Kilwa Road, which was built below standard by famous Japanese contractor, Kajima Corporation Limited about three years ago, will be given a new facelift, thanks to the uncompromising stance by the Minister for Works, Dr John P. Magufuli against shoddy jobs.
I was stopped by a police car and asked many questions, after which they asked me to wait whilst they communicated with their superiors. Unfortunately their superiors were not available and I was asked to wait until after a further ninety or so when they asked me for some ‘nauli’ and I left.
ON Nov. 30, 2009, East Africans observed the tenth anniversary of the second edition of the East African Community (EAC-II), a concerted effort at regional integration at the social, economic and political levels. The overriding objective is for the integration to culminate in an East African Federation under a single President and related appurtenances.
The city of Dar es Salaam recently suffered one of the worst floods since the 1950s. Already forty people are officially reported to have died, a figure that is almost certainly an underestimate. For once, major parts of the city were cut off as key bridges were under water, were swept away or were rendered too dangerous to be used.
I first heard of the word ‘posho’ when I lived as a kid in Tanga where my dad worked as a Government official. My understanding of posho then, was something that workers in the sisal plantations were given at the end of every week or month and it was in the form of dry rations, not money.
LAST year had its uncanny yet memorable moments. Enter 2012 and we relived some of the moments. It is a wonder how politicians seem to easily forget that it is always about the people they ought to serve and not about personal glorification. This forgetfulness almost always leads to power struggle, and there are no draws in political fights, someone has to lose.
THERE are obvious dramatic changes in the world’s health care needs. Health care systems, which have traditionally been built around stopping the spread of infectious diseases, are increasingly faced with new burdens. Unless Tanzania takes note of this shift in the disease burden our health care system is going to be overwhelmed and over stretched.
The rains that pounded the city of Dar es Salaam late last year separated many people. Members of a family went different ways ending in strange hands.
