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During the sixties in New York most properties were actually owned by Christians but the properties were managed by Jews. Blacks only saw the Jew who collected rent every week so they created some animosity with the Jew. But the Jew is employed by the Christian and hence the popular statements...

Have you made any attempt to get information from Azimio? You have not! I know for a fact that the owner of Azimio was forcefully taken from his home, including his wives and was held 800 kilometers from Dar and he was forced to sign papers giving up his interests in the project. This is an...

The Constituion requires the CAG to submit the Annual Report to the President before the end of March, every year. And this is the only news. Contents of the report were never intended to be public. In any case what is submitted is a very high level summary and there is no context to justify any...

The author singles out Dr Dau which clearly is unfair. If you have done your homework properly you would have known that - that scale of a project must have gone through the Board and its committees. I believe long term, Dege would have been a success story. Property investment is really a long...

Hafi mwanaadamu mpaka ajali yake ifike. Haya mambo si ya bahati mbaya. Yalipangwa hivi toka Honest Prosper Ngowi yumo tumboni mwa mama yake. Tumshukuru Mungu Mwenyezi na kuwaombea dua maiti.

Most people in social media and those in government think that it is unwise to criticize a sitting president. As you have seen in my foregoing evaluative commentary I completely disagree with such a stance. The President is a leader of government and its top executive. He takes full...

JK admittedly did not have a grand plan for the country. I think his strategy was to just sail along and that is what he did. He did not disrupt anything he had inherited from Mkapa. Foreign policy was as good as previously and he generally did well. It was only during his phase of government...

Under Mkapa the biggest drive was privatization of assets and nationalization of debt. Although Mzee Ruksa gets blamed for laisse faire liberalization it was Mkapa really who had overdone economic liberalization. I disagree with a lot of what he did in privatization of parastatals which was...

Under Mwinyi we had a humble leader with a strong spiritual anchor. He is the President that oversaw the early liberalizations of the Tanzanian economy. I remember buying my first brand new Belgium made dress shoes in Dar es Salaam in 1985. It was a great shoe and these were things we were not...

1st Phase Government Under Nyerere this phase was very well meaning and had made significant impact among the population. But it had a misdirected policy of Ujamaa, which essentially alienated the private sector. He nationalized even private grain mills in the villages. This ignorance of the...

Nyaronyo Kicheere yupo Dar es Salaam, anajishughulisha kama Mwanasheria. Kuna kijiwe kimoja huwa anakuja kila wiki pale CBD. Mzima wa afya.

If you focus on the SGR project nobody speaks of its economic and financial feasibility. It is just extreme politics; either we know nothing[CHADEMA] or these are strategic projects for the this and next generations of Tanzanians [CCM]. Both positions don't even attempt to address the crux of...

When you a pychopath as a leader and he appoints his cronies to positions with impunity you know we are approaching the end of good governance. The PSM Ministry is utterly useless and completely unprofessional. On what grounds can a PS offer an employment to a retired chap who gets resurrected...

…[I held strong views that the position of district commissioner had become too politicized; with district commissioners being appointed who had insufficient qualifications or experience; it was no longer a professional role. Sadly this became even more so during my successor’s time. In the...

Right now we are very generous in our remembrance of Ben, rightly so but we must be balanced. My recollection is Ben is the only President of all, even Nyerere, who was properly inducted and worked his way up in the civil service. Nyerere was bririlliant but he had worked only in the party and...