Tarime kuna tatizo na tatizo si CHADEMA, ni Barrick

[kizazi kipya]

Huu ni upuuzi.Bado wana zile za kulindana,mbona hajaongea chochote kuhusu hatua zilizochukuliwa au zinazochukuliwa dhidi ya wauaji?Uchunguzi unaonyesha walipigwa risasi mgongoni jambo linaloonyesha walikuwa wanakimbia.Kwa nini nahodha anajaribu kulinda udhalimu huu.Haoni kwamba kutochukua hatua kutasababisha polisi wapate kiburi cha kuendelea kuua raia?Nahodha aueleze umma wa watanzania hatua zitakazochukuliwa juu ya polisi waliofanya mauaji hayo,ni wazi wanafahamika.Au intellijensia ni kwa wanasiasa wa upinzani pekee?

 

[Ngonini]

Mining is such a misunderstoond industry. People love to hate miners, especially when they are big like Barrick. There is an ecosystem of activists who survive by bashing miners. Mining projects, large and small, attract activists the way cow dung attracts flies. If they are not bashing a large miner for purported rape (imagine!), then they are attacking artisanal mining projects for child labour and poor working conditions.

You should be carefull when reading articles from activists.

I feel sorry for Barrick in Tanzania. Their ventures are providing so much opportunity to people (employment), businesses (supply of goods and services) and government (taxes and social development), but Tanzanians just do not seem to see this. Instead, we make a lot of fuss about ownership of the mine, about amount of aid given to the municipal politicians, about the size of the royalty etc.

And in case our point is not clear enough, we go and burn their excavators, invade their mines and accuse them of all sorts of unfounded allegations.

Sometimes I suspect Barrick had to restructure and carve out their Tanzanian operations into the so called "Barrick Africa" so that the rest of the Barrick Group does not get tainted by Tanzania's negative reception of large foreign investments. The horror stories coming out of here are bound to agitate investors at the bourses in which Barrick is traded - better have an Africa version! This sends a very bad message to any serious investor. It puts Tanzania at a disadvantage when an investor is conteplating a project that could employ 4,000 direct FTE's in either Tanzania or, say, Kenya. And you can, most deffinately, and permanently, kiss goodbye any prospect of Toyota putting up an assembly plant in Tanzania.

At this rate, there is no way we will, ever, catch up with the Asian Tigers.

There is nothing new in what you have just said, everyone knows and has very high expectation in foreign investiments.
howevere the big question is that is the profit of those investiment fairly shared between the investor and the resource owners? The truth is that these investors only share their revenue by giving 10perc to our government officials, to get tax holidays and pays 3perc loyalty! There is nothing substantial goes into the life of those poor villagers and the country as a whole. The problem may not be the investors but our government officials.


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[Lekanjobe Kubinika]

Source: Gazeti la Mwananchi, Juni 1, 2011





WAZIRI wa Mambo ya Ndani, Shamsi Vuai Nahodha, amesema mauaji ya raia yaliyotokea mgodi wa North Mara, Wilaya ya Tarime, mkoani Mara, yamesababishwa na ahadi za uongo zinazotolewa na wawekezaji kwa wananchi. Akizungumza kwenye kipindi cha maswali na majibu cha dakika 45, kinachorushwa na Kituo cha Televisheni cha ITV juzi, Nahodha alisema tayari amefanya mazungumzo na Waziri wa Nishati na Madini, William Ngeleja, ili kulifanyia kazi suala hilo.

Nahodha alisema makubaliano yake na Ngeleja, ni kutafuta muda wa kwenda kwenye mgodi huo ndani ya wiki mbili zijazo, kwa lengo la kuhakikisha kunakuwapo hali ya utulivu, ikiwamo wawekezaji kutekeleza ahadi walizotoa kwa wananchi hao.
"Kitendo hicho kinawezekana kimetokea kutokana na huduma za jamii kuwa ndogo kwenye eneo lile, kwa hiyo wawekezaji wanatoa ahadi kuwasaidia wananchi, lakini hazitekelezwi," alisema Nahodha na kuongeza: "Vijana waishio maeneo yale wanaona wawekezaji wananufaika wenyewe na wao kubakia maskini." Kuhusu vitendo vya mauaji nchini yanayofanywa na polisi, Nahodha alisema Tanzania upo utamaduni wa kila mmoja anataka kujichukulia sheria mkononi, hali ambayo siyo nzuri.

Alishauri iwapo raia anahisi hajatendewa haki, kufuata ngazi nyingine kama Tume ya Haki za Binadamu, wabunge na mahakama ambavyo viko kwa ajili ya kuisaidia jamii.

