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THE Tanzania Olympic Committee (TOC) has set up plans aimed at ensuring the country's successful participation in international competitions during new year 2011.
According to the committee's 2011 calendar of events obtained by THISDAY last week, Tanzania will take part in two high profile tournaments under TOC's supervision this year.
The first is the 10th All-Africa Games to be held in Maputo, Mozambique, from September
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12th Oct 10
MAINLAND soccer champions Simba Sports Club have said that they will no longer be exploited by unscrupulous businessmen who mint millions of shillings through unlawful use of the club's brands.
The
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28th Sep 10
TANZANIA is participating in the X1X Commonwealth Games opening in New Delhi, India this weekend and among the athletes it banks its hopes on is marathoner Samson Ramadhani Nyonyi.
The country
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31st Aug 10
NATIONAL netball team, Taifa Queens, designated coach, Simone McKinnis, has given the Tanzania Netball Association (Chaneta) until the end of this month to confirm her appointment.
Chaneta
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3rd Aug 10
THE just ended national netball club championship has turned into a scam with the majority of the teams fielding mercenaries, THISDAY can reveal.
Seventeen teams took part in the week-long
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27th Jul 10
THE national cricket team leaves for the United Kingdom on Thursday for a two-week training ahead of the World Cricket League Division Four to be held in Bologna, Italy, from August 14-21.
The
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29th Jun 10
WHILE London braces for the 2012 Olympic Games, memories of Tanzanian athletes who have excelled at international level still ring in the minds of many Londoners.
Among the athletics legends
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22nd Jun 10
Dar es Salaam
AS the October general election looms, several sports personalities have already declared their intentions to contest ward and parliamentary seats.
Incumbent Tanzania Football Federation
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15th Jun 10
THE government is reviewing the current sports development policy which has been in force for the past 15 years.
The process is in the initial stages and is coordinated by the director of Policy and
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25th May 10
ATHLETICS Tanzania (AT) needs about 60m/- to stage two major championships next month but the federation is currently penniless.
AT secretary general Suleiman Nyambui told THISDAY last week that about
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18th May 10
HOPE abounds at Msimbazi Street following Mainland soccer club champions, Simba Sports Club's, general election last week.
The speed with which the club's new chairman Ismail Aden Rage has started to
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18th May 10
THIS year's World Day against Child Labour, to be observed on June 12, coincides with the FIFA World Cup, which kicks off in South Africa a day earlier.
For Africa, elimination of child labour and winning
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11th May 10
THE Tanzania Netball Association (Chaneta) has asked Australian coach Simone McKinnis to be patient as it awaits the green light from President Jakaya Kikwete to employ her.
“We have requested
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4th May 10
NATIONAL Stadium's facilities will come under heavy scrutiny when it hosts the East and Central African junior athletics championships next month.
Ten countries will take part in the two-day competition
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4th May 10
IN football, strikers are the men who make their teams tick. Through their goal-scoring ability they are able to change the course of a match with a deft flick, a neat touch, a defence-splitting pass or
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27th Apr 10
THE Tanzania Netball Association (Chaneta) is likely to miss the opportunity to engage Australian coach Simone McKinnis for dilly-dallying to confirm her appointment.
McKinnis was recommended by Chaneta
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27th Apr 10
THE local basketball fraternity was this month forced to come to terms with a frustrating fact that only a few women basketball teams participated in the National Basketball League held at the National
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20th Apr 10
WITH barely six months to the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, India, Tanzania boxers are still training off-camp due to lack of funds.
The situation worries the Boxing Federation of Tanzania (BFT)
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20th Apr 10
DARTS, the age old indoor sport, is back with a bang. The sport, which was once the darling of entertainment spots' revellers in the country prior to seeing its popularity wane in favour of pool, is now
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13th Apr 10
WHILE authorities maintain a tight lip on the new national netball coach, it has been revealed that an Australian Simone McKinnis has been recommended for the job.
Informed sources have it that Australian
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13th Apr 10
TANZANIA'S cricket maestro Hamisi Abdallah is currently enjoying a successful career in England where he has been plying his trade since turning professional last year.
