The assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968, on the balcony of the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee is one of the defining moments in American history. 

The new Smithsonian Channel IS premiering a one-hour documentary on some never before seen or heard accounts of that day.

Tom Jennings, filmmaker of "MLK: The Assassination Tapes" talks about the Mid-South screening of the documentary. (watch the video below)

On Smithsonian Channel 
MLK: THE ASSASSINATION TAPES 
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12TH @ 8PM 

Mheshimiwa Spika,
Nakushukuru kwa kunipa fursa na heshima ya kuwasilisha hoja hii katika Bunge lako tukufu.
 
Mheshimiwa Spika,
Hoja yangu ina madhumuni ya kuliomba Bunge lako tukufu liazimie, kwa kauli moja, kuitaka Serikali, katika Mkutano ujao wa Saba wa Bunge, kuleta Muswada wa Sheria ya Kudhibiti Upangaji wa Nyumba za Makazi (Rental Housing Act):
1. Itakayoweka utaratibu na udhibiti wa sekta ya upangaji wa nyumba nchini kwa ujumla;
 
2. Itakayowezesha kuanzishwa kwa Wakala wa Udhibiti wa Sekta ya Nyumba – Real Estate Regulatory Authority (RERA).
 
3. Itakayoainisha wazi haki na wajibu wa wapangaji na wenye nyumba;
 
4. Itakayoweka utaratibu wa haraka na rahisi zaidi kwa wapangaji na wenye nyumba kupata haki zao;
 
5. Itakayodhibiti na kuweka adhabu kwa vitendo vya unyanyasaji dhidi ya wapangaji;
 
6. Itakayoweka utaratibu wa ukaguzi wa viwango na hali za makazi ya kupanga;
 
7. Itakayozuia na kuweka adhabu kwa utaratibu wa kutoza kodi ya nyumba kwa miezi sita au mwaka mzima;
 
8. Itakayodhibiti wenye nyumba kuwalazimisha wapangaji kulipa kodi ya nyumba kwa fedha za kigeni, hasa dola za kimarekani;
 
9. Itakayodhibiti upandishaji holela wa kodi za nyumba;
 
10. Itakayowezesha mikataba ya upangaji wa nyumba kusajiliwa;
 
11. Itakayoweka utaratibu wa kuwatambua na kuwasajili madalali wa nyumba ili kudhibiti vitendo vyao.
 
12. Itakayoiwezesha Serikali kupata mapato kutokana na biashara ya upangaji nyumba kwa kuwalazimisha wenye nyumba kujisajili kwenye Mamlaka husika na kutoa risiti kwa wapangaji;
 
13. Itakayoweka taratibu nyingine mbalimbali zitakazolinda haki za wapangaji na wenye nyumba na zitakazowezesha sekta ya makazi kukua na kushamiri na kupunguza tatizo la makazi nchini.
 
Mheshimiwa Spika,
Msingi wa hoja hii ni malalamiko mengi ambayo mimi na ninyi viongozi wenzangu mmekuwa mkiyapata kutoka wananchi wengi hasa waishio mijini kutokana na adha wanazopata katika kutafuta nyumba za kupanga au kuishi kwenye nyumba za kupanga.
 
Mheshimiwa Spika,
Naomba uniruhusu nitoe mifano hai ya baadhi ya watu walionifuata na kunielezea masaibu yao.
Dora, ni binti wa miaka 30, ni mwandishi wa habari. Alipomaliza Chuo Kikuu alibahatika kupata kazi kwenye gazeti moja pale Dar es Salaam. Kwa kuwa alipata kazi, na kwa kuwa wazazi wake hawakai Dar es Salaam, aliamua kutafuta chumba cha kupanga ili aanze maisha yake. Alihangaika kwa miezi nane bila kupata nyumba. Kila alipoenda, kwanza aliambiwa lazima awe na fedha ya kodi ya miezi sita na sehemu nyingine aliambiwa mwaka mzima. Hili lilikuwa gumu kwake kwasababu ndio alikuwa amepata kazi na anaanza maisha, pesa ya kodi kwa mwaka mzima hakuwa nayo.
 
Pili, sehemu nyingi wenye nyumba walimwambia kwamba hawakodishi nyumba kwa mtu ambaye hajaoa wala kuolewa. Kimsingi, hii sio haki. Lakini Dora hakuwa na pa kwenda.
 
