| Dar must strive to be Africa`s most beautiful city
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| We should take a leaf out of NAIROBI city book, in l960s to 1990s we used to call it half LONDON, under KIBAKI now it bounced back to its stunning appearance as it was under KENYATTA, couple of months ago I passed there en route to LONDON, the city now is clean and awesome. Dar is awful, dirty, rubbish everywhere, very dusty you name it. The feeder roads are nightmares, the airport, railway station oooo ghosh!!!!! unbelievable are in shamble.
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- Comment by edward alex mkwelele
- Date
Sunday 11 May 2008
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| It is a matter of choice. To build high storey houses pleased the Ugandan national next to the writter when landing at Nyerere International Airport and leave thousands of people suffering in villages( which is the case in some of the countries s/he seems to admire)or the reverse.
A paradise within a poor country will never change any indicator of success.
Kamugisha.
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- Comment by Eliphase Kamugisha
- Date
Sunday 11 May 2008
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| We would have loved to hear what Mzee Mwandemele had to say about his home region Mbeya, where like in the rest of the countryside, the situation gets worse by the day. Rural amenities are most lacking and that explains the influx to urban centres hoping that streets there are euphemistically paved with gold.
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- Comment by Nkangale Ndete
- Date
Sunday 11 May 2008
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| People are paying all sorts of taxes to the govt, but where does the money go? For example people in Mbezi pay taxes to the City council and to Ardhi. They get absolutely nothing in return. To get electricity one is given the run around until one gives money to some crook office, no water infrastructure, people connect anyway they ca and now so many are fed up they have dug wells.
As for roads, the story is well known. Why must these people pay any of those taxes? For what services? It is about time that citizens started demanding what is owed them. Enough is enough.
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- Comment by Eli Zamani
- Date
Sunday 11 May 2008
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| Yeah! You right, I am with you, but we should not compare with South Africa or London it will take time to reform the City. And other thing our Country lost direction from early former leader to nationalise private properties, compared to those Countries you mentioned. Your Home is the best to be proud of it. Let us not stand aside and talk bad about. It is the time to rebuild to gether as one united Tanzanian....I Love Tanzania....year!!!
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- Comment by Jackson
- Date
Sunday 11 May 2008
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| Your headline was truly eye-catching. Let Dar strive to be the most beautiful city in Africa, or in the world for that matter. Why not?
One day this could be a dream come true. But not now. Today, it remains a big day dream! Look at all the filth around, the rain water pools, the blocked drainages, the huge potholes that are making vehicle traffic almost impossible, and pedestrian traffic a virtual nightmare!If the performance track record of the city planners and civil engineers is anything to go by, the most we can hope for - and insist upon - is that all the potholes be filled and the blocked drains be cleared before the next rainy season. That would be a major accomplishment. When that happens, we can then begin to think about where Dar stands in the beauty parade among African cities.
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- Comment by Dr. Peter Temu
- Date
Sunday 11 May 2008
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| It is not without reason that Dar Es Salaam is called \'Dar the Slum\' outside the country. The lack of planning is such that it is beyond hope to repair
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- Comment by neema igohe
- Date
Tuesday 13 May 2008
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| I live in Brisbane in Australia, I have been to Johannesburg, London, Oslo just to mention a few. It is not because their buildings are very expensive, the issue is planning. Their cities are well planned.
See Jangwan and Msimbazi residents...they are able to construct good houses but why in those pity areas, because the planned areas` accessibility is stupidly beauraucratic.
There is a department I do not want to hear at all, elect me president today morning, at the evening all employees under that department would be in Keko remand facility, the so called ``Mipango sijui nini nini ...Miji``. What are they doing?
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- Comment by Kisegu
- Date
Tuesday 13 May 2008
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