EDITORIAL: We must strive harder to avoid wastefulness

Campaigns for October 25 polls have come a long way. For about two months now, politicians have been criss-crossing the country wooing voters. With only 11 days to go before voting day, we are all glad that there haven’t been any catastrophic clashes associated with the campaigns, except for an incident in Mara Region where one person was killed and several others injured.

>Some people nurse the comical belief that, when they sneeze, any mild physical discomfort bothering them vanishes.

The health sector is currently in a serious crisis. Not that it had been that much good in the recent past, not since people started hearing of cost-sharing which,in some cases meant getting a free prescription and advice from the doctor on where you could buy the drugs.

Tanzania’s once magnificent tyre making company, the Arusha-based General Tyre East Africa Limited (GTEA) is set for revival. This is great news indeed for the country whose weak industrial sector is hugely to blame for the current unemployment crisis, which is standing at a conservative 12 per cent.

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Once Azim went to the airport to pick up someone who had come to attend a funeral. While waiting, he met a woman from his community, and they began talking about death.

The call by the Dar es Salaam Regional Commissioner Said Meck Sadick for investors to construct and sell houses at prices that ordinary Tanzanians can afford is very timely, coming at a time the country is experiencing a boon in the real estate sector. 

Commercial banks have just made it more difficult for the average Tom, Dick and Jane to get a loan for personal use, The Citizen on Sunday has reliably learnt.