THINKING CRITICALLY: Same old tinkering with a derelict system

The long awaited so-called mini cabinet reshuffle has at long last been announced and one is left at a loss as to what the whole hullabaloo was all about.

Monday was Saint Patrick’s Day, what the Irish call Lá Fhéile Pádraig, “the Day of the Festival of Patrick”.

Three weeks ago, on February 5, Tanzanians with social democratic sensibilities marked, quietly in the privacy of their souls, the 44th anniversary of the birth of Tanzania’s socialist blueprint, the monumental Arusha Declaration.

>Parliament is currently in its budget sitting and it is sad watching the conduct of the majority of its members.

>Last Sunday, that is, May 25, Africa marked 51 years since the founding of the Organisation for African Unity (OAU), which later transformed itself to the African Union (AU).

>There is an unfolding political saga in Dodoma as Tanzania’s historic Constituent Assembly (CA) gets down to business.

Scottish nurse Pauline Cafferkey, who is being treated for complications from Ebola after working in Sierra Leone, is now "critically ill".

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