A free world with a hollow ring
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- Published on Sunday, 16 September 2012 01:39
- Written by KILASA MTAMBALIKE
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THIS is a thought shared and history shall be my guide. As such, most of the material herein is going to be borrowed from various sources to better furnish you the reader.
Must we go blind before seeing things clearly?
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- Published on Sunday, 09 September 2012 03:49
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SOMEWHERE out there someone knows exactly what happened. And it won’t come as a surprise if it emerges that it is more than one person who knows what really transpired and, most importantly, why a journalist had to die in the course of executing his duties.
Proudly Tanzanian rings hollow nowadays
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- Published on Sunday, 12 August 2012 02:10
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WE have come a long way as a people and a country. I remember growing up in an environment where there was never much to go around thus we were forced to improvise regularly. Ingenuity, in a sardonic way, made up for the shortages of items in the country.
‘It ain’t no sunshine where we headed’
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- Published on Sunday, 05 August 2012 02:04
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REVELATIONS that members of sensitive parliamentary oversight committees are easily bought for parochial interests are a sign of serious troubled times ahead. It exposes a society infested with endemic corruption and consequently confirms people’s fear that ‘it ain’t no sunshine where we headed’.
Careless talk is cheap, but can be fatal
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- Published on Sunday, 15 July 2012 04:00
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POLITICAL frolicking has of late assumed unhealthy tones. We have witnessed a relapse from the comical to the downright diabolical. Since we apparently still have many years ahead of us to democratic maturity, one can only imagine what is in store for us the innocent bystanders.
Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong
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- Published on Sunday, 08 July 2012 00:37
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PICTURE this, an Eskimo busy trying to build an igloo in the middle of the Kalahari and a nomad from the Sahel labouring to pitch an open tent in Siberia during the harshest of winters just because it is what they are used to doing.
Tempers flare the most only when people stare
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- Published on Sunday, 24 June 2012 01:20
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GROWING up as little kids, we would always have bags of tricks just to impress the fair sex. It was intuition that guided us; wherever there were girls, we would make it our duty to outdo one another in all matters theatrics.
