme
    Author: Adam Lusekelo, Uploaded on: 11th April 2009 @ 10:41, Total Comments: 1, Total people who read this story: 1707
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    The 'Enzi za Mwalimu' factor
    In human conflict, when one part is losing men more than they can recruit into the ranks, they usually increase the conscription age. Men in their 50s are pressed into armed service. It is called dad's army. There is an emergency on, and you need every able hand to help. So some five veteran
    Author: Adam Lusekelo, Uploaded on: 7th April 2009 @ 23:30, Total Comments: 5, Total people who read this story: 2039
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    Does Zenj want the sultan back?
    With such a question, a guy could easily be lynched by the people, mostly black, in Zanzibar who suffered terribly under the Arab sultanate, which was toppled in a bloody Revolution in 1964. But events over the last two decades make one wonder: are Zanzibaris secretly in love with sultanate rule
    Author: Adam Lusekelo, Uploaded on: 31st March 2009 @ 11:04, Total Comments: 6, Total people who read this story: 3104
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    The joys of an MP
    Most Tanzanians will be forgiven for thinking that most of our ‘honourables’ are seeking the higher ideal when they bundle themselves in suits and sit in Dodoma ready to make laws for us. But the majority of them are not there to serve the Tanzanian masses. They are there for the moola, money,
    Author: Adam Lusekelo, Uploaded on: 28th March 2009 @ 10:00, Total Comments: 5, Total people who read this story: 1868
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    Funny times always
    Someone sent me an e-message acknowledging some stuff I write. I quickly replied by quoting him an American scribe, Will Rogers. He said: "I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts," he said. Spot on! The most hilarious sentence in the last 50 years is to hear some
    Author: Adam Lusekelo, Uploaded on: 24th March 2009 @ 11:05, Total Comments: 25, Total people who read this story: 2521
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    Baby boom coming!
    Nearly everyone is worrying at the prospect of spending time without power in the near future as announced, with almost evident satisfaction, by Tanesco boss, Dr Idris Rashid. Even the Bunge Defence and Security Committee (Ulinzi na Usalama) wants to have a chat with Dr Rashid. He said that the
    Author: Adam Lusekelo, Uploaded on: 17th March 2009 @ 10:45, Total Comments: 11, Total people who read this story: 2408
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    Big thanks Dr Ngassa, Dr Haroub and Dr Nsajigwa!
    I thought the ludicrous clamouring for fake doctorate degrees in our United Republic was confined to the Mainland only. No sir, the people of Zenj are also at it – big time. Everyone wants to adorn his or her name with a ‘Dakta’ from the universities of Kusadikika. It looks pretty. Just like having
    Author: Adam lusekelo, Uploaded on: 28th February 2009 @ 08:59, Total Comments: 7, Total people who read this story: 2331
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    Step forward Dr Adam!
    Fake is thy name Tanzania ! Slowly but surely, we have been trashing our own country and now the comedy continues. We are trashing our education system. Reports say that our MPs are falling all over themselves to acquire fake PhDs.I have also got a PhD after years of hard work. I got the PhD at the
    Author: Adam Lusekelo, Uploaded on: 25th February 2009 @ 10:47, Total Comments: 24, Total people who read this story: 3818
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    Step forward Dr Adam!
    Fake is thy name Tanzania ! Slowly but surely, we have been trashing our own country and now the comedy continues. We are trashing our education system. Reports say that our MPs are falling all over themselves to acquire fake PhDs. I have also got a PhD after years of hard work. I got the PhD
    Author: Adam Lusekelo, Uploaded on: 24th February 2009 @ 10:32, Total Comments: 4, Total people who read this story: 1946
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    Who will win in the IDs saga?
    I gather that the government has short-listed six companies from which only one could get a tender to produce the country’s first national Identity Cards using smart card t e c h n o l o g y . Cool. You will be forgiven for being impressed when you get those technological jargons like ‘smart-card’
    Author: Adam Lusekelo, Uploaded on: 17th February 2009 @ 11:14, Total Comments: 32, Total people who read this story: 3185
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    News of the screws
    IPP supremo, Reggie Mengi is angry that some rag, calling itself a weekly newspaper has been smearing him and accusing him of getting himself a brand new take-away for a wife. The rag also swore that the Kinondoni Area Commissioner, Afande Colonel Tarimo, was at the show. Both guys have called
    Author: Adam Lusekelo, Uploaded on: 14th February 2009 @ 20:00, Total Comments: 34, Total people who read this story: 5713
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    Big Brother is watching you!
    WHAT's the fuss?Big brothers (governments) all over the world like tokeep their eyes and eavesdrop on their citizens. Especially people like Dr Willibroad Slaa. The mheshimiwahas this bad habit of saying the truth, unpalatable truth, in the Bunge. His utterances have resulted into former
    Author: Adam Lusekelo, Uploaded on: 12th February 2009 @ 00:51, Total Comments: 4, Total people who read this story: 2235
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    I heard it in the grapevine
    IF you hear that someone has been doing time in jail, listen carefully to his story. At one point you might hear: "There was this woman". That's where the real story starts.Since men have been pre-programmed in our genes to impress women all our lives, then even going to jail is because you wanted
    Author: Adam Lusekelo, Uploaded on: 7th February 2009 @ 11:53, Total Comments: 4, Total people who read this story: 3406
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    Selling their own mothers
    The country is awash with horror stories about astonishing human greed. But it seems that what we've seen is a just a tip of an ice-berg. It seems to befall Tanzanians who suddenly found themselves in positions of unbridled power. They have caught this disease of doing anything they want anytime.
    Author: Adam Lusekelo, Uploaded on: 1st February 2009 @ 07:56, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 1971
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    Equality? What equality?
    IN the anti-AIDS advert in the media, a guy called Fataki is busy trying to seduce a little girl for some hanky panky. At first it’s funny, but then later you start thinking – are men the only culprits in the love game? I certainly don’t think so. Having been a man all of my life, I think I
    Author: Adam Lusekelo, Uploaded on: 31st January 2009 @ 10:27, Total Comments: 1, Total people who read this story: 1741
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