EDITORIAL: Juvenile justice system flawed

>I have heard many stories of crowds meting out justice in Tanzania.  The punishments range from stoning to placing a tire over the head of a person suspected to be a thief dousing it with petrol and setting it alight, also known as “neck-lacing”.

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Case delays reflect inefficient judicial system, concedes Chief Justice Chande
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In his address to the National Court Council yesterday in Dodoma, Chief Justice Mohamed Othman Chande acknowledged that case delays are a clear sign of an inefficient judicial system. Having conceded the fact, he assured the council and the public that ...

>South Africa is accusing both local and international media of blowing out of proportion the attacks on foreigners in that country. If the top leaders in South Africa had their way, the media would give the mayhem a blackout and focus on supposedly not tarnishing the Rainbow Nation’s image as a peaceful and safe place to live.

>Besides empowering learners with the three Ws--reading, writing and arithmetic--education gives our children a clearer understanding of their environment so they survive and thrive in it.

>Today, there are at least 40 thousand Tanzanian youth pursuing degrees at any one time, meaning that we churn out some 10 thousand graduates annually – we had 120 at independence – and according to Education ministry authorities, the target is to produce 80,000 every year by 2025

Govt sto strengthen juvenile facilities
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THE government is in the process of putting in place Juvenile Justice System that will ensure justice is given to children offenders. Deputy Minister for Home Affairs Pereira Ame Silima told the National Assembly that the government in collaboration with United ...

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Juvenile delinquency affects students' achievements
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Juvenile delinquency and riots are one of the common themes in postcolonial Tanzanian literature that is set in the 1970s, 1980s, into the 1990s. Juvenile delinquency and riots threaten the quality of life of urban dwellers in Dar-es- Salaam; during the 1990s, ...

Fenceless juvenile prison 'exposes' children to vice
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LACK of fence to secure the Arusha Juvenile Remand prison is exposing the facility, for restoring unruly children, to all forms of vices, especially infiltration of narcotic drugs. The Arusha Regional Welfare Officer, Mr Mussa Mukamate, raised the concern when ...

The Constituent Assembly (CA) is one of the key stages towards writing a new Constitution. It is Part Five (sections 22-30) of the Constitutional Review Act (Cap 83), which creates this body, which as days go by, it becomes even irrelevant in undertaking its mission.