CAN TANZANIA SURVIVE WITHOUT AGRICULTURE?
Tanzania as a country that depends on agriculture as the main contributor to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), and the main source of International trade, may need to rethink her economic future in the wake of 2008 oil crisis, in which a barrel of oil reached an historic high of $147 just to slide back to $36.2, a barrel in less than six months. Sending shockwave of fear to countries that relied on this commodity as their main source of economic vitality.
Oil producing countries such as Venezuela, and Iran just to name a few whose economies relies heavily on this single commodity, ripped massive profits and used their earnings not to diversify their economies, but to further their ideological beliefs. Both countries neglected their potential economic vulnerability based on oil dependence despite decades of huge profits. They are now not only in the same financial debacle, but also in potential social quandary of a different magnitude; they relied heavily on now devalued oil as their main source of economic lifeline.
Energy prices have tumbled across the board; with oil plummeting to its historical low of $36.2, a barrel at the New-York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) as of January 16th; A figure far below budget projections of $60 a barrel in the cases of Iran, and Venezuela. Countries whose leaders ascended to power, based on promises of ambitious, social programs transformation .The two countries must shelve some of their ambitious social projects for the time being, due to the impending budget deficits, and perhaps social problems, when some of the already existing services will have to be curtailed.
Oil accounts for more than 90% of Venezuela exports, while Iran depends on oil to account for 85% of the government’s revenues. Whilst this is the reality, Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, has used oil money to make thumb his nose towards the west; he has used the petrodollars to further his socialist and revolutionary causes of being a defender of the Latin America, against the American Empire Influence.
His Iranian counterpart Mohamoud Ahmadinejad, on the other hand, has used oil profits to wag his finger, and heralding his determination to wipe Israel off the map. Iran, spent millions of her petrodollars promoting itself as the sole defender of Islam across the Islamic world; She is fighting for hegemony on geopolitical and economic fronts across the Middle East. Not only that, Iran, has used her oil wealth to fend off the western efforts to block her nuclear drive, and this is still going on in the face of rising unemployment, and sky high inflation. The bottom line is that, both Iran and Venezuela failed to look at the broader picture, which is Iran, and Venezuela without oil.
Thanks to speculation in the financial markets, the countries racked-in massive profits, but then their leaders ignored the laws of economics, and called the $147 a barrel an insult. Iranian leader arrogantly suggested that, $200 a barrel would not be a fair price either. Even after the financial crisis started, they forgot that mere speculation was not sufficient to reverse Economic Law of Elasticity.
Gasoline being one of the modern day necessities, many believed it was not going to undergo a price shock ; the economic boom in India and China, and increasing demand in the United States, led many to perceive oil as insensitive to price changes (inelastic), because consumers would continue to demand it despite price increases.
Economic theories have disapproved those who were convinced that, oil prices would never fall. Prices have plunged sharply globally, except in Tanzania; one of the few countries where merchants can impose upon the people their own prices. Sadly enough, In the United States, some are currently paying equivalent of $.55cents a liter, whereby many paid roughly $1.50 a liter, less than six months ago.
In the face of economic hardship, characterized by the rise of unemployment, and declining earning power, oil become less of a necessity; need for food and shelter precedes the need for oil. However, availability of alternative forms of transportation, amount of income to spend on gasoline, and time factors have driven oil prices to their current low levels.
Just like Iran and Venezuela cannot breathe without oil, Tanzania has no economic vitality without agriculture. Agriculture accounts for 42.5% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and more than 80% of the exports, and this puts our country in the same line of vulnerability, and insecurity as that of the oil producing countries which are now facing economic uncertainty because they did not properly plan for economic continuity without oil (reduced oil demand characterized by lower revenues).
An economy without agricultural dependence should be Tanzania’s motto. This ambition should take into consideration country’s massive wealth of natural resources. Just like Dubai, a tiny U.A.E country which solely relies on maritime and tourism for her survival, Tanzania should think 100 years from now by laying plans in place on how to exploit her massive wealth, such as the inexhaustible, and price insensitive Indian Ocean; making maritime services through port of Dar es salaam easily accessible, efficient and inexpensive for both domestic and to foreign customers such as Zambians, Congolese, Ugandans etc who are using Kenyan ports for the most part.
Massive advertisement campaign of our beaches as a focal point for attraction, for both domestic and foreign tourists would yield unprecedented positive results, just like it has in the cases of Mauritius and Morocco. Our historical wealth such as the famous Zanzibar, Bagamoyo and Mafia Islands are enough to shift the economic pendulum from agricultural dependence to a more balanced economy. Aggressive marketing of Mt. Kilimanjaro and other tourist attractions as parts of Tanzania and not Kenya, will definitely provide Tanzania with the missing link to full economic diversification.
Economists, financial experts, and scholars both in public and private sectors, should study the feasibility of balancing the economy from agricultural dependence to agricultural independence considering the country’s untapped wealth. In the face of climatic uncertainty of prolonged droughts, tsunamis, unfair agricultural subsidization by wealthy countries, Tanzania’s may find her competitive ability in the international commodity markets hampered by these factors. And possibly, chocking the economic lifeline out of the country.
There is no question, such ambitious move would be time consuming, expensive, complicated and very hard to accomplish. But in today’s dynamic and less predictable global economy, there is no other alternative. Tanzania MUST have economic diversification strategy. Massive wealth in the hands of a few could be channeled towards the feasible study of economic diversification for the good of the country’s majority riddled with poverty.
Tanzania, government must strengthen the country’s infrastructure, and use foreign resources in the form of investment to support the transformation. The law for attracting and protecting foreign investments must be enforced diligently, and foreign investors must be given assurances regarding the safety of their investments. Red tape and bureaucracy at government agencies MUST be ended.
