Dear TANZANIANS

[JS]

Suluhisho kubwa kwa tatizo hili ni kuwa wenye viwanda vya kutengeneza bidhaa hizo wazingatia QUALITY/UBORA wa bidhaa zao.bila hivyo watu wataendelea kununua bidhaa za nje ili kupata kitu kinachoendana na hela zao.

 

[Eliphaz the Temanite]

This is a very intriguing debate. Who are you blaming? Sure quality and sanitation are issues in Tanzania. But who do you expect to bring about the change? Not politicians or bureaucrats. Change starts with a few people who are called Change Agents. These lead by example or by educating others. Since you people appear to be quality conscious probably because you are living in America, Europe, etc. what are you doing to become change agents? Change will not happen because of your pointing fingers at others. By the way I have never had any problems eating Manansi from Manerumango, Machungwa from Muheza or Vitungu from Ruaha. I have never bought any foodstuffs from Shoprite and the like.

Sure you have never had a problem! I think your persipective about buying is very irrational! Think! What draws people to go shopping at a perticular place? What draws people to buy a particular item! so many factors, quality, hygen, finishing, status, power of advertisement, convinience etc.. We dont just buy because we feel more patriotic or we sympasize with our country, business is not politics neither a rescue mission of countrie's economy! It's all about knowing how to sell!
Huwezi lundika nanasi barabarani zikipigwa jua, vumbi na moshi wa magari ukajiita mfanyabiashara mshindani! Wewe ni wakupita tu! Elimu za biashara zinawasaidia nini? Mimi bwana shamba na ninayajua hayo! Tunaenda kichwa kichwa tu utafikiri wakati wa vita vya majimaji bwana. Wakati wenzetu wana fire risasi za moto sisi tunajiaminisha zitageuka maji!

 

[Fidel80]

Mkuu wangu, inategemea nyama unanunulia bucha za wapi, Kwa Mtogole ama Mbagala?

Kuna bucha zile maeneo ya Kigogo na Mburahati nyama bei zao ni chini 3500/kg huwa najiuliza wanatoa wapi hizo nyama na wanauza kwa bei ya kutupwa nakosa majibu sijui ni nyama za dili

 

[Halisi]

NIMEKUTANA NA HUU UJUMBE KATIKA SIMU YANGU, KWA KUWA NI KWA WATANZANIA WOTE WALIOLENGWA NA MWANDISHI WA UJUMBE HUU, NIMEONA TUSAIDIANE KUTAFAKARI HUMU JFAMBAKO NDIKO NAAMINI KUNA VICHWA.


TO ALL TANZANIAN'S
Dear all Tanzanians

I, as a Tanzanian am proud to have achieved another milestone...The Tanzanian Shilling is now equal to more than 1,400 to 1 US$!! Congratulations to all of us Tanzanians for:

1) Using Chinese toilet paper rather than Rexa or Tanpack..
2) Buying ice cream made in Kenya or South Africa rather than Azam
3) Using Omo rather than Foma
4) Eating Heinz baked beans rather than Dabaga or Red gold
5) For using Shoprite as your favourite shopping destination since "expired" South African goods are better than Tanzanian products
6) For using Anchor butter/cheese on your bread rather than ASAS or Serengeti
7) For using Colgate and Close up as they make your teeth brighter rather than Whitedent
8) For drinking Heineken and Red Bull rather than a good old Kili....its a matter of image in it!
9) For drinking St.Anne, Namaqua and Overmeer than Dodoma wine

 

[Masanilo]

Kuna bucha zile maeneo ya Kigogo na Mburahati nyama bei zao ni chini 3500/kg huwa najiuliza wanatoa wapi hizo nyama na wanauza kwa bei ya kutupwa nakosa majibu sijui ni nyama za dili

Hawalipi kodi hao na ni wafugaji!

 

[Red pepper]

Ubarikiwe masanilo, wabongo wana kasumba kuwa 'kilicho bora hutoka nje'. Nafikiri hatujiamini!

 

[pareto 8020]

There an interesting email circulating..it depicts ONE of the causes for depreciation of our currency...

Dear all Tanzanians

I, as a Tanzanian am proud to have achieved another milestone...The Tanzanian Shilling is now equal to more than 1,500 to 1 US$!!!! Congratulations to all of us Tanzanians for:

1) Using Chinese toilet paper rather than Rexa or Tanpack...

