Kumbukumbu - Steven Kanumba (1984 -2012)

Kaka Selles Mapunda akisafisha kaburi la rafiki yake, marehemu msanii Steven Kanumba, huko katika makaburi ya Kinondoni, Dar es Salaam.

Kusoma Historia ya Marehemu Steven Kanumba BOFYA HAPA:

Marehemu Steven Kanumba (1984 -2012)

Asanteni Wadau - Msiba wa Dr. Aleck H. Che-Mponda (1935-2015)

Wadau, asanteni sana kwa salamu za pole, rambirambi, simu, sms nk.  Baba amezikwa kijijini kwao, Ilela, Manda, Tanzania siku ya jumatano tarehe 8, Apriil 2015.   Aliugua  ugonjwa wa Saratani (Prostate Cancer).

Mwenyezi Mungu Ailaze Roho ya Dr. Aleck H. Che-Mponda (1935-2015) mahala pema mbinguni. Amen.

Mwache Mzee Balali Apumzike Kwa Amani!

Jamani, nimeshangaa tangu wiki iliyopita  kuna mzozo kuwa Marehemu Daudi Balali aliyekuwa Gavana wa Benki Kuu yu au la.  Mzee Balali amefariki! Ni marehemu!  Rest in Peace Mzee Daudi Balali (1942-2008)!

Kama hamwamini basi tumeni maombi ya death certificate huko alipokufa, Maryland, USA. Kama cheti haitoshi basi mlipe hela kwenda mahakamani kuomba kaburi lake lifukuliwe na mfanye testi kwenye mabaki mtakayokuta. Inaweza kuwagharamia dola $65,000!

Kuna mtu ana Twitter akaunti ya Utani! Kuna watu wameapa eti ni Marehemu Mzee Balali anayeandika!

Kaburi la Mzee Balali huko Silver Spring, Maryland, USA

Kutoka Gazeti la Mwananchi:

Mkazi wa Kijiji la Luganga, Wilaya ya Mufindi, Iringa, alikozaliwa Gavana wa zamani wa Benki Kuu ya Tanzania (BoT), Daudi Ballali analazimika kutumia saa 32 kufika katika kaburi la kiongozi huyo lililopo eneo la Silver Spring, Maryland nchini Marekani.

Ndugu wa Ballali wanaweza kutaka kwenda kuona kaburi la ndugu yao, kutokana na ukweli kwamba wengi wao hawakuwahi kupata fursa ya kumzika Gavana huyo ambaye alikuwa kiongozi wa juu kabisa wa taasisi kubwa inayosimamia masuala ya fedha na uchumi wa nchi.

Mwandishi wa gazeti hili alisafiri kwa saa 24 kutoka Dar es Salaam hadi Washington, Marekani ambako alithibitisha pasi na shaka kwamba Ballali alizikwa Mei 21, 2008 katika makaburi ya Gate of Heaven, baada ya kufariki dunia akiwa nyumbani kwake Maryland, Mei 16, mwaka huo.

Safari hiyo ya siku kumi, ilianza Alhamisi Juni 26, 2014 hadi Jumapili, Julai 6. Mwandishi wa habari hizi aliligundua kaburi hilo baada ya kwenda makaburi ya Gate of Heaven kwa siku tatu mfululizo.

Siku ya kwanza, mwenyeji wa mwandishi ambaye jina lake tunalihifadhi kwa sasa alimfikisha katika makaburi hayo, lakini kaburi la Ballali halikuonekana na hata mwandishi alipokwenda siku ya pili peke yake, kaburi hilo pia halikuonekana kwa kutokana na ukubwa wa eneo hilo.

Siku ya tatu, Mwandishi wa Mwananchi alilazimika kuomba msaada wa Ofisi ya Makaburi ya Gate of Heaven, ambayo ilimsadia kuonyesha eneo lilipo kaburi hilo, hivyo kuwezesha kupata picha zake.

Kaburi lake liko katika msitari wa mwisho kabisa na Ukanda wa Kijani wa miti iliyozunguka makaburi ya Gate of Heaven, likiwa limeandikwa jina la kiongozi huyo, pamoja na maneno ya Kiingereza yanayosomeka “When the heart weep for what it has lost, the soul rejoices for what it has found”.

Maana ya maneno hayo ni kwamba “wakati moyo ukiomboleza kwa kile kilichopotea, roho hufurahi kwa kile kilichopatikana”. Kaburi hili limezungukwa na makaburi mengine kadhaa ambayo si ya Watanzania, kwani kwa haraka kutokana na mazingira yalivyokuwa, Mwandishi wa Mwananchi hakuweza kuona kaburi jingine lenye majina yenye asili au kuwa na mwelekeo wa asili ya Tanzania.

