EDITORIAL: Avoid abusive politics

The health sector is currently in a serious crisis. Not that it had been that much good in the recent past, not since people started hearing of cost-sharing which,in some cases meant getting a free prescription and advice from the doctor on where you could buy the drugs.

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Avoid dirty politics, Tanzanians urged
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TANZANIANS have been urged to honour the founding father of the nation, Mwalimu Julius Nyerere, by embracing patriotm and avoid politics that preaches hatred. The Minter of State in the President's Office -- Coordination and Relations, Mr Stephen ...

>Chief Secretary Ombeni Sefue has cautioned civil servants over engaging in politics,  saying they cannot serve two masters at the same time.

The demolition of the 16-storey condemned building on Indira Ghandi Street in Dar es Salaam brings to mind the plight of poor states like ours, in which we typically depict what we read from the scriptures, that “those with nothing, even the little they have will be taken away from them”.

Tanzania’s once magnificent tyre making company, the Arusha-based General Tyre East Africa Limited (GTEA) is set for revival. This is great news indeed for the country whose weak industrial sector is hugely to blame for the current unemployment crisis, which is standing at a conservative 12 per cent.

>It is inexcusable that, a little over two decades after Tanzania re-introduced multi-party democracy, some people  are mixing up issues of a purely political nature with those that are linked with particular parties. It is unacceptable because, a good 22 years after  we bid single-party rule farewell, no mature person can sincerely claim to be ignorant of the distinction.

>Claims by a Constituent Assembly (CA) member that the CA has become a rubber stamp that is likely to endorse a proposed constitution aimed at propping up one political party and its ideals made interesting reading.

>What transpired on Sunday evening at Ubungo Plaza in Dar es Salaam is something that the people of this country should condemn in the strongest possible terms.

With the General Election approaching fast, the national focus is not only on political parties and the candidates, but also on the conduct of the key bodies overseeing this vital national exercise.