Mheshimiwa Spika,
Huko nyumba, ilikuwepo Sheria ya Udhibiti wa Pango ya Mwaka 1984 (Rental Restriction Act of 1984), ambayo ilikuwa inamlinda Dora asitozwe kodi ya mwaka. Hata hivyo, Sheria hiyo ilifutwa mwaka 2005 na baadhi ya vipengele kuingizwa kama marekebisho ya Sheria ya Ardhi ya mwaka 1999 na Sheria ya Mahakama ya Ardhi ya Mwaka 2005. Hata hivyo, vipengele madhubuti vya kumlinda mpangaji vilitupwa kabisa.
 
Mheshimiwa Spika,
Yupo pia Bwana Saidi Bakari Shemweta, mzaliwa wa jimbo langu la Bumbuli anayeishi Mbagala. Ana familia ya watu wa sita: mke na watoto watatu na ndugu wengine wawili. Anafanya biashara ndogo ndogo na kipato chake ni cha siku kwa siku. Alikuwa na mkataba wa pango wa mwaka mzima. Lakini mkataba huo ulikuwa wa kuandikishiana kwenye kipande cha karatasi. Mkataba huo ulitengenezwa na mwenye nyumba na ulisheheni zaidi maslahi ya mwenye nyumba kuliko haki zake kama mpangaji. Alikuwa analipa kodi bila kupewa risiti. Na wapangaji wenzake nao wanalipa kodi bila risiti. Lakini yeye kwenye biashara zake, ambazo zina kipato kidogo kuliko cha mwenye nyumba, analipa kodi. Hali ya makazi anayoishi, kwa maana ya idadi vya watu kulinganisha na vyoo, hali ya upatikanaji maji, ilikuwa hailingani na kiwango cha kodi anayolipa. Na hata pale ambapo mwenye nyumba alipaswa kufanya matengenezo, hakuwa anafanya hivyo.
 
Pamoja na yote hayo, ghafla mwenye nyumba aliamua kupandisha kodi katikati ya mkataba kwa kuwa tu alipata mpangaji aliyekuwa tayari kulipa kodi kubwa kuliko Bwana Shemweta. Bwana Shemweta alitafutiwa kosa, akapewa notisi ya ghafla. Kwa kuwa hakuweza kupata nyumba ndani ya kipindi kifupi, kwa tatizo lilelile la kukosa kodi ya mwaka mzima, akalazimika kuondolewa kwa nguvu kwa vitu vyake kutolewa nje pamoja na watoto na ndugu zake. Hakujua pa kwenda kudai haki yake. Hakujua analindwa na Sheria gani na hakujua pa kuanzia.
 
Mheshimiwa Spika,
Naamini masaibu kama haya ya Dora na Shemweta yapo mengi na mengine ukisikia yanasikitisha zaidi. Sisi Wabunge tumekuja hapa Bungeni kama wawakilishi wa watu ili tutunge Sheria kwa manufaa ya walio wengi. Lakini tupo hapa tukitambua kwamba jamii yetu ina matabaka. Ina wanyonge na ina wenye mabavu. Ina watu wanaokunywa mvinyo wa dola 2,000 kwa chupa, na ina watu ambao hawajui mchana watakula nini. Lakini wote hawa wanahitaji makazi. Lakini kuna waliojaliwa kujenga nyumba zao, ambao makazi sio jambo lililo katika mawazo yao, lakini kuna wengi zaidi ambao hawakujaliwa ambao makazi ndio shaka yao kubwa. Katika kutunga Sheria lazima tuendeshwe na msingi wa kusaidia wanyonge, pamoja na kwamba tunalinda haki za raia wote wa nchi yetu.  
 
 
Mheshimiwa Spika,
Mwaka 2005, Bunge lilifuta Sheria ya Udhibiti wa Pango ya Mwaka 1984 (Rental Restriction Act of 1984) ambayo ilikuwa inatoa ulinzi kwa wanyonge ambao ni wapangaji. Sababu ya kuifuta Sheria hii ilikuwa ni kwamba eti Sheria za kudhibiti bei ni sheria za enzi za kijamaa na kwamba pango liachwe liwe kazi ya soko. Huu sio ukweli. Sheria hii ilitungwa mwaka 1962 wakati nchi yetu ilikuwa bado haijaingia kwenye siasa ya ujamaa. Lakini pia nchi nyingi za kibepari zina Sheria ya Kudhibiti Pango, ikiwemo Kenya, ambapo chini ya Sheria yao Namba 296, ni kosa kudai pango la zaidi ya miezi miwili, na Uganda, chini ya Sheria yao Namba 231. Vilevile, katika mageuzi ya uchumi wa nchi yetu tumeunda taasisi nyingi na tumetunga Sheria kadhaa zinazodhibiti bei za bidhaa mbalimbali – mfano: SUMATRA, bei za usafiri; EWURA, bei ya nishati; TCRA, bei za kupiga simu.
 
