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COLUMN: MIND YOUR LANGUAGE. Fuel prices increase: "people need to prepare"!

DAR ES SALAAM, April 4 -- THE increase in the prices of petrol, diesel and kerosene is not an April 1 Fools Day scare. It is real and all the papers of April 2, carried frontpage headlines to show the... Read More


COLUMN: MIND YOUR LANGUAGE. Lukuvi had a tenure at "lands"? please say "at the ministry of lands"

DAR ES SALAAM, March 28 -- THE news of the passing of Honourable William Vangimembe Lukuvi (pronounced Lukuwi?), the Minister of State in the Prime Ministers Office (Policy, Parliamentary Affairs, Coo... Read More


COLUMN: MIND YOUR LANGUAGE. There is a difference between land disputes and land conflicts

DAR ES SALAAM, March 21 -- I AM writing this post when some people in some parts of the world are celebrating Idd el Fitr. The moon was not sighted in our part of the world, so we have to wait a day l... Read More


A 'makeshift structure' to help people cross a flooded river on foot, may not be a pedestrian crossing!

DAR ES SALAAM, March 14 -- PARTS of the country have recently suffered from heavy rains. This is reported in the Custodian (12 March), in a frontpage story titled: “Many homeless, roads disrupte... Read More