Good roads boost Kahama business

Today is World Toilet Day… Cheers! The banner ‘Toilets save lives’ might sound mundane, far-fetched... Or, at best: a smart-alecky trader’s way of drawing attention to toilet-related ware be fobbed off upon unwary prospective customers…! 

Seemingly for the umpteenth time, Tanzania’s major partners-in-development have come out in lavish praise for what they described as peaceful, stable transition from one govt to another.

>It’s been said time and again that Tanzania is phenomenally-endowed with natural and other resources. (Yet, the country is home to among the world’s twenty poorest peoples. About 36 per cent of its 45 million-strong population lives and dies in abject poverty more than half a century after the country attained independence (?) from foreign rule!)

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The upgrading of some feeder roads in Dar es Salaam as part of efforts to address the traffic jam nightmare in the city is heartening, although a lot still needs to be done.

Reports that our roads are getting destroyed by heavy trucks ferrying cargo for the local and regional markets are disturbing, for we have the alternative that can stop this ruin.

Along the 109km-stretch of the Central Corridor, between Singida and Shelui, everybody had some steam to let off. It was-after all an opportunity not to be missed:

The cleanliness campaign on Independence Day pioneered by President Magufuli has renewed a sense of optimism among the business community in the city that they will get more customers as a result.

We have seen many global and known businesses being built by friends who became partners, but there are also thousands more where it hasn’t worked. Friends, based on their commonality, believe that they can use their close relationship as a social capital to start and grow a business without going into any conflicts.