Thursday, March 21, 2013

Stage set for Youth Cup soccer seminar


Boniface Wambura, TFF information officer

14th March 2013


Organiser of this year’s edition of Coca-Cola under 17 football championships expect to hold a seminar for all secretaries of the regional football associations in the country.
 The seminar will be held at the Tanzania Football Federation’s premises on March 19 and participants have been advised to report a day before.
Besides the secretaries, all coordinators of the Secondary Schools games (UMISSETA) have also been invited to attend the seminar.
According to the TFF information officer Boniface Wambura, letters of invitations have already been dispatched to the invitees.
 The seminar aims at imparting knowledge and overview of the youth tournament which has been staged for over five years now.
 Major highlight of the seminar is expected to be adherence to age of the players to avoid cheating. Age cheating has been a huge problem recurring in the tournament in most of the editions.
The Copa Coca-Cola tourney has been a perfect stage for  football coaches and trainers to scout talents.
The tournament will kickoff from the district level before advancing to regions and then national level. 

IFC, Coca-Cola issues $100m to empower women entrepreneurs

William Egbe (R), Group Sustainability Director for Coca-Cola Eurasia and Africa Group shake hands with International Finance Corporation director of financial markets James Scriven after signing of a three-year joint USD100m initiative to provide access to finance for women entrepreneurs in Eurasia and Africa.(Photo: Guardian Correspondent)

By The guardian reporter, 19th March 2013
 
The  Coca-Cola Company and IFC (International Finance Corporation), a member of the World Bank Group, last week announced a $100m, three-year joint initiative to provide access to finance for women entrepreneurs in Eurasia and Africa.

The collaboration builds on the synergies between Coca-Cola’s 5by20 women’s economic empowerment initiative and IFC’s Banking on Women programme to help address barriers women entrepreneurs commonly face in some of the world’s poorest countries, a statement issued yesterday said. 

Perhaps this reminder will console teachers!

By Editor, 20th March 2013

SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN

Mass failures of students in decisive examinations in Tanzania have for years now left education stakeholders, among them parents, both worried and stunned.
There is still no consensus over what can be done to improve academic and professional performance in our schools and colleges.

Thursday, March 14, 2013

Udobi aliyeanza kupata Sh2,000 mpaka Sh 20,000 kwa siku




Na Joseph Zablon, Mwananchi 
Posted  Alhamisi,Marchi14  2013

Tatizo la ajira lina wagusa watu wengi hasa vijana. Wengi wanaangaika kutafuta ajira bila mafanikio huku wengi wakiwa ni wahitimu wa vyuo vikuu.
Kila mwaka vyuo vikuu nchini vinazalisha wataalamu wa kila aina, lakini wengi wamebaki mitaani kutokana na kukosa ajira.

Pele: Hakuna mkato kwenye soka

"Soka barani Afrika mazingira yake yanafanana, hakuna mtoto wa waziri anayecheza soka, wala hakuna mtoto wa mwanasheria au mfanyakazi wa benki ambaye anacheza soka, soka inachezwa na watu wanaotoka kwenye familia duni na hilo ndiyo daraja la kuelekea maisha mazuri,"alisema Pele.
Mwananchi
Posted  Jumatatu, Novemba5  2012 


NYOTA wa zamani wa Ghana na Olympique Marseille, Abedi Pele amewaambia wachezaji chipukizi wa Tanzania kuwa hakuna njia ya mkato katika kutafuta mafanikio katika soka.

Pele, aliyeiongoza Marseille kutwaa ubingwa wa Ulaya mwaka 1992, huku akifunga moja ya mabao dhidi ya AC Milan ya Italia alisema hayo jana asubuhi wakati alipotembelea kituo cha kufundisha wachezaji watoto wa kuanzia umri wa miaka sita hadi 17.

Pele aliwaambia katika kufikia mafanikio hakuna njia ya mkato na aliwataka wafanye jitihada ili watimize ndoto zao ikiwa ni pamoja na timu ya taifa ya vijana chini ya miaka 17 'Serengeti Boys' inahakikisha inafuzu kucheza Fainali za Afrika mwakani.

"Tunaona wachezaji wenye vipaji vikubwa duniani wakifanya jitihada kubwa ili waweze kucheza kwa kiwango cha juu, bila ya kufanya juhudi, kujituma na kudhamiria hauwezi kufanikiwa,"alisema Pele.

Alisema,"Wale wenye vipaji, lakini hawafanyi jitihada hawataendelea, wale wasiojaliwa kuwa na vipaji, lakini wanafanya jitihada, watakwenda mbele na kupata mafanikio," alisema nyota Pele ambaye ameletwa nchini na Shirikisho la Soka Kimataifa (Fifa) kuangalia shughuli mbalimbali za maendeleo ya mpira wa miguu nchini.

"Soka barani Afrika mazingira yake yanafanana, hakuna mtoto wa waziri anayecheza soka, wala hakuna mtoto wa mwanasheria au mfanyakazi wa benki ambaye anacheza soka, soka inachezwa na watu wanaotoka kwenye familia duni na hilo ndiyo daraja la kuelekea maisha mazuri,"alisema Pele.

Pele, ambaye jina lake halisi ni Abedi Ayew aliwataka wachezaji wa timu ya taifa ya vijana 'Serengeti Boys' kufanya kila wawezalo ili wafuzu kucheza Fainali za Mataifa ya Afrika zitakazofanyika Morocco mwakani.

"Mkifuzu mtakuwa mmefungua milango ya mafanikio ya maisha yenu," alisema Pele.

Pele ameambatana na Mkurugenzi wa  Maendeleo wa Fifa kwa nchini za Kusini mwa Afrika, Ashford Mamelodi na mmoja wa viongozi wa Idara ya Mawasiliano ya Fifa, Emmanuel, ambapo  watakuwa nchini kwa siku tatu ili kupata taarifa za shughuli mbalimbali za maendeleo, zikiwamo za soka la watoto (grassroots), soka la vijana, soka la wanawake na miradi mingine ya maendeleo.