The focus must be on the qualitative aspect of manpower by streamlining the government in such a way that quality becomes the highest priority, at the same time recognizing human talent and capability within the workforce. Rewarding employees to enable them release their full potential must be a common practice, and also retaining already developed talents to encourage innovation, which will in turn curb the current wave of brain drain.
With a young energetic population, Tanzania will enjoy an inexpensive labor force, should it adopt a broader industrialization project, which will reduce dependence on importation of unnecessary products, some of which are substandard and hazardous to the population. Domestic production of Industrial goods will translate into cheaper prices, as well as employment to the currently idle young population. These goods will not only be consumed domestically, but will also find demand in the Southern, Central, and East African economic blocs in which Tanzania’s influence is growing.
To fully diversify Tanzanian economy, the current government expenditure must be shifted to major development and construction projects to guarantee that in the future, the country’s infrastructure; will be able to sustain growth in all sectors of the economy, which will in turn shift the economic pendulum from agricultural dependence to agricultural independence.
We cannot wait until a crisis emerges for us to be able to start preparedness, the current economic and energy crisis are perhaps some of the best lessons we can learn in our generation. We do not want to go the Iranian or Venezuela routes. Now is the time to shove aside politics, rhetoric, and rattling, and think deeply on where the country is going to be hundred years from today.
The question is, can we see our country surviving without agriculture?
Mungu Ibariki Tanzania
Michuzi ndio maaana watu wanamponda huyu JOHN MASHAKA kwa kutaka kutukoga kwa lugha ya kiingereza manaake jamaa ana mbwembwe sana nae huyu anajifanya kasahau kiswahili kwani nataka nijue huko marekani na bongo ni wapi alipoishi kwa miaka mingi?au kiswahili na kiingereza ni lugha ipi anayoweza kuitumia vizuri????mwambie awe simple aache kujiongezaongeza hatoweza kuwa zaidi ya hapo alipo
ReplyDeleteWhy do you hate Jonh Mashaka, We hate this boy, because he is doing things we can’t do period
ReplyDeleteAny other reason, NONE !
If he was from any other country, would you have hated him?
NO, actually I would have praised him
Are you sure? , actually I would have praised him
Are you sure? Yes I am positive
Je Mashaka angekuwa mbeba boxi je? Yaani tungemfagilia kishenzi, hadi kumchezea ngoma
Kwa nini? Kwa sababu tupo katika same lavel, si unaelewea… ehh….
Mashaka—Hater
Peace Out
“Mungu Ibariki Tanzania”, Mungu mbariki Mashaka.
ReplyDeleteI love ur signature
mary
“Mungu Ibariki Tanzania”, Mungu mbariki Mashaka.
ReplyDeleteI love ur signature
mary
Heri yeye anatutumia vitu vya maana, nyinyi mnatutumi picha za kujirusha
ReplyDeletevijana wa Kitanzania, kusema kweli huu ndo mfano wa kuigwa. Wengi wenu wa huko majuu mmekuwa mkifanya starehe za kukata na shoka jinsi tunavoonaga kwenye globu ya jamii huku mwenzenu anafikiria namna ya kuikomboa taifa lenu. Haya ni makala makali ambayo inabidi wachumi wetu na hata wasomi wayaangalie kwa undani. Nadhani muda unafika tungeanza kuyaifadhi haya makala ya mashaka kwenye kumbukumbu za taifa
Mchangiaji (Kwa bibi mkubwa)
Mchumi wa texas, muandikaji uharo, uko wapi mtu wangu, amejileta tena, andika pumba tusome, napendaga michango yako, ya kizushi, sijui mara ulikuwa wapi, ukafanya nini, haya jukwaa ni lako pambana na mzee mzima mashaka tuone nani zaidi. Cha kushangaza mtu wangu ni kwamba hadi leo haujaleta makala yako mwenyewe
ReplyDeleteMashaka, we knew from the getgo your intellectual ability. You are a thinker of another caliber. I am glad to see our emerging young people breaking down points so competently.
ReplyDeleteAnd enlightening leaders who are drank with power, drinking as if the world is coming to an end. You are a sensation. Teach them,
Ikiwa kikwete hataweza kukupa nafasi kwenye uongozi wake, basi sioni ni vijana gani wanaweza kupewa uongozi. You are my Hero Jon Mashaka. I love your Mungu Ibariki Tanzania signature, naona hata wandishi wa rais wameanza kuitumia.
Dr. J
Dar
Huyu ndiye Jiniasi wetu, wakenya waseme tu, na walie tu. Mashaka tunamlinda hata kwa damu zetu. Ujasiri wako na uchambuzi wako wa maswala nadhani unawakuna hata baadhi ya viongozi wetu vihiyo wanaolala bungeni na kukumbatia ufisadi.
ReplyDeleteMy man Jon Mashaka, You are incredible. Come and teach at the UDSM except there won’t be any $1.2 million bonus. I see why the US financial markets are holding you. Good job, this is a brilliant article.
ReplyDeleteWatu wa Musoma bana, wana vichwa vizima utadhania hawana akili duh…. Mimi pia naanza kuwalisha wanangu samaki kumbafu yako, nyoko
ReplyDelete~~~~~~~~~~USENENE~~~~~~~~~~~~:
ReplyDeleteMkuu wa wilaya nanihiiiii,, naomba uniruhusu kuchangia katika hii mada uliyoianzisha ya usenene ingawa mchango wangu wangu ni maoni binafsi kuhusu hawa wawili, Mashaka na Mh. Sophia Simba.