Uthibitisho huu ni tofauti na hekaya za miaka nenda rudi zilizogubika kifo cha kiongozi huyo, ambaye tangu alipoondoka nchini kwenda Marekani Agosti 2007, hakuwahi kurejea na badala yake zilisikika taarifa za kuugua kwake, kifo chake na baadaye mazishi yake yaliyokuwa ya siri kubwa yakiwahusisha ndugu wa karibu pekee.

Kutokana na mazingira hayo, kumekuwapo na uvumi kwamba Ballali hakufa na pengine amefichwa kusikojulikana, madai yanayochagizwa na mtu aliyejitokeza katika mitandao wa kijamii ya Twitter na facebook, akidai kwamba yeye ni Ballali na kwamba hajafa, huku akisisitiza kuwa wakati ukiwadia ukweli utafahamika.

Mtu huyo asiyefahamika hadi sasa alianza kujitokeza Twitter, Oktoba Mosi, 2012 pale aliposema “Nitakutana na Rais Kikwete (Jakaya) na ujumbe wake wiki hii hapa Marekani”. Mtu huyo alidai kwamba alikuja nchini Tanzania na kukaa karibu na Hoteli ya Hyatt Kempinski Kilimanjaro na baadaye kuondoka ghafla kwa kile alichokiita sababu za kiusalama.

Novemba 13 mwaka huo alituma ujumbe akisema:“In Dar es Salaam, Hyatt Regency Dar es Salaam, The Kempinski Kilimanjaro Hotel. Feels good to be close to my former office, BoT,” akimaanisha kwamba niko Hoteli ya Hyatt Regency Dar es Salaam, najisikia vizuri kuwa karibu na ofisi yangu ya zamani BoT.

Mtu huyo ambaye sasa tunaweza kuthibitisha kuwa ni feki amekuwa akiendelea kutuma ujumbe akijitambulisha kwa jina hilo la Ballali.

Ballali alifariki dunia kama ilivyotagazwa, lakini ilikuwaje akaenda safarini Washington, ugonjwa wake na hata kifo chake kilikuwaje? Je ndugu zake wanasemaje, safari ya kwenda Marekani ilikuwaje? Fuatilia mfululizo wa habari hii itakapoendelea kesho.


Source: Mwananchi

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Relocation

Recieved by E-mail:

Man Carrying Coffin for Relocation

A man who makes caskets was on his way to deliver one of the coffins when, not that far from his destination, his car broke down.

Trying not to be late out of respect for the client, he put the coffin on his head and began heading to his destination.

Some policemen saw him and wanted to make some money off him (bribe), so they challenged him:

"Hey!!! What are you carrying and where are you going?!"

The man said, Eish, I do not like where I was buried, so I am busy relocating".

The Policemen turned and ran for their lives!!!

Ubaguzi Hadi Kaburini Connecticut

Kaburi la Marehemu Juliet Steer

Huko Connecticut, mwanamke mweusi, Juliet Steer, mwenye miaka 47 alikufa kwa ugonjwa wa kansa.  Kabla hajafa alipitia sehemu za kuzika nyingi.  Aliona  makaburi ya wayehudi ambao walikuwa wanakubali kuzika wasio wayehudi.  Alisema alipapenda kwa vile ilionekana kuwa ni eneo enye amani sana. Kalipia kaburi na alivyofariki  kazikwa huko akidhani atapumzika kwa amani kwa milele.


Sasa mwanamke myehudi, Maria Balaban (72), alivyosikia hiyo habari amekwenda mahakamani na kudai kuwa Bi Steer, afukuliwe! Anasema ni sumu kwa weusi kuzikwa na wayehudi! Anasema hataki kuzikwa na weusi na pia ndudu zake waliozikwa huko kupumzika na weusi! Balaban anasema kuwa yeye si mbaguzi. Lakini kama si mbaguzui mbona hapingi wazungu waio wayehudi kuzikwa huko?

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 HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Juliet Steer was dying of cancer when she chose her final resting place in the woods of southeastern Connecticut. She picked the plot in an interfaith section of a Jewish cemetery in Colchester because it was peaceful, her brother said, and she died at age 47 in 2010.

 But that peace has been broken by a lawsuit seeking to have her remains exhumed and moved because Steer was not Jewish. The dispute over Steer, who was black, escalated recently with allegations of racism against the plaintiff and of retaliation against her by fellow congregation members.

