Fram The Citizen, Dar es Salaam
By Patty Magubira, Mwanza
Misungwi District Court in Mwanza Region has sentenced a disabled person to a 30-year imprisonment plus four stokes of the cane after convicting him of raping a secondary school student.
The disabled, Masai Sitta, 40, a traditional healer from Ibongoya 'A' village in the district, was treating the student before he committed the offense.
Senior resident magistrate Said Kasongo, meted out the punishment on Friday last week.
Mr Kasongo said the court was convinced beyond any reasonable doubt by the evidence produced by the prosecution side at the court. He added that the offence was increasingly becoming a social problem in the society.
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Saturday, 15 August 2009
Friday, 14 August 2009
Rock City Marathon to honour Nyambui
From The Citizen, Dar es Salaam
By Suleiman Jongo
Organisers of the Rock City Marathon have said the inaugural event is meant to honour the greatest marathoner Suleiman Nyambui.
Nyambui, who earned Tanzania one of the two Olympic medals in the 1980s, hails from a small Mwanza's island called Ukerewe.
By Suleiman Jongo
Organisers of the Rock City Marathon have said the inaugural event is meant to honour the greatest marathoner Suleiman Nyambui.
Nyambui, who earned Tanzania one of the two Olympic medals in the 1980s, hails from a small Mwanza's island called Ukerewe.
Tanzania Tourist Board's marketing manager Geoffrey Meena said the 21-killiometre race also aims at unearthing many long distance runners in the lake zone.
Apart from fostering athletics, Meena stressed that the race would help to promote plentiful tourist attractions that are available in the region.
Wednesday, 12 August 2009
Mwanza to host Rock City Marathon
From The Citizen, Dar es Salaam
By Suleiman Jongo
Capital-Plus International, a sports marketing firm, has organised a 21-kilometre race dubbed Rock City Marathon 2009 slated for Mwanza on October 4.
Events coordinator Phillipo Simon said the race would start at CCM Kirumba Stadium and pass through city's streets, then back to the stadium.
He said runners from all over the country as well as neighbouring countries were encouraged to participate in the gruelling race.
The official said they had already sent invitations to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, Uganda and Zambia.
"We expect it to be the biggest sporting event to be staged in the region and we also hope that it will unearth many young talents," he said.
Apart from promoting sports, the event would also serve to market plentiful country's' tourist attractions. "We realised sports can play a very big role in promoting tourism, therefore we decided to organise the race so as to market some attractions in Mwanza," he said.
Mwanza has a number of attractions like the Saa Nane Island, Rubondo and huge boulders around Lake Victoria.
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By Suleiman Jongo
Capital-Plus International, a sports marketing firm, has organised a 21-kilometre race dubbed Rock City Marathon 2009 slated for Mwanza on October 4.
Events coordinator Phillipo Simon said the race would start at CCM Kirumba Stadium and pass through city's streets, then back to the stadium.
He said runners from all over the country as well as neighbouring countries were encouraged to participate in the gruelling race.
The official said they had already sent invitations to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, Uganda and Zambia.
"We expect it to be the biggest sporting event to be staged in the region and we also hope that it will unearth many young talents," he said.
Apart from promoting sports, the event would also serve to market plentiful country's' tourist attractions. "We realised sports can play a very big role in promoting tourism, therefore we decided to organise the race so as to market some attractions in Mwanza," he said.
Mwanza has a number of attractions like the Saa Nane Island, Rubondo and huge boulders around Lake Victoria.
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Tuesday, 11 August 2009
TRL train services under fire
From ThisDay, Dar es Salaam
THE government’s transport sector regulator has raised safety concerns over Tanzania Railways Limited (TRL) operations, describing the national railway carrier as the worst public transport service provider in the country.
Latest findings by the Surface and Marine Transport Regulatory Authority (SUMATRA) suggest that the safety of thousands of people using TRL services could be at risk.
SUMATRA’s assessment on the state of the country’s railways network comes against the backdrop of a spate of accidents involving both TRL passenger and cargo wagons.
A TRL passenger train derailed at the weekend in Morogoro Region in a near-fatal accident, injuring more than 60 passengers. This was just the latest in a series of similar railway crashes.
SUMATRA’s consumer consultative council assessed the quality of railway services after receiving a string of complaints from passengers, and council members travelled by train from Dar es Salaam to Kigoma to get first-hand experience of the horrid conditions.
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THE government’s transport sector regulator has raised safety concerns over Tanzania Railways Limited (TRL) operations, describing the national railway carrier as the worst public transport service provider in the country.
Latest findings by the Surface and Marine Transport Regulatory Authority (SUMATRA) suggest that the safety of thousands of people using TRL services could be at risk.
SUMATRA’s assessment on the state of the country’s railways network comes against the backdrop of a spate of accidents involving both TRL passenger and cargo wagons.
A TRL passenger train derailed at the weekend in Morogoro Region in a near-fatal accident, injuring more than 60 passengers. This was just the latest in a series of similar railway crashes.
