For nearly two months, a strange justice drama has been unfolding in the United States involving the fatal shooting of an unarmed teenager, Trayvon Martin (17) by neighbourhood watch volunteer, George Zimmerman in Florida on February 26, 2012.
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LET me start by hoping that you had a nice Easter. Just before that long weekend the media reported the clinching of the Arumeru East constituency by the opposition party CHADEMA. Three days later, however, the Arusha MP from the same opposition party was unseated by the high court.
TASTE of the pudding is always in the eating, and indeed I saw this last week when I was hospitalised at the Muhimbili National Hospital. The once known Princess Margret Hospital and then christened Muhimbili underwent several changes from good to worse but now is very fast emerging from worse to best.
THE tragic death of Tanzanian “lover-boy” acting sensation Steven Kanumba on Good Friday brings to an end the short but eventful career of the country’s TV sensation and arguably, the face of a budding Tanzanian film Industry.
Mzee Abeid Amani Karume to Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere, 1964.
Call me an incurable pretentious snob I do not mind, I cringe at the slightest display of bad table manners. It is unforgivable that food once served after hours of preparation in the kitchen should be attacked in a caveman manner.
I am a Tanzanian married woman with two children. Due to my husband’s infidelity our marriage has now become unbearable. Just as he will not accept sharing me with someone, I cannot accept sharing him with someone as it is not what marriage is about. To add to the trouble my husband has a child with this woman.
MY last week published article advises you to draft your rules on ‘money matters’. I am sure some of you must have followed this invaluable suggestion and I assume your corresponding rules are in place now. But framing rules or guidelines is one part of the story while its implementation is another part.
TANZANIA once again lived through exciting times in the journalism stakes when the national Media Council (MCT) staged the ‘Annual Media Award Presentation’ in Dar March 30, 2012, at which dozens of ‘winners’ were presented with ‘Excellence in Journalism Awards-Tanzania’ (EJAT).
Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) have not been properly tested and when they are tested, they are found to be chronically or acutely toxic.