Mheshimiwa Spika,
Kama tumeona ni sahihi kuweka udhibiti kwamba makampuni ya simu za mikononi yasipandishe bei ya kupiga simu holela, kwanini tusiweke udhibiti kwenye hitaji muhimu la maisha ya mwanadamu, yaani makazi, kwamba mwenye nyumba asipandishe kodi holela, kwa kiwango na wakati wowote anaotaka?
 
Inawezekana kukawa na wasiwasi kwamba tukiweka udhibiti wa shughuli za pango, biashara ya upangishaji nyumba itaharibika na uwekezaji utazorota. Hiyo inawekana tu kama hakuna udhibiti wa Serikali. Ndio maana napendekeza kwamba katika Sheria ambayo Serikali basi kuanzishwe Mamlaka ya Udhibiti wa Biashara ya Nyumba (Real Estate Regulatory Agency – RERA) ambayo itadhibiti miendeno ya wadau wote katika sekta ya nyumba. Nchi nyingi zilizofanya vizuri katika sekta ya makazi zina mamlaka hizi.
 
Vilevile, tumeona kwamba, hata baada ya kuifuta Sheria ya Rental Restriction Act ya 1984, bado mahitaji ya nyumba yameongezeka na uwekezaji haujakidhi mahitaji.
 
Mheshimiwa Spika,
Sheria ninayopendekeza itungwe sio ya kudhibiti bei ya pango pekee. Ni sheria ya kudhibiti mwenendo mzima wa biashara ya upangaji ili wadau na washiriki wote kwenye biashara hii – yaani wenye nyumba, wapangaji, madalali, Serikali – wapate haki zao za msingi, na mashauri na migogoro ya nyumba ipate kushughulikiwa kwa haraka, kwa haki na kwa ukamilifu.
 
Vilevile, ni muhimu nikaweka wazi kwamba Sheria ninayopendekeza sio Sheria ya kuwakandamiza wenye nyumba. Ni sheria itakayolinda maslahi ya wote, kwani ni dhahiri kabisa kwamba wapo wapangaji ambao nao hawatimizi wajibu wao na ambao ni wasumbufu katika kulipa pango na wazembe katika kutunza mali za wenye nyumba.
 
Mheshimiwa Spika,
Ni dhahiri kwamba liko tatizo la nyumba na makazi nchini. Takwimu zinaonyesha kwamba kuna upungufu wa nyumba takriban milioni tatu nchini kwa sasa, na kwamba kila mwaka kunahitajika nyumba mpya 200,000. Kasi ya ujenzi wa nyumba haiendani na mahitaji haya licha ya uamuzi wetu wa kuweka uhuru mkubwa wa soko katika biashara hii. Lakini hatuwezi kukaa, kama Serikali na kama viongozi, na kukubali kwamba kwa kuwa kuna upungufu wa nyumba, na kwa kuwa soko la nyumba linawapa nguvu zaidi wenye nyumba, basi haki za wanyonge, ambao ni wapangaji, zisilindwe.  
 
Mheshimiwa Spika,
Inawezekana ikaja hoja kwamba Sheria ya Ardhi ya Mwaka 1999, na Sheria ya Mahakama ya Ardhi ya Mwaka 2005, zinatoa kinga kwa wapangaji. Baada ya utafiti wangu, na kwa msaada wa wataalamu wa Sheria zinazohusiana na makazi, ukweli ni kwamba Sheria hizo hazitoshelezi. Kwa mfano, kwa Sheria za sasa, mwenye nyumba hana haja ya kwenda mahakamani kupata haki yake ya kimkataba - anaweza kuuza kitu chochote cha mpangaji, lakini mpangaji, ili kupata haki yake, ni lazima aende mahakamani ambako kuna mlolongo mrefu.
 
Kwa kweli hatuna haja kufanya utafiti wa kina kubaini tatizo kwenye shughuli za upangaji, matatizo kwenye sekta ya upangaji tunayona kila siku na tunayajua. Inahitajika Sheria mpya, mahsusi kabisa kwa masuala ya makazi ili Sheria hizi mbili zibaki katika masuala ya ardhi ambayo nayo pia yana mambo mengi.
 
