EDITORIAL: Do something to save our netball team

>The decline of indoor sports, especially netball, raises questions as to where Tanzania veered off the road. We are no longer assured of participating in the Nations Cup and the World Cup qualifiers, the most important tournaments when it comes to development of the sport.

TheCitizen

Habari Zinazoendana

11 years ago

TheCitizen

15 Mar

let’s give our netball team a fighting chance

This year’s East African Netball club championship is scheduled to take place from March 22 to March 31 at the National Stadium. The competition will feature 21 teams from Uganda, Kenya and host Tanzania.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

13 Sep

EDITORIAL: Now’s the time to back netball in Tanzania

>Morogoro’s Jamhuri Stadium recently hosted the Union Netball league that saw JKT Mbweni win the title.  The tournament offered plenty of entertainment for netball fans, especially now that both the Tanzania Mainland Netball Association (Chaneta) and its Zanzibar counterpart, Chaneza, are winding up their annual sports calendars.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

07 Jan

Doctors team up to save twins

>A team of pediatricians and surgeons at Bugando referral hospital have joined forces to save the lives of conjoined twins.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

22 Aug

EDITORIAL: Unity will save us from Ebola

>The East African Community’s move to convene a meeting in Arusha to address the threat that the Ebola virus poses for the region is a step in the right direction.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

16 May

EDITORIAL: We must act now if we are to save Dar

Environmental scientists have sounded the alarm that Dar es Salaam City is likely to be wiped off the face of the earth by 2070. This threat can be put down to one thing--climate change.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

19 Sep

EDITORIAL: Save youth from suicide

Suicide is a phenomenon that is robbing us of the precious lives of young Tanzanians, who are inavoidably the nation builders of tomorrow.  Twenty-year-old Ezra Gerald, a Form Five student at Ihungo Secondary School in Kagera, hanged himself on Tuesday in the compound of the regional hospital. In  the suicide note, he complained that he had been admitted to the hospital without being diagnosed.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

19 Dec

EDITORIAL: We must save children from wayward parents

>According to a story we ran yesterday, police in Sumbawanga are holding a woman who beat up her own child and then burnt his hand, ostensibly to teach him a lesson for stealing food. And, as if that was not bad enough, she locked him in a room for four days without food!

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

22 Sep

EDITORIAL : Up recycling of plastic to cut pollution,save trees

Tanzania might have found the solution to plastic waste, now that there is a push to use it to construct buildings and make school desks. A Spain-based non-governmental organisation, Born-to-learn, is already spearheading the use of plastic construction materials in Kilimanjaro Region.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

30 Sep

EDITORIAL: Govts must act decisively to save Lake Victoria fish

>For about ten years now, stakeholders, especially the three riparian countries sharing Lake Victoria, which are Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, have been dragging their feet over the plan to impose seasonal fishing in order to save Nile perch.

 

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