| THE | ARUSHA TIMES |
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| ISSN 0856-9135; No. 00210 |
March 2 - 8, 2002 |
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By Raja Jivraj Men in uniform As days go by, it's becoming clearer that there's very little difference between gangsters and guards of some of the privately owned security companies. After breaking into banks, waylaying vehicles carrying cash and even snatching salaries meant for their clients, last week the security guards pounced on their own employers. They broke into their administration office in Arusha and made away with millions of shillings. Of course, the company which apparently has good reputation in Arusha wouldn't like the matter to be publicized. However, this shows that a men in uniform could be more dangerous than the ones without. Now they are demanding to be given guns. *** No Cheques, please The Tanzania Telecommunications Company Limited has never failed in its duty of inventing new ways of frustrating its customers. Last week my company tried to pay its monthly telephone bills (of course inflated as usual) but the cashier refused to receive the cheque of Sh.80,000. The cashier said they have a new regulation that all bills of less than Sh.100,000 should be paid in cash. In fact, she said that was a directive from the Minister. Anyway, we had to beg the accountant to accept the cheque. Let=s brace for another cash robbery. *** Condom: Evil or Saviour The condom is about to tear the fabric of a Christian denomination that abhors its use. A pastor who is for it is in for trouble. His verdict is yet to be made but fellow clergy men and church members have detested his views and position about the condom. It seems as if it is the condom factor is the most serious crisis that has ever befell the Church. This shows how celestial, peaceful and orderly that Church has been. In other circles however, the condom is seen as the saviour of mankind. In fact, in Uganda there's a poster that screams: The condom, not the bible, saves. *** Soul-searching questions A Sunday Nation columnist is unhappy about the slanted presentation of the Zimbabwe 'crisis' by the Western Media. He poses a few questions that are food for thought. How legitimate is a regime where one percent of the population enjoy 90 per cent of the country's resources Awhile hunger rasps the bellies of 99 per cent? By what law or justice did Europeans occupy the Shona and Ndebele lands? Mugabe may appear diabolic in the eyes of the western press, but to the intellectual Kenyan columnist and of course, the natives of Zimbabwe, he's a hero. *** |
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