Naamini katika azma ya Serikali kuboresha hali ya makazi nchini. Naamini katika uongozi thabiti wa Waziri wa Ardhi, Nyumba na Maendeleo ya Makazi, Profesa Anna Tibaijuka, ambaye anafanya kazi nzuri. Naamini kabisa kwamba tukitunga Sheria hii na ikasimamiwa vizuri tutakuwa tumewasaidia Watanzania zaidi ya milioni 14 wanaoathirika na udhibiti mdogo katika shughuli za upangaji.
 
Naamini pia kwamba, katika mchakato wa kutunga Sheria hii, wadau wote watashirikishwa kutoa mawazo na maoni yao.
 
Mheshimiwa Spika,
Kabla sijatoa hoja yenyewe napenda kuwashukuru viongozi wa Chama cha Wapangaji Tanzania walionisaidia na kunihimiza kuleta hoja hii. Nawashukuru pia waandishi wa habari walioandika habari na makala kuunga mkono kusudio la hoja hii. Nawashukuru marafiki zangu wote kwenye mitandao ya kijamii ya Twitter na Facebook kwa kunipa maoni na ushauri na kuunga mkono hoja hii. Nawashukuru wote, ikiwemo Wabunge walionipa moyo kuleta hoja hii.
 
Baada ya maelezo hayo, naomba sasa niwasilishe hoja yenyewe. Hoja hii inawasilishwa kwa mujibu wa Kanuni za  Kudumu za Bunge Toleo la 2007, Kanuni ya 54 (i).
 
Mheshimiwa Spika,
KWA KUWA, asilimia kubwa ya Watanzania, hasa waishio mijini, wanaishi kwenye nyumba za kupanga, na karibu asilimia 40 ya kipato chao wanakitumia kwa ajili ya kulipia pango;
 
KWA KUWA, kumekuwa na udhibiti mdogo wa biashara ya upangaji, na kupelekea kuongezeka kwa vitendo vya unyanyasaji dhidi ya wapangaji, ikiwemo kudaiwa pango la miezi sita hadi mwaka mzima, tena kwa fedha za kigeni;
 
KWA KUWA, kumekuwa na tatizo la makazi mijini na hivyo kuwalazimisha wapangaji kukubali masharti ya upangaji yanayoenda kinyume na haki, na kwa kuwa vitendo hivi vimekuwa vinaendelea kwa muda mrefu bila udhibiti;
 
KWA KUWA, hakuna Sheria mama inayodhibiti upangaji na inayolinda haki za mpangaji, na kwa kuwa Sheria ya Ardhi ya 1999 na Sheria ya Mahakama ya Ardhi ya 2005 hazitoa udhibiti kamilifu wa sekta ya upangaji nyumba,
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HIVYO BASI, Bunge liazimie kuitaka Serikali, kwa haraka inavyowezekana, ilete Muswada wa Sheria ya Kudhibiti Shughuli za Upangaji wa Nyumba (Rental Housing Act) ambayo, pamoja na mambo mengine, itakaweka utaratibu na udhibiti wa sekta ya upangaji wa nyumba ikiwemo kuweka haki na wajibu wa wapangaji na wenye nyumba, kuweka mazingira ya ukuaji wa sekta ya makazi, na kuanzishwa kwa Mamlaka ya Udhibiti wa Sekta ya Nyumba (Real Estate Regulatory Authority).

Mheshimiwa Spika,

Naomba kutoa Hoja.

January Makamba 
10 Februari 2012 

Eastman Kodak Co. said Thursday that it will stop making digital cameras, pocket video cameras and digital picture frames, marking the end of an era for the company that brought photography to the masses more than a century ago.

Founded by George Eastman in 1880, Kodak was known all over the world for its Brownie and Instamatic cameras and its yellow-and-red film boxes. But the company was battered by Japanese competition in the 1980s, and was then unable to keep pace with the shift from film to digital technology.

The Rochester, N.Y. based company, which filed for bankruptcy protection last month, said it will phase out the product lines in the first half of this year and instead look for other companies to license its brand for those products. Once the products are phased out, Kodak said its consumer business will focus on photo printing and desktop inkjet printers.

Kodak said it's working with its retailers to ensure an orderly transition. The company will continue to honor product warranties and provide technical support for the discontinued products.

