FIRE OUTBREAK IN KATAVI NATIONAL PARK

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Yesterday, some of the park employees did not enjoy their weekend after an emergency case of fire in the park thus needing their immediate participation to stop it. fires in the park are set by the illegal hunters(poachers) something that destort the harmony of the Ecosystem and causing numerous troubles to wild animals.

Hired labors busy with fire-beating.

The left standing in under-shirt Mr. Peter is the park administrative officer on a pose with mr Ze great muga-holding fire-beaters around their sholdiers as the gesture of victory after a hell of efforts of fire stopping.

park ladies giggling with smugness for their participating in manly labor. the tall white-faced Martha, is the park warden permanent employee tourism department. at the center, the fleshy lady Johary, a cook for park employees and other in-coming tourists. and the meddium-sized with a nudged-head is johary's colleague in cookerys.

the in white shirt is the park Ecologyist mr Manase together with his friend in a black under-shirt with their minions heading to the scene.

Mr Bariki, the park warden with comrades in self-congratulatory mood after the task.

on a queue loading fire-bitting apparati;

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SELECTION ZA CHUO 2011 - 2012 ZANUKIA (TCU)

Posted by Abby Hass on 11:10 PM

Majina ya Wanafunzi waliochaguliwa kujiunga na Vyuo vikuu nchini Tanzania yameanza kunukia na muda si mrefu utayapata hapa live, kwa wanafunzi wote ambao kwa sasa mapigo ya moyo yanakimbia na kusubiria kwa hamu basi kaa mkao wa kupokea uchaguzi wako ili uweze kujua ni chuo gani umepangiwa.

TCU to open second round admission in AUG. THE second round of applications processed by the Tanzania Commission for Universities (TCU) through its Central Admission System will be opened on August 1 to August 22, 2011.

The second round will be opened to those who will not be selected during the first round and applicants who did not apply during the first round of application, which was closed on May 31, this year.

According to the TCU Executive Secretary, Professor Sifuni Mchome, the names of unselected applicants will be posted on the TCU website and on the media immediately after the first round of selection is completed. He however did not mention the exact date when the names will be posted.

According to professor Mchome, candidates aspiring to join higher education institutions and could not apply by the 31st May 2011 are advised to apply.

"During the second round both unselected first round applicants and new applicants will be processed using the Central Admission System and selection results will be announced before 30th September 2011," said professor Mchome in the press Release posted in TCU website on Wednesday.

TCU advises University institutions not to admit any student outside the Central Admission System, to avoid unnecessary complications in the admission process.






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Comment please TCU can u please release the first round of selected students immediatly so as to allow early preparation for others and who will be unselected to start applying.

Comment If the criteria applied in selecting candidates for higher learning institution base on the same standard why those who are considered unqualified fight to apply for the second time. For student this is wastage because if a student was considered unqualified why then should he/she qualify for the second time unless you say your system is subjected to error that you want the student to pay for while isn't their fault.
I suggest if you really intend to help this guys who will not be selected in the first round you should reprocess the same names before you call for other applications.
Regards

Comment does this mean that a student will be required a gain to pay 20,000/= as application fee? you have the list of those who applied why can't you make a second selection from that list? Or you are using it as an opportunity to make money as at all a student is required to pay again.

Comment The system is good because it helps to avoid bias and other human errors during selection, but I recomend futher improvement to be done to encrease its efficience since its still low.Otherwise, you have agood starting.keep on.

Comment THESE ARE THE DE-SERIOUS DEEDS ACTUALLY. WHY WASTING OUR TIME? AND WHO'RE THOSE TO APPLY SECOND TIME? WHAT'S THE CRETERIOR FOR ADMITTING FIRST ROUND APPLICANTS? BE SERIOUS COME ON! THIS'S PEOPLE'S LIFE, TAKING US FOR GRANTED DOESN'T MAKE SENSE;

Comment Tcu should should conduct second selection for unselected applicants of first round. By so doing justice can be done

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Why are young people in a rush to get married?


By Joseph Mtebe
This week, I visited the street where I was raised and the elementary school I went to.I was surprised at the rate at which my former playmates were rushing to motherhood and fatherhood.The question I therefore had to contend with at almost every household I went to was, when are you getting married?
“You’re grown up now, you should find a girl,” they kept asking.

