EDITORIAL: Don’t manipulate religion

It is generally agreed that individuals, save for those who elect to be irreligious, relate to God through different religions, for which clerics play a facilitative role. The importance of clerics need not be belaboured here. But basically, it suffices to say, a cleric must be a role model by word and deed.

TheCitizen

Habari Zinazoendana

10 years ago

TheCitizen

18 Oct

EDITORIAL: Well done TZ, but don’t relax

>Tanzania is in seventh position among 45 countries that have exhibited political commitment to tackling hunger and malnutrition across the world, according to the Hunger and Nutrition Commitment Index 2013 released on Wednesday.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

21 Nov

EDITORIAL: We don’t need these riots

>Riots are  a primitive means of protest applied by people who may have genuine grievances that can be better addressed through peaceful processions or dialogue with the authorities.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

23 Jan

EDITORIAL: Don’t budge to bus operators

>Commuter bus services in Tanzania’s urban centres are a necessary evil. In  spite of inconvenience like congestion,  the rudeness of many  conductors and drivers and recklessness that places  the lives of those on board at great risk, they are the cheapest mode of transport.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

15 May

EDITORIAL: Don’t reduce house to vote-hunting theatre

>Parliament is alternately known as the august house and Members of Parliament are addressed as “honourable.” But the debating chamber in Dodoma is often  turned into a battlefield.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

27 Oct

EDITORIAL: Don’t reduce referendum date into game of politics

>The National Electoral Commission (NEC) has reversed its position on the referendum and is now saying it can organise the exercise to accept or reject the proposed new Constitution in April next year.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

21 Jul

EDITORIAL: Don't issue warnings to fake healers; Seize them!

Our health care system has a myriad of problems. Government health facilities lack essential drugs and medical equipment; one physician serves 30,000 patients while the World Health Organisation (WHO) recommends 1,000. We have only one pharmacist for 50,000 Tanzanians while a single nurse contends with 60,000!

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

20 Mar

EDITORIAL: Good law will be good for us all, so don’t rush bill

The demand for a new media law, which should effectively repeal the much-criticised 1976 Media Act is an old song. Now ideally, the report that the government will table in the ongoing Parliament sitting, two media Bills to lead to a new Media Law, should have been received with a sigh of relief. But it has only created tension.

 

9 years ago

AllAfrica.Com

06 Nov

Politics and Religion - the 'Paradoxicals'

Politics and Religion - the 'Paradoxicals'
AllAfrica.com
In Tanzania, as in the rest of Africa, God is ubiquitous in politics. Victory at elections is attributed to him. While there is nothing wrong about being religious, tying political outcomes to Providence is problematic as it deepens the passivity of ...

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

19 Sep

Changing religion for love

Love is a beautiful thing, and it is made even greater when two souls decide to form a union. But love is also known to cause great pain; people do the most unthinkable of things in the name of love.

 

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