The moves are expected to result in annual savings of more than $100 million The company didn't say how many jobs would be eliminated as a result of the decision, but did say that it expects to take a charge of $30 million related to separation costs.

via AP

Baadaya ya kuwakataza waumini wake kujamiiana siku za kazi, Mchungaji wa Kanisa la Ufufuo Mtaa wa Ituha kata ya Ilomba, mkoani Mbeya; uongozi wa Serikali ya Mtaa huo umesimamisha huduma hiyo kutokana na kuhatarisha mahusiano ya ndoa.

Afisa mtendaji wa mtaa huo Pius Moses amemtaja mchungaji huyo kuwa ni John Leonard na kusema kupitia mafundisho yake amekuwa akiwakataza waumini wanandoa kukutana kimwili na pia kutohudhuria misiba akisema dhehebu hilo haliamini kifo.

Afisa huyo amesema pia mchungaji Leonard anatuhumiwa kuwakataza waumini wake kusalimia na watu wengine kwa kupeana mikono kutokana na kile kinachoaminiwa na kanisa hilo kuwa muumini wa dhehebu jingine ni mfu.

Mmoja wa waaumini wa dini hiyo aliyejitambulisha kwa jina la Mama Pendo amekiri mchungaji wake kuwashinikiza wanandoa kutokutana kimwili siku za katikati ya wiki isipokuwa siku ya jumapili pekee kwakuwa ndiyo siku ambayo Mungu alipumzika.

Jitihada za kuzungumza na mchungaji Leonard zimegonga mwamba kufuatia kuhamia kusikojulikana tangu Februari mosi kabla ya siku aliyopangiwa na serikali ya mtaa kuhama.

Taarifa imeandikwa na Joachim Nyambo, via blogu ya RumAfrica

Dear Wavuti
We stated above congratulates government and doctors for humanine decision to restores medical services at Muhimbili.
We thanks Wavuti for info/updating us about the issue.  
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We, the Hemophilia Society of Tanzania (HST) congratulates, supports and cheers the successful efforts which were undertaken by government in particular the Prime Minister Hon. Mizengo Pinda, Medical consultants, Physicians/ Doctors and entire medical community to restore medical services at Muhimbili Referral Hospital. 

We trust that the decisions made today will be sustained for the betterment of the entire Tanzania community including people with blood clotting disorder.

As you may know, our society is officially registered under the Ministry of Home Affairs (2009) vide Societies Rule of 1954 with Reg. No. SA 16403. 

Its purpose is “Independent diagnosis and management of bleeding disorders within Tanzania”.  

The objectives are; to create awareness in Tanzania about bleeding disorders and mobilize patients to lobby for access to clotting factors and improved medical services.  Hemophilia is a hereditary life long disease associated with continuous bleeding, trauma and sometimes death if a vein is injured/cut and no treatment is provided within a reasonable tine.

Therefore, we say an excellent humanitarian and life saving decision was made.

“Treatment for a ALL”

Long live Tanzania

Richard Minja
President

Facebook update status ya Tanzagiza‎ inasema hivi...

"Mkurugenzi Mtendaji wa Kituo Cha Sheria na Haki za Binadamu, Dkt. Hellen Kijo-Bisimba, Mkurugenzi Mtendaji wa Sikika, Irenei Kiria, na Mkurugenzi Mtendaji wa TAMWA, Ananilea Nkya, wakamatwa na polisi, na sasa wanapelekwa Oysterbay Police kwa kosa la kutembelea hospitali ya Muhimbili leo, na watashitakiwa kutaka kusababisha uvunjifu wa amani...."

Na ukurasa wa twitter wa Irenei ameandika:

Taarifa za kukamatwa kwa viongozi hao ziliwafikia watu mbalimbali na baadhi yao ni Madaktari waliokuwa wakizungumza na Waziri Mkuu ambapo katika mapendekezo yao walimtaka Waziri Mkuu atoe amri ya viongozi hawa wa mashirika na asasi za kiraia, na wanaharakati waachwe huru mara moja.

Tukio la kuwakamata lilitokea katika eneo la Muhimbili.

Unaweza kufuatilia "update" status ya suala hili kupitia twitter.com/ChangeTanzania na katika tweets mbalimbali kwenye widget ya tweets za Watanzania inayoonekana kwenye ukurasa wa "habari" katika tovuti ya wavuti.com 

The director of the Tanzania Media Women's Association (Tamwa), Ananilea Nkya, was arrested early today in Dar es Salaam.She was detained along with several activists and journalists during a public demonstration calling for the government to resolve an ongoing doctors' strike.

Several hospitals have been closed during the strike by junior doctors and medical interns, which began on 30 January. They are protesting about pay and working conditions.

