(By Rutashubanyuma Nestory a public policy analyst based in Arusha.)
Once more, this election season confirms certain habits stubbornly persist to survive even the harshest of economic times...
As a CCM presidential candidate in 2005, Kikwete made some lofty yet grim prognosis of two opposition presidential rivals: Kikwete had promised he would seal a demise of political careers of CUF...
(By Rutashubanyuma Nestory – A public policy analyst based in Arusha.)
Of lately, we have come to learn two more CCM cabinet ministers have successfully remonstrated to civil servants...
Walisema maoni ya wanaJF haya-reflect hali halisi ya wananchi wakasema tena hata polls zao haziwatishi, refer hotuba ya JK kwenye ufunguzi wa kampeni ya CCM kabla ya kuanguka alisema hababaishwi...
Waungwana naomba mnijuvye, kutokana na hali ya ushindani inayoonekana katika Uchaguzi wa Rais mwaka huu, endapo ikitokea hakuna aliyepata angalau asilimia 50% ya kura au zaidi kuweza kuunda...
Na Maggid Mjengwa,
Nikiwa kijijini kwetu Nyeregete kuna nilichojifunza pale nilipomwomba mmoja wa wenyeji zangu anionyeshe ulipo msala. Nilitaka kwenda haja ndogo. Hatua 20 kutoka tulipokaa...
Mwaka 2005 mzee wangu alikuwa haabiwi lolote juu ya Kikwete. Alidiriki hata kumpigia kampeni nyumbani kwetu na hata kwa majirani. Hakutaka kumsikia mtu yeyote akiongea jambo lolote baya juu ya JK...
(By Rutashubanyuma Nestory- A public policy analyst based in Arusha.)
If you ask most Tanzanians why did Kikwete run for presidency in 2005 few can answer that question with a sense of...
The simmering political impasse in the Archipelago of Zanzibar has exposed our soft underbelly that our politicians are only good at emulating past proven experiences but are not astute when it...
(By Rutashubanyuma Nestory- A public policy analyst based in Arusha.)
A partisan logjam embroiling the rehashed electoral bill has obfuscated the real issues relevant in the advancement of...
Katika hali isiyo ya kawaida mpinzani mkongwe, John Momose Cheyo ametamka rasmi kuwa rais JK ametimiza ahadi zake kwa wapiga kura na anawaonea huruma watakaojitokeza kuwania kinyang'ilo cha urais...
Our electoral map clearly shows the youth compromise more than 60% of eligible voters but they also trail gaffers by more than 90% in the share of senior government positions.
Any government...
Inasemekana CCM wanajulikana sana vijijini kwani wako huko toka katika mfumo wa chama kimoja cha siasa. Kama ni kweli, je Chadema mtafanya kampeni kila kijiji? Kama hapana, sasa mtawafikiaje hawa...
DK Slaa alichelewa kufanya kampeni akisubiri CCM watasema nini katika majukwaa ili na yeye apate pa kuanzia kusema na watanzania lazima tujiulize kwanini alifanya hivyo na jibu unalopata hizo...
(By Rutashubanyuma Nestory – A public policy analyst based in Arusha.)
The biggest public opinion manipulator before elections is the media. Forget the politicians, they are mere...
(By Rutashubanyuma Nestory a public policy analyst based in Arusha.)
On September 05th 2010, Sunday Nation columnist Murithi Mutiga penned down a piquant hagiography of Prof. Anna Tibaijuka...
Well, CCM spin doctors are busy shifting the narrative gears of this election from judgment on governance to Dr. Slaa's character!
CCM correctly knows a party in power during economic...