EDITORIAL: Poor showing at Africa Games should awaken us

Besides not regularly uploading updated materials, some govt websites have dead links and are not user friendly. The shortage of ICT specialists is not a good enough excuse, considering just how important this whole thing is.

Tanzania has continued to perform poorly in the ongoing All Africa Games after an amateur boxer, Saidi Hofu, was knocked out in the first round by Ghanaian pugilist Artmost Annan Appiah.

With only 28 days left to the 11th All Africa Games in Congo Brazzaville, Tanzania’s athletes are still in the dark on what to expect. We intend to field participants in athletics, swimming, amateur boxing, women football and judoka.

Poor English decried for dismal showing in exams
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ZANZIBAR Education Development Organisation (ZEDO), a non-governmental body, argues that lack of proper understanding of the English language has been one of the major causes of poor performance in national exams in Zanzibar. “Many students do ...

The business community in Tanzania wants to hold public debates and invite candidates vying for public posts to state their case before the general election is held in October. The idea is to provide a platform for the business community and other stakeholders to get to know their potential leaders and share ideas on what ought to be done if they are elected.

What is more, our farmers continue to engage in old school forms of tilling the land. About 70 per cent of our farmers use the hoe. Inputs that would boost productivity per hectare, such as fertiliser and insecticides, are very minimal.

The draws for the men's and women's football tournaments at the 2015 All Africa Games in Brazzaville are completed.

With the 2015 All-Africa Games barely three months away, Tanzania’s preparations for the multi-sport event are laughable. Ironically, athletes from other countries--including hosts Congo Brazzaville, Kenya and Ethiopia--have set up camp at home as they scheme on how to steal the show at the games in September.

>In his balanced growth theory, a renowned economist, Ragnar Nurkse, says a society is poor because it is poor but to Africa, this is not the case, it was noted yesterday.