Some specialists have also joined the strike, and the Tanzanian government has come under mounting pressure to resolve the dispute.

The reason for Nkya's arrest remains obscure. She did make a statement yesterday about the need "to make the public disabuse themselves of the commonly held belief that prominent people care little about what is going on because they can access medical attention outside Tanzania."

But concerned supporters do not believe that to have been the reason for her detention.

via Guardian (The)

Thirteen leaders of national and grassroots activist organizations in Tanzania have been detained today by the government in the Oyster Bay Police Station, Dar es Salaam, in a government clamp down on protests by women/feminist and human rights activists against the failure of the government to resolve the health crisis arising from a two weekdoctors strike in Tanzania. 

The leaders come from LHRC, TGNP, TAMWA, NEDPHA and several other grassroots organizations. They and others were on their way to Muhimbili Hospital to await the outcome of talks which the Prime Minister was having with striking doctors. 

On Wednesday 8thFebruary more than 200 activists successfully ‘occupied’ Salendar Bridge and the roads leading into it for two hours, and got major media attention and support from motorists and passersby for their action, based on the posters demanding that the Minister of Health and other top officials must resign; and protesting the failure of the President’s Office and the Parliament to give the situation priority. Countless numbers of people have died as a result of the strike. 

However, as the participating organizations such as TGNP have noted, people were dying long before this strike because of the lack of adequate human, financial and material resources provided to health care at all levels.

Many of the organizations leading the protest are members of the Feminist Activist Coalition, Fem Act, including TGNP, TAMWA, LHRC, HakiElimu, SIKIKA, and NEDPHA; others belong to Policy Forum, including Policy Forum itself; and many others are grassroots organisations participating in the Gender and Development Seminar Series [GDSS].

Marjorie Mbilinyi, TGNP.

Kwa ufupi, kutoka kwa watu waliokuwemo kwenye mkutano wa Madaktari na Waziri Mkuu katika ukumbi wa CPL, Muhimbili, haya ndiyo yaliyotatuliwa:

Pendekezo kuwa baadhi ya viongozi wa Wizara ya Afya na Usatawi wa Jamii kuondoshwa katika nafasi zao limefanikiwa nusu kwani Waziri Mkuu amemwagiza Naibu Katibu Mkuu, Peniel Lyimo kuwaandikia barua za likizo Katibu Mkuu wa Wizara hiyo, Blandina Nyoni na Mganga Mkuu, Dkt. Deo Mtasiwa il hali Waziri Haji Hadji Mponda na Naibu Waziri Dkt. Lucy Nkya watasubiri maamuzi ya Rais Kikwete.

Nyongeza ya "Call Allowances" inaanza mara moja mwezi huu. Watalipwa ifuatavyo: Specialist MDs (25,000/=), Regular MDs (20,000/=); AMO, COs (15,000) Registered Nurses (10,000/=) na baada ya bajeti kutakuwa na mabadiliko ambapo mafao haya yataangaliwa upya. Kimeundwa Kikosi Kazi vha watu 9 chenye Daktari mmoja kwa ajili ya majadiliano na kutoa maamuzi juu ya mshahara pamoja na "allowances" zote (Nyumba, House allowances, Hardship allowances nk). Kikosi kazi kina muda wa wiki mbili kufanya kazi hii.

Usafiri: Madaktari watapewa mikopo ya magari

Green Card kwa kila Daktari na familia yake inaanza mara moja.

Kwa hivyo, Madaktari wameazimia kuahirisha mgomo na kurudi kazini ili kuwahudumia Watanzania. 

Madaktari watakutana tena rasmi kufanya tathmini ya maamuzi yote ya sasa na ya Kikosi Kazi hapo tarehe 3 Machi 2012.

Waziri Mkuu aliruhusu mikutano ya Madaktari aliyoizuia awali kufanyika, na ndipo Madaktari walipopata fursa ya  kuendelea kukutana na kujadiliana baada ya mkutano wao na Waziri Mkuu kumalizika. 

• Ili kujikumbusha madai ya Madaktari, tafadhali bofya hapa na pia hapa.
  
• Ili kusoma TAMKO RASMI la Kamati ya Madaktari, bofya hapa

Shule 10 na wanafunzi 10 bora waliotangawa na Baraza la Mtihani la Taifa (NECTA) kuwa wamefanya vizuri kwenye matokeo ya mtihani wa kidato cha nne uliofanyika mwaka 2011. 