"Kwa kweli kila mtu akijichukulia sheria mkononi hakutakuwa na amani katika nchi. Katika sheria ya nchi sura ya 322, Polisi amepewa mamlaka ya kumlinda raia na mali yake, lakini akikusimamisha ukaweka mkono mfukoni anachukua roho yako," alisema. Kuhusu wimbi la kukamatwa kwa wabunge nchini, Nahodha alisema kinga za wabunge ziko wakati anapotekeleza wajibu wake na kwamba, hakuna mtu ambaye yuko juu ya sheria.

Mimi sijui kama huyo mzenji alikuwa anaongea hayo kufurahisha umma unaomsikiliza au vipi. Wananchi anaposema wafuate ngazi kama wabunge, si ndio hao kina Tundu Lisu wakifuatilia wanaswekwa ndani wakati walikuwa wanafanya kazi ya kuwasikiliza wananchi wapate undani wa matatizo ili wajue namna ya kuwasaidia? Mbona hasemi polisi wake wamekosea na ano mpngo wa kuwaadabisha? OK, sasa anawalaumu Barrikcks, anawachukulia hatua gani? Analalamika kama mimi nisiye na dola? Ndio maana wananchi wanachukua maamuzi ya mob kwa kuwa serikali yao inalamba na Barricks damu zao.

Na huko Mara ni mfano mmoja tu, nenda kule Kyejo ambako TOL wanakofyonja gesi na kuuza kama njugu. Waulize wamesaidia maendeleo gani kwa wananchi wanaozunguka eneo lile. Gesi ile inadaiwa kuwa supper ikienda Ulaya, lakini wamejitengenezea barbara ya kifusi na kokoto kuwapeleka kunyonya gesi na hawana hata wazo la kuangalia vipaumbele vya wananchi walioko huko. SIna hakika kama hata wilaya ya Rungwe inapata kitu pale au mkoa. LAkini wananchi wanaopeleka debe tatu nne za mahindi kuuzwa mjini wanawekewa vizuizi na kudaiwa kodi kibao. Malori ya gesi yakija hapo wanayafungulia haraka wakijigonga magoti yao kama vile ndio waajiri wao.

Mpaka mauaji yafanyike ndio serikali inatumbua macho kuuona umuhimu wa wananchi kunufaika na raslimali walizokuwa nazo miaka nenda rudi? Wabunge nao wala hawana macho katika eneo hilo. Kama angekuwa Zitto ndio anatoka Rungwe lazima TOL wangeshaanza kukamuliwa mrahaba. Bora watu wa CHAI, labda kwa vile wananchi wanainywa pia, lakini nao danganya toto tu. Serikali isituongopee hapa, wafanye kweli na sio kusema sana.

 

[kiloni]

Source: Gazeti la Mwananchi, Juni 1, 2011





WAZIRI wa Mambo ya Ndani, Shamsi Vuai Nahodha, amesema mauaji ya raia yaliyotokea mgodi wa North Mara, Wilaya ya Tarime, mkoani Mara, yamesababishwa na ahadi za uongo zinazotolewa na wawekezaji kwa wananchi. Akizungumza kwenye kipindi cha maswali na majibu cha dakika 45, kinachorushwa na Kituo cha Televisheni cha ITV juzi, Nahodha alisema tayari amefanya mazungumzo na Waziri wa Nishati na Madini, William Ngeleja, ili kulifanyia kazi suala hilo.

Nahodha alisema makubaliano yake na Ngeleja, ni kutafuta muda wa kwenda kwenye mgodi huo ndani ya wiki mbili zijazo, kwa lengo la kuhakikisha kunakuwapo hali ya utulivu, ikiwamo wawekezaji kutekeleza ahadi walizotoa kwa wananchi hao.
"Kitendo hicho kinawezekana kimetokea kutokana na huduma za jamii kuwa ndogo kwenye eneo lile, kwa hiyo wawekezaji wanatoa ahadi kuwasaidia wananchi, lakini hazitekelezwi," alisema Nahodha na kuongeza: "Vijana waishio maeneo yale wanaona wawekezaji wananufaika wenyewe na wao kubakia maskini." Kuhusu vitendo vya mauaji nchini yanayofanywa na polisi, Nahodha alisema Tanzania upo utamaduni wa kila mmoja anataka kujichukulia sheria mkononi, hali ambayo siyo nzuri.

Alishauri iwapo raia anahisi hajatendewa haki, kufuata ngazi nyingine kama Tume ya Haki za Binadamu, wabunge na mahakama ambavyo viko kwa ajili ya kuisaidia jamii.