I wasn’t surprised at all because lately it has become the life style around here.
Although I have been reading all these fine books on how to find a better half, I must admit that I haven’t been successful in that department.

I just can’t imagine thinking of diapers when I can hardly sort my own life out.The number of those who are already mothers and those expecting is enough to awe any one. As much as it astonished me, they were equally surprised that I was still in college with no wife and no child.

“What are you waiting for? Life doesn’t wait for anyone, it goes on and on. What legacy are you going to leave behind, just in case, something happens?” one said.

Here they were, talking about legacy in an era when parenthood is no longer about legacy but a great responsibility.
I simply quashed these guys’ assertions as some simply misguided fantasies. Many of these friends in the street never saw the inside of a secondary school, let alone college. And so, while pitying them, I can’t help wondering what the future holds for the poor off-springs.

However even then a second thought came up recently when Asha, whom we go to college together, called.
“I’m reminding you of the deadline.” She said.

“What deadline?” I had almost forgotten.
“It’s my wedding, it’s Sh50,000 for single and twice that much for a double card,” she said. Gosh,I hadn’t forgotten but I was just trying to forget. I had dozens of contribution cards to attend to, most of them from colleagues in college.

These cards all had something in common, a deadline and minimum pay contribution as though it were some loan of some type. Yet no one seems to care about the contributors when they are deciding to tie the knots. It has either become fashionable or people just don’t have a choice.

I say fashionable because everyday people come up with news that they want to get married.
The lack of choice comes in when there is a possibility of giving birth to an illegitimate child and because they cannot bear the shame, they have to wed ASAP!

But as I said, I think it is fashionable these days to have a baby, and well, start a family of your own.
Because like in my class these days, everyday there’s gonna be another girl coming dressed in some loose clothing aka dira.

I posed this question the other day to my friends and they had differing opinions.“Our course is a four-year programme, yet some people’s biological clocks are ticking away. The only recourse left is to at least do both things at the same time,” said Irene.

“I think these are accidents just like many others,” said Neema.Well accidents or no accidents, I thought people were entitled to their own, rational decisions. If someone of my age in the village or elsewhere can, and does actually marry, I shouldn’t follow the bandwagon because it’s the order of the day. If anything, to borrow Ngugi Wa Thiong’o’s words, I will marry when I want, and to add, when I can.

Email: joefortunatus@gmail.com

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JUNIOUR KIKWETE, IN COURT FOR GRAFT ALLEGATIONS

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Dar es Salaam. Opposition leaders Dr Willibrod Slaa and Reverend Christopher Mtikila are set to face off President Jakaya Kikwete’s son, Ridhiwani, in a high-profile court battle.

Ridhiwani has officially filed a defamation lawsuit against Chadema’s secretary general and the chairman of Democratic Party (DP) Mtikila for allegedly accusing him of amassing questionable wealth since his father’s ascendance to the presidency.

The duo had publicly accused him of using his father’s influence to amass the purported wealth, and he wants his name to be cleared of the allegations.

In a case filed on Friday in the High Court, Ridhiwani also enjoined in the suit a daily Kiswahili newspaper owned by Chadema chairman and leader of the official opposition in Parliament, Mr Freeman Mbowe. The Hai MP is the proprietor of Free Media Limited, publishers of Tanzania Daima.

Managing Director of Printech Company and the editor of the said newspaper will also be party in the case whose first hearing date is to be set within two weeks.

Ridhiwani wants the court to order the defendants to pay him Sh2 billion in general damages, apologise and permanently restrain from further publishing and circulating “defamatory falsehood” touching on his personal life, his business or profession or other engagements.

The filing of the suit opens the doors for a likely tough legal battle, as the two accused politicians are on record saying they would “shame” Ridhiwani in court if he dared sue them.

Ridhiwani announced at a press conference in May that he intended to sue his detractors for what he described as ‘false allegations’, which he claimed were calculated to tarnish his image and that of his family.

But in a rejoinder, Dr Slaa said that he owed the junior Kikwete no apology and challenged him to send him to court.

Reverend Mtikila is also on record as saying he had ample evidence to prove in court how much wealth the junior Kikwete possessed. “I cannot apologise to anyone. I have enough evidence the young man has a lot of wealth which he did not acquire legitimately. Let him go to court, for I will prove my case,” Mtikila had intoned.

