Tanzania Politics Discussion Board

Mary Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997) She once said, "when you walk into darkroom and you find there is darkness inside of the room, you don't have to complain about the darkness, what you have to...

CHADEMA has lost credibility and public trust for accepting former Prime Minister Edward Lowassa who has incessantly been implicated in various corrupt practices, the opposition party's former...

Yes, it is unbridled greed which is a mother off all failures and Mzee Samweli Sitta is just another statistic in that regard. Mzee Sitta has a long public service career where under his watch the...

The central theme of the bill is to regulate how online content is produced and disseminated (Article 7). It provides unchecked powers to both the minister responsible (Art. 39) as well as the...

Few hours ago, workers working on building UKAWA STAGE For Tomorrow Official Campaign Launch were banned to Continue their work by Police Force. News trending social media said, Police enquired...

I think we have the worst politics in the region if not the world. Our politics is never about issues and is never embedded in an agenda. More or less the Simba- Yanga type of rivalry. I...

A clogged CCM presidential race highlights deep seated insecurities of the pretenders, power mongering and gross indiscipline! For the first time in our post-independence history the...

In many political systems there is a ruling party and the opposition. The opposition can be made up of one or several parties. It is common knowledge all over the world that political parties'...

Statue of Julius Nyerere, Tanzania's first president and an architect of African socialism, in Tanzania's capital Dodoma. I've never nurtured a critical opinion of Tanzania's first president...

Following speculation that Apson Mwang'onda and Lowasa have been strategising to make sure that the latter becomes president in 2015 general elections, some reporters made the effort of clarifying...

By JENERALI ULIMWENGU Posted Saturday, February 22 2014 at 11:33 IN SUMMARY Mr Lowassa was also the man who headed Kikwete’s extremely successful presidential campaign back in 2005, when...

VODACOM USED TO OUST CCM As it was widely reported recently the colonialist through their Intellegence Agencies, CIA and M16 are using their main agent Rostam Aziz and the British telecom giant...

Political punditry in this country is dead wrong to reduce this historical election on personalities because it has never been so. This historical election is part of wind of change sweeping...

"Preaching about Democracy is one thing but Practising it is another thing! As East African Countries members we are witnessing whats going on in Tanzania as they are heading to their General...

This morning, I woke up to find splattered across the Internet, an article by Yericko Nyerere - a popular blogger and journalist who has many followers on the social media. Among other things...

As opposition parties in Tanzania unite, Nicodemus Minde looks at how this new coalition could become a credible option for the country's citizens. In a region bedevilled by incessant political...

With the nomination of John Magufuli as its presidential candidate, the ruling party in Tanzania – CCM – has resolved the ‘Lowassa Question.' So it seemed near the end of July...

After revolution that brought most African countries independence ended, another revolution has to come in Tanzania and other similar countries. The father of the nation and first president of...

Guys, I was in contemplating the bygone of Prof Lipumba,and a furloughing of Dr Slaa in this UKAWA ENTITY,and the LOWASA world. Tried harder and harder,to think of this "Sabotage" especially of...

In our mundane undertakings and daily toils, we sometimes encounter phenomena that remind us of things we had otherwise pushed to the back of our minds, such as stories we read a long time ago but...