2) Buying ice cream made in Kenya or South Africa rather than Azam

3) Using Omo rather than Foma

4) Eating Heinz baked beans rather than Dabaga or Red gold

5) For using Shoprite as your favourite shopping destination since "expired" South African goods are better than Tanzanian products

6) For using Anchor butter/cheese on your bread rather than ASAS or Serengeti

7) For using Colgate and Close up as they make your teeth brighter rather than Whitedent

8) For drinking Heineken and Red Bull rather than a good old Kili....its a matter of image in it!

9) For drinking St.Anne, Namaqua and Overmeer than Dodoma wine

10) For using Farmer's choice sausages than Beef Vienna from Arusha

11) For using Kangaroo matches than KIBO match .....and the list goes on....

Come on guys wake up....Its time for a change......BE TANZANIAN BUY TANZANIAN.... And a request to the expatriate community...especially South Africans...please change your mind set and help Tanzania grow by supporting local products...

Pass it on to all y'all true Tanzanians.....

 

[kisikichampingo]

Bahati, hizo substitutes wanazotupa si za watanzania. Ni bidhaa za wahindi na wasauz wanaojifanya wamewekeza hapa...na hawalipi kodi

 

[M-bongotz]

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Any inconvenience caused is highly regreted

 

[mageuzi1992]

Pareto umenena Man! Mimi sina la kuongezea maana huwa natumia
Foma badala ya ommo
Tanbond badala ya blue band
Azam juice badala ya Strowbey juice
Kibo matchs badala ya kangaroo
Mchele wa Kyela,Morogoro,Shinyanga,Moshi,Magugu badala ya mchele wa Tailand

 

[MJM]

Yes i saw that email BUT i think all in all Tanzania Manufacturers are the ones letting us down. When you compare industrial products manufactured in Tanzania in terms of quality and price, its pity. Most of our products are of very low quality and highly priced. We have to strive on quality, if you are selling products with high quality normally you will get customers no matter what. Take a look of Gypsum, Iron Sheets etc just to mention a few and other goods manufactured in Tanzania and compare them in terms of price and quality with imported products. (If you heard the complains given to the relevant minister most recently in Mbozi). Take a look on quality of Tanzania cement, it is doing very fine in the market because of quality and we are proud of that.

Also Tanzanians are benefiting on abundant factors of production, the problem is mobilization of these factors to yield positive results. Goods manufactured in Tanzania consumes raw materials available locally, Cheap labour etc. but at the end of the day we end up selling products at high prices to the same peasants supplying raw materials at throw away prices and Employees paid peanut. what do we expect?

China is where it is now because it is built from basics, starting with househould goods affecting day to day lives. After that they developed to sophisticated technology. Where is our government and what is its industrialization vision. We have to start that insted of complaining while buying very minor things like toothpicks from China .

On the other hand those who prefers products from abroad just because they are imported shame up on them. In know this is also a mentality for some of us. TBL vs Kibo breweries what kind of results would you expect in this kind of games. TBL vs SBL fighting for Tusker (Kenyan brand) is because of Tanzanians mentality and all these need to be discouraged.

Also we need to sensitize of our citizens especially in rural areas on their consumption behaviour. We know how importered goods adversely affects our ecomony but who dared to educate people in villages and the community at large who dont know this impact? Are they proud when they buy things made in Tanzania or just obeying their thirsty/ satisfying their needs? Do people at Kabhusungu, Namanyere , Nangulukulu, Iyayabuyaga, Itabhagumba etc know this or it is just for the ones who went to school.

God bless our "SLEEPING GIANT TANZANIA"

 

[Halisi]

Hii naona imetembea sana. Mods naomba muziunganisha ipo inayosema kuoromoka kwa shilingi, ipo ya nunua bidhaa za Tz na ile yangu ya For all Tanzanian

 

[Gangi Longa]

umesahau kuwataja wale walanguzi wetu wa Kiasia wenye Bureau de changes na kuhodhi dollar na pia wale wenye kumiliki bishara ya mafuta hawa ndo wana haribu uchumi

 

[M-bongotz]

xxxx

 

[BAK]

From MARC NKWAME in Arusha, 27th May 2010 @ 22:00, T
Daily News

EDIBLE oil processing industry in Tanzania is collapsing. Four large factories have so far closed down and the remaining ones are struggling to make ends meet.

The growing number of oil factories closing down has sent home close to 3000 workers and the remaining few are struggling to sustain their employment base, this was learned in Arusha yesterday.

A statement issued after a stakeholders' meeting here indicated that some of the closed factories include the NSK Oil of Arusha, Moproco Limited of Morogoro, and Afro-Multipurpose and Palsons, adding that the Mount Millers, running two factories in Arusha, is the only remaining local producer still operating in the northern zone.

Local investors in the industry claim that this trend has been caused by the tax waiver on imported oils when the local producers were heavily taxed.

