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TOWARDS OCT. 31st: there are places we should not post our president’s photograph |
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Monday, 30 August 2010 12:02 |
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The race to national, parliamentary and local government leadership positions in Tanzania is on. All contesting political parties are, of course, doing it in their own style. But, as a nation, there are lots of lessons that we must learn down the lane.
One thing we must appreciate is the fact that our sons and daughters, who were born when we decided to revert to multi-party rule in 1992, will be voting for the first time. They may be having choices that could shock us. They know what they want much better than their older generation does.
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Govt under pressure as trillions in public funds go unaccounted for |
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Monday, 30 August 2010 11:56 |
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TIMES REPORTER
CONCERNS are rising over the government’s failure to curb leakages in the use of public funds, with the Controller and Auditor-General (CAG) reporting that funds not accounted for or misused could be way into trillions of shillings in recent financial years.
The CAG presents in graphic details how ministerial departments, local government agencies and public authorities spent large amounts of public money contrary to regulations. The report also documents clearly how some officials thrived on weaknesses in government structures to rake in millions in tax payers' money.
The Corruption Tracker System Online Newsletter for July 2010, says that despite CAG reports that audits for the year 2008/09 had shown relative improvement in the number of favorable opinions issued compared to the past five years. The situation was still worrisome and needed urgent government and parliamentary action, it said.
As the eating and fleecing of government coffers by some officials appears to be continuous, the public is also getting worried and just not understanding why the massive leakages cannot be blocked.
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Soccer referees should be fair |
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Monday, 30 August 2010 11:41 |
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GEORGE MBWANA
This year's season of the mainland premier league kicked-off last weekend at different venues, where soccer fans had a good chance of watching, cheering and assessing their favourite teams after preparations.
This time around each of the league entrants will be fighting hard to at least win or end in a draw so that to be in a good position of the league standings.
It is no doubt that some teams have spent huge sums of shillings for the league preparations with the main goal of clinching the title as well as safeguarding their statuses in the face of the soccer fraternity.
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Coastal deforestation: Village, district authorities abdicating own duties |
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Monday, 30 August 2010 11:54 |
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TIMES CORRESPONDENT
IF one thinks that Mwanza is simply what is on Tanzania’s shore of Lake Victoria he would be wrong!
The fact is that the geographic understanding seems to have been distorted as one finds duplicates of names like Mwanza, Shinyanga and Tanga in the Coast region district of Rufiji.
The names are famous and linked to influx of the people from those regions ferried to Rufiji to do one thing: Clear forests for charcoal burning.
It was at about 11.15 in the mid morning and they had just gathered to take their lunch. Suddenly, they rushed into the bush leaving the food on the table.
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Tanzania: DSE Indices improve as share prices gain |
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Friday, 20 August 2010 08:58 |
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? Foreign-investor participation on spectacular rise
MNAKU MBANI
THINGS are picking up at Tanzania's nascent stocks and shares trading centre, the Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange (DSE). Coming barely a year after the worst of the global financial crisis begun to recede, this is proving to be encouraging news indeed for the country in general – and investors and the economy in particular.
All in all, statistics recorded at the Exchange improved significantly during the Second Quarter that ended on June 30, 2010, compared with the position in the preceding January-March Quarter.
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