Sina haja kumtetea yeyote kati yao, ila nataka kuutetea ukweli wa mambo.Simba simjui zaidi ya kusoma habari zake kwenye vyombo vya habari, na wala Mashaka sijawahi kumuona wala kuongea naye
SOPHIA:
Nikianza na Mh. Sophia Simba, kwa upande wangu sioni kosa lake, nadhani kosa au lawama nitambebeza Mwanakijiji ambaye inaonekana Journalism ability yake ni ndogo mno.
Sidhani huyu ndugu yetu ana elimu ya kutosha katika uandishi wa habari.Hana ujuzi wa kuchambua mambo kwa kina na style yake ni boring
Mh. Simba amethubutu na sioni kosa lake, isipokuwa kitu kimoja tu. Sophia Simba ameonyesha ujeuri na usomi wake. Hajatoa maelezo ni kiasi gani usomi wake utaisaidia jamii ya kitanzania.Na pia katika maelezo yake amezungumzia baadhi ya mambo ambayo hayana maana yoyote.
MASHAKA:
Kuhusu Mashaka, ndugu zangu, napenda kusema kwamba, huyu ni mtoto mdogo mno. Miaka kati ya 29-31 ni umri mdogo sioni hasa sababu ya kumfanisha na waziri Simba.
Siyo kwamba wadau wanmchukia Mashaka, Hapana, hawamchukii wanachukia maendeleo yake.Majungu wanayomtupia ni majungu ya wivu
Wivu unakuja pale wanapomuona mwenzao akirudi nyumbani kila mwaka na kufanya vitu vya maana ambavyo wameshindwa wao kuvifanya, ukizingatia kwamba baadhi ya hawa vijana wamekaa marekani uingereza na kwinigineko kwa zaidi ya miaka kumi bila kurudi nyumbani. Maisha waliyonayo huko waliko ni maisha ya kubahatisha.
Kama mtanzania niliyeishi ughaibuni kwa muda mrefu, natambua vizuri hasira na jadhba vijana wetu walio nazo dhidi ya Mashaka.
Wengi wetu maishaa tuliyonayo ni maisha ya kubahatisha na kuhenyeka na vikazi ovyo ovyo ambavyo vinafahamika kama ubeba boxi.
Asilimia kubwa ya vijana wa kitanzania walio majuu, mara nyingi ni wabeba boxi na waosha makalio, kwa hiyo watu wanaposikia kwamba Mashaka kafanya kitu Fulani hapa na pale wanashikwa na wivu bila kufikiria kwamba hapo alipo kafikaje?
Wengi hawawezi kuamini kijana wa kitanzania tena mtoto mdogo kama Mashaka anaweza kuhajiriwa kama investment banker, tena na shirika kubwa. Hizi kazi hata wazungu wenyewe wanazitafuta kwa muda mrefu na wasizipate kwa hiyo vijana wa kitanzania mara nyingi hawawezi kuamini kwamba mwenzao anawezekana afanye kazi nyeti kama hiyo. Hii ndio chimbuko la Usenene dhidi ya Mashaka.
Nimeyasoma mahojiano yake bongo celebrity, daily news and kwingineko lakini nakubali kwamba huyu mtoto ni mnyenyekevu, mwenye huruma, adabu na mpenda nchi yake. Sioni kosa lake, na kama ulivyosema, wanaomchukia waseme wazi amewatendea nini? Na sidhani atakuwepo hata mmoja mwenye la kusema
Nadhani wazungu ni watu makini sana, hawawezi kumuajiri mtu hivihivi tulivyo sisi watanzania.
Ili upate kazi katika taasisi za kifedha, ni lazima upitie mchakato mkali sana, kwani ni kazi zenye ushindani mkubwa.
kwa maana hiyo sina hofu kwamba Mashaka alionyesha umahiri mkubwa hadi wazungu wakamkubali na kumpa nafasi nyeti.
Nakumbuka katika mjadala wa Afrika mashariki, ni Mashaka na Mokes Gama ndio vijana wa kitanzania walio simama kidete kuitetea nchi yetu ilhali hii mijitu imejikalia midomo wazi.
Unawakuna vichwa ndo maana wanakuonea wivu, wakune ili nao wawe kama wewe…Hongera kwa article nzuri
Lyatonga
Washington DC
mimi nakuuliza kitu kimoja, ww unadhani hawa wakina dada wanaposoma article kama hizi kwa nini wasikutafute?
ReplyDeleteMatokeo unakuja kulalamika oh, sijui wamebandika jina lako kwenye ze-utamu.
Hizi ndo sababu, tunajua hawajukuona ila wameshaona kazi zako. Sasa wakija kujitangaza umezaa nao itakuwaje?
Kiwembe
A man who does what he does best, what he is good at; Murdering people with his brilliance, and mightiness of his pen.
ReplyDeleteFlatly, I am impressed. Mithupu, peleka hii daily news,,,, na guardian. Well Stated Mashaka, can’t be better than this. Kudos, shoot for the economic portfolio
Kwa hiyo kosa lake ni kuandika kwa Kizungu?
ReplyDeleteMjinga ni mjinga, hacheni wivu,,, bana anagalieni maendeleo
huyu mtoto ameishi huko kwa zaidi ya miaka 13 kama sikosei, kwa hiyo sidhani amesoma tz hata kidogo
ReplyDeleteson of Tanzania, from Musoma, you are becoming a synonym with economic crisis of 2008. You have led the way in debating and challenging our leaders to do more.
ReplyDeleteYou are the face of hope for our suffering. You are thinking beyond your years, who is thinking beyond 2100? None in Tanzania but you, forget what the haters say, keep on the march, and the end is not far.
