Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Michael Jordan thinks only Kobe Bryant deserves comparisons
Ever since Michael Jordan retired — all three times, really — the NBA has searched for the heir to his throne. Many players have popped up as pretenders to the throne, from Harold Miner to Jerry Stackhouse to Vince Carter. In recent years, people have stopped trying to find a clone and just searched for a similarly dominant great player. If you ever wondered why LeBron James is seen as such a failure, a lot of it has to do with his inability to meet the example set by Jordan.
There are many great players in the NBA these days, most of whom have never been directly compared to Jordan. Nevertheless, His Airness says only one player comes close enough to his greatness to merit the comparison. Not surprisingly, that player is Kobe Bryant. Here's what Roland Lazenby, a great writer currently working on a Jordan book, tweeted on Sunday (via PBT):
Kobe's ultimate competition is MJ. That's why MJ watches him. MJ made people think what he was doing wasn't human. Ditto the Kobester.
I never said Kobe was better than MJ. MJ just told me Kobe's the only one to have done the work, to deserve comparison.
Congratulations, Kobe: Your life's work has meant something. All that time spent aping Jordan's movements and skills has paid off. He acknowledged you. You made it.
Of course, if the notoriously petty Jordan was going to mention anyone, it makes that he'd single out Kobe, and not just because he'd consider the mimicry flattering. Bryant really does work harder than everyone else, and he's been good for long enough (with no signs of slowing down) that he may eventually top Jordan's longevity. They're similarly insane competitors.
The "Next Jordan" idea was always a silly one, but Bryant is certainly the player most like Jordan in all aspects of his game — even if he eventually becomes something less than the greatest player of the post-MJ era, which I'm sure many of you will argue in the comments. That's an accomplishment in itself. Even coming close to the top means something.
Sunday, December 25, 2011
Monday, December 19, 2011
Etienne Tshisekedi, leader of Democratic Republic of Congo's "Union for Democracy and Social
Progress" (UDPS) and self-declared president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, addresses the media during a press conference in Kinshasa. Tshisekedi, officially declared defeated in the November election, insisted Sunday he was president-elect and said he will take the oath this week.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Kim Jong Il, North Korea's mercurial and enigmatic leader whose iron rule and nuclear ambitions dominated world security fears for more than a decade, has died. He was 69.
Kim's death 17 years after he inherited power from his father was announced Monday by the state television from the North Korean capital, Pyongyang. The country's "Dear Leader" — reputed to have had a taste for cigars, cognac and gourmet cuisine — was believed to have had diabetes and heart disease.
North Korea has been grooming Kim's third son to take over power from his father in the impoverished nation that celebrates the ruling family with an intense cult of personality.
South Korea put its military on "high alert" and President Lee Myung-bak convened a national security council meeting after the news of Kim's death.
In a "special broadcast" Monday, state media said Kim died of a heart ailment on a train due to a "great mental and physical strain" on Saturday during a "high intensity field inspection."
Kim is believed to have suffered a stroke in 2008 but he had appeared relatively vigorous in photos and video from recent trips to China and Russia and in numerous trips around the country carefully documented by state media.
Kim Jong Il inherited power after his father, revered North Korean founder Kim Il Sung, died in 1994. He had been groomed for 20 years to lead the communist nation founded by his guerrilla fighter-turned-politician father and built according to the principle of "juche," or self-reliance.
In September 2010, Kim Jong Il unveiled his third son, the twenty-something Kim Jong Un, as his successor, putting him in high-ranking posts.
Even with a successor, there had been some fear among North Korean observers of a behind-the-scenes power struggle or nuclear instability upon the elder Kim's death.
Few firm facts are available when it comes to North Korea, one of the most isolated countries in the world, and not much is clear about the man known as the "Dear Leader."
Few firm facts are available when it comes to North Korea, one of the most isolated countries in the world, and not much is clear about the man known as the "Dear Leader."
North Korean legend has it that Kim was born on Mount Paekdu, one of Korea's most cherished sites, in 1942, a birth heralded in the heavens by a pair of rainbows and a brilliant new star.
Soviet records, however, indicate he was born in Siberia, in 1941.
