Simba, Yanga now eye ‘Nani Mtani Jembe 2’ tie
Soccer giants, Simba and Yanga, are already eyeing their ‘Nani Mtani
Jembe 2’ tie to be held at the National Stadium in Dar es Salaam next
month.While Yanga have given their players a 10-day leave, Simba have released their players for two weeks prior to starting preparations for the mouth-watering match.
The sides will lock horns on December 13 in the tie coordinated by their main sponsors, Tanzania Breweries Limited (TBL) through Kilimanjaro Premium Lager brand.
It will be the second time in a row since the ‘Nani Mtani Jembe’ campaign started last year.
Simba won the inaugural campaign after beating Yanga 3-1 at the same venue last year.
According to Yanga secretary general, Beno Njovu, the Jangwani Street side has already started training but will officially start preparations when their first choice players arrive.
'We have given our boys 10 days to rest and they will, then, start official preparations for ‘Nani Mtani Jembe 2’. We hope we’ll perform well in the game,'Njovu said.
Simba information officer, Humphrey Nyasio, said his squad has been given two weeks to rest and the players are expected to assemble on November 21 for training.
'A match against Yanga is very competitive, so, we have to be well prepared. But we believe we will emerge winners, we know what we are doing,'Nyasio said.
He also urged Simba fans to support their team during the campaign.
Kilimanjaro Premium Lager manager, George Kavishe, asked the two sides’ fans, especially Simba, to pull their socks in the campaign to enable the Msimbazi side to collect more in their ‘money league’ against Yanga.
Simba had, until Wednesday this week, collected 17,900,000/- compared to Yanga who had 62, 100,000/- while on Tuesday, Simba had 20,115,000/- while Yanga had 59,885,000/-.
On Monday, Simba had 20,445,000/- while Yanga had 59,555,000/-.
Miss Tanzania 2013 jets to London after flawed preps
The 2013 Miss Tanzania Happiness Watimanya jets today to London to
represent the country in this year’s Miss World beauty contest.
The 64th edition of the Miss World pageant will be held on December 14 at ExCeL London in London.
Megan Young of the Philippines will crown her successor at the end
of the event whe
re 130 contestants from all over the world will compete
for the crown.
Watimanya said in Dar es Salaam yesterday that she expects to do
well as she sufficiently prepared for this event, supported by Miss
Tanzania organizing committee.
The local beauty queen said that she has been in a training, aware of the level of the challenge she faces in London.
“I know it is a tough competition as I am going to meet a lot of
contesters who are appreciated beauties. There are special things which
belong to me and they could make me a winner.
“I call upon the fans to give me their support as I am going to
represent the country, not on my own as an individual, as their support
means a lot to me,” she said.
She declared that Tanzania beauty queens should watch and follow up
on the competition as they will learn a lot on how to become winners in
local and international competitions.
Hashim Lundenga, the director of Lino International Agency who are
also organizers of Miss Tanzania, said yesterday his committee had
already finished bringing together trip requirements to London.
During the training Watimanya was learning from her teachers, who
have expressed their confidence that she would well fly the national
flag.
“We are making everything good for our queen and we believe she is in a position to make history in London,” said Lundenga.
A few days ago Happiness’ mother blamed the Miss Tanzania committee
for poor preparations for her daughter as they failed to give her
various required materials.
The beauty queen’s mother said that the committee failed even to
give the young contestant the 5m/- for shopping as required in the
contract.
Sitti steps down, Lilian Kamazima new Miss Tanzania
Miss Tanzania organisers Hashim Lundenga of Lino International Agency said in Dar es Salaam yesterday that Sitti wrote a resignation letter to his committee on November 5.
Lundenga said Sitti’s runner-up Lilian Kamazima (18) who was also Miss Arusha had been promoted to be the new Miss Tanzania.
Lundenga said that Sitti’s letter stated that she had decided to step down because of the accusations leveled on her by the public and the press.
“We have accepted her decision. We do not have reasons to refuse her although her decision has shocked us,” Lundenga said.
“Always we have being insisting on our regulations and we will keep on making sure that no one is violating them,” said Lundenga.
Lundenga specified that in the letter, Sitti didn’t mention whether the allegations were true or false.
“We are happy also to have Lilian and from now we will give her every support as Miss Tanzania,” he emphasized.
On her side, Lillian who accompanied the Miss Tanzania Committee in the press conference said that she was happy to replace Sitti and promised to represent Tanzania at the Miss World contest well next year.
