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Why governance is a problem: Don  A lecturer of the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM) has pointed at a number of pitfalls which frustrate the government’s ambition to improve good governance.Dr Mohamed Bakari from the Faculty of Arts and Social Science was presenting a paper at the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) validation workshop yesterday. He said the major problems are enshrined in the country’s constitution which has not been updated accordingly. In a paper on the Country Self Assessment Report on governance issues which was conducted under APRM team, he said many politicians belonging to opposition parties believe, for instance, that the multiparty system is being conducted under the single party system’s constitution. Dr Bakari said this was among a list of challenges that the government should address if it wanted to clean its good governance record. Tanesco explains power outage  Tanesco has explained Tuesday evening's blanket power blackout, saying it was caused by defects within Songas power plant at Ubungo in Dar es Salaam. The two-hour outage hit all regions except Songea, Rukwa and Kigoma, noted Tanesco Communication manager Badra Masoud, adding that the problem in Songas caused overload in the entire grid which affected other stations.“There was a technical problem in one of the machines at Ubungo Songas station that caused other power producing stations connected to the national grid to trip,” said Ms Masoud in a statement released to the media yesterday. She said the overloading at the national grid thereafter caused an unanticipated blackout in all the regions connected to the grid. Kikwete right on Africa feeding the World, but...  THE 40th Edition of the ‘Davos World Economic Forum’ (WEF-2010) founded by Professor Klaus Schwab in the belief that ‘global multi-stakeholder cooperation lies at the heart of the Forum’s mission to improve the state of the world…’was held in Switzerland January 27-31, 2010. WEF’s theme for this year was ‘Improve the State of the World: Rethink, Redesign, Rebuild.’ Two subjects-matter were singled out as vital for Africa: ‘Rebuilding Critical Infrastructure,’ and ‘Rethinking Africa’s Growth Strategy.’ I’d venture to suggest this was one of the more important WEFs in recent memory – if only because it had the development of Africa at its core. But, that’s a tale to be told another day… Today’s story is about President Kikwete’s contribution to a debate on ‘Rethinking How to Feed the World’ conducted on January 29. NSSF Board of Trustees Wants Tenants’ Application Rejected  THE Board of Trustees of the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) today asked the High Court’s Land Division to reject the application by tenants of its flats at Tabata areas, seeking to temporarily halt the sell by tender of the blocks. Advocate Stalla Manongi told Judge Atuganile Ngwala that the court could not grant the application for “the status quo” and that the intended sale of the flats by tender should be maintained because there was no main suit pending before the temple of justice. “There is no suit which has been filed before this court so as to form bases under which this application for maintenance of the status quo can be made. This application is illegal, illogical as we do not see how could it be applied and, therefore, cannot be entertained,” she said. The advocate, however, consented to the other application by the tenants, who are seeking to file a representative suit to challenge the highly contested process of selling the NSSF flats situated at Tabata Phase II Housing Project in Dar es Salaam. TPA takes on Ticts in container business  Tanzania Ports Authority (TPA) is currently competing with the Tanzania International Container Terminal Services (Ticts) in the container clearance business at Dar es Salaam Port, it has emerged.This follows the removal of Ticts’ exclusivity rights by the Infrastructure Development ministry late last year. Impeccable sources in the government, who preferred anonymity because they are not authorised to speak to the media, confirmed that TPA was in the container handling business, competing head-on with Ticts. Both reportedly have equal rights in providing services to ships that dock at the port. “TPA formed a special department to handle containers at the port soon after the Ticts monopoly was removed,” one of the sources said. The aim was to decongest the port, something that had not been achieved before the revision of the Ticts contract. In an interview at the weekend, Infrastructure Development minister Shukuru Kawambwa said the government had played its part by stripping Ticts of the exclusivity rights.
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