Kim Il Sung, who for years fought for independence from Korea's colonial ruler, Japan, from a base in Russia, emerged as a communist leader after returning to Korea in 1945 after Japan was defeated in World War II.
With the peninsula divided between the Soviet-administered north and the U.S.-administered south, Kim rose to power as North Korea's first leader in 1948 while Syngman Rhee became South Korea's first president.
The North invaded the South in 1950, sparking a war that would last three years, kill millions of civilians and leave the peninsula divided by a Demilitarized Zone that today remains one of the world's most heavily fortified.
In the North, Kim Il Sung meshed Stalinist ideology with a cult of personality that encompassed him and his son. Their portraits hang in every building in North Korea and on the lapels of every dutiful North Korean.
Kim Jong Il, a graduate of Pyongyang's Kim Il Sung University, was 33 when his father anointed him his eventual successor.
Even before he took over as leader, there were signs the younger Kim would maintain — and perhaps exceed — his father's hard-line stance.
South Korea has accused Kim of masterminding a 1983 bombing that killed 17 South Korean officials visiting Burma, now known as Myanmar. In 1987, the bombing of a Korean Air Flight killed all 115 people on board; a North Korean agent who confessed to planting the device said Kim ordered the downing of the plane himself.
Kim Jong Il took over after his father died in 1994, eventually taking the posts of chairman of the National Defense Commission, commander of the Korean People's Army and head of the ruling Worker's Party while his father remained as North Korea's "eternal president."
He faithfully carried out his father's policy of "military first," devoting much of the country's scarce resources to its troops — even as his people suffered from a prolonged famine — and built the world's fifth-largest military.
Kim also sought to build up the country's nuclear arms arsenal, which culminated in North Korea's first nuclear test explosion, an underground blast conducted in October 2006. Another test came in 2009.
Alarmed, regional leaders negotiated a disarmament-for-aid pact that the North signed in 2007 and began implementing later that year.
However, the process continues to be stalled, even as diplomats work to restart negotiations.
North Korea, long hampered by sanctions and unable to feed its own people, is desperate for aid. Flooding in the 1990s that destroyed the largely mountainous country's arable land left millions hungry.
Following the famine, the number of North Koreans fleeing the country through China rose dramatically, with many telling tales of hunger, political persecution and rights abuses that officials in Pyongyang emphatically denied.
Kim often blamed the U.S. for his country's troubles and his regime routinely derides Washington-allied South Korea as a "puppet" of the Western superpower.
U.S. President George W. Bush, taking office in 2002, denounced North Korea as a member of an "axis of evil" that also included Iran and Iraq. He later described Kim as a "tyrant" who starved his people so he could build nuclear weapons.
"Look, Kim Jong Il is a dangerous person. He's a man who starves his people. He's got huge concentration camps. And ... there is concern about his capacity to deliver a nuclear weapon," Bush said in 2005.
Kim was an enigmatic leader. But defectors from North Korea describe him as an eloquent and tireless orator, primarily to the military units that form the base of his support.
The world's best glimpse of the man was in 2000, when the liberal South Korean government's conciliatory "sunshine" policy toward the North culminated in the first-ever summit between the two Koreas and followed with unprecedented inter-Korean cooperation.
A second summit was held in 2007 with South Korea's Roh Moo-hyun.
But the thaw in relations drew to a halt in early 2008 when conservative President Lee Myung-bak took office in Seoul pledging to come down hard on communist North Korea.
Disputing accounts that Kim was "peculiar," former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright characterized Kim as intelligent and well-informed, saying the two had wide-ranging discussions during her visits to Pyongyang when Bill Clinton was U.S. president.
"I found him very much on top of his brief," she said.
Kim cut a distinctive, if oft ridiculed, figure. Short and pudgy at 5-foot-3, he wore platform shoes and sported a permed bouffant. His trademark attire of jumpsuits and sunglasses was mocked in such films as "Team America: World Police," a movie populated by puppets that was released in 2004.
Kim was said to have cultivated wide interests, including professional basketball, cars and foreign films. He reportedly produced several North Korean films as well, mostly historical epics with an ideological tinge.
A South Korean film director claimed Kim even kidnapped him and his movie star wife in the late 1970s, spiriting them back to North Korea to make movies for him for a decade before they managed to escape from their North Korean agents during a trip to Austria.
