EDITORIAL: Take dirty people to task

>We have said it here before. We shall say it again today. Dar es Salaam is increasingly becoming a city in which residents don’t mind dirt. It might as well be referred to as a city of dirty people.

TheCitizen

Habari Zinazoendana

9 years ago

TheCitizen

18 Aug

EDITORIAL: Dar can beat cholera, but not when it’s dirty

According to Mercer Health and Sanitation Index, Dar es Salaam occupies position 12—with 40.4 score—among the world’s 25 dirtiest cities.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

12 Jan

EDITORIAL: Ikulu bid: Policy ideas, yes; dirty politics, no

>As the excitement over the entry into the new year is wearing off, political excitement is gathering momentum in the form of  the race to State House. Against its backdrop is the fact that, in compliance with constitutional requirements, President Jakaya Kikwete  is nearing the end of his second and final term.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

13 Aug

EDITORIAL: Why sustaining a stronger shilling is an uphill task

When the outgoing Member of Parliament for Mwibara, Mr Kangi Lugola, displayed cheap imported goods in the National Assembly on June 17, 2015, to show why the shilling fell freely between January and June this year, some may have thought it was an isolated case.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

23 Aug

EDITORIAL: Let reasoning guide people

With poverty rising by the day, more people are looking for shortcuts to get rich. This social phenomenon is manifested in more and more people turning to witchcraft and other dubious practices. There are adverts all over the country promising to make you rich or successful without working hard. All you have to do is try out these shortcuts and all the riches you want will be yours.

 

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.

 

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

14 Oct

EDITORIAL: Nyerere: The ultimate man of the people

>Today Tanzanians commemorate the death of the Founding Father of the Nation, Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere, who on this day of the month in 1999 died at Saint Thomas Hospital, in London.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

06 Mar

EDITORIAL: Drop political agendas and focus on the people

>Is politics a dirty game by its very nature? Our answer is a categorical “No.” In a truly civilised society, politics is a good thing, for it is through it that a state can be properly governed.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

31 Oct

EDITORIAL: Stop personality clashes at Eala and serve people!

>The latest developments in the East African Legislative Assembly (Eala) cast doubt on the credibility of the regional organisation and the quality of those elected to serve the people.

 

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