{"id":5904,"date":"2020-03-26T14:10:03","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T14:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/tanzania\/?p=5904"},"modified":"2020-03-26T14:10:03","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T14:10:03","slug":"former-simba-sportsperson-muhaji-to-be-laid-to-rest-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sport\/former-simba-sportsperson-muhaji-to-be-laid-to-rest-today","title":{"rendered":"FORMER SIMBA SPORTSPERSON MUHAJI TO BE LAID TO REST TODAY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AfricaPress-Tanzania: <\/strong>SPORTS fraternity is mourning, following the death of the former Simba SC Information and Communications Officer and veteran sports journalists, Asha Muhaji (45).<\/p>\n<div id=\"detailz\" class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>She passed away yesterday at the Hindu Mandal Hospital in Dar es Salaam, where she was admitted since last Thursday. According to the late Muhaji\u2019s cousin, Habibu Kaumo, she suffered cutaneous TB.<\/p>\n<p>Kaumo said the late Muhaji will be laid to rest at Mwinyimkuu Cemetery in Dar es Salaam today. Simba\u2019s Head of Information and Communications, Haji Manara confirmed Muhaji\u2019s death, saying the club was shocked by the demise of the passionate and devoted fan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a devastating moment for Simba\u2026Asha (Muhaji) was not just a fan of this club, she devoted her time and life to defend the interest of Simba,\u201d said Manara. The Tanzania Football Federation (TFF) President Wallace Karia also said the federation has received the news with shock.<\/p>\n<p>Karia said in his statement that the late Muhaji\u2019s contribution in the development of country\u2019s football was immense, saying she has gone while her contribution was still very much needed.<\/p>\n<p>The late Muhaji graduated from the then Tanzania School of Journalism, currently the School of Journalism and Mass Communications ( SJMC ) the class of 1994-1996 with some of the legend photojournalist, Muhidin Issa Michuzi. Through his facebook account page Michuzi mourned the late Asha Muhaji, describing the deceased as Kiswahili speaker specialist and a charming colleague.<\/p>\n<p>During her life time, the late Muhaji worked for Business Times Limited (Majira) from 1996 \u2013 2000 before joining the ruling party Chama cha Mapinduzi (CCM), owned newspaper, Uhuru in sports department as Senior Writer. From 2003 to 2009, she joined the Tanzania Posts Corporation as Assistant Public Relations Officer before joining Leap Management Limited as Sports Editor from 2010 to 2011.<\/p>\n<p>The late moved to New Habari (2006) Limited where she worked as Sports Editor for RAI and Bingwa. In 2014, Muhaji was hired by the Msimbazi Street based club as Information Officer. Then, Simba were under the chairmanship of Ismail Aden Rage.<\/p>\n<p>She took over the office from Ezeikel Kamwaga, who was promoted to the post of club\u2019s Secretary General. Kamwaga filled the void post after Evodius Mtawala was appointed to the post of Tanzania Football Federation (TFF), Director of Member Associations and Legal Affairs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"news\">\n<div class=\"item\">\n<div class=\"item-image-3\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AfricaPress-Tanzania: SPORTS fraternity is mourning, following the death of the former Simba SC Information and Communications Officer and veteran sports journalists, Asha Muhaji (45). She passed away yesterday at the Hindu Mandal Hospital in Dar es Salaam, where she was admitted since last Thursday. According to the late Muhaji\u2019s cousin, Habibu Kaumo, she suffered cutaneous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":5909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,17],"tags":[2944,557,226],"class_list":["post-5904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-sport","tag-asha-muhaji","tag-simba-sc","tag-wallace-karia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>FORMER SIMBA SPORTSPERSON MUHAJI TO BE LAID TO REST TODAY - Tanzania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SPORTS fraternity is mourning, following the death of the former Simba SC Information and Communications Officer and veteran sports\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sport\/former-simba-sportsperson-muhaji-to-be-laid-to-rest-today\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"FORMER SIMBA SPORTSPERSON MUHAJI TO BE LAID TO REST TODAY\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"SPORTS fraternity is mourning, following the death of the former Simba SC Information and Communications Officer and veteran sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sport\/former-simba-sportsperson-muhaji-to-be-laid-to-rest-today\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Tanzania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-03-26T14:10:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2020\/03\/bfe12e97e72890d33a1f5d65a1a8343b-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sport\/former-simba-sportsperson-muhaji-to-be-laid-to-rest-today#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sport\/former-simba-sportsperson-muhaji-to-be-laid-to-rest-today\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"FORMER SIMBA SPORTSPERSON MUHAJI TO BE LAID TO REST TODAY\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-03-26T14:10:03+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sport\/former-simba-sportsperson-muhaji-to-be-laid-to-rest-today\"},\"wordCount\":386,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sport\/former-simba-sportsperson-muhaji-to-be-laid-to-rest-today#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2020\/03\/bfe12e97e72890d33a1f5d65a1a8343b-1.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Asha Muhaji\",\"Simba SC\",\"Wallace Karia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sport\/former-simba-sportsperson-muhaji-to-be-laid-to-rest-today#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sport\/former-simba-sportsperson-muhaji-to-be-laid-to-rest-today\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sport\/former-simba-sportsperson-muhaji-to-be-laid-to-rest-today\",\"name\":\"FORMER SIMBA SPORTSPERSON MUHAJI TO BE LAID TO REST TODAY - 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