Kim rarely traveled abroad and then only by train because of an alleged fear of flying, once heading all the way by luxury rail car to Moscow, indulging in his taste for fine food along the way.
One account of Kim's lavish lifestyle came from Konstantin Pulikovsky, a former Russian presidential envoy who wrote the book "The Orient Express" about Kim's train trip through Russia in July and August 2001.
Pulikovsky, who accompanied the North Korean leader, said Kim's 16-car private train was stocked with crates of French wine. Live lobsters were delivered in advance to stations.
A Japanese cook later claimed he was Kim's personal sushi chef for a decade, writing that Kim had a wine cellar stocked with 10,000 bottles, and that, in addition to sushi, Kim ate shark's fin soup — a rare delicacy — weekly.
"His banquets often started at midnight and lasted until morning. The longest lasted for four days," the chef, who goes by the pseudonym Kenji Fujimoto, was quoted as saying.
Kim is believed to have curbed his indulgent ways in recent years and looked slimmer in more recent video footage aired by North Korea's state-run broadcaster.
Kim's marital status wasn't clear but he is believed to have married once and had at least three other companions. He had at least three sons with two women, as well as a daughter by a third.
His eldest son, Kim Jong Nam, 38, is believed to have fallen out of favor with his father after he was caught trying to enter Japan on a fake passport in 2001 saying he wanted to visit Disney's Tokyo resort.
His two other sons by another woman, Kim Jong Chul and Kim Jong Un, are in their 20s. Their mother reportedly died several years ago.
Friday, December 9, 2011
FFU wa NGOMA AFRICA
BAND WAMESHATUA BERLIN!
Kwa kutumbuiza katika Sherehe za miaka 50 ya Uhuru
Ijumaa 9 na Jumamosi 10 Dec 2011 Berlin
Hapatoshi FFU wa Ngoma Africa Band
kutoa burudani ya kukata na Mundu, CD ya "50 Uhuru
Anniversary" inatamba Redioni
Watanzania wanaoishi Ujerumani
! na Full Shangwe ya Miaka 50 ya Uhuru !
Berlin Chereko !Chereko
! Umoja wa Tanzania Ujerumani
(UTU) kuzinduliwa rasmi ! 10-12-2011 Berlin!
Kikosi Kazi cha Ngoma Africa band aka FFU,kimeshatua mjini Berlin kwa kazi
moja tu, nayo ni kushambulia na muziki wake katika kusherekea miaka 50 ya uhuru wa
Tanzania.
Kuanzia 9 hadi 10-Dec-2011
mjini Berlin ambako ndipo hupo Ubalozi wa Tanzania na ndio mji mkuu wa
Ujerumani,kutakuwa hapatoshi kwani sherehe hizo zitaambatana na ufunguzi wa UMOJA WA WATANZANIA
UJERUMANI (UTU) siku ya jumamosi 10-12-2011,umoja huo unawaunganisha watanzania
wote waishio ujerumani,ulitiliwa nguvu na balozi Mh.Ngemera, umeshasajiliwa na
viongozi wake ni Bw.Mfundo Peter Mfundo(mwenyekiti) na Bi.Tullalumba Mloge
(katibu),utaratibu unaonyesha kuwa sherehe hizo mjini Berlin zitaanza saa 9
mchana hadi usiku usio kwisha ambapo Ngoma Africa Band aka FFU,watatumbuiza na
muziki wao,mahala patakapo fanyika sherehe Apostelkirche 1, 10738 Berlin,
UMOJA NI NGUVU WATANZANIA
JITOKEZENI ! KUSHREKEA MIAKA 50 YA UHURU !
sikiliza muziki at www.ngoma-africa.com
Monday, December 5, 2011
50 YEARS TANZANIA'S INDEPENDENCE ANNIVERSARY
Dear friend,
The New York Tanzanian Community in collaboration with the Tanzania Mission
to the United Nations is inviting you to join us in celebrating 50
Years Independence Anniversary to be held on Saturday, December 10th 2011 at
Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center from 1:00pm to
11:00pm. This venue is located at the following address: 3940 Broadway New york,
NY 10032 (at the corner of Broadway and 165th street).