Akitangaza matokeo hayo jijini Dar es Salaam jana, Katibu Mtendaji wa NECTA, Dk Joyce Ndalichako alisema wasichana waliofaulu ni 90,885 sawa na asilimia 48.25 na wavulana ni 134,241 sawa na asilimia 57.51. 

Wanafunzi 10 bora Kitaifa
Moses Andrew Swai kutoka shule ya Feza Boys,  Rosalyn  Tandau kutoka Marian Girls, Mboni Mumba kutoka St Francis Girls na  Sepiso Mwamelo kutoka St Francis Girls. Wengine na shule zao kwenye mabano ni  Uwella Rubuga (Marian Girls), Hellen Mpanduji (St Mary’s Mazinde Juu), Daniel Wallace Maugo (St Joseph Millennium), Benjamin Tilubuzya, (Thomas More Machrina), Simon Mbangalukela (St. Joseph Millennium) na Nimrod Rutatora (Feza Boys). 

Wasichana 10 bora 
Rosalyn (Marian Girls), Mboni  (St Francis Girls),  Sepiso Mwamelo (St Francis Girls),  Uwella Rubuga (Marian Girls) na Hellen Mpanduji (St Mary’s Mazinde Juu), (St Francis Girls Mbeya), Elizabeth Ng’imba (St Francis Girls Mbeya), Doris Noah (Kandoto Sayansi Girls),  Herieth Machunda  (St Francis Girls Mbeya) na Daisy Mugenyi (Kifungilo Girls Tanga). 

Wavulana 10 bora  
Moses Andrew Swai (Feza Boys), Daniel Maugo (St Joseph Millennium), Benjamini Tilubuzya, (Thomas More Machrina), Simon Mbangalukela (St. Joseph Millenium) na Nimrod Rutatora (Feza Boys), Simon Mnyele (Feza Boys), Paschal Madukwa (Nyegezi Seminary), Henry Stanlay (St Joseph Millenium), Fransisco Kibasa (Mzumbe) na Tumain Charles (Iliboru).

Shule 10 bora 
Zenye zaidi ya watahiniwa 40: St. Francis Girls ya Mbeya, Feza Boys, St Joseph Millenium,  Marian Girls,  Don Bosco Seminary, Kasima Seminary,  St. Mary’s Mazinde Juu,  Canossa, Mzumbe na Kihaba. 

Zenye watahiniwa chini ya 40: Thomas  More Machrina, Feza Girls, Dungunyi Seminary,  Maua Seminary,  Rubya Seminary, St Joseph Kilocha Seminary, Sengerema Seminary,  Lumumba,  Queen of Apostles- Ushirombo na Bihawana Junior Seminary. 

Shule 10 za mwisho 
Zenye watahiniwa zaidi ya 40: Bwebwera, Pande Daraja, Mufindi, Zirai, Kasokala, Tongoni, Mofu, Mziwa, Maneromango na Kibuta. 
Zenye watahiniwa chini ya 40: Ndongosi, St Luke, Igingwa, Kining’inila, Ndaoya,  Kilangali, Kikulyungu, Usunga, Mto bubu day na  Miguruwe.

Ubora wa ufaulu kwa jinsi  
Ubora wa ufaulu kwa kuangalia madaraja waliyopata watahiniwa wa shule unaonyesha kuwa, jumla ya watahiniwa 33,577 sawa na asilimia 9.98 wamefaulu katika daraja la kwanza mpaka la tatu.  “Wasichana waliofaulu katika daraja la kwanza mpaka la tatu ni 10,313 sawa na asilimia 7.13 na wavulana ni 23,267, sawa na asilimia 12.13,” alisema Dk Ndalichako. 

Waliopata daraja la nne ni 146,639 sawa na asilimia 43.60 ambao wavulana ni  87,039 sawa na asilimia 45.40 na wasichana 59,600, sawa na asilimia 41.22. 

Waliofeli ni 0156,089  sawa na asilimia 46.41, kati yao wavulana wakiwa 81,418 sawa na asilimia 42.47 na wasichana wakiwa 74,667, sawa na asilimia 51.64.

Kwa upande wa watahiniwa wa kujitegemea, waliofaulu ni 44,910  wasichana wakiwa 20,972 na wavulana 23,938.

via gazeti la Mwananchi

Baraza la Mtihani la Taifa (NECTA) limetangaza matokeo ya mtihani wa kidato cha nne uliofanyika mwaka jana yanaoonesha kuwa asilimia 53.59 ya wanafunzi 426,314 waliofanya mtihani huo wamefaulu. 

