Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda: Bye the hand-hoe, what else?

Felix Kaiza While touring his home region, Tanzania’s Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda went through two experiences worth putting on record. He received a three-hundred-shilling boost from a teenage boy to help him secure nomination papers for a parliamentary seat in the forthcoming general elections. That is politics. That is their game. Then he found himself saying Tanzania has reached…

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TANZANIA AFTER DOHA: Time to rethink conservation

By Felix Kaiza The Doha sitting of the United Nations Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) has declared a halt on the Tanzania and Zambia campaigns to pump ivory from their stockpiles into the market, purportedly to plough back some of the accrued revenues into elephant population conservation programmes. These essentially entail anti-poaching activities. On this one,…

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Best Model for wealth Creation?

Benjamin Mkapa Special Economic Zone (BWM- SEZ) Emmanuel D Tayari Poverty is today the most pressing problem for the Tanzanians. There is sharp disagreements on which is the best way we should follow to fight poverty, between either people who believe in Socialism and people who believe in Capitalism. At the end of the day these differences do not…

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German Churches asked to promote cultural tourism in Tanzania

Faidamax.com reporter CHURCHES in Germany have been asked to support Cultural tourism in Tanzaniasince this type of tourism is the most viable for sustainable economicdevelopment in rural areas of Tanzania. Speaking at an Annual Synod General Assembly of the Lutheran church – inMecklenburg Germany – an activist in Cultural tourism and former member ofthe Board of Trustees of Tanzania…

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HEALTH INSURANCE MARKET PENETRATION LOW

Tanzanians insure property, not their health’study *New investors set out to change all that! MNAKU MBANI A RECENT study has found that only four per cent of the 126-million strong population of the five member countries of the East African Community – Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and Tanzania – can be said to have some sort of medical insurance…

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Fears in Tanzania over increased cost of doing business

* Competitiveness edge off locally-produced goods, services eroded * Lack of a single entry customs collection * ‘Thinking East African’ has to become real * Deliberate protectionism, administrative non-tariff barriers * Unnecessary bureaucracy MNAKU MBANI THE five member countries of the East African Community (EAC) HAVE formally adopted a Common External Tariff (CET) regime. There still are some formidable…

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Mountains of incredible beauty, horror and treasure

Elly D.Kimbwereza Email: Elly.Kimwereza@gmail.com ‘‘Take off your shoes, for this is Holy ground “ is what many visitors who travel long distances to Malameni rock in Mbaga, Southern Pare Mountains feel or tell themselves. So do many local and International visitors entering this remote and in the recent past virtually inaccessible area. Our journey starts from a small town…

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Shogholo Chali interview on Deutsche Welle and universality of Mosaic experience

MIKI TASSENI ORAL tradition is acknowledged as one among the principal methods inwhich history is transmitted in African societies even afterindependence, as few ethnic groups developed an articulate form ofwriting in which to preserve the beliefs of the people, their historyand genealogy of their rulers, dynasties. While the Bible isacknowledged as the word of God, it is in actual…

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Karimjee Jivanjee: The Merchants of East Africa

ERIC TOROKA In many ways the modern economy of Tanzania wasbuilt by the Asian immigrants who arrived from thewest coast of India over a period of four hundredyears, albeit with a huge influx from the late 19thcentury. There are only a very limited number of accounts ofthis story, and even fewer which focus on the historyof our successful extended…

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