We can only ignore plight of teachers at our peril

As Tanzanian teachers join their professional colleagues elsewhere to mark the World Teachers’ Day, held on October 5 annually since 1994, it is appropriate to look at the situation of our teachers, without whom we cannot talk of any meaningful future of our young.

TheCitizen

Habari Zinazoendana

11 years ago

TheCitizen

21 Mar

EDITORIAL: TZ doomed if employers ignore workers’ plight

>On Wednesday, Legal and Human Rights Centre (LHRC) released a report showing that over 80 per cent of workers in the corporate sector don’t have formal job contracts.

 

10 years ago

IPPmedia

17 Nov

Teachers say govt downplaying their plight

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Teachers say govt downplaying their plight
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The government maintains the rightful due is 5.7bn/- but the union says in Mbeya Region alone, teachers are owed up to 4bn/- in outstanding arrears. Initially the teachers submitted claims of up to 16.25bn/- for non–salary dues but the government accepted ...

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

23 Jul

We are cheating the nation at our own peril

There is a story which I was told some years ago. There was an old man in a village who decided not to take a bath. After years of living that way, one day his children decided to take him forcefully to the river and bathed him. When they returned home they left him sleeping in his room but when they woke up in the morning they found him dead.

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

19 Nov

Tanzanian media: Missing in action at our own peril

Last week the African Media Initiative (AMI) launched Zimeo Excellence in Media Awards to encourage good journalism in the continent. Why Zimeo? This is a Kiswahili word for “war cry”.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

21 Feb

Discuss my exit at your own peril, Mugabe warns

>Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe who turns 90 on Friday says there is no need to talk about his succession because he is not about to retire.

 

10 years ago

IPPmedia

25 May

Kikwete to bid teachers farewell at Teachers' Union meeting

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Kikwete to bid teachers farewell at Teachers' Union meeting
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President Jakaya Kikwete is tomorrow expected to officiate the ninth annual general meeting (AGM) of the Tanzania Teachers' Union (TTU) to be held in Arusha's Ngurdoto Mountain Lodge. He is also expected to use the opportunity to bid farewell to teachers ...

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

13 Oct

We cannot ignore the suffering of those refugees

“Sympathy’s easy. You have sympathy for starving children swatting at flies on the late-night commercials. Sympathy is easy because it comes from a position of power. Empathy is getting down on your knees and looking someone else in the eye and realising you could be them, and that all that separates you is luck.”- Dennis Lehane.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

20 Jul

Banks should not ignore customers

One cannot define a noun by its adjective. Only the dictionary approach explains fairness as “the quality of being fair.”

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

08 May

Appeal to ignore Ukawa

The ruling party in the region has urged its members not to let leaders of the Coalition of Defenders of the People’s Constitution (Ukawa) to sway them in their position with regards to the process of writing the new Constitution.

 

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