"Kwa kweli kila mtu akijichukulia sheria mkononi hakutakuwa na amani katika nchi. Katika sheria ya nchi sura ya 322, Polisi amepewa mamlaka ya kumlinda raia na mali yake, lakini akikusimamisha ukaweka mkono mfukoni anachukua roho yako," alisema. Kuhusu wimbi la kukamatwa kwa wabunge nchini, Nahodha alisema kinga za wabunge ziko wakati anapotekeleza wajibu wake na kwamba, hakuna mtu ambaye yuko juu ya sheria.

Kumbe polisi kuua ruksa katika serikali ya magamba!

 

[Hume]

On May 16, when an estimated 1,500 people invaded the mine, police opened fire and killed seven of them, according to a statement by Barrick. Twelve others were injured by the police gunfire. Police commanders have insisted that the police were acting in self-defence.

Hivi taarifa za kwetu zilisema wamekufa saba au watano? am bit confused

 

[The Stig]

There is nothing new in what you have just said, everyone knows and has very high expectation in foreign investiments.
howevere the big question is that is the profit of those investiment fairly shared between the investor and the resource owners? The truth is that these investors only share their revenue by giving 10perc to our government officials, to get tax holidays and pays 3perc loyalty! There is nothing substantial goes into the life of those poor villagers and the country as a whole. The problem may not be the investors but our government officials.


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Miners do not make profit every month. A project (e.g. Mara) can actually go on for several years without even breaking even a single month - always negative cash flow. This is the nature of mining. The shape of the ore body sometimes requires removal of a lot of waste soil (called stripping), before you hit the ore. And upon reaching the ore you will mine the ore for, say, two months before you have to start stripping again for several months.

This is why miners consolidate - so that perfroming assets can carry non-performing projects untill they come back to profitability. Barrick has 26 mines around the world. AnglogoldAshanti has 25. You will rarely find a project with one mine. These invariably get acquired by bigger mining companies. Barrick recently acquired the largest, and most modern, copper mine in Africa, Lumwana, which was the single suchg asset to its former owner, Equinoxminerals of Australia.

Royalty is calculated on revenue, rather than profitability as in income tax. The government is assured of risk-free income from these projects. Maybe you might want to research what this Royalty is used for. Does the Ministry of Minerals have the capacity to administer this revenue? Should we have a body along the lines of TRA to help audit, collect and administer the use of the revenue?

The suspicion that the mines are paying 10% to some mythical individuals is cheap, far fetched, unfounded and really quite ammusing. It implies that the companies are cooking their books when they report to shareholders. But the mining companies are listed in some of the most stringent bourses in the world, which have very, very strict accounting regulations. There is no way that one could trade with cooked books.

Finally, the mining operations are providing an opportunity for the villagers surrounding them, as long as they are willing to contribute to the value chain of producing the gold. They are best positioned to obtain employment (even unskilled labor), supply goods and services (foods, repairs for staff cars, housemaids, gardeners, shopkeepers, teachers, taxis etc). These opportunities would not have been there had the mine not been there. Close down Resolute mine and Nzega will become a ghost town. Same with Geita.

It is difficult to convince people to change their thinking about mines and investment, especially with all the socialist indoctrination we have been thru. I know that you will come back with some retort about letting the gold remain underground because it does not rot, or Botswana government owns 50% of mines! But I go knowing that I have played my part in trying to educate my country men about the reality of mining and what we should really do to benefit from them.

 

[SAGAI GALGANO]

Tatizo ni Barrick. Is this to hard to grasp?

Mkuu MM nitatofautina na wewe katika hili Barrick siyo tatizo kwa kuwa hawakuingia kwa mtutu wa bunduki, tatizo ni watawala wetu walioingia mikataba ya kinyonyaji na kushindwa kusimamia maslahi ya nchi na watu wake. Barrick wameona hapa kuna mteremko basi wmeamua kushuka.Ndiyo maana Dr. Slaa alionya watanzania kuwa CCM kuendelea kuwa madarakani ni JANGA LA KITAIFA.

 

[Mzalendo80]

Kuna haja ya kufanya kama Egypt walivyofanya ili kuondoa huu ujinga

 

[Raimundo]

It is the time for CCM Government act ... How come they take our wealth our able bodied Men Our Land now Our Innocent Women? We must not believe imorality of human being and we cannot dispair of humanity as well

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

Ndoa ya CCM na Barick ni mpaka mmoja afe (for good for worse), sasa tukisema CCM a-act ni ya kwetu.

