EDITORIAL: It is time to go back to the drawing board

>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.

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Bill for survey of agriculture lands on the drawing board
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A SOLUTION to regular land conflicts in the country is underway as the government now embarks on carrying out massive land surveys that will put clear demarcations for particular land uses. Minister for Agriculture, Food Security and Cooperatives, ...

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>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.

>It is easy to dismiss smokers as people who should simply be ignored since they are self-destructive, but the matter is not as simple as that. The health of a non-smoker seated next to a person who is smoking is endangered too.

>The uncertainty that has gripped the country over the tabling of the 2014/2015 budget has exposed our leaders’ lack of foresight and their inability to plan well ahead.

Prominent professional boxing promoter Jay Msangi of the Hall Of Fame Boxing and Promotions aims high and this time, he expects to bring more international boxing fights to the country.

>Zanzibar yesterday marked the day when, 51 years ago, a disparate group of very ordinary people in the “Clove Island,” armed with rudimentary weapons, overthrew the undemocratic regime led by a sultan and his local collaborators at the expense of the popular Afro Shirazi Party (ASP).

Last week, Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda and other Members of the Constituent Assembly (MCAs), seemed to suggest they would convince the President to call the referendum on the proposed Constitution ahead of the 2015 General Election.