Workers should reject their July salaries and go on leave, the Trade Union Confederation of Tanzania (Tucta) said yesterday.

The fate of heart patients admitted at the Tanzania Heart Institute (THI) will be known today when the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) moves in to remove them over a Sh2.3 billion rent dispute.

The Taifa Cup basketball championship will be staged in Dar es Salaam in October, officials have announced.

A new policy on science and technology is underway, a senior official of the Tanzania Commission for Science and Technology has said.

The Tanga Cement international tennis championships started yesterday at the Dar es Salaam Gymkhana Club with fans complaining about unfair pairings.

Moro United have shifted from Morogoro's Jamhuri in preference to the National Stadium in Dar es Salaam for the next season mainland premier league.

Simba's Nigerian import teenager Emeh Izechukwu explode into tears as coach Krasimir Bezinski ( partly hidden consoles him after missing a penalty during yesterday's semi final clash against Uganda Revenue Authority at the New national Stadium in Dar es Salaam yesterday. URA stormed into the Sunday's final by a 1-0 victory.

The mother of bongo flava musician Khalid Mohammed, alias TID, has been taken ill after her son was jailed for assault on Wednesday.

With more Ugandans acquiring business facilities through leasing, players in the banking industry have underscored the need for a law to protect their businesses.

Operations at all five Shoprite outlets in the country were paralysed yesterday when more than 300 employees went on strike to pressure the South African supermarket chain to increase their salaries.

Entrepreneurs from Dar es Salaam region will tomorrow learn, among other things, the importance of participating in an agricultural exhibition which will take place in China in October.

Cecafa have opted not to punish APR Fc despite claims in the Tanzanian press that their players were involved in an off-field scuffle that left two Tanzanian journalists injured after their quarter-final defeat in Simba of the ongoing Kagame cup in Dar es Salaam.

Rwanda Tennis Federation (RTF) has named a four-man squad that will participate in this year's International Tennis Federation (ITF) U-13 championships to be held in Dar es Salaam next month.

Goalkeeper Abel Dhaira and Eric Obua, son of ex-FUFA boss, Denis Obua were the heroes for URA FC as the tax-collectors stormed the CECAFA Club Championship final yesterday.

It was a spirited show at the Zanzibar international Film Festival, when the obsessions threw the crowd at Ngome Kongwe - Old Fort in Stone Town, Zanzibar in a frenzy.

More than 600,000 hectares of fertile land suitable for food production in the country have been hived off for the cultivation of bio-fuel crops, an independent study by a land use research organisation has revealed.

The State Minister for Animal Industry, Mr Bright Rwamirama, has blamed the continued spread of the foot and mouth disease in western Uganda on nomadic pastoralists moving from one place to another.

Agriculture and Food Security minister Stephen Wasira has outlined measures intended to make Tanzania gain from rising food prices in the world market. The crucial aspect about the plan is raising production by close to 800,000 tonnes, which, according to ministerial experts, is possible if other envisaged measures are taken.

A report on the siphoning of over Sh5 billion from the External Payment Arrears (EPA) account during the financial year 2006/2007 has been presented to the Government.

Something fishy is going on in the whole issue of biofuel farming in the country.

BOA Bank Tanzania yesterday launched Western Union money transfer services in all its five branches.

Serengeti Breweries Limited (SBL) yesterday donated Sh1.5 million to the Tanzania Sports Writers Association (Taswa) football team.

The Post Bank has introduced mobile banking services to rural areas.

The minister for Information, Culture and Sports, George Mkuchika, will lead Tanzania's Olympic squad to Beijing, on August 4, the Tanzania Olympic Committee (TOC) secretary general, Filbert Bayi, confirmed yesterday.

Mainland champions Young Africans and Tusker FC from Kenya have qualified to play in tomorrow's second semi final of Kagame Cup championship after winning their quarter final matches played at the National Stadium in Dar es Salaam yesterday.