 

[Murrah]

There are more issues still come out such as employing masionaries from SA as security guards Barrick North Mara is night mare for DC and Nyangweni, for politician who are benefiting from this exploitaions.

 

[Murrah]

Canadian miner Barrick Gold said it had struck a deal to buy Equinox Minerals

GEOFFREY YORK

NORTH MARA, TANZANIA- From Tuesday's Globe and Mail

Published Monday, May. 30, 2011 10:51PM EDT

Last updated Tuesday, May. 31, 2011 5:18AM EDT

Just two weeks after the fatal shooting of seven people at one of its Tanzanian gold mines, Barrick Gold Corp. is investigating allegations of sexual assault by about a dozen police and security guards at the same violence-plagued mine.

The Toronto-based corporate giant, the world's biggest gold miner, is already reeling from allegations of gang rape by its security guards at another of its subsidiaries, in Papua New Guinea.
The deaths and alleged abuses at the Barrick sites, which began years ago but failed to gain wide attention until recently, are accelerating Barrick's efforts to introduce stronger rules for investigating human-rights problems at its 26 mines around the world. The latest case comes as investors have been urging Canadian companies operating overseas in tough and lawless environments to push for more transparency instead of tolerating human-rights abuses.
Barrick recently became the first Canadian mining company to sign up to the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights, an international set of guidelines for extractive industries, which oblige it to investigate and report any credible information about human-rights abuses at its workplaces.

At Barrick's controversial North Mara gold mine in Tanzania, investigators have interviewed about 10 women who allege that they were arrested at the mine site and sexually assaulted by company security guards or Tanzanian police over the past several years.

The allegations were discovered in the course of a review into a separate human-rights issue at the mine. A preliminary investigation by Barrick's subsidiary, African Barrick Gold, found that the allegations were credible.

African Barrick has sent in a team of independent investigators, headed by a former Australian police detective, to gather evidence in the case. The company has also given the evidence to the Tanzanian police, who have promised their own high-level investigation. The company says it is insisting on a full police investigation.

In most or all of the cases, the women told the investigators that they were taken to holding cells and coerced into sex by police and security guards, who threatened them with imprisonment if they refused.

In a statement to The Globe and Mail yesterday, Barrick said the allegations were "highly disturbing" and will be fully investigated and publicly reported. It also pledged to dismiss any employee involved in human-rights violations, or any employee who has knowledge of human-rights abuses and fails to report them.

"Barrick is deeply distressed by the evidence that has emerged," the company said.

"These deplorable crimes, if confirmed, are neither acceptable nor excusable. They send a clear message to us that we have not met the promises we have made to the community, and to ourselves, to pursue responsible mining in every location where we and our affiliates operate. We can, and will, do more."

For years, thousands of impoverished villagers around North Mara have routinely invaded the mine to grab rocks from its waste heaps, which can be processed into tiny bits of gold. There are daily confrontations between the invaders and the mine's security guards, usually reinforced by Tanzanian police.

On May 16, when an estimated 1,500 people invaded the mine, police opened fire and killed seven of them, according to a statement by Barrick. Twelve others were injured by the police gunfire. Police commanders have insisted that the police were acting in self-defence.

In previous clashes at North Mara over the past several years, at least seven other people – and perhaps many more – have been shot dead by police, according to Tanzanian media and other reports. Witnesses say the invaders are generally unarmed, although some carry hammers to break up the waste rocks and some throw stones at security vehicles when the guards try to disperse them.

In the remote highlands of Papua New Guinea, where Barrick owns 95 per cent of the Porgera gold mine, a report by Human Rights Watch this year concluded that the mine's private security force is implicated in "a pattern of violent abuses, including horrifying acts of gang rape."

The report documented five alleged incidents of gang rape by mine security personnel in 2009 and 2010, and a sixth case in 2008. One woman said she was gang raped by six guards after one of them kicked her in the face and shattered her teeth. Another said she and three other women were raped by 10 security guards, who forced her to swallow a used condom.

After it was contacted by the human-rights group, Barrick launched a series of investigations and eventually acknowledged there was "disturbing" evidence of abuses by some of its security personnel. It dismissed a number of employees, including some who knew of the misconduct and failed to report it. It also requested a police investigation, which led to a number of arrests.

There are more issues yet to come out such as employing masionaries from SA as security guards source of confrotation with wanakijiji. Barrick North Mara is night mare for DC and Nyangweni, for politician who are benefiting from this exploitaions.

 

[19don]

RIP mwl umetuacha yatima iombee CDM yetu huko ulipo AMINA