The former national team skipper
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6th Apr 10
LACK of seriousness on the part of Athletics Tanzania (AT) officials may result in the country being locked out of the forthcoming Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, India.
Irked by AT's laissez-faire
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6th Apr 10
A HUGE crowd in local soccer matches is unquestionably a familiar sight in the country. Soccer, dubbed the beautiful game, has understandably been commanding huge following in the country for years as
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30th Mar 10
NEWLY-crowned Mainland champions Simba hold the hopes of millions of Tanzanians as they host Zimbabwe's Lengthens in the Orange Confederation Cup first round, return leg match at the Uhuru Stadium
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30th Mar 10
DAR Raptors might have been perceived as complete no hopers when they entered last year’s Junior Twenty20 cricket league played in Dar es Salaam.
The team, comprising youngsters from Indian School
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23rd Mar 10
THE Tanzania Amateur Netball Association (Chaneta) is racing against time to raise money for the national team, Taifa Queens' trip to England and Scotland for a series of high profile friendlies ahead
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23rd Mar 10
AN open tennis tournament, held at the Dar es Salaam Gymkhana Club (DGC) courts two years ago, brought smiles and cheers to several youngsters who managed to win honours -- a feat
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16th Mar 10
THE Ministry of Information, Culture and Sports is waiting for President Jakaya Kikwete's greenlight to contract an expatriate coach who will handle the national netball team, Taifa Queens.
Informed
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9th Mar 10
WITH only three months remaining before the 2010 FIFA Word Cup kicks off on June 11, the Tanzania Tourist Board (TTB) has launched a campaign to attract football fans and sports tourists alike to visit
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9th Mar 10
THE bulk of sportsmen and women earmarked to represent Tanzania at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, India risk missing out on the multi-sport event, THISDAY has learnt.
As the deadline to name
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9th Mar 10
KILIMANJARO Marathon continues to gain popularity in the country and Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda has advised its organisers to invite top government leaders to participate in the five kilometre fun run
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1st Mar 10
MICHAEL Yombayomba, a dropout and former street boxer suddenly sprung to fame when he became the first Tanzanian to win a gold medal for boxing in the Commonwealth Games.
He defeated Cameroonian champion
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1st Mar 10
THE Boxing Federation of Tanzania (BFT) has not yet recovered a 5m/- computerized scoring machine whose whereabouts remains a mystery.
THISDAY reported last week that the scoring machine was among several
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1st Mar 10
A FORMER mechanic, John Yuda is one of Tanzania's most outstanding athletes who rose to fame in the early 2000s. He currently lives in Arusha and trains in Iten, Kenya and Boulder, Colorado in the United
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22nd Feb 10
MOSHI town is once again gearing up to host the Kilimanjaro Marathon 2010, Tanzania’s major road running event. Now into its 8th year, the event has been growing bigger and bigger each passing year,
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22nd Feb 10
THE whereabouts of a missing computerized scoring machine and other sports gear worth millions of shillings belonging to the Boxing Federation of Tanzania (BFT) is shrouded in mystery, THISDAY can reveal.
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22nd Feb 10
UNLIKE many of his compatriots, who have for long been busy exploring the Middle East market, former Simba and national team play-maker Henry Joseph has opted a completely different direction.
Cherished
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15th Feb 10
The aftermath of a New Year celebrations can often be the most troublesome period for disorganised sports associations as they struggle to balance their books and attempt to deal with all issues that cropped
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15th Feb 10
NIZAR Khalfan is one of the three Tanzanian soccer stars currently playing professional soccer abroad. While he features for a Canadian club, his compatriots Henry Joseph, Haruna Moshi and goalkeeper Mohamed
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8th Feb 10
AS the Vodacom Premier League gradually inches towards the home stretch, three teams need to quickly justify their presence in the elite league if they are not to become relegation certainties.
The
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1st Feb 10
IT'S now official. The government has sent Cuban athletics coaches Andres Edwardo Baro and Jorge Luis Bravo upcountry to conduct training clinics and identify talent after the national athletics body had
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1st Feb 10
THERE was an electrifying moment when he entered the PTA Hall in Dar es Salaam to witness her daughter Fatuma take on Nyasu Fundikira in a mosquito weight non-title bout recently.
