SADC Hashim Mbita project: Southern African Liberation Struggles

[Mohamed Said]

Ndugu Mohamed Said,
Nimesoma sana maandiko yako mpaka msimamo wako kuhusu suala hili naujua. Pia nimesoma Mwembechai Killings (kitabu chote) na The Dark Side Of Nyerere Legacy.

Sina 'nguvu na msukumo' wa kubishana au kuelimishana nawe. Mimi nimeutafuta 'ukweli' wa jambo hili hata kabla ya wewe kuanza kuandika JF. Baada ya kujua kitabu cha Prof. Njozi kimezuiwa hapa Tanzania, nikakitafuta na kukisoma, tena with an open mind. Kabla ya hapo nilimsoma Mwijage na The Dark Side of Nyerere Legacy.Nimefika mahali, naamini ninachokiamini. Bila utafiti mpya wa 'independent' scholars, nitaendelea kuamini ninachokiamini.

Sooth,
Nimefurahi kuwa umelisoma hili somo.

 

[Kipilipili]

Who is this Hashim Mbita??

very interesting....
kweli kusoma si kuelewa

 

[Kipilipili]

Phillemon,
Katika misiba ya nchi yetu ni vitabu kuwa ghali.

Phillemon Mikael,
Mhariri aliyehariri kitabu cha Abdul Sykes na yeye aliniita ''story teller.''
Haya maneno aliyaandika kwenye ''note'' ambayo alimpa ''publisher''
anipe.

Hili jina nimelipenda.

na Msiba mwengine ni "ughali" wa wananchi kusoma vitabu. Halafu hii imekuwa kama "kansa" vile yani mpaka sasa haijatafutiwa tiba kwa hapa kwetu. ukiwaza uvivu wa wasomaji na unyonyaji wa wachapishaji basi mwandishi unaweza ukahisi ganzi mpaka kabisa na kalamu ukaitupa. unyonyaji wa wachapaji umefanya wengi wetu kazi zetu zibakie kwenye shubaku zetu zikipigwa na vumbi!

 

[Ndinani]

Babu George Magombe (rip) was the second, katibu wa kwanza wa liberation committee alikuwa Sebastian Chale (rip)

I believe your source is authoritative!!

 

[JokaKuu]

Babu George Magombe (rip) was the second, katibu wa kwanza wa liberation committee alikuwa Sebastian Chale (rip)

..asante kwa taarifa hii.

..sikujua kwamba balozi george magombe alitanguliwa na sebastian chale.

 

[nankumene]

ofcoz tanzania tunajivunia kusaidia ukombozi wa nchi hizi zingine lakini huwa najiuliza sana hivi still tuna ushawishi kwenye nchi hizi bado?? naona mataifa makubwa km USA&RUSSIA yanapojitosa kufanya shughuli km hzo baad ya hapo wanakua na ushawishi mwng na hii inawasaidia kujenga ushirkiano wa kiuchumi kisiasa na hata ki ulinzi,huwa naona nchi tulizozisaidia kupata suruhu ya matatizo yao zinaku hazina kabisa time na sisi,nchi kama rwanda na uganda??,nawapongeza sana watanzania waliosaidia kupigania ukombozi na kusaidia kuataua matatizo ya nchi nyingne lakini kwa mawazo yangu ingekua vizuri sana kama tukishawasaidia tuhakikishe tunajenga nao ukaribu sana kwny nyanja za kiuchumi ili tufaidike na nguvu zetu tunazitoa kwao

 

[Kirikou Wa Kwanza]

Mkuu Mohamed Said, nashukuru kwa kuniletea mzigo wote, na mimi nimeupakua vizuri sijaacha kitu.

Ukweli historia ya Waislamu na dini yao katika taifa hili niya kusikitisha sana!

Mkuu Mohamed Said, hii habari ya Nyerere, Kanisa Katoliki na Uislamu, haina tofauti sana na ile niliyoisikia kwenye CD ya marehemu Ustadh Ilunga.

 

[Mohamed Said]

Mkuu Mohamed Said, nashukuru kwa kuniletea mzigo wote, na mimi nimeupakua vizuri sijaacha kitu.

Ukweli historia ya Waislamu na dini yao katika taifa hili niya kusikitisha sana!

Mkuu Mohamed Said, hii habari ya Nyerere, Kanisa Katoliki na Uislamu, haina tofauti sana na ile niliyoisikia kwenye CD ya marehemu Ustadh Ilunga.

Karikou,
Hakika ni historia hiyo hiyo hakuna tofauti.

 

[Lole Gwakisa]

Gwakisa,
Ahsante sana kwa maneno yako.
Hebu check tena hiyo letter bomb.

Ilikuwa nyumbani kwake kwenye ile beach house.
Picha zilitoka katika Tanganyika Standard.

Hebu tutafiti upya huenda kati yetu mmoja kasahau.
Mwenzangu wewe hutaki kuitwa mzee mie napenda.

