MY TAKE ON THIS : Political heat no excuse for curtailing people’s freedom

Zanzibar Oil, Gas Win Cools Political Heat
AllAfrica.com
Zanzibar will start issuing oil and gas exploration licences following a law amendment that gives the island autonomy in natural resource management. President Jakaya Kikwete assented to the Petroleum Act 2015 in July but regulations to operationalise ...

>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.

While Tanzanians are preparing themselves for the forthcoming civic elections to be followed by the General Election next year, politicians have been warned to stop using places of worship and clerics for political gain.

Police warn public against booing people in political party regalia
Daily News
THE police force in Dar es Salaam has warned the public against booing people dressed in clothes bearing colours associated with political parties. Addressing journalists at the Dar es Salaam Regional Commissioner's office, Dar es Salaam Special Zone ...

>To great dismay, Tanzanians were treated to horrifying ‘pictures’ of brutality by their police and some ruling party henchmen (and henchwomen, to be politically correct!)

>Democratic principles provide for freedom of people to air their views. Anything which contravenes free airing of views without due reasons, is undemocratic.

The wife came home early to find her husband making love to a beautiful sexy young woman.

“You unfaithful, disrespectful jerk! What are you doing? How dare you do this to me the faithful wife, the mother of your children!

I’m leaving this house and I want a divorce!”

The husband, replied, “Wait! Wait a minute! Before you leave, at least listen to what happened.”

“It’ll be the last thing I will hear from you so make it fast, you cheating creep.”

“While driving home this young lady asked for...

How is it that some of the countries endowed with enormous natural resource wealth — like Angola with its huge oil supply, Zambia with its massive copper reserves, or the Democratic Republic of the Congo with its vast mineral deposits — remain some of the poorest nations in the world?

Wife beating is wrong, yet it is a practice that is so widespread in Tanzania that it has come to be taken for granted. A survey conducted in 2011 by an NGO, Champion, shows that 54 per cent of women and 38 per cent of men aged between 15 and 49 years believe that husbands are justified in beating their wives!