SUMATRA’s consumer consultative council assessed the quality of railway services after receiving a string of complaints from passengers, and council members travelled by train from Dar es Salaam to Kigoma to get first-hand experience of the horrid conditions.
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Monday, 10 August 2009
Traders threaten to sue Government
From The Citizen, Dar es Salaam
By Anthony Mayunga, Mwanza
Guesthouses here have threatened to sue the government for continuing to impose 20 per cent levy on the business while hotels, a related industry, paid only 18 per cent Value Added Tax (VAT).
The secretary general of the guest house owners association known in its Kiswahili acronym of Uwanza, Mr Kilphence Herman, said the levy was a big burden as it forced them to set high room occupancy rates, making many customers to shun their businesses.
Uwanza has an estimated 350 members. The move, Mr Herman said, was the only recourse left to them as the Government has decided no to listen to their demands, raised at different occasions.
"We have since January last year been complaining over the levy to the Finance and Economic Affairs Ministry, yet the government is still silent," he said.
Mwanza City council has been claiming to be merely acting according to the law. Mr Herman said that requirement ought to change in order to harmonise taxes in an area of related service.
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By Anthony Mayunga, Mwanza
Guesthouses here have threatened to sue the government for continuing to impose 20 per cent levy on the business while hotels, a related industry, paid only 18 per cent Value Added Tax (VAT).
The secretary general of the guest house owners association known in its Kiswahili acronym of Uwanza, Mr Kilphence Herman, said the levy was a big burden as it forced them to set high room occupancy rates, making many customers to shun their businesses.
Uwanza has an estimated 350 members. The move, Mr Herman said, was the only recourse left to them as the Government has decided no to listen to their demands, raised at different occasions.
"We have since January last year been complaining over the levy to the Finance and Economic Affairs Ministry, yet the government is still silent," he said.
Mwanza City council has been claiming to be merely acting according to the law. Mr Herman said that requirement ought to change in order to harmonise taxes in an area of related service.
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Friday, 7 August 2009
Ten killed, 36 injured in Singida bus crash
From The Citizen, Dar es Salaam
By Awila Silla, Singida
Ten people including a Chinese national, died yesterday in yet another road accident involving a commuter bus along the Manyara-Singida road.
The accident which occurred at Gehandu area in Hanang District, left 36 other people injured and were rushed to the regional hospital in Singida for treatment.
The bus christened 'Jordan' overturned at a sharp bent on a bridge, some 55 kilometers to Singida town. The bus was heading to Mwanza from Moshi in Kilimanjaro Region. The accident comes barely two weeks after a Mohammed Trans bus killed 28 people near Korogwe when it rammed into a trailer.
According to one of the injured, Mr Aminiel Kitoi, 50, from Arumeru, the accident happened yesterday afternoon allegedly over speeding. The victim suffered multiple fractures on his left arm.
Mr Kitoi said the driver failed to negotiate a sharp bend and hit a bridge. "The bus hit the bridge rails before it overturned several times throwing some passengers out," said the victim.
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By Awila Silla, Singida
Ten people including a Chinese national, died yesterday in yet another road accident involving a commuter bus along the Manyara-Singida road.
The accident which occurred at Gehandu area in Hanang District, left 36 other people injured and were rushed to the regional hospital in Singida for treatment.
The bus christened 'Jordan' overturned at a sharp bent on a bridge, some 55 kilometers to Singida town. The bus was heading to Mwanza from Moshi in Kilimanjaro Region. The accident comes barely two weeks after a Mohammed Trans bus killed 28 people near Korogwe when it rammed into a trailer.
According to one of the injured, Mr Aminiel Kitoi, 50, from Arumeru, the accident happened yesterday afternoon allegedly over speeding. The victim suffered multiple fractures on his left arm.
Mr Kitoi said the driver failed to negotiate a sharp bend and hit a bridge. "The bus hit the bridge rails before it overturned several times throwing some passengers out," said the victim.
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Albino group worried about stalled Tanzania cases
From Reuters, London, UK
By George Obulutsa
DAR ES SALAAM, Aug 7 (Reuters) - A Canada-based rights group has questioned Tanzania's commitment to stop albino murders after courts in the northwest of the African country suspended cases against suspected killers due to lack of funds.
At least 53 Tanzanian albinos have been murdered since 2007, with most of the killings taking place in the remote northwest regions of Shinyanga and Mwanza, where superstition runs deep.
To date, the authorities have arrested more than 90 people, including four police officers, for involvement in the killings or trade of albino body parts - which witchdoctors tell their clients will bring them luck in love, life and business.
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By George Obulutsa
DAR ES SALAAM, Aug 7 (Reuters) - A Canada-based rights group has questioned Tanzania's commitment to stop albino murders after courts in the northwest of the African country suspended cases against suspected killers due to lack of funds.
At least 53 Tanzanian albinos have been murdered since 2007, with most of the killings taking place in the remote northwest regions of Shinyanga and Mwanza, where superstition runs deep.
To date, the authorities have arrested more than 90 people, including four police officers, for involvement in the killings or trade of albino body parts - which witchdoctors tell their clients will bring them luck in love, life and business.
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