Like I said this from the beginning, while many of us can’t compete with you in an open intellectual and pen wars, knowing your might and competence to build and defend Ideas, I can certainly challenge you to come back home and join the politics, and see your resilience and might. The Dodoma gang will not let you go on with your cleverness, therefore all your writings seems to going to dead ears. The fisadis hate this kind of talk
Nyie watu mliosomea marekani mkija hapa mnatuzingua, na vizungu vingiiiiiiiiiiiiiii. Angalia waziri mwenye wizara nyeti, fixiiiiii mingi lakini hakuna kazi, ufisadi tu.
ReplyDeleteMashaka, JK hakupi uwaziri akikuhurumia atakupa kazi ya kumpigia viatu rangi, nilishakwambia.
Kama wewe ni genius wengi wanavyodhania basi ubaki huko huko na Economic crisis zako. Hakuna Economic crisis Tanaznia,
Ni hayo tu.
mashaka hana akili yoyote ni fixit u….. blah blahh mingi na kingenge cha ki okwonkwo. Mkitaka lugha njoo kwangu niwafundishe misamiati na nahau ya kin’gen’ge niliyosomea OFXFORD na CAMBRIDEG. Na sasa nina phD hapa YALE si unajua tena.
ReplyDeleteHii pepa liyoandika naweza kuiandika mimi kwa dakika thelathin tu wakti yeye pengine ameiandika kwa mwezi mzima akiwa analala kwenye maktaba ya chuo kikuu alikokua anabeba boxi,,
tanzania not economy criasis ,, corpty (fisadi) chenge steel 50billion and kolling vijisenti we all ze tanania tyad with stilling govament. no hospital no medcne, no petroli tsh1.600. mashaka notin in ecomy of Tanzania.
,mohamedi, mzee wa tigo.
Huyu mtu sasa akiandika kwa kizungu ndo tutajua ni genius? Hata Kiswahili utaonyesha usomi wako. Watanzania, kwa hiyo sasa hivi Mashaka akisema wote tukimbie kwenye shimo, wote hao tutamfuata kwa kuwa kasema Mashaka? Hizi ni njia za kutaka Urais.
ReplyDeletePole sana kuzushiwa na kachangu ze-utamu. Huo ndo u-Supertar , karibu Tanzania na economic crisis zako. Sasa subiri urudi Bongo ndo utawakoma, watakuzushia kweli, niajiri mimi niwe bouncer kifua change kimejaa kishenzi, natafuta tu wazushi wa kudunda.
Siye bado tunakula pilau na kusoma ze-utamu tukipata muda. Economic crisis ilituingia mwaka 61 tulipopata uhuru kilichobaki ni kuzikwa tukiwa hai. Hayo matatizo ya kiuchumi ni yenu na mjomba Obama. Siye tunapeta tu. Umeandika vizuri lakini genius wetu jonh mashaka,
Mdau
MWZ.
Jamaa ni Nshomile mhaya nini! ?
ReplyDeleteAkiisoma Samweli Sitta atakwambia ukirudi Tanzania punguza lugha ya ukali!!!!CCM OYEEE!!
ReplyDeleteJohn Mashaka ni Mtu Muhimu sana kwetu,Mie na Ombi Moja tu kwake,Hizi article zake awe anaweka kwa Lugha ya Kiswahili ili wengi wapate Kuzielewa,kwasababu hapa ni Wachache sana watapa M`elewa kile anataka fikisha kwa Watanzania.Watanzania Wengi Ki`English not richabo.
ReplyDeleteSifahamu kwa nini watu wamponde Mashaka kwa kuandika kiingereza ikiwa ni lugha kama nyingine. Fahamu kwamba sasa hivi ni enzi za utandawazi. Kwa upeo mdogo ulio nao unadhani kwamba Mashaka anaandika ili Mtanzania tu asome. Basi kwa nini usitake aandike KIKURYA ambayo ni lugha aliyozaliwa nayo? Bado vile vile hutamwelewa tu na yawezekana ujumbe ukawafikia wachache maana sio wote Musoma wana internet!!Vile vile kumbuka kwamba hata kama angeandika kiswahili bado kuna wengi hatufahamu vizuri hasa cha kuandika ukichukulia lugha inakuwa na sasa hivi inayo misamiati migumu. Pia kumbuka kwamba mnaosoma kwenye blogu sio watu wa chini hivyo kama wewe unavyodhani kwa sababu mtu wa kawaida hawezi kulipa pesa ili aingie kwenye internet cafe asome tu blogu. Hii ina maana kwamba walengwa wa hizi blogu ni tabaka fulani na ambao walio wengi kiingereza wanafahamu. Na kama ilivyo kwa kiswahili pia sio lazima ufahamu kiingereza kama cha Mashaka. Tuaache roho ya kwanini ya kuponda kila kitu huo ni uvivu wa kufikiri na kutokubali kipaji cha mwenzako. Ikiwa wewe ni mkristo wivu ni dhambi.Iwapo unayohoja nawe andika makala yako ya kiswahili, vile vile sio wote watakao soma watakuelewa. Suala la Mashaka kwangu mimi sio tatizo bali ni changamoto sio kwako tu hata kwa waingereza wenyewe kwani wengi hawafahamu kuandika licha ya kwamba wamezaliwa nayo kumbuka wimbo wa Dr. Remi!!
ReplyDeletePS: Mashaka, once again, congratulation for the great work you are doing for your country and the world at large. You are truly an African son of the soil. You are an inspiration and a sensation.
ReplyDeleteI realized this after reading your article regarding EA community Debate; you nailed it and were shocked that a Tanzanian had such brilliant mind.
But then realized that you had your educational foundation from Kenya , that gave you an opportunity to reign intellectually unopposed, therefore we see a parallel between you and our Obama, both of you have Kenyan roots.
We as the land where you received your education (Kenya) we are proud of you as we are proud of our existential son, B. H. Obama who is a day away to be inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States of America.