Mtikila had claimed that Ridhiwani was a billionaire who owned, among other things, a transport company with a fleet of about 150 trucks, and a road construction firm, in addition to a number of mansions and buildings, as well as large chunks of land.

But Ridhiwani says in the suit he has filed through Law Associates Advocates that he has never abused his father-son relationship with the President to obtain illicit advantages or to loot the country’s coffers.

He says he has been wrongly portrayed as a dishonest and corrupt young man. His image and reputation thus has been injured in the society, he further claims. He also argues that his standing and esteem in the society and in the eyes of his peers has been irreparably lowered.
“The plaintiff (Ridhiwani) is a young lawyer and youth leader who is the member of executive committee of the UVCCM. Further, the plaintiff is a public figure who is involved in many public engagements and good caused works and social organizations and he is therefore highly respected in the society,” his lawyers say.

A month ago, Ridhiwani called a press conference where he denied being a billionaire. He said he only owned a 1.5 acre of land in Coast Region and a saloon car; and also owned three bank accounts at CRDB, NBC and Stanbic banks in the city. He did not disclose the amount of money in those accounts.

SOURCE; The Citizen

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TATIZO LA UMEME NCHINI, FAIDA KWA NCHI JIRANI;
Tanzania ni moja ya nchi za Afrika Mashariki ambayo kwa muda mrefu sasa imekuwa ikikabiliwa na tatizo sugu la umeme.

Maelezo yanayotolewa na serikali ya Tanzania pamoja na shirika la Umeme Tanzania Tanesco ni kuwa ukame ndio chanzo kikuu cha matatizo ya umeme nchini hapa.

Kwa nchi za Afrika Mashariki Tanzania ndio inayoongoza kwa kukumbwa na uhaba wa umeme mara kwa mara, licha ya kuwa nchi nyingine za Jumuiya hiyo kama Burundi na Uganda zimekuwa zikikabiliwa na upungufu wa umeme.

kwa upande mwingine, serikali ya tanzania haina budi kulaumiwa kwani ni kama vile imeyatelekeza baadhi ya maeneo ya nchi. mfano, katika mkowa wa Kagera hususani mashariki, mpakani mwa border ambayo ni kiunganishi cha nchi tatu Uganda, Tanzania na rwanda. Mrongo-kikagati border, inaziunganisha nchi hizo tatu na kurahisisha mwingiliano ki biashara kupitia Daraja kubwa la kivukio mto kagera lilojengwa kwa nguvu za Wananchi wa halimashauri ya karagwe kupitia uhisani wa wa Dutch kwa milion zipatazo 750/=. alakini cha kusikitisha, ni kwamba upande wa uganda umeendelea zaidi ya Tanzania hivyo kuwasawishi watanzania wa mpakani kufanyia biashara zao uganda. kikagati ambayo ndo pua na mdomo na mrongo ina umeme wa masaa 24, mrongo kiza kitupu, watu wanaishia kutumia tochi za mchina. je, serikali imeshindwa nini kuuvuta ule umeme wa kikagati na kuwanufaisha wa tanzania waishio karibu na mpaka. nadhani serikari ikiwa serious Mrongo na vijiji jirani kama rugasha, kibingo, na hata Kaisho hakutakuwepo tatizo la umeme na Biashara zitabaki nchini badala ya kukimbilia Uganda.



mji wa kikagati umeendelea..

uganda wanafaidi mpaka kwa kuutumia vizuri uzembe wa serikari ya Tanzania.

mwanachi mpakani upande wa tanzania akinyoa kwa kutumia umeme wa betri;

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MZUNGU MSOMI KAGEUKIA UGANGA

WA KIENYEJI

Bwana mmoja aliyekuwa akifanya kazi benki pale Uingereza, ameamua kuacha kazi hiyo na kuwa mganga wa kienyeji Afrika Kusini.

Bwana huyo Thomas Heathfield alipatiwa mafunzo ya kuwa mganga wa kienyeji, ikiwa ni pamoja na kukaa siku tatu bila kulala, na kucheza usiku, kila siku pamoja na kunywa damu ya mbuzi.

Bwana huyo pia alipitia mitihani mbalimbali, ambayo hyaijatajwa, ili kuthibitisha kuwa anafaa kuwa sangoma.