Nazikumbuka picha zile kwenye Tanganyika Standard pamoja na polisi kuzingira makao makuu ya Frelimo, pale Nkurumah st.
Kwa vile ni muda mrefu sasa nita search huyu mzalendo aliuwawa wapi haswa, nyumbani au ofisini.
Lakini ni dhahiri kifurushi cha letter bomb kiliingizwa ofisini kwake na majasusi wa kireno wakati huo, PIDE.


In 1969 a bomb was planted in a book sent to him at the FRELIMO Headquarters in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. It exploded when he opened the package in the house of an American friend, Betty King, killing him.[6] Both the Portuguese intelligence or the Portuguese secret police PIDE/DGS and elements of FRELIMO, have been accused by different historians of this assassination. Former PIDE Agent Oscar Cardoso claims that PIDE Agente Casimiro Monteiro planted the bomb that killed Eduardo Mondlane.
Source:wikipedia

Hata hivyo kifo cha Eduardo Mondlane kilimtoa msituni Samora Moises Machel, mutu ya wapiganaji.
Hapo wareno walijuta kumwua Eduardo Mondlane, maana Samora si tu alikuwa mpiganaji, bali alipendwa na kuwahasisha sana wapiganaji wa FRELIMO.
Kwa msaada wa Tanzania, mapigano yale yalianza kuwa makali sana na mreno alianza kuzidiwa.
Mreno akijua Tanzania inawasaidia sana FRELIMO, ilianza kupiga mabomu nchi ya Tanzania kwa ndege.
Mohammed Said, kama unakumbuka, ndipo hata mashuleni tukaanza kuchimba mahandaki.
Ndege za kireno zilipiga mikoani Mtwara na Ruvuma.
Mimi nikiwa sekondari, tuliunda hadi club ya kushagilia vipigo walivyokuwa wakipewa wareno, of course kwa msaada wa JWTZ.

 

[Jidu La Mabambasi]

SADC HASHIM MBITA PROJECT: SOUTHERN AFRICAN LIBERATION STRUGGLES
Br. Gr Hashim Mbita: Hero of the Liberation Struggle in Africa
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Hashim Mbita stood tall as a hero of the liberation struggle in Africa, and he was widely respected for his principles and dedication.His life touched every person who lives in the region, whether they know that or not.He died in Dar es Salaam, age 81, on Union Day, 26 April, the date that Tanganyika and Zanzibar were united in 1964 to create the United Republic of Tanzania. Unity is the message left behind. He was a proud Tanzanian who became a de facto southern African due to his role in the liberation of the region.


Brigadier-General Mbita (retired) was the Executive Secretary of the Liberation Committee for 22 years, from 1972 until his mission was accomplished in 1994 when the liberation of the subcontinent was completed with democratic elections in South Africa leading to majority rule.



He was honoured by the Southern African Development Community (SADC) with the Sir Seretse Khama medal, and by the African Union with its first “Son of Africa” award.


At the SADC Summit last year in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe awarded Mbita the highest national honour that can be given to a foreigner, The Royal Order of Munhumutapa. He joined a list of only 6 recipients of that award, and all of the others were founding presidents of their respective countries – Angola, Botswana, Mozambique, Tanzania and Zambia.

The citation reads: “For the important role he played in regional liberation as well as integration during his 20-year tenure as the Executive Secretary of the Liberation Committee of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) – precursor to the African Union (AU).”

The OAU Liberation Committee was hosted in Dar es Salaam by the government of Tanzania, at the invitation of the founding President, Mwalimu Julius Nyerere, who was Mbita’s mentor, teacher and commander.The Liberation Committee provided and coordinated material support for the African liberation movements who had to fight for independence during a 30-year period from 1963 to 1994, and without that support, most of southern Africa may not yet be independent.

He turned the tide of the liberation struggle in southern Africa when, soon after his appointment in 1972, he visited the liberated areas of northern Mozambique with the Mozambique Liberation Front (Frelimo).He wanted to see the situation on the ground for himself, and determine their needs. He was impressed with what he saw in the well-organized liberated zones, but he learned that they were subject to bombing by the Portuguese colonial forces.


His response was to organize anti-aircraft weaponry for Frelimo, and the rest is history.

Frelimo advanced and the Portuguese military officers soon realized they could not win the colonial wars in Africa. Their Movement of the Armed Forces seized power from the undemocratic and dictatorial regime in Lisbon, opened contacts through various third parties, and entered into negotiations with Frelimo for a transitional government that took office in 1974 and independence in June 1975.Angola gained independence a few months later, in November 1975, followed by Zimbabwe in 1980, Namibia in 1990, and finally, democratic elections in South Africa in 1994.

At a conference held in Arusha, Tanzania to close the liberation committee in August 1994, Mbita titled his statement “Mission Accomplished”.He dedicated the final report of the Liberation Committee to the “gallantry of Africa’s freedom fighters, especially to the memory of those who did not live to see the dawn of this era in Africa. This is a tribute to their courage, a salute to the heroes and heroines of African liberation.