I am sure you are soon going to hold the candle for your countrymen (Tanzanians) just like our Obama did to Kenyans
It is clear that, even though you are not in the leadership, we see you as one of brilliant young men with Kenyan roots who have leadership might.
As a Kenyan and an East African, I must salute you for the article well written. All the best in your future endeavor
Mjomba: Mr. Waweru Githinji
Nairobi.
Ni wazo zuri kufikiria nini kitakuwa ndicho kitovu kikuu cha uchumi wetu miaka mingi ijayo hasa ukizingatia hata hiyo ardhi yenyewe haitatosha kutoa ajira kwa watanzania wengi kama ilivyo sasa. Kitu cha msingi kwa sasa ni kwanza kukiboresha hicho kilimo chenyewe ili kiwe na tija kwa 80% ya watanzania wanaokitegemea na pia kuwa na uhakika wa chakula na malighafi. Pamoja na hayo serikali inabidi iwekeze kwenye elimu yenye ubora kusomesha watalaam wengi, hata nje; kuna nchi nyingi sana sasa hivi zinapeleka maelfu ya watoto kusoma nchi za nje ili kuleta ujuzi nyumbani( mf. Iran, Syria, thailand, Pakistan n.k). Hapa nilipo wapo wengi sana na wanasema pia makundi mengine yametawanyika nchi zingine. Binafsi naunga mtazamo wa Mh. Waziri Mkuu wetu Pinda wa kupigia debe matrekta badala ya magari ya kifahari kwani tunaweza kufika mbali kama atasimamia vizuri msimamo wake. Kwa sasa nchi inahitaji wakombozi kama yeye na viongozi wengine wanaopenda maendeleo ya umma na siyo kujipenda wenyewe. Kuhusu utalii na matumizi ya bahari, nadhani pamoja na kutoa ushauri kwa serikali, nahisi ni vizuri sisi kama watanzania tuhamasishane ili tuwekeze katika haya maeneo kwani ni kati ya maeneo yanayoleta ajira na utajiri. Tusiwe watu wa kushauri tu bali tuthubutu kuwekeza japo tukiwa ktk makundi. NCHI yetu na uchumi wetu utakuwa stable (imara) pale tu sehemu kubwa ya uchumi itashikiliwa na wenyeji na siyo wageni, vinginevyo hali itakuwa kama hii ya mabadiliko ya bei ya petroli kwani siku wageni wakisema no nchi itanza tena kujenga uchumi. Naomba serikali isimamie sheria vizuri, hasa rushwa kwa watendaji ili watanzania tushiriki kikamilifu katika kujenga nchi yetu. Hatuhitaji wageni waje kutengeneza beach zetu wakati tunaweaza kuzitengeza na kuzitangaza ili kuvutia utalii wa ndani na nje. Tuachane na kasumba ya kila kitu kihusicho uchumi wetu ni lazima tuwaite wawekezaji kutoka nje, mifano mibaya tunayo (NET group solution, ATCL, RITES....)
ReplyDeleteNitaanza uchangiaji wangu kwanza kwa kuangalia swali ulilouliza 'where the country is going to be hundred years from today'. Swali hilo halikuwa katika viongozi wengi wa nchi za sub-saharan Africa. Ndio maana nchi nyingi zipo hapa tulipo. Viongozi wengi walikuwa mnaita 'short sighted' wengi wao walikuwa wana angalia 'welfare' wao binafsi wakati na baada ya uongozi wao badala ya nchi na manufaa ya uma.
ReplyDeleteHivyo ndio maana 'legacy' tulizo achiwa na viongozi waliopita na watazoacha viongozi wa sasa kwa vizazi vya miaka 100 ijayo ni madeni tuliyokopa na tunayoendelea kukopa 'Western na Asian countries'
Mimi naona kitu kikubwa cha kwanza cha Tanzania kuaddress kabla hatujakuwa kweneye position ya kuacha good legacy kwa vizazi vijavyo ni uongozi bora wa serikali'Good governance'. Penda usipende bila ya hilo hamna kitachofanikiwa.
Impression yangu Bwana Mashaka una assume uongozi tuliokuwanao hivi sasa ni mzuri.
Serikali za kuto simamia vizuri mali za uma, wizi wa mali za umma kupitia mikataba mibovu, offshore companies na wawekezaji kama ilivyokuwa inaendela Tanzania, ni tusahau kama tutaweza kujenga taifa ambalo litafikiria vizazi vya miaka 100 ijayo.
Sitaki kusema sana lakini ningependa ku challenge point ya kuprotect na ku attract Investment. Hii ndio policy ambayo serikali ina persue hivi sasa. Mtazamo wangu ni kwamba, kuna phase za development nchi inatakiwa kupita kabla ya ku open its economy. Phase muhimu ni technological and knowhow acquirement na development ya domestic industries.
Sisi hatuja champion stage hizo kama China na India walivyofanya kabla ya wao ku open economy zao. Kwa hiyo foreign investment za mwanzo ni ziwe za purpose hizo na masharti yetu yawekwe kwenye lengo la kuhakikisha nchi itafaidika katika skills, knowhow na pia fedha.
Nafikiri tukifanya hivyo ndivyo tunaweza ku position sisi wenyewe kuanza kufikiria legacy tunayoweza kuiacha beyond the term of presidence.
I love jonh Mashaka, jonh I am always smiling when reading your articles with poetic narrations.
ReplyDeleteIndeed you are a “mfano wa kuigwa” This boy can write, sasa si wakupe kazi BoT badala ya yale matoto ya mafisadi yanayozidi kupeta mle na fake form 4 certificates.
Mengine yana degrees za kufoji, ngoja niingie madarakani,,,,,, yote nitayapeleka keko
I love jonh Mashaka, jonh I am always smiling when reading your articles with poetic narrations.