The Guest of honor will be Ambassador Mwanaidi Sinare Maajar from
Washington, DC. Ambassador Ombeni Sefue will also be among our special guests.
There will be a wide ranging activities including a fashion show put together by
our own Asya Isador from Tanzania, music by Miriam Kimosa, Bongo Flavor music,
Mzee Yussuf the king of Taarab, The Sound of Taarab, The Grown Up African Show,
networking, Tanzania food, poems, music by Dj Mao and Dj Tahir and much
more.
There will also be business exhibitions showcasing Tanzanian businesses
here in the US and in Tanzania. We ask for your contribution (minimum $30) from
each one of you to cover the expenses for this event. In addition, we ask for
sponsors willing to pay more to make this event a great success. For those who
would like to showcase their businesses contact us ASAP as table spaces are
limited.
Please, contact any of the following NYTC leaders: Chairman Hajji
(347-623-8965); Vice-Chair Miriam (914-316-2814); or Secretary Shabani
(347-712-8539) for more information or if you have any questions.
Because of limited seats please register now online at WWW.NYTANZANIANCOMMUNITY.ORG
Best regards,
SHABANI MSEBA
NYTC Secretary
Sunday, December 4, 2011
PETER KAPINGA SIKU ALIPOTUNUKIWA KAMISHENI NA RAIS DR JAKAYA KIKWETE.
Luteni Peter
Kapinga
Tarehe 26/11/2011
Rais wa Jamuhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania kama Amiri Jeshi Mkuu aliwatunuku
Kamisheni wanachuo wa Chuo cha kijeshi cha Monduli Mkoani Arusha.
Peter akiwa mmoja
wa wahitimu hao anapenda kuwashukuru wote ambao walioshiriki katika kumsaidia
kwa namna moja na nyingine mpaka amefikia hapo alipofikia, zaidi anapenda
kumshukuru Dada ake Esther Mbapila pamoja na Mr Mbapila kwa kushiriki katika
mchakato wote mpaka akafanikisha kupata alichokihitaji.
ASANTENI
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Dear Tanzania community members,
We are sorry to announce that our brother Raphael Robert of Queens,
NY has just lost his father yesterday the late Robert M Faida, who passed away
November 21,2011 in Dar-es-salaam . All funeral plans are in progress
to rest his father soul. For all Tanzania Community Members in Tri-
States Area, who like give their condolences,
they can call Robert
number 347-869-2230 or come home at this address 110 -04 -204
street
Hollis(Queens) NY 11412. Asanteni
The following accounts can be used to send your
condolences
Raphael Robert Faida
citibank Checking A/C 13535020
Chase Checking A/C 1962301825
For more info. call Robert 347 862 2230
Shabani (Secretary) 347 712 8539
Hajji (Chairman) 347 623 8965
Miriam (Vice-Chair) 914 316 2814
Friday, November 18, 2011
Friday, November 11, 2011
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Smokin’ Joe Frazier loses his battle against liver cancer
Joe Frazier, one of the biggest sports icons of the 1960s and 70s, passed away tonight from liver cancer at the age of 67. He was
diagnosed less than six weeks ago and spent his final days in a
Philadelphia-area hospice.
His family released this statement:
Their trilogy, contested between 1971-75, tops everything else in boxing's long history. Frazier was the first person to defeat Ali.
Outside the ring, Frazier was helpless in the p.r. battle against the loquacious and charismatic Ali. Ali made it personal before their first meeting in 1971 calling the quiet Frazier an "Uncle Tom."
Both unbeaten, Frazier met Ali in New York City's Madison Square Garden on March 8, 1971 and got his revenge on Ali's trash talk by winning "The Fight of the Century" via unanimous decision. He cemented the victory by flooring Ali with a leaping left hook, his trademark punch, in the 15th round.
To illustrate the lack of respect Frazier received from some, veteran boxing writer Jerry Izenberg told the story of the fighter greeting some kids on the streets of his adopted hometown of North Philadelphia a week after the biggest victory of his career.
