So many years ago, in 1897, Leo Tolstoy, said, “It is not easy to stand apart from mass hysteria, to argue against something that everyone – especially the most respected political leaders, academics and experts are saying and instead argue that they are mistaken or deluded.”
Fifty years ago, Tanzanians gained their independence and started on the long journey, against all odds, to regain their place and honour in the global family of nations. Another fifty years ahead starting yesterday, they are peering into a hollow future, often with a melancholic loss of a sense of direction for the change that they wanted to become and be part of.
WITH her large beautiful eyes, 36 year old Neema Abbas quickly scrutinizes clients who await her for voluntary counselling and testing services (VCT) for HIV/AIDS at Ngaimani Health Centre, without a murmur. Neema who is deaf uses sign language to invite each of them into her consulting room.
HOW a skillful driver came to drive the President down the Ngorongoro crater in 1969 is an interesting story of two leaders who wanted to assert each ether's authority. The driver, Mr Aloyce Songai, a resident of Karatu, was later nicknamed 'Wangu-Wangu' by Nyerere's bodyguards due to his outstanding expertise during the 1969 caldera expedition.
FOURTEEN-year old tennis star Ibrahim Kessy is a happy teenager. His recent trip to Tanga with the pre-Simba Davis Cup team was the culmination of an eventful tennis season 2011.
THE lack of climate change policy in the country has left us a great sense of urgency generated through the media and scientific reports. Climate Change is now widely recognized as everyone’s business. It has become more than an environmental issue and all people and sectors are affected.
IN its popular television programme christened, "Maisha ni Nyumba" which can casually translate into meaningful life is having a decent home, National Housing Corporation (NHC) seems to be embracing the principle which forced founder President, Julius Nyerere to establish it in 1962 through Act No. 45 of Parliament. 
WRITING poems was something the Fine Artist, Juma Hassan Kauli, of Mwananyamala, Dar es Salaam, had stopped doing years ago. He saw this activity as taking too much of his precious time, which could be better used producing paintings.
NEWS of the national radio announcer, Halima Mchuka’s passing away on Thursday morning, after a fight with cancer, was received with sadness both in and outside of the country.
FOR over a decade we have learnt of children and adults traveling to India for open heart surgery and other medical complications.