ReplyDeleteIndeed you are a “mfano wa kuigwa” This boy can write, sasa si wakupe kazi BoT badala ya yale matoto ya mafisadi yanayozidi kupeta mle na fake form 4 certificates.
Mengine yana degrees za kufoji, ngoja niingie madarakani,,,,,, yote nitayapeleka keko
Mashaka, nakuzimia. Nataka mtoto wako, atakayeweza kuchambua mambo kwa kina kiasi hiki. Unanidatisha kijana wa watu, yaani nakufia. Naweza kukupata vipi?
ReplyDeleteJamani mtaniwia radhi, nimesoma chuo kikuu hapa mlimani lakini bahati mbaya hii atiko imenishinda kuelewa, licha ya kutoa comment zaidi ya hizi ninazotoa sasa hivi.
Cynthia
hawa watu hawawezi kupunguza bei ya mafuta, washenzi sana. Ni mafisadi ndio wnakula huko. Mashaka tunakukubali rafiki yangu njoo dar nitakununulia hata kilimanhjaro moja pale Cuba Bar.
ReplyDeleteTanzania Hero, Jonh Mashaka, you are a man who does things from heart, and our words sounds like words from a true patriot. You are such a treasure for our country.
ReplyDeleteI love to read your informative, cautious and visionary ideas. You are what we call true Tanzanian. Am honored to be able to contribute to your well written articles.
We are no longer questioning you motive and your cleverness, the only thing we are questioning right now is what is the government going to do about you?
I heard Ms. Simba Interview which sounded like a kindergarten kid boasting on what kind of grade he got, yet can’t even explain the grade itself. You are a sensation, and that is why I call you Tanzania genius. Well put
na dakika zangu 30, kwenye mtandao, napenda kusema kwamba Huyu jamaa noma sana.
ReplyDeletemie naikumbuka ile speech yake ya mnazi mmoja, rafiki yangu ilikuwa kali, hadi machinga wote wakawa kimya, na makofi juu yake.
babu ukija tanzania, kura tutakupa bila kupingwa, hauna mpinzani, na wala hajazaliwa kwenye hii nchi ya ufisadi,,,,mashaka uu
Nyie watu mashaka mnamuona kama kimungu fulani eti,,,,,
ReplyDeleteKama ana akili ni zake sasa mbona mnamshabikia kana kwamba anakuja kumaliza ufisadi?
anti mashaka
mashaka the famous tanzanian Genius, we are aware that you can lay facts across, but then, these articles are far above Tanzanian leaders to comprehend.
ReplyDeleteWe have few people in our government who thinks of tomorrow.
Most of them have short term memory, all they know is the raking in of big pay checks,, and forgery of documents.
No one amongst our leaders has ever thought of the country running dry of exports, as long as we pay taxes and they get deals, they will never worry.
tumechoka na ufisadi, na hiki kiinimacho cha kuwapeleka mahakamani ilhali wanapeta mjini na wezi wa kuku wanakufa segerea na keko, kulikoni jk?
kizazi cha mashaka na wengineo pengine ndio ukombozi wetu.
mashaka bb yangu, huko wapi baby?
ReplyDeletemm bakutaka tu unizalishe, nataka mtoto wako ili naye aje kutesa na akili kama yako.
naomba unizalishe, ili libeneke liendelee.tuwasiliane basi
Mungu Ibariki Tanzania,
Mungu Mbariki Mashaka
Cynthia Masasi
HOUSTON- TX
XXXXXMjomba: Mr. Waweru Githinji
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NDUGU ZANGU WATANZANIA, MMEELEWA KWAMBA HUYO MKENYA HAPO JUU KATUTUKANA?
ANAEMA KWAMBA MASHAKA ANA AKILI KWA SABABU AMESOMA KENYA, ASINGESOMA KENYA, BASI ASINGEWEZA KUWA NA AKILI ALIZONAZO,,
WALAHI MTUME HAWA WATU WANATUTAFUTA UGOMVI KWELI,,
AMAZETU AMA ZAO,,, UGOMVI NA UANZE
There is no new here, if you have time, interest, and access to internet you can write this kind of stuff, all these information are available from the internet and News if you can glue yourself on seatie watching worldwide televesion channels especially if you live in the Western countries. The articleitself is not a piece of an academic one, it is just a piece of jounarlistic writing in a newspaper kind. An academic piece of work should and must always have the siting/referencing and acknolegement of the source where the facts came and used in the work, otherwise would be stealing other peoples' ideas without acknoeledging them, as I am sure the facts in his work is not from his head he got them from somewhere, so next time show us the source of your facts.
ReplyDeleteHaki ya MAMA, huyu mtoto ni kiboko yao
ReplyDeleteWabeba boxi wakiona tu jina lake, baridi zinawashuka mwili mzima,
Y, because he does good things, and from his heart. Kazi nzuri bwana mdogo, lakini sasa mbona wakenya watutukane tena?
All that Mashaka has said is basic economics.
ReplyDeleteThose who say he is a genius for saying oil has inelastic demand and all other crap are only provong how ignorant they are.
All I see is he is saying one plus one is two and foolish and ignorant Tanzanians are saying this is a genius!!
This exmplains why Tanzania is a poor country-Tanzanians are ignorant people!!!
One fool said he is ready to shed blood for Mashaka-stupid!!!
Huyu John Mashaka anayejipa cheo cha "The US based Banker, & Social Activist" wakati mpiga deki wa jengo la banki asituletee za kuleta hapa. Anatafuta umaarufu wa kisiasa kupitia blog?? Rudi bongo kama unataka ubunge au udiwani waswahili waje wale hivyo vidola vyako na udiwani au ubunge wakunyime. Nawashangaa wanaokuita uje kuwa lecturer wa UDSM. Je chuo kikuu chetu kimekuwa jalala la kutupia takataka za kila aina?? Abaki tu huko aendelee na kazi za usafi. Who knows may be Obama akishatawazwa yawezekana ukapata kazi ya kudeki vyoo vya white house. Itakujengea sana CV.