The third fight in the Philippines, "The Thrilla in Manila" trumped the first two. The back-and-forth battle, ended after 14 rounds because Frazier's eyes were nearly swollen shut. His trainer, Eddie Futch, argued with his fighter before calling it a night. On a night with the temperature in Manila hovered around 100 degrees, rounds 13 and 14 were grueling. Both fighters were completely exhausted, but still wailed away at each other.
Frazier fought just two more times. He lost badly to George Foreman in 1976 and fought to a draw during a short-lived comeback in 1981.
Frazier, the son of Rubin and Dolly Frazier. was born in the poor town of Beaufort, S.C. He was the youngest of 12 children. He relocated to Philadelphia as a teenager.
While working in a slaughterhouse, Frazier began to take boxing seriously. By the time he was 20, Frazier was one of the elite heavyweight prospects in the world. He stormed to the Olympic heavyweight gold medal in 1964 in Tokyo. Six years later, he was the king of the heavyweight division, winning the WBA belt with a fifth-round TKO stoppage of Jimmy Ellis.
Frazier was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1990. He finished his brilliant career with professional record of 32-4-1, with 27 wins by knockout.
His family released this statement:
"We The Family of the 1964 Olympic Boxing Heavyweight Gold Medalist, Former Heavyweight Boxing Champion and International Boxing Hall of Fame Member Smokin' Joe Frazier, regrets to inform you of his passing. He transitioned from this life as "One of God's Men," on the eve of November 7, 2011at his home in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. We thank you for your prayers for our Father and vast outpouring of love and support.In the weeks before his death, Frazier was said to have lost 50 pounds. Friends like Rev. Jesse Jackson and fellow heavyweight king Larry Holmes requested visits, but Frazier decided against it.
Respectfully, we request time to grieve privately as a family. Our father's home going celebration will be announced as soon as possible. Thank you for your understanding."
"Joe doesn't want to see anybody, the way he is now," his manager Les Wolff explained earlier this week. "I think you can understand why. He's a proud man."Frazier's legacy is etched in stone as part of the greatest individual rivalry in sports history. The stocky, less-than-graceful Frazier was the perfect foil for the elegant and athletic Muhammad Ali.
Their trilogy, contested between 1971-75, tops everything else in boxing's long history. Frazier was the first person to defeat Ali.
Outside the ring, Frazier was helpless in the p.r. battle against the loquacious and charismatic Ali. Ali made it personal before their first meeting in 1971 calling the quiet Frazier an "Uncle Tom."
Both unbeaten, Frazier met Ali in New York City's Madison Square Garden on March 8, 1971 and got his revenge on Ali's trash talk by winning "The Fight of the Century" via unanimous decision. He cemented the victory by flooring Ali with a leaping left hook, his trademark punch, in the 15th round.
To illustrate the lack of respect Frazier received from some, veteran boxing writer Jerry Izenberg told the story of the fighter greeting some kids on the streets of his adopted hometown of North Philadelphia a week after the biggest victory of his career.
[...] Joe told them: "Now y'all stay in school.
Don't make me have to find you."
Two of them laughed, but the third one said:There was nothing he could do. Frazier, a reserved gentleman, was never going to win a trash talk battle against Ali. Ali went on to win the 1972 rematch against Frazier, again at MSG.
"My daddy says Muhammad Ali was drugged,"
In that instant a cold, cold mask seemed to slide across the champion's face. "'Yeah ... yeah," Joe said, "I drugged him with a left hook." And they saw the look in his eyes and all three of them ran away.
Frazier turned to me and said:
"You heard that. What I got to do? What the hell I got to do?"
The third fight in the Philippines, "The Thrilla in Manila" trumped the first two. The back-and-forth battle, ended after 14 rounds because Frazier's eyes were nearly swollen shut. His trainer, Eddie Futch, argued with his fighter before calling it a night. On a night with the temperature in Manila hovered around 100 degrees, rounds 13 and 14 were grueling. Both fighters were completely exhausted, but still wailed away at each other.
Frazier fought just two more times. He lost badly to George Foreman in 1976 and fought to a draw during a short-lived comeback in 1981.
Frazier, the son of Rubin and Dolly Frazier. was born in the poor town of Beaufort, S.C. He was the youngest of 12 children. He relocated to Philadelphia as a teenager.