This was a clear
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26th Jan 10
THE government will soon employ an expatriate coach for the national netball team, Taifa Queens.
This is President Jakaya Kikwete's offer to the Tanzania Amateur Netball Association (Chaneta), THISDAY
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19th Jan 10
Mainland champions Young Africans and Simba, the mirror of the country's football, have baffled Tanzanians several times in the continental club competitions. But this time around they say they are sufficiently
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13th Jan 10
MAINLAND Premier League coaches face yet another testing time this weekend, with some changes of technical staff just as the cream of the country's teams prepare for the 132-match last phase of the Vodacom
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4th Jan 10
EAST African countries – Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi – will be watching from the sidelines as the 27th edition of the African Nations Cup rages on in Angola.
From Sunday, January
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4th Jan 10
THEY say like father like son, but in the case of the Omary Yazidu family, it happens to be like father like daughter.
Fatuma Yazidu (18), daughter of a Tanzanian boxing legend has ensured that the Yazidu
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28th Dec 09
IN Tanzania, like most African countries, the pervasive interest in the English Premier League is now beyond question.
Interest in watching the English Premier League has also grown with the increasing
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28th Dec 09
FORMER Young Africans player Hamis Jabu feels proud to see his son excel in local and international soccer competitions while playing for his club or the national soccer team, Taifa Stars.
Jabu's 21-year-old
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21st Dec 09
A WINNING mentality and the government's role in sports promotion have in the last two days been the twin themes of messages from sports officials and dejected fans as we bid 2009 farewell.
Most of them
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21st Dec 09
THERE is no doubt that a tournament is the most revered moment for any sportsman or woman.
It is a player's platform for exhibiting his or her skills in a given sport and seek to outsmart an opponent
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14th Dec 09
TANZANIA has moved from the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) to the grave yard. That is how one can describe the country's soccer standard at the moment.
Tanzania mainland's ungraceful elimination in the just
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14th Dec 09
VARIED performances by some star-studded teams in this year's Vodacom Premier League has once again brought into the spotlight the vexed subject of foreign players and the actual extent of their input
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14th Dec 09
GOAL-SCORING is arguably football's most challenging art. It is a rare skill that is usually perfected in the latter part of a player's career.
Even some of the most gifted forwards sometimes falter when
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7th Dec 09
IF a stress survey is to be conducted among coaches and teams competing in this year's Cecafa Senior Challenge Cup in Kenya, the findings would most probably indicate that Marcio Maximo is among those
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7th Dec 09
There has never been such an exciting aspect of local junior tennis competitions like a rivalry between Arusha and Dar es Salaam players.
The rivalry dates back to almost a decade ago when the then
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7th Dec 09
MUCH scorn has been poured on the Tanzania Football Federation (TFF) Competitions Committee that it has now been reduced to a laughing stock due to its lack of credibility.
Yes, the committee has lost
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30th Nov 09
RETIRED Brigadier general Julius Mbilinyi showed top golfing skills to clinch the Zain fiddle golf tourney in the 18-hole challenge at TPDF Lugalo Club course over the weekend.
Mbilinyi posted a remarkable
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28th Nov 09
THE attention of soccer fans in Tanzania, like elsewhere in the East and Central African region, will from today through December 13 be focused in Nairobi and Mumias in Kenya, where this year's Cecafa
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28th Nov 09
TANZANIAN documentary filmmakers have been invited to participate in the International Emerging Filmmakers Fellowship in the United States next year.
The six-week programme will take place at the
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28th Nov 09
THE 33rd Orange Cecafa Senior Challenge Cup kicks-off today with one match on the menu pitting hosts Harambee Stars against African Nations Cup-bound Chipolopolo of Zambia in Nairobi.
The curtain-raiser
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27th Nov 09
UGANDA risk losing their status as champions of the inaugural Africa U-19 women cricket championship after they were found to have fielded overage players in the event which ended at Annadil Burhani ground
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27th Nov 09
TANZANIA Mainland soccer team, Kilimanjaro Stars, arrived in Nairobi yesterday ready for the 33rd Orange Cecafa Senior Challenge Cup kicking off tomorrow.
