The East African newspaper published an article titled thus “In This Judicial System; One is Condemned not only in Innocence but also in Ignorance.” The article published in August 10thon the East African newspaper written by one Jenerali Ulimwengu, claiming to be a veteran journalist and one of media owners in Tanzania, is a clear manifestation of how the author himself is part of the problem he narrates.
President John Magufuli of Tanzania and his South African counterpart, Cyril Ramaphosa have jointly agreed to increase cooperation in trade and investments among the two countries. Addressing the nation at the Dar es Salaam State House during Mr. Ramaphosa’s 3 days State Visit ahead of the SADC meetings, President Magufuli also called on President Ramaphosa to collaborate with Tanzania in boosting the East African country’s tourism sector.
The Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) a regional bloc of 16 countries has formally endorsed the hydro power dam in Tanzania that seeks to develop 2,115 megawatts of electricity. The dam that has been criticised by some Western countries will be Africa’s fourth largest in terms of power outputs and will be completed in three years through Tanzania’s own taxpayer’s money.
I have been following up the tussle between the Government of Tanzania and Acacia Plc ever since it began more than two years ago. I am fascinated by the emerging African patriotism. I am proud whenever an African country takes the big boys by the horns to wrench a fair deal from the onerous arrangements which the foreign multinationals managed to extract from our Governments, whether coercively, deceitfully or corruptly. Undeniably, in this effort, Tanzania is admirably the leading light to other African countries.
President John Magufuli’s high strides and performance has made Tanzania to scoop the first position in Africa against corruption in two different categories, the findings from 2019 Transparency International and Afro- Barometer report has revealed.