ReplyDeleteMdau wa DSM
Ni mada nzuri. Hongera Bw Mashaka. Kwa wachangiaji waliopita, ni vyema tukaijadili mada ya Bw. Mashaka kwa kina na upana wake, badala ya kumshambulia yeye kama mtu.Tuangalie hoja yake na kutoa mawazo mbadala pale tunapokuwa na mawazo tofauti.
ReplyDeleteMdau
Faustine
http://drfaustine.blogspot.com/
THis Mashaka is just bogus.
ReplyDeleteTanzania knows the significance of agriculture and diversification. Even the President has said that many times.
What is needed is ideas on how to promote the sector and how to help our farmers.
Developed nations spend billions of dollars helping their farmers, what do we need to do to help our farmers. We need to talk about micro-financing, subsidies, promote and encourage Tanzanians to buy local products, help our Industries so that we can stop from being exporters of raw materials and export products that are finished that fetch higher values.
This is what intelligent people should be discussing.
When I see people worshipping this guy with an average mind it makes me wonder how ignorant Tanzanians are.
Instead of analysing substance of his content, people are flabaggasted by style that anyone can use.
Shame on you, Mashaka worshippers?
This Mashaka does not even know how to cite comparable analogies.
ReplyDeletehe uses Iran's and Venezuela's surplus and how it was re-invested. The Tanzanian problem is not how to use surplus, our problem is how to create increase our GDP so that we can at least satisfy our needs.
We are not in the surplus stage yet so why is he talking about spendind surpluses?
His b/s will only impress ignorant people!!
Mashaka is a victim of Western propoganda.
ReplyDeleteWhy does he only use example of countries that do not have good relatuons with the West?
Why does he use examples of States within the US itself to show why diversity is crucials.
He says we need to keep rhetorics aside while he himself is full of it.
Any investor with common sense knows the importance of diversification.
Waswahili simply said 'usiweke mayai yako yote katika kikapu kimoja'. He did not want to use this simple language just to prove he is so great, a scholar and learned!!
Atawababaisha wajinga na washamba wa KIngereza tu.
HOUSE IN ORDER, HOUSE IN ORDER
ReplyDeleteHaya baada ya kumshambulia mwenzenu, sasa tuchangie mada.
“ Je ni nini hatima ya Tanzania bila kilimo”
Kinachonisikitisha huyu bwana Mashaka John ananyofoa habari kutoka sehemu sehemu kisha anaziunganisha ana copy halafu ana-paste wabongo wanamuona jiniaaaaaaaz.AMA kweli sie bado sana WATANZANIA NAOMBA SANA TUJIULIZE HUYU BWANA JE NI KWELI ANA UCHUNGU??AU TUMESAHAU ZILE AHADI TAMU TAMU ZA KIPINDI CHA KAMPENI ZA UCHAGUZI MBONA HAZITEKELEZEKI HADI HII LEO??KINGINE KIBAYA ZAIDI HUYU BWANA ANAJITUMIA comments yeye mwenyewe kuipa nguvu atiko yake.MASHAKA ACHA KUJITAHIDI SANA NDUGU WANDEWA KAMA SISI TUSHAKUANGALIA KWA JICHO LA3 SIKU NYINGI KWAHIO UTAUMIA KAKA NA KUJA KUUMBUKA BURE.kwavile unacopy unavyoviandika ndio maana huwezi kuvitafsiri kwa your MOTHERTOUNGE.
ReplyDeleteHAKI YA MAMA, MASHAKA NDIO KIBOBO. YAANI JINA LAKE LIKITUNDIKWA TU, WAZELENDO WANASHIKWA NI KIZA ZAA YA AINA FULANI. MWENZENU ALIWAHI UMANDE, UKIWA NA SHIDA NAYE MTUMIE BARUA PEPE, HAPA NI PA KUJADILI MADA
ReplyDeleteWATANZANIA KUSEMA KWELI TUMELOGWA, TAFADHALINI TUJADILI MADA KISHA TURUDI KUJADILI HUKO ANAKOPIGA DEKI KWENYE BENKI NA KUWEZA KUANDIKA VITU VYA MAANA
UPUMBAVU UMETUZIDI, SASA KAMA WEWE UNAJUA KWAMBA HABARI KAMA HIZI ZIPO KWENYE INTERNET, MBONA WEWE USICHUKUE MUDA WAKO UKAANDIKA MAKALA YAKO KUPYAPINGA MAONI YAKE AU MTAZAMO WAKE? HACHENI WIVU NA MAJUNGU WATAZANIA, ENDELEZEENI TAIFA !
BEAUTY QUEEN
Kitu kimoja ninachokubaliana nacho ni kwamba unakipaji na kichwa kilichotulia. Makala yako mara nyingi ni makala yenye mipangilio na upeo wa mbali.
ReplyDeleteMdogo wangu, usikate tama, nchi yetu ni nchi ya kuangushana siyo kusaidiana. Mtazamo wako ni mzuri sana ukizingatia kwamba, kila kinachosafirshwa nje ya Tanzania ni bidhaa za kilimo. Je tutakuwa wapi iwapo hali kama hii itokee?
Wenye midomo mikubwa inabidi wajibu hii hoja na hoja badala ya kendekeza majungu yao ya kike na wivu usio na maana.