The Stars' 26-man contingent led by Tanzania
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26th Nov 09
VODACOM Tanzania has sponsored a one-day sports bonanza for unprivileged children to be held at the Sheikh Amri Abeid Stadium in Arusha on Saturday.
The company's Public Relations and Corporate Social
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26th Nov 09
NATIONAL soccer team, Taifa Stars, coach Marcio Maximo, has included two professionals in his 20-man squad for the East and Central African Senior Challenge Cup kicking off in Kenya at the weekend.
Naming
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25th Nov 09
TANZANIAN Joseph Kaniki has signed a two-year contract with a Swedish premier league club Gefle FF.
He joins compatriot Haruna Moshi, who also committed himself to the same club early this week, according
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25th Nov 09
THE Chief Marealle II Cup 2009 tournament will kick off in Moshi on December 9 to coincide with the Independence Day celebrations.
The launch will be marked by a procession by all the participating teams
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25th Nov 09
DAR ES SALAAM Gymkhana Club (DGC) junior tennis players finally expressed their desire to be on top of things in local junior competitions after holding sway in the BQ Open tournament at the club's courts
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23rd Nov 09
TANZANIA'S Haruna Moshi has finally landed a contract with Gefle IF of Sweden for the 2010 Premier Division League.
The 22-year-old midfielder is one of two players from Tanzania who auditioned
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23rd Nov 09
NATIONAL U-19 women cricket team started their campaign in the inaugural Africa U-19 championships with a two-wicket victory over Zambia at Annadil Burhani ground in Dar es Salaam yesterday.
The hosts'
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23rd Nov 09
AFRICAN Lyon are chasing the signature of Simba Sports Club's veteran striker Ulimboka Mwakingwe during the mini-registration window.
The Mbagala-based Premiership side confirmed yesterday that talks
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21st Nov 09
THREE regions have confirmed participation in the inaugural BQ Open junior tennis tournament at the Dar es Salaam Gymkhana Club (DGC) courts featuring over 70 junior players.
They are Arusha, Coast and
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20th Nov 09
VODACOM Tanzania has forked out 68m/- to bankroll the 2010 Mapinduzi Cup kicking off on January 6 at the Gombani Stadium, Pemba in Zanzibar.
Announcing the deal here yesterday, the company's Marketing
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20th Nov 09
MAINLAND'S national soccer team, Kilimanjaro Stars, yesterday got the draw no-one wanted after being picked to face three strong teams in the Cecafa/Orange Senior Challenge Cup's 'Group of Death.'
Uganda's
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19th Nov 09
TANZANIA Mainland soccer side, Kilimanjaro Stars, started training yesterday for the Cecafa Senior Challenge Cup minus professionals Henry Joseph and Nizar Khalfan.
The team turned up for two training
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19th Nov 09
PRESIDENT Jakaya Kikwete will today lead thousands of Tanzania soccer fans in welcoming the authentic FIFA World Cup Trophy at the ultra-modern National Stadium in the city.
The trophy arrives at the
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18th Nov 09
MOSHI Khalsa will represent Tanzania in the African Cup Hockey Club Championships to be held in Kenya next month.
Tanzania Hockey Association (THA) secretary general Kaushik Doshi said yesterday
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18th Nov 09
IT might be too early to draw any conclusion, but one can not be wrong to say Simba thoroughly deserve all the accolades that will come their way this season.
The Msimbazi Reds have opened up the biggest
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18th Nov 09
THE Automobile Association of Tanzania (AAT) has said the election of Kenyan Surrinder Thatti as vice-president of the Federation of International Automobile (FIA) will help blossom the East African spirit.
AAT
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18th Nov 09
TOP local junior tennis player Shaaban Ibrahim returned home yesterday to a hero's welcome after a week-long claycourt experience at the populous Smash Tennis Academy in Cairo, Egypt where he participated
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17th Nov 09
ACE striker Mrisho Ngassa struck twice as defending champions Young Africans hit Tanzania Prisons 4-2 in a Vodacom Premier League match at the Uhuru Stadium in Dar es Salaam yesterday.
The victory means
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