While working in a slaughterhouse, Frazier began to take boxing seriously. By the time he was 20, Frazier was one of the elite heavyweight prospects in the world. He stormed to the Olympic heavyweight gold medal in 1964 in Tokyo. Six years later, he was the king of the heavyweight division, winning the WBA belt with a fifth-round TKO stoppage of Jimmy Ellis.
Frazier was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1990. He finished his brilliant career with professional record of 32-4-1, with 27 wins by knockout.
Sunday, November 6, 2011
LEO NI SIKU ALIYOFARIKI BIBI TITI MOHAMED, MMOJA WA WANAWAKE WALIOKUWA WANAHARAKATI WA UKOMBOZI WA TAIFA LETU.
Bibi Titi Mohamed
enzi za uhai wake.
Hapa akiwa na Baba
wa Taifa Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere.
Bibi Titi
Mohammed (1926 - 5 Novemba, 2000) alikuwa mmoja wa wanawake wa kwanza
kushika nafasi za ubunge na uwaziri nchini Tanzania. Pia alikuwa kati ya wanawake wa
kwanza kujiunga na harakati za kugombea uhuru wa Tanganyika.
Mwaka 1969 Bibi Titi Mohammed alikamatwa na
mwaka uliofuata alifikishwa mahakamani kwa kosa la kula njama ya kutaka kupindua
serikali. Katika kesi hiyo, Bibi Titi alikuwa ni mwanamke pekee katika
washtakiwa 7. Baada ya kesi hiyo kusikilizwa alipatikana na hatia na kuhukumiwa
kifungo cha maisha. Hata hivyo, mwaka 1972 alisamehewa na rais Julius Nyerere.
Juu ya kutolewa kwake, Mohammed aliongoza maisha
yake akiwa mpweke. Mume wake alimtelekeza wakati wa kesi, ushirika wake wa
kisiasa ukanyang'anywa, na marafiki zake wengi wakamlani.
Mnamo mwaka wa 1991, wakati Tanzania ikisherekea miaka 30 ya uhuru, Bibi
Titi ameonekana kwenye makaratasi ya chama tawala kama "Shujaa wa Kike Aliyepigania Uhuru".
Mnamo tar. 5 Novemba, 2000 Mohammed amekufa kwenye hospitali ya Net
Care Hospital mjini Johannesburg ambapo alikuwa akitibiwa.
Moja kati ya mabarabara makubwa ya mjini Dar es Salaam yamepewa
jina la Mohammed kwa heshima ya mafaniko makubwa aliyoyafanya wakati wa mbio za
kutafuta uhuru wa Mtanzania.
Saturday, November 5, 2011
HATARI ILIYO MBELE KWA WAMACHINGA WANAOONGEZEKA KWA KASI KATIKA MATAA YA UBUNGO SERIKALI MNAIONA?
Trafiki Polisi
akiongoza magari katika junction kubwa ya Ubungo, maarufu kama Ubungo Mataa.
Fuso ikiwa imeingia
katika moja ya mtaro mkubwa ulioko bara bara ya Ubungo karibu na Ubungo mataa.
Kwa kipindi kirefu
sasa eneo la Ubungo karibu na Mataa ya kuongozea magari yanayo ingia Jijini au
yale yanayotoka pande mbili, mengine yakitokea Mwenge na mengine yakitoke
Buguruni na kwenda sehemu mbali mbali za jiji limevamiwa na wafanya biashara
ndogo ndogo maarufu kama Wamachinga.
Nimejaribu
kulifuatilia kwa kipindi kirefu ili kuweza kujiridhisha kujua kama wamepewa
ruhusa na nani kufanya biashara katika eneo lisilo rasmi, nilijaribu kuongea na
wamachinga wachache; wa kwanza anaitwa Salum Ramadhan anauza taa za kichina
katika eneo hilo, yeye alidai hawajaruhusiwa na mtu kufanya biashara hapo ila ni
kutokana na ugumu wa maisha ndio umewapelekea kufanya biashara katika eneo hilo
na wa pili naye Ndg. Deogratius Shirima akasema maneno hayo hayo ambayo
hayapishani maana na huyu wa kwanza.
