Tanzania Politics Discussion Board

Posted Saturday, March 15 2014 at 11:08 Supporters of the ruling Chama cha Mapinduzi (CCM) during the last election campaigns in Dar es Salaam. The CCM supporters at a jostling among...

A broke country with an expensive govt; guess who pays the price? By Jenerali Ulimwengu THE EAST AFRICAN Posted Saturday, June 7 2014 at 11:43 In Summary...

If Tanzania's founding father, Julius Nyerere, were still alive today, he would surely be considering withdrawing the speech he gave in 1965 when he was famously stated that "it is not China...

When President Kagame first launched attacks on his Tanzanian counterpart, Kikwete, they were largely easy to ignore. Indeed, President Kikwete did just that. Part of the reason was that the...

Mon, 12 May 2014 10:26 - Updated Mon, 12 May 2014 10:55 Foreign minister considers Tanzanian president's visit positive Luanda - The Angolan Foreign minister, Georges Rebelo Chikoti, considered...

Dar es Salaam. Until mid-last year, the opposition CHADEMA was vibrant and on the go in all corners of the country. If it was not hosting public rallies, it was opening new branches--all designed...

Tanzanians need to respect other discipline like farming and science rather than focusing always to politics as the solution to all the life issues. The development of the country ca only be...

DEMOCRACY, THE RULE OF IGNORANT Surely these words , he says, the ancient Greek philosopher , Plato . When he observed that the rule of democracy is a stupid rule . He stood on argument that...

I do believe we have it in our power to pass on to our children a brighter inheritance than that bequeathed to any previous generation. And we can forge a set of updated clauses in our new...

New Constitution or not, One Government, two or three, this country will never ever be the same again, for better or for worse.. By the time we finish the melee of making our supreme law, the...

Tanzania is in the process of making a new constitution. The previous constitution did not involve the citizens. For the first time in History citizens of Tanzania started to participate in making...

Two out of every 10 Tanzanians simply refused to pay tax between 2011 and 2013, it has emerged. According to a new Afrobarometer study, the number of self-reported levels of non-compliance are far...

It is only yesterday evening,when the mixed balloting process as I will be referring to as a "new invention" was passed by the special parliament for what claimed to be,the submission of some...

Although members of the Constituent Assembly (CA) have been in Dodoma for three weeks now, they are yet to start the agenda which brought them here. The three weeks have been used to draft the CA...

Every day is party time in government offices The President's attempt at bringing down the wage bill by taking a 20 per cent pay cut, and enforcing the same across the board, is incredibly...

Citizens are awakening to the reality that they have a stake to national resources and its’ not the prerogative of individuals in the government to do what they think is right and ignore the...

The Kenyan businessman, Mr Harbinder Singh Sethi, claimed he had a solution to the IPTL saga whereby, among other things, he managed to garner the backing of some top government officials. The...

The allowance drama in Dodoma will not go quietly, it appears. Members of Parliament have consistently asked for handsome perks and gratuity. A similar racket rocked the Constituent Assembly (CA)...

The call by the Tanzania Private Sector Foundation (TPSF) and other Tanzanian stakeholders that a special arrangement be put in place to enable Tanzanian individuals and groups overcome the...

President Jakaya Kikwete has finally released the list of Tanzanians who have been nominated to form the Constituent Assembly (CA). The nominated members join the current Union parliament and the...