The emerging brand of rich beggars in Uswaz

Sherehe za Muungano kuunguruma ndani ya Jiji la wasilolala New York City, April 26 kuanzia saa 12 jioni hadi usiku wa manane. Sherehe hizi zitasimamiwa na viongozi wa Jumuiya ya Watanzaia New York. Kutakuwa na chakula na vinywaji baridi kwa gharama ya Dollar 50 Mtu mmoja na Burudani ya music pamoja na mambo mbalimbali ya kuwafanya watu watakaojitokeza kufurahia siku hii ya kujivunia kwa nchi yetu ya Tanzania na Zanzibar Watanzania wote mnakaribishwa kiroho safi.Ukumbi utakaofanyika Cherehe...

>If you thought all beggars seeking alms in the streets were desperate, think again.There is a shocking revelation here that most of the alm-seekers actually hire children for the task.

Beggars, scavengers should be prosecuted
Daily News
THE revelation in the National Assembly early this week that some financial opportunists use socially disadvantaged people to make money through begging must have surprised many socially upright Tanzanians. Begging is an undertaking that cannot and ...

In these god-forsaken ghettos called Uswaz, religion happens to be grossly misunderstood. We combine pious characters with superstition. The line dividing the divine and evil is thin as a cobweb. Uswahilinites love to keep a piece of Shaytan (devil) and God at the same time although the holy books say that light and darkness do not mix.

Ladies and gentlemen, in Uswaz, every soul loves music. Anything from Asha Mashauzi’s Taarab that on a daily basis wafts from my neighbour’s shack, to glass-shattering hip hop that booms from a bachelor’s pad opposite my house qualifies to be music.

Two Migori MCAs Slam Influx of Beggars
The Star
DISABLED people from Tanzania are giving persons living with disability in Migori a bad name by begging in the streets, two MCAs have said. Abedi Maroa (Masaba) and Eunice Mboya (nominated) urged the county government to send the beggars away.

It is something akin to Stephen King’s Horror novels! There is a “new” fever doctors are calling “dengue” doing its rounds in this sprawling Uswaz.

Nothing has lately made my life hell, after having to visit the Uswaz dispensary in the wee hours of the morning, writhing, groaning and vibrating like an old tractor with stomach pains.