"The problem here is the issue of Value Added Tax which makes locally produced oil more expensive than imported products whose edible oils are now squeezing out local products from retailers' shelves.

Meetings of local industry dealers and investors here have revealed that cheap edible oil imports, most bearing fancy names, advanced packaging material and subsidies from governments of their countries of origin, have forced many local factories to close down.

"High rates of taxation are making locally produced edible oils to be more expensive than imported ones coming from countries that subsidise their industries," said Mr Nelson Mwakabuta, the manager of Mount Meru Millers.

Most of the imported oils are reportedly being shipped from Indonesia and Malaysia but their health safety in regard to the cholesterol contents cannot be ascertained, according to local producers here. It was revealed at the meeting of edible oil producers here that Tanzania consumes some 330,000 tons of edible oil per year but 55 per cent of that is imported while only 45 per cent is produced locally.

"The local edible oil sector, including its informal division generates 55 bn/- for the economy and engages over 3 million rural residents, primarily farmers," the participants observed.

Apparently some 500,000 families rely on oil seed farming sector. The edible oil industry in Tanzania is mainly based on sunflower even though cotton, simsim, groundnuts and soya contribute to some extent.

Imported products on the other hand are from variety of crops and mixed formulas. Singida is the main producer of sunflower in the country and has dedicated much of its area for its production. The Regional Commissioner, Mr Parseko Ole Kone, said that the crop is the lifeline in area.

"Here every family farms between 10 and 20 acres of sunflower which is the leading cash crop, followed by cotton and onions. In total, over 200,000 acres are under cash crop but 150,000 acres are dedicated to sunflower alone," he said over the phone.

The RC has appealed to the central government to consider wavering VAT from local oil processors and charging taxes to imported edible oil in order to give the local industry a chance to compete in the sector and rescue millions from losing their income.

 

[Fundi Mchundo]

Quality, Mkuu, Quality na ubishi wa producers wetu kkwa kudhani tutanunua chochote watakachotuwekea. Ice Cream za Azam si nzuri. Ice Cream si sukari. Wine ni soko ambalo linahitaji utaalamu mkubwa. Mambo ya Sweet, Red na Rose yamepitwa. Inabidi washindane na wakina Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Shiraz, Merlot n.k. Wajifunze kutoka kwa wenzao wa Ilala! Mimi mnaposema tumezidi kasumba nashindwa kuwaelewa. Mbona wakina mama wanaziponda kanga na vitenge vya China na India. uambiwe kwenye mahari upeleke kitenge cha Mkwe, mplelekee cha India uone kama mke utapata!

Lakini pamoja na yote haya, ninaishiwa nguvu pale mtu anaponunua tui la kwenye makopo! yaani kweli tumesahau kutumia mbuzi! kwenye matunda, mboga za majani na nyama nakuunga mkono, Mkuu!

Amandla.......

 

[Kiranga]

Tusichanganye mambo,

Ingawa rampant devaluation ni mbaya, classic Smithsonian economic theory inatuambia devaluation ikiambatana na some other strategic moves inaweza kuwa healthy katika ku promote exports. Ndiyo maana Tim Geithner (US Treasury Secretary) alikuwa analalamika kwamba waChina wana ifanya hela yao isipande thamani artificially, hawaiachii ipande thamani kwa mujibu wa nguvu za soko.Wachina wanajua a weak yuan means better exports. Tatizo letu si tu kwamba tuna haywire devaluation, lakini zaidi ya hilo hatuna exports.

Naunga mkono kununua vya nyumbani, lakini tusinunue kwa sababu ni vya nyumbani.Kwa sababu kila mtu akiamua kununua vya nyumbani tutashindwa ku export vyetu nje. Inabidi tujue kutengeneza vitu vyenye ubora wa juu, vinavyoweza kushindana katika soko kibei.

Hata hao TBL wanaosifiwa, kwenye export sioni bia zao viwanjani huku. Labda wanauza vizuri sana nyumbani kiasi wanafikiri hawahitaji ku export. Nimekuta bia za Kenya (Mpaka na T-Shirts zake jinsi Wakenya walivyo aggressive katika marketing) mpaka kwenye obscure beaches za South Carolina huko, nikitafuta my dear Safari hata online siioni !

Export is key, hata kama shilingi yetu ikiwa na thamani zaidi ya dola, kama hatuna exports haitusaidii. In fact having a very strong shilling will hurt our exports according to my above reasoning.

Tunachohitaji ni uzalishaji zaidi, uzalishaji wa bidhaa zenye ubora wa juu, na kuuza zaidi nje ya nchi.