MKUU WA WILAYA NANIIIIIII, MICHUZI:
ReplyDeleteKama ulivyosema, huu ndio usenene. Bwana mdogo kaleta mada, badala ya kuchangia, wengine kama kawaida zao ujuaji mwingi, sijui kawa hivi na vile matokeo yake wanashindwa hata kuchangia vya maana.
Watanzania tuachane na mambo ya kijinga, changia hoja, au andika makala kuyapinga maoni hau mada yake. Hadi lini tutabaki katika hii hali?
Duh, John Mashaka anguruma tena, Hongera kaka.
ReplyDeleteHoja ulioitoa ni ya kweli, ila article kidogo imenichanganya. Mifano ya Iran na Venezuela haiwezi tumika kwa nchi zinazotegemea agrilcutre, kwani mafuta yanaisha, ila kilimo, maadamu watu wako duniani, hakiwezi kwisha.
Kwa kifupi nakubaliana an wewe kwa mambo flani ila sikubaliani na wewe kwamba serikali ipeleke msisitizo kwenye construction projects bali kwenye kilimo, kwani ndo waliko watu.
Negative: Tatizo moja bwana mashaka, mada nyingi unazozileta kwenye blogs, zinafuatiwa na watu wengi gafla ambao wanakufagilia wewe badala ya kuchangia mada. Tatizo jingine ni kuwa, lugha zinafanana sana, na tatizo la tatu ni kuwa, grammar na body language ya comments zao inafanana sana ya style yako. SISEMI NI WEWE, ila zinafanana.
Positive: Una kingereza kizuri na unajua kuandika sentensi kamili.
What an excellent debatable article. Kwa kweli kuna wigo mpana sana wa discussion.
ReplyDeleteMashaka, Kilimo ni so wide industry unlike a commodity like Oil. Kusema Tanzania without agriculture its an unthinkable assumption, kwa sababu that will never be.
However ni vizuri kuwa na challenge kama hiyo ili kuongeza chachu ya other economic organs in lieu of agriculture katika kuleta maendeleo endelevu.
Once again good piece of writing boy
Katika wadau wote hapo juu nimemwona Faustine.. Sisi Watanzania ni viumbe wa ajabu sana. mtu ametoa mada ya maana, badala ya kuchangia mada tunachangia utumbo..Yaani kashfa na majisifu.. Ni lini tutaacha ku personalize vitu na kufikiri kama wenzetu.. Yaani mambo ya maana na maendeleo.. Sometime inatia uchungu sana na kubore kusoma pumba. Tukumbuke hii ni blog inayotembelewa na watu wengi kuliko unavyofikiri. Mchango wako unaweza kuokoa hatima ya taifa letu na umasikini toka wa hela hadi huku kwenye vichwa vyetu. Ni hadi lini tutakuwa vichwa vya mwendawazimu ambako kinyozi anajifunza kuvyoa.. Tuamke, tupendane, tuwasome wenzetu, na tutumie ujuzi huo, kuboresha na kushindana nao..Hadi lini uchumi wetu utategemea misaada.. Hivi mmeshafikiri athari za Kuanguka kwa Global Economy? Maana yake ile misaada ya Marekani na Ulaya itapungua na labda haitakuwapo tena..Kama tunapata misaada na tuanendelea kuvaa mitumba..hiyo misaada ikipotea tutavaa magunia..Hadi tutakapo pata akili ya kuendeleza viwanda vyetu!!!!
ReplyDeleteMbona Mashaka akiwa kwenye ki blog watu wanatirirka kana kwamba wanaenda kuzawadishwa? Ni kijana wa kawaida. Na majungu tunayomrushia yanazidi kumjenga tu.
ReplyDeleteMithupu, inabidi huyu dogo usimweke tena kwenye gobu ya jamii kwa sababu anachafua hali ya hela, watu wanatiririka kupita kiasi na michango ya walio wengi ni michango ya wivu na majungu.
Kiboko ya wabeba boxi, genius jhn Mashaka. Mtoto wa kikurya unawakuna vichwa kupita kiasi ndo maana wanakujadili sina. Ungekuwa hauna issue, wala wasingepoteza muda wao.
ReplyDeleteJob well done. Hachana na hawa wenye wivu
Huyu mutu, siyo mutu ya TZ, huyu anakuwaga mutu wa Kenya dio wanaweza kuadikaga namuna hii. Watu wa TZ ni peda staree sana. Hawapedi kufanya kasi kama watu ingine. Kama wanapata hela kidogo wao ni kunua madem na kwenda kuparty
ReplyDeleteWatu wa tz, hata kama umeishi nao huko US, ni watu abao hawapendani, wanasengenyana weneywe kwa wenyewe sana, na kuiba wanaweka sao. Wale tumefanya kao kasi, Kiswahili na maneno mingiii lakini kasi hawataki kufanya kama watu ingine
Wewe chalie, kama hawa watu wa kwenu hakutaki, karibu sana Kenya, watakukarisha kufanya job huko kwa sababu Kenya inapenda sana watu ambao wamesoma huko na wanawesa kufanya kasi visuri.
R. Mbugua
Westlands (Nairobi-Kenya)
simshangai mashaka. fungua website ya bunge la Tanzania soma CV za wabunge. wengi darasa la saba je wanao upeo wa miaka 100?
ReplyDeleteTHE BEST ARTICLE IN MICHUZI BLOG TO START THE NEW YEAR WITH.
ReplyDeleteHONGERA SANA MASHAKA,TANZANIA INAHITAJI KUFIKIRIA KWA UNDANI ZAIDI NA KAMA MIMI NI JAKAYA KIKWETE NINGE WAKUSANYA WANA UCHUMI WANGU NA KUUCHAMBUA ZAIDI MJADALA HUU.NA PIA KAMA NINGEKUWA JAKAYA NINGEMTUMIA EMAIL HUYU KIJANA HILI KUMUwAKILