EDITORIAL: It’s time local teams did us proud in CAF contests

>The East Africa Judo Championship ended on Wednesday in Nairobi, with Tanzanian judokas putting up a sterling performance.

Only three African sides have reached the World Cup last eight –-Cameroon in 1990, Senegal in 2002 and Ghana four year ago.

 Constituent Assembly (CA) committees have sent letters to the Assembly chairman, Mr Samuel Sitta, seeking extension of time to discuss two contentious chapters of the second Draft Constitution.

Recently, a team of three visiting American art administrators from US State Department sponsored Centre Stage Cultural Exchange Program facilitated a workshop on marketing and branding for Tanzanian performing artists, producers and art administrators at the Alliance Francaise in Dar es Salaam.
The one day workshop was organized by US Mission Dar es Salaam in Collaboration with Alliance Française in response to felt and expressed need by local artists for enhanced capacity to...

>It is always important to take the promises of soccer giants Young Africans and Simba with a hefty dose of salt. Like politicians, they often say what members and fans of the two clubs want to hear.

ZIFF and any such festivals might not have immediate financial returns to the artistes but the exposure it offers is a once in a life time.

>It is clear to all and sundry that locals’ participation in major construction projects has been subdued by the influx of Chinese contractors in the past decade. We acknowledge that Tanzania isn’t an island; it is part of today’s world which is getting increasingly squeezed into a global village, in which competition in all spheres is stiff and even dangerous at times.

Tanzania is determined to become a middle income economy by 2015, if we are to go by declarations, not only from politicians—who we normally take with a pinch of salt—but also from policymakers.

>In yesterday’s edition of The Citizen, we reported that the planned referendum on the Proposed Constitution could be held side by side with the October elections instead of April 30, which has been widely publicised.