Hata hivyo, wakati asilimia hiyo ambayo ni sawa na wanafunzi 180,216 wakifurahia matokeo hayo, wenzao 3,301 wamefutiwa matokeo kutokana na udanganyifu ikiwamo mfanano usio wa kawaida wa majibu. 

Akitangaza matokeo hayo jijini Dar es Salaam jana, Katibu Mtendaji wa NECTA, Dkt. Joyce Ndalichako alisema, NECTA imefuta matokeo ya watahiniwa 3,03 waliobainika kufanya udanganyifu kati yao,  watahiniwa wa shule ni 3,301 na wawili wakiwa wa maarifa (QT). 

Watahiniwa 182 walikamatwa na wasimamizi wakiwa na makaratasi (notes) sita walikamatwa na simu, watatu walikuwa wakifanyiwa mtihani na watu wengine, wanne walisajiliwa kufanya mtihani kwa majina ya watu wengine.

Watahiniwa 2,896 karatasi zao za majibu zilikuwa na mfanano usio wa kawaida, 155 karatasi zao za majibu  zilikuwa na miandiko zaidi ya mmoja, 14 kubadilishana karatasi katika chumba cha mtihani, 18 kukamatwa na karatasi za majibu zaidi ya moja, 25 wakiwa  na mfanano usio wa kawaida wa majibu,  kuwa na vikaratasi  ama kubadilishana vikaratasi. “Mtu mmoja unakuta mitihani  yake ya majibu ina miandiko zaidi ya 10, na jeshi la polisi ndilo lililothibitisha kuwa miandiko ya wanafunzi hawa ilikuwa inatofautiana. 

Baraza hilo limefuta matokeo ya watahiniwa nane walioandika matusi ya nguoni kwenye karatasi zao za majibu.  “Kitendo cha kuandika matusi kwenye karatasi za majibu kinaonyesha utovu wa nidhamu, hivyo pamoja na kuwafutia matokeo ufuatiliaji zaidi unaendelea ili kuona hatua za kuwachukulia,” alisema Dkt. Ndalichako. 

Pia alitoa onyo kali kwa vituo vilivyohusika na udanganyifu huo, huku akisema kwa vilivyobaika vitaandikiwa barua ya kutaka vijieleze kwa nini visifutiwe matokeo. 

Akasema baadhi ya watahiniwa waliandika nyimbo za  kizazi kipya  (Bongo fleva) kwenye karatasi zao za majibu huku wengine wakichora michoro isiyo eleweka na wachezaji wa mpira. 

“Mwingine aliandika bongo fleva,  ngoja niwasomee, wasahihishaji msinisamehe..., acha utani na girl wangu, najukuja home nakukuta.. nikifeli mtihani naendelea na fani ya muziki,” Dkt. Ndalichako alisoma moja ya karatasi za majibu za watahiniwa hao huku akiruka baadhi ya maeneo akisema ameandika matusi yasiyoweza kusomeka. (gazeti la Mwananchi)

Washington State lawmakers voted to approve gay marriage Wednesday, setting the stage for the state to become the seventh in the USA to allow same-sex couples to wed.

The action comes a day after a federal appeals court declared California's ban on gay marriage unconstitutional, saying it was a violation of the civil rights of gay and lesbian couples.

The Washington House passed the bill on a 55-43 vote. The state Senate approved the measure last week. And Democratic Gov. Chris Gregoire is expected to sign the measure into law next week.

Democratic Rep. Jamie Pedersen, a gay lawmaker from Seattle who has sponsored gay rights bills in the House for several years, said that while he and his partner are grateful for the rights that exist under the state's current domestic partnership law, "domestic partnership is a pale and inadequate substitute for marriage."

Pedersen cited Tuesday's ruling by the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals during his remarks on the House floor.

"The court addressed the question of why marriage matters directly," he said, and read a section from the ruling that stated "marriage is the name that society gives to the relationship that matters most between two adults."

"I would like for our four children to grow up understanding that their daddy and their poppa have made that kind of a lifelong commitment to each other," he said. "Marriage is the word that we use in our society to convey that idea."

Several Republicans argued against the bill, saying that it goes against the tradition of marriage.

Rep. Jay Rodne, R-Snoqualmie, said that the measure "severs the cultural, historical and legal underpinnings of the institution of marriage."

"This bill is really an exercise of raw political power," he said. "It contravenes human nature and it will hurt families and children."

Two Republicans crossed the aisle and voted in favor of the bill. Three Democrats voted against it. Democrats hold a 56-42 majority in the House.

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