After giving the hawkers a loaf of bread made of stones, NSSF should stop whining By Saumu Jumanne Do you want to eat a loaf of bread made of stones? It seems that is exactly what the authorities in Dar es Salaam could be asking hawkers to do. That is, by forcing them to operate exclusively at the magnificent…
Mkulo’s sweat and the poor man’s sweat…the big difference By Saumu Jumanne Unlike our Finance Minister Brother Mustapha Mkulo, who is a so well versed in matters to do with finance and economic sector- having worked his way up for many years, I have very limited know how on the same. And so are the majority Tanzanians. However, as…
The Loliondo miracle, collapsed health systems and traditions Saumu Jumanne In Tanzania an academic doctor, a medical doctor and an illiterate villager, once a goat thief turned into a witchdoctor – are all, merrily called doctors. Actually deep in the rural villages, the children grow up calling the village witchdoctor, ‘daktari,’ the Kiswahili equivalent of a doctor. They learn…
By correspondent Ernest C. Ambali. Believe this and you will rise to success!! Forsake it, you will fall into the gaping abyss!!. That is: you must have a strong, positive vision of success – and you will succeed. You will not need Albino’s body parts or a chain talisman. In other words, there is nothing like luck. You create…
By Correspondent Ernest C. Ambali “It is the customer who has the power to change the profit or loss figures in an annual report. Only by listening to the customer can one hope to make a solid, lasting and profitable change in business. “By focusing on the customer, one is really concentrating on serving and satisfying the customer’s needs….
By ERNEST C. AMBALI 1. The world has nothing for nothing The dollar on the road you picked Is something for something. Had you not to the road walked You would have had nothing for nothing. 2. The world has nothing for nothing. Even charity given to the needy Is not something for nothing. Had the giver not seen…
By Correspondent Ernest C. Ambali The Tanzania Investment Bank (TIB) is now assured of nearing to its envisioned zenith—“to be the premier development bank that promotes economic growth by offering complete financing solutions to clients”. The assurance follows the recent one billion/- in the National Assembly meeting in Dodoma by the Deputy Minister for Finance and Economic Affairs, Mr…
By Correspondent Ernest C. Ambali The commanding colour of the CRDB Bank, the bank that listens, is green. Those who are educated in colour significance as given by Dr. Marx Lüscher in his book, “The Lüscher Colour Test”, this colour means “self-preservation”. Writing in short on the origin of colour significance, Lüscher who was Professor of Psychology at Basle…
SPECIROZA JOSEPH What can one do with Tsh 20,000? The amount is just a peanut but for Zahrouk Khalfan Ahmed, a mother of three – two boys and a girl; it was all she had, when she started her business venture. She says Rocky’s Products, a food processing firm at Kariakoo, was born out of that little cash a…
THEO MUSHI SMALL and Medium-scale enterprises (SMEs) are vital in all productive sectors of the economy so as to speed up the pace of industrialization. SMEs are found in all the productive sectors of the economy – including manufacturing, agro-processing, mining, fishing, tourism and commerce. However, they invariably face the problem if access to capital because of lack of…