Sikuishia
hapo nikataka kujua je kuna mtu yeyote ambaye anakuja kukusanya japo ushuru
kutoka kwao? nao kwa pamoja wakasema kuna mtu huwa anakuja kukusanya ushuru
lakini wao hawana uhakika kama ni kutoka Serikali za mitaa au la! nikawauliza
swali jingine, huyu jamaa ambaye ameweka jenereta hapa na kuwapa huduma ya Umeme
mnamlipa Sh. ngapi? wakasema kila taa 1 ni Sh. 1000/- nikapenda nijue sasa swali
langu la msingi, wanajua HATARI
iliyo mbele yao kutokana na kufanya biashara kando kando ya bara bara kubwa kama
hii ambayo inapitisha magari mengi na hasa mengine yanakuwa yako kwenye mwendo
wa kasi! wakasema wanaifahamu ila hawana jinsi wataenda wapi na maisha yenyewe
ni magumu!
Kwa kweli nilitoka
bila kuwa na jibu sahihi nini hatma yao kama gafla gari likitoka kwenye bara
bara na kuwavama.
Tatizo hili naamini
serikali wanaliona ila wanalifumbia macho na pindi ajali itakapo tokea ndio
wanafumbua macho na kujua sehemu sio halali, ni vema serikali ikalichukulia
hatua mapema kabla halija tokea la kutokea. Tumekua tukiona sehemu mbali mbali
ajali zinatokea na kuua watu wengi ambao wapo kando kando ya bara bara kwa hiyo
ni vema Serikali ikachukua tahadhari mapema.
Friday, November 4, 2011
HIVI WANAFIKIRI WATATUTAWALA MPAKA LINI?
Tanzanian clerics slam threat to link aid to gay laws
Tanzanian clerics on Friday urged
their government to reject western pressure to legalise homosexuality in order
to continue receiving aid.
A catholic auxiliary bishop, Methodius Kilaini,
criticised British Prime
Minister David Cameroon for saying African countries with anti-gay
legislation could be disqualified from receiving British aid.
"Such threats are a reflection of colonial mentality. It
is better to live in poverty than accepting and legalising practices that are
against religious teaching, the law and African culture," Kilaini told AFP by
phone.
Cameron made the threat after Commonwealth
leaders failed to adopt a recommendation to call for an end to homophobic laws
in the 41 member nations at their summit in Perth, western Australia.
Kilaini appealed to the Tanzania government
and other African countries to strongly reject or ignore such "unholy"
threats.
Sheikh Ali Mkoyogole said Islam was against
homosexuality and same sex marriages. "This cannot be allowed by Muslims in
Tanzania," he said.
Under Tanzanian law sex acts between men,
including between consenting adults are illegal.
The US State Department's 2010 Human Rights
Report found that "gays, lesbians, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) persons
faced societal discrimination, which restricted their access to healthcare,
housing, and employment," in Tanzania.
Ngoma Africa Band na Nyimbo mpya za miaka 50 ya Uhuru,
Bendi maarufu ya muziki wa dansi barani ulaya "Ngoma Africa band" aka FFU,yanye makao yake nchini
Ujerumani,wameachia hewani CD mpya yenye nyimbo za miaka 50 ya Uhuru. Nyimbo zilizomo katika CD hiyo ni utunzi na uimbaji wake kiongozi wa bendi hiyo Kamanda Ras Makunja akiimba kwa kushirikiana na Chris-B,mpiga solo wa kikosi hiko,habari za uhakika zimetonya kuwa nyimbo hizo zimetua pia katika blog mashuuriya Michuzi,pia vituo vya Redio vya Deutche Welle mjini Bonn,Radio VOA ya Washington, Radio Free Africa, Mwanza, vimepoke nyimbo hizo ambazo wakati wowote zinaweza kutoa burudani kwa wananchi katika shamra shamra za miaka 50 ya uhuru.
Nyimbo hizo mbili (1) Miaka 50 Uhuru(rumba) na 2. 50 Uhuru Shangwe, Zinasikia pia at www.ngoma-africa.com
Thursday, November 3, 2011
NDUGU WATANZANIA,
KWA NIABA YA KAMATI YA MUDA YA UONGOZI WA CCM NJINI NEW
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