Maria Balaban, a 72-year-old white member of the Congregation Ahavath Achim, sued in state court in New London nearly a year ago, alleging the congregation broke its own rule against burials of non-Jews at its three cemetery properties when it allowed the burial of the Jamaican-born Steer, who lived in the neighboring town of East Hampton. The synagogue says its rules allow for burial of non-Jews.

 Balaban, who is also a member of the conservative congregation's board of directors, has reserved plots at the same cemetery for herself and her husband, and they have relatives buried there. She didn't return several messages seeking comment, but her lawyer denies the accusations and says her background, which includes employment as a social worker, demonstrates she is not racist.

According to the congregation board's meeting minutes, Balaban was present when the board in 2009 unanimously approved setting aside a section of the Colchester Jewish Aid Congregation Cemetery for interfaith couples, their non-Jewish children and other non-Jews.

Steer is the only person buried there. Four white people have reserved plots in the interfaith section, but Balaban isn't challenging their purchase or usage of the plots, according to lawyers for both the plaintiff and defendant. The four people include an interfaith couple who are married and another couple who are not.
 
The congregation's lawyer, George Purtill, filed a court document last month alleging that Balaban is suing only because Steer was black. He said Balaban approved of the interfaith cemetery allowing non-Jews, contested it only after Steer was buried there and has made derogatory comments about Steer's race - among them that Steer should have been buried in the back of the cemetery, away from the Balaban family plots.
 
"My client is very upset by this all," Purtill said. "They created the (interfaith cemetery) to be open, compassionate and caring and feel chagrined that their goodwill towards others is being rewarded with this costly litigation."
 
Purtill said the interfaith cemetery was the result of the changing structure of families and the increase in interfaith and other types of relationships, including unmarried couples and civil unions. Congregation rules say burial plots in the interfaith section can be bought "by an individual for any individual without regard to religious identity."

Balaban's attorney, Martin Rutchik, denies that his client is racist and that she made disparaging remarks about Steer's race. Shortly after Purtill filed the document making the racism allegations last month, Rutchik filed an updated lawsuit to add a request for damages for emotional distress, claiming that the congregation has shunned Balaban and members have been "harsh" to her and made her feel unwanted.
 
A court hearing is planned for Feb. 29.

Rutchik accused the congregation of inappropriately bringing race into the case.

  "I feel that this tactic used by the defendant is very unfair and is very abusive of Mrs. Balaban," he said. "This lady (Balaban) has a history that does not speak of racism."
  
Rutchik added that Balaban grew up in Cuba, a country with a large black population, and helped many black people in New York City when she was a social worker there years ago. She also worked at a daycare center in Willimantic, Conn., attended by many African-American children.

  Rutchik said that Balaban's background "clearly demonstrates this woman was not a racist," and that she is suing solely over the congregation's failure to follow its own burial rules.
 
Traditional Jewish laws and practices prohibit the burial of non-Jews in Jewish cemeteries, said David Berger, dean of the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies of Yeshiva University in New York City.
 
"Jews should be buried with other Jews. There is such an expectation," Berger said.

  But the number of interfaith cemeteries is increasing, he said, because there are more marriages between people of different faiths.
  
 At issue in Balaban's case is language about cemetery use in an agreement between the Congregation Ahavath Achim and the former Colchester Jewish Aid Congregation that was approved when the two groups merged in 1999. The agreement says the merged congregation "shall not allow anyone of the non-Jewish faith to be buried within the confines of Rows A through H of said cemetery or any other cemetery properties of the ... congregation."

Balaban insists that means that only Jews can be buried in the congregation's cemeteries, but the congregation says the wording about rows A through H means that non-Jews can be buried in other parts of that cemetery.
 
The congregation's rabbi, Kenneth Alter, and members of its board referred questions to Purtill.

 "I can only say it's unfortunate," said Arthur Liverant, secretary of the congregation and chairman of its cemetery committee.

Steer, who moved to Connecticut with her two brothers and two sisters in 1987, was interested in the Jewish faith, said her brother, Paul Steer of Bloomfield. While she was ill, she was talking with Alter about Judaism and asked to be buried at the interfaith cemetery, he said.

 "She went up and looked at it and thought it was a peaceful place," Paul Steer said. "She believed in the Jewish religion. We were taught that Jesus was a Jew, and that's who we worship."
 
Steer said that Balaban's lawsuit has upset his family, but that they don't believe Balaban will win and they're not concerned their relative's body will be relocated.

"If God doesn't want it to happen, it cannot happen," he said.