Heathfield alipatiwa jina la Gogo Mndawe baada ya kuweza kujifunza kuzungumza ki- sisiswati na pia kufaulu mitihani kwa miezi mitatu katika kijiji kimoja kilichopo katika jimbo la Mpumalanga, Afrika Kusini.

"Baba yangu na mama yangu walikuja siku nilipomaliza mafunzo, pamoja na wanakijiji kama mia mbili hivi" amesema bwana Heathfield akikaririwa na gazeti la The Sun.

Bwana huyo amesema alipata mwamko wa kiroho, uliomfanya aache kazi yake yenye kipato kikubwa

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MANCHESTER UNITED, WABABE WA SOKA ULIMWENGUNI

MABINGWA wa Ligi Kuu ya England, Manchester United wametangazwa kuwa klabu ya michezo yenye thamani kubwa ulimwenguni.

United au Mashetani Wekundu wanaongoza orodha hiyo ya klabu 50 za michezo mbalimbali duniani ikiwa na rasilimali zenye thamani ya pauni1.165 bilioni.Klabu hiyo imezipiku klabu mbalimbali za michezo za Marekani zikiwamo Dallas Cowboys na New York Yankees.

Kwa mujibu wa jarida la Forbes, tathmini hiyo imezingatia kikosi, uwanja, mapato na udhamini ambao kila klabu inao kwa sasa. Jarida hilo linaeleza kuwa hizo ni habari njema kwa wanandugu wa ukoo wa Glazer wanaomiliki klabu hiyo ambayo waliinunua kwa pauni 790 milioni mwaka 2005.
Hata hivyo, familia hiyo imejikuta ikiingia deni la pauni 500 milioni katika uendeshaji wa klabu hiyo.

Mapato ya matangazo yameiingizia United kiasi kikubwa che fedha, ambacho ni pauni 80 milioni.

Pia, mkataba wa miaka minne wa udhamini wa jezi na Kampuni ya Aon na mkataba wa miaka 13 na Kampuni ya Nike umeingiza pauni 300m .

Kwa upande wake, klabu ya Real Madrid ya Hispania ambayo ilikuwa ikishika nafasi ya pili katika orodha hiyo imeporomoka na kushika nafasi ya tano ikiwa na rasilimali zenye thamani ya pauni 900m. Lakini, pengine klabu ambayo mashabiki wake watakuwa wenye furaha ni Arsenal, ambayo inashika nafasi ya saba ikiwa na rasilimali za pauni 740m.

Chelsea, chini ya tajiri Roman Abramovich, inashika nafasi ya 46 katika orodha hiyo, ambayo timu za soka ndizo zinaongoza katika orodha zikiwamo Bayern Munich (19), AC Milan (34) na Juventus (49).

Hata hivyo, jambo la kushangaza ni kuona Barcelona, ambayo kwa sasa inasemekana kuwa klabu bora duniani, ikiwa ya 26 katika orodha hiyo kwa rasilimali za pauni 606m.

Nafasi 10 za kwanza ni kama ifuatavyo:
1. Man United - Pauni 1.165bilioni
2. Dallas Cowboys- Pauni 1.13bn
3. New York Yankees- Pauni1.06bn
4. Washington Redskins- Pauni 960m
5. Real Madrid- Pauni 900m
6. New England Patriots- Pauni 850m
7. Arsenal- Pauni 740m
8. New York Giants- Pauni 734m
9. Houstan Texans- Pauni727m
10. New York Jets- Pauni 708m

KAtavi national park is a renown park for the exlusive scenery of its ecosysytem,and overwhelming number of species.buffalo are the most numerous species, then Zebras,Elephants, hippos, waterbucks, impalas,lions, monkeys etc, etc..KATAVI is a treasured place, for a treasured person like you to spend a reasonable vacation. be the first to experience the difference at Katavi National Park.
buffalows in Katavi national park, at a pose.

Elephants on a move heading to katchment areas for refreshments.