After Sitti was crowned last month, beauty fans leveled complaints about her, saying that he was over-aged. Some people even published what were given as her credentials such as her passport and driving license showing an actual age of 25 years.
The now defunct Miss Tanzania refuted the reports claiming that she was only 23 years old.
This is the first time for a crowned Miss Tanzania to resign since the Miss Tanzania beauty contest was reintroduced in the country in 1994.
Swahili Fashion Show to be held next month
This year’s edition of Swahili Fashion Week will be held at the Sea
Cliff Hotel in Dar es Salaam for three days from December 5, founder
of the event Mustafa Hassanali confirmed yesterday.
He said this year’s event is being sponsored by East African Radio
and Tel
evision (EATV), Sea Cliff Hotel, Serengeti Breweries Limited
(SBL) and other companies.
Hassanali said 24 local and international designers are expected to showcase their creativity talents during the show.
He said the fashion week is aimed at reaching out to the public to emphasize and promote talents in the fashion industry.
Hassanali said the fashion week is the platform for Swahili speaking countries to showcase their creativity.
‘This is the sevenths year that the Swahili Fashion Week is being
staged and collectively bringing together designers from within Tanzania
and beyond to showcase their collection, predicting trend for the East
Africa market for the year 2015. The fashion week is aimed at building
designers and their brands by taking them to the international level,’
he said.
The designer also said the fashion week will feature shopping
festival throughout the days and he urged the public to support local
fashion industry.
‘We urge the public to support the designing industry and proudly
wear made in Africa clothes, the local talents need to be supported,
nurtured to evolve them into synonymously globally recognised brand
names,’ he said.
He said this year’s event is being sponsored by East African Radio
and TelFAO commits to further help small-scale agribusinesses
The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) office in Tanzania has in
the last four years provided technical support to small scale
agribusiness entrepreneurs, through its Southern Highlands Food Security
(SHFS) programme under a USD5m, German fund.
Speaking in an exclusive interview with The Guardian recently, FAO
Tanzania Country Representative, Diana Tempelman, said the support
focused on assisting the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of
Tanzania (SAGCOT) initiative to boost agro-production and processing
industries along the Dar es Salaam-Mbeya corridor.
She was speaking during the UN week celebrations to mark the 69th anniversary on the establishment of the United Nations.
Tempelman also said that further efforts were made to link farmers
with other value chain players such as traders and agro-food processors
through the recently established collaborative pact with the
Rabobank/NMB Foundation.
“FAO is now looking into ways to enhance men, women and young
farmers’ access to agricultural financing. Under this agreement with
NMB, FAO will continue to provide technical assistance to increase the
productivity of rice and cassava crops, linking producers to
agribusinesses to increase their access to markets, while the NMB will
be responsible for building farmers’ financial literacy skills and group
management skills to become more credit-worthy and obtain formal loans
by the end of the four year programme,” she said.
She underscored that during the coming years FAO will further
facilitate producers and formal agribusinesses to capitalise on market
opportunities in the existing regional communities such as the Southern
African Development Community (SADC) and East Africa Community (EAC) of
which Tanzania has been a long serving member.
She noted that the Agricultural Sector Development Strategy
objectives include creating an enabling and favourable environment for
improved productivity and profitability in the agricultural sector and
increasing farm income to reduce income poverty and ensure household
food security.
Tempelman highlighted FAO’s continued support to Agricultural
Sector Line Ministries to elaborate a Sector-Wide Agricultural
Development Plan, given that “the Agricultural Sector Development
Strategy (ASDS) provides a comprehensive blue print for advancing the
sector and specifying how the sector will achieve MKUKUTA and MKUZA
targets,” she said.
Global Entrepreneurship Week to foster innovation, creativity set for this year
In a continued effort to empower young and upcoming entrepreneurs
in Tanzania, the Global Entrepreneurship Week in Tanzania team will host
yet, another GEW and this year in a roll, the third edition of Global
Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) activities, under the theme ‘Innovation and
Creativity at the Market place’.
The event is considered to be the largest celebration of innovators
and job creators, where start-ups are motivated and encouraged to drive
economic growth and for the best expansion of human welfare.
The global initiative kicked off in 2008, launched by former UK
Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Carl Schramm, the president and CEO of
the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
“With an increasing rise in unemployment rates in Tanzania,
embracing and promoting entrepreneurship is what will raise the country
to that next level of being an economic giant.
Having conducted two other GEW events in Tanzania which focused on
Awakening Entrepreneurship potential in 2012 and Access to Financial
Resources in 2013, this year we are concentrating on Innovation and
Creativity at the market place--providing creative solutions to the
consumers and thus increasing value proposition of entrepreneurs,” said
Lillian Secelela Madeje, Managing Director of Professional Approach
Development and Organising Team for GEW Tanzania yesterday.
She also noted that GEW Tanzania is part of a global initiative
within an international network of over 140 countries dedicated to
advance and empower entrepreneurs across the globe.
“From Zanzibar to the shores of Lakes Victoria and Tanganyika, in
every corner of the land, we want to make a rallying call to all
entrepreneurs to bring innovative ideas to the market place,” she added.
The one week event set for November 17 to 23, this year is looking
to spark entrepreneur’s minds in delivering cutting edge solutions at
the marketplace, she said.
This year’s event has seen great collaboration and partnership from
the International Labour Organisation (ILO), Dar es Salaam Stock
Exchange, ZAYEE, KINU Hub, Professional Approach Development, Trinity
Group East Africa and Africa 2.0 Tanzanian Chapter.
“The weeklong events will aim to celebrate, encourage, promote and
enable entrepreneurship through training and workshops, mentorship and
inspiration from entrepreneurs such as Mercy Kitomari of Nelwas Gelato,
Mboni Masimba of The Mboni Show, Jennifer Bash of Alaska Tanzania and so
many more,” she said.
GEW Tanzania events and activities will showcase what thousands of
organisations already do to help foster a culture that embraces
innovation, imagination and creativity.
“Each day will be dedicated to a specific segment group from women
in entrepreneurship, youth in entrepreneurship, agriculture and
entrepreneurship, a meet up between start ups and venture capitalist
firms and it will culminate with a Three-day Start Up weekend event,”
she added.
Carl Schramm, one of the founders of GEW, president and CEO of
Kauffman Foundation said: “Global Entrepreneurship Week will be
happening in almost every country in the world five years from now.
What this means is that probably half a billion people in one week
will think about a different career for themselves. They will see in GEW
a moment, a second, a day, a lecture, a TV show, a program
me, when they
reassess what they are going to do with their lives”
IAA launches new campus in Babati
The Institute of Accountancy Arusha (IAA) on Wednesday launched a new campus in Babati District, Manyara Region.
Already the IAA has established a campus building at Quality Plaza along Nyerere Road in Dar-es-Salaam City.
The Institute has grown from offering full time certificate to
undergraduate, postgraduate and Masters programmes, one year for
certificate, postgraduate and Masters programmes and three years for
undergraduate programmes.
Speaking when launching the IAA campus at Babati District, in
Manyara Region on Wednesday, Manyara Regional Commissioner Erasto Mbilo
called on the accountancy institute to speed up the establishment of
more branches countrywide in a move to produce more accountants who will
help in developing the economy.
Mbwilo also said that for several years now the country has lacked
qualified accountants in village and ward levels, making the village
executive officers to over spend public funds.
“Village and ward executive officers are receiving a lot of funds
f
or development projects but due to lack of accountants, they end up
spending the money unprofessionally,” he said.
He added: “The country now needs to have many accountants who will
help us in accounts professionalism in our development project at
village and ward levels.”
For his part, The IAA's board acting chairperson Prof Lugano
Kisuluka said after successful launching of Babati campus, the institute
plans to open another branch in Mwanza Region.
“We thank the Babati District council for providing us with land
for setting up this institute. We promise to provide all required
courses as agreed by our governing board of directors,” he said.
Prof Kisuluka also said that the IAA has started to collaborate
with the Galgotius University from India to offer Masters of Science in
Software Engineering, Computer Application and Masters of Science in
Information Security.
“We are also teaming up with Coventry University to ensure our
students access different courses offered outside the country, at
affordable fees.
Last year, Coventry University received the ‘best university in UK’
award “… therefore teaming up with it would add quality to our
courses,” he said.
IAA Rector Johannes Monyo said the institute plans to establish
campuses upcountry, it’s their five year strategic plan of ensuring that
the institute grows further to reach more people countrywide.
Prof Monyo also said that moving closer to the community will help
many parents to afford paying for their students because they would
study near their homes.“Our mission is to provide high quality education
in all fields of management, science and social sciences, with
significant focus on accountancy. We will use technology to ensure that
the Institute’s graduates are competitive in the global job market,” he
said.
The Institute of Accountancy Arusha (IAA) is a parastatal
educational institution established by the Institute of Accountancy
Arusha Act of 1990. The overall control and supervision of the Institute
is vested in its Governing Council.
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