“To Eduardo Mondlane, Amilcar Cabral, Herbert Chitepo, JZ Moyo, Josiah Tongogara, Steve Biko, David Sebeko, Duma Nokwe, Johnny Makatini, Peter Nanyemba, Solomon Mahlangu, and, most recently, Christ Hani and Oliver Tambo, as well as the numerous unknown combatants of the African Liberation Struggle.”

Mbita was born in 1933 in Tabora, in western Tanzania, where his father was a clerk at Tanganyika Railways and he got his son into the elite Tabora Boys School on academic performance, among whose alumni counted Julius Kambarage Nyerere, who became the founding president of Tanganyika and later Tanzania.

Young Mbita was active in the cooperative movement that gave Tanzania most of its early leadership, and joined the pro-independence party, the Tanganyika African Nation Union (TANU) in 1958. He moved to Dar es Salaam the year before independence, when young people, mainly men, were being recruited for in-service training in the colonial civil service in preparation for independence in December 1961.

He was assigned to the press section of the ministry of information, soon becoming press secretary to President Nyerere at State House, and hosting the media during official visits such as that of the then Chinese premier, Zhou Enlai, whom he greatly admired. Mbita rose through the ranks in party and government to become the Secretary-General of TANU before being sent by Nyerere to the Tanzania People’s Defense Force as political commissar. He went for military training in Tanzania, as well as Britain and elsewhere, and excelled, as he had with all of his other assignments.

By then, his president had prepared him for most important assignment of all, that of Executive Secretary of the OAU Liberation Committee. He resolved challenges and celebrated achievements, but he never took any credit for himself. He and his country believed that they were “just doing their duty” to the continent.In addition to his humility and all of his other attributes, one of his long-time close friends gave him the best accolade as “a great human being”


Author: Phyllis Johnson

Mohamed Said , kuna a basic mistake katika uandishi huu ulioshirikishwa.
Kwa vile wewe mwenyewe umesema ni mzee, mzee mwenzio kijana Gwakisa , ameonyesha aliyoyaona dhahiri katika contribution yake.

Nilaloliona kuwa ni kosa dhahiri la mwandishi huyu wa kizungu, ni kwamba, miaka ile ya Ukombozi palikuwepo FRONTLINE STATES, mwenyekiti wake akiwa Mwalimu Nyerere, na Hashim Mbita ndo yuko kati kati ya mapambano ya ukombozi.

SADCC haikuwepo wakati huo.
SADCC imeanzishwa baada ya nchi za kusini mwa Afrika kupata uhuru.

 

[majeshi 1981]

Bramo,
Unao ushahidi kwa shutuma yako dhidi yangu?

msamehe bure hajielewi, hamna asiyemfahamu HASHIM MBITA hata kwa kumsoma katika gazeti tu.

 

[Mohamed Said]

Nazikumbuka picha zile kwenye Tanganyika Standard pamoja na polisi kuzingira makao makuu ya Frelimo, pale Nkurumah st.
Kwa vile ni muda mrefu sasa nita search huyu mzalendo aliuwawa wapi haswa, nyumbani au ofisini.
Lakini ni dhahiri kifurushi cha letter bomb kiliingizwa ofisini kwake na majasusi wa kireno wakati huo, PIDE.


In 1969 a bomb was planted in a book sent to him at the FRELIMO Headquarters in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. It exploded when he opened the package in the house of an American friend, Betty King, killing him.[6] Both the Portuguese intelligence or the Portuguese secret police PIDE/DGS and elements of FRELIMO, have been accused by different historians of this assassination. Former PIDE Agent Oscar Cardoso claims that PIDE Agente Casimiro Monteiro planted the bomb that killed Eduardo Mondlane.
Source:wikipedia

Hata hivyo kifo cha Eduardo Mondlane kilimtoa msituni Samora Moises Machel, mutu ya wapiganaji.
Hapo wareno walijuta kumwua Eduardo Mondlane, maana Samora si tu alikuwa mpiganaji, bali alipendwa na kuwahasisha sana wapiganaji wa FRELIMO.
Kwa msaada wa Tanzania, mapigano yale yalianza kuwa makali sana na mreno alianza kuzidiwa.
Mreno akijua Tanzania inawasaidia sana FRELIMO, ilianza kupiga mabomu nchi ya Tanzania kwa ndege.
Mohammed Said, kama unakumbuka, ndipo hata mashuleni tukaanza kuchimba mahandaki.
Ndege za kireno zilipiga mikoani Mtwara na Ruvuma.
Mimi nikiwa sekondari, tuliunda hadi club ya kushagilia vipigo walivyokuwa wakipewa wareno, of course kwa msaada wa JWTZ.

Gwakisa,
Ahsante sana kwa kumbukumbu hii.