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water is the most important resource for the life of acquatic organisms. The hippos in river katuma, at Katavi National park do concetrate together in the remainning pools during dry season. the concetration beautifies the park, making it unique

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baada ya IPAD NA LAPTOP, SASA I4N KUZUA JIPYA UCHINA;

Wiki kadhaa baada ya mchina mmoja kuuza figo yake ili kununua iPad, mchina mwingine wa kike safari hii amejitokeza kutoa mwili wake kwa mwanaume atakayemnunulia simu aina ya iPhone 4, toleo jipya kabisa.
Gazeti la Korean Herald limeripoti kuwa msichana huyo aliyetajwa kwa jina la Jiulinghou -- ambayo maana yake kwa kichina ni kama kizazi cha mwisho, aliandika katika mtandao wa Weibo -- yaani Tweeter ya Kichina -- kuwa ni ndoto yake kuwa na simu aina ya iPhone 4, lakini hana uwezo na baba yake kakataa kumnunulia.
Katika mtandao huo msichana huyo ambaye ni bikra aliweka pia na picha yake, pamoja na taarifa fupi kuhusu maisha yake, akisema yuko tayari kuuza usichana wake kwa yeyote atakayemnunulia iPhone.
Mtandao wa Courier Mail haukusema iwapo msichana huyo alifanikiwa au la.

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Today, it would have been the end of my story;

hellow friends today Edwin narrowly survived death. when i woke up early in the dawn, it was little bit foggy in a mist, i perfomed some sorts of exercise like Push ups, jogging and little bit played a solitary football, thereafter, i kindled my stove and boiled some tea meanwhile taking a shower, after my 10minutes showering, took my breakfast and left for the park duties. no longer had i started my solitary walk than i met a herd of Elephants gangling. the whole body trembled, the hair run from my head but what saved me was my knowledge of animal behaviours. the first day of my landing at the park, thy first thing to ask was animal behaviours, also underwent in-depth reading of the park publications, this aided me not only to knowing animal behaviours but too animal species and their influence with in their habitats. recalling everything, first i noticed that the elephants were like 15mtrs away from me, 2nd thewe in a group and the final was that, elephants are not as sturbon as other animals like Leopards, cheeters etc, so i pretended as if nothing scaring i've seen though my intestines were almost dismantling; i walked while praying from my heart and eventually crossed that danger zone, after 20mtrs cross over, i started running up to the offices, panting and none i could tell this comic movie; hahaha, Guess God loves Edwin; 

vp Tanzania tukii Apply itawork? hahaha......

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India mbioni kudhibiti idadi ya watu

Ongezeko kubwa la idadi ya watu nchini India imewalazimu maafisa wa Afya kuanza kampeni mpya ya mpango wa uzazi.

Serikali inawasiwasi kuhusu idadi kubwa ya watu

Mpango huo mpya wa uzazi unanuia kuwashawishi wanawake na wanaume kukubali njia ya kumaliza kabisa nguvu za mayai ya uzazi.
Wanaokubali watapokea zawadi ya gari lipya miongoni mwa zawadi nyingine.
Tata nano, ndio gari lenya bei rahisi sana duniani lakini kulingana na kampeni hiyo, bila shaka kuna uwezekano likawa maarufu zaidi nchini India katika siku chache zijazo.
Dakatri Sitaram Sharma anatazamia kuwa huenda gari hilo likawa kishawishi tosha kwa wakazi wa jimbo la Jhunjunu kujitokeza kufungwa kizazi.
Lengo la Daktari Sharma ni kuwa jumla ya wanawake na wanaume elfu 20 watajitokeza kufungwa kizazi.
Kwa taarifa yako, gari sio zawadi tu itakayotolewa kwenye kampeni hiyo. Watakao fika watapewa piki piki, televisheni na vifaa vya kisasa vya kusagia vyakula.
Mpango huo hauja lenga tuu wakaazi wa jimbo hilo ambalo mara nyingi linakabiliwa na ukame.
Serikali ya India imekuwa ikitatizika na idadi ya raia wake ambayo inakuwa kwa kasi sana.
Hofu za utawala nchini India ni kuwa ifikiapo mwaka wa 2030, heunda idadi ya watu walioko nchini humo ikazidi ile ya wachina.
Hata hivyo hakuna uhakika kuwa kampeni hii itaungwa mkono kote nchini India.
Mwaka wa 70 ilipojaribiwa, maelfu ya watu walijotekeza kisha serikali ikashindwa kutimiza ahadi zake kitu kilicho wachukiza wengi ambao walidai kuwa serikali ilikuwa imewalaghai...