EDITORIAL: Give drivers mental tonic

>Deaths on our roads are increasingly ceasing to be newsworthy material. A very sad situation indeed, but that is where we have reached, given that no week passes without a report on scores getting killed or maimed through road accidents. Everyone is concerned, but what are we doing about it?

TheCitizen

Habari Zinazoendana

10 years ago

TheCitizen

02 Mar

EDITORIAL: Secure mental hospitals

>A drama took place in Dodoma at the weekend, which is truly a case of madness being made worse by people who are supposed to be experts at easing the illness.  An unspecified number of patients escaped from Mirembe Hospital in Dodoma, Tanzania’s leading facility for treating mental illness.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

15 Nov

EDITORIAL: Give us a break, Muhongo!

>Minister for Energy and Minerals Sospeter Muhongo did himself no favours when he announced on Thursday that his ministry would not submit oil and natural gas production sharing agreements (PSAs) to the Parliamentary Public  Accounts Committee.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

05 Sep

EDITORIAL: To CA members: give the people what they want

>Members of the Constituent Assembly (MCAs) want to maintain the clause in the Constitution that forbids a petition against the winner of the presidential vote. This is truly shocking. What the MCAs are proposing is that once the winner of the presidential votes is announced, no one has the constitutional right to appeal.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

20 Sep

EDITORIAL: Give the people a hearing

>Police frequently disrupt demonstrations by opposition parties, even when they are peaceful. Journalists on duty also get the same hostile treatment. This is unacceptable.

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

14 Sep

EDITORIAL :Let's give insightful attention to suicide

Suicide is a disturbing incident because, unlike death caused by, say, an illness or an accident, the decision by someone to take their own precious life is extremely disturbing and negative. It is one of the reasons why suicide is considered sinful in some cultures where the “culprit” is denied befitting funeral. One of the latest reported cases in Tanzania relates to 25-year-old Charles Bruna, a resident of Kitunguru Village, in Mara Region’s Serengeti District.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

02 Sep

EDITORIAL: TZ is not a monarchy, so give all a chance in polls

>It isn’t surprising that, as the 2015 General Election tempo builds up, rough play is emerging. It is like some among us are bent on proving—as it oft said—that politics is a dirty game. Electioneering is a component of politics in which crooked conduct comes to the fore as individuals vie for political posts that are up for grabs from the grassroots to the national level.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

20 Jan

EDITORIAL: Give preventive health care greater importance

>With  the advent of HIV/Aids in the early 1980s, there has been too much attention towards this scourge at the expense of virtually every other medical concern. As everybody, including policy makers, worried themselves sick about HIV/Aids, which affects “only” a couple of millions in Tanzania, a lot more millions people faced death from diabetes and all manner of cancers.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

15 Jul

EDITORIAL: Give people safe water, step up hygiene drive

>Water is life, the saying goes. Yet many Tanzanians die not for lack of the precious liquid but for drinking it when it is  contaminated and unsafe for human consumption. That is why we consider most valid the concern expressed by the medical officer in-charge at Mwanshimba Dispensary in Tabora, Dr George Kavella, who noted that the health of 17,000 people in the ward is at risk because they drink dirty water from a dam.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

11 Nov

Mwambusi seeks Mbeya City tonic

Mbeya City head coach Juma Mwambusi has blamed lack of commitment among his players as a reason for making a shoddy start to the 2014/15 Vodacom Premier League. Mbeya City, who finished third last season are languishing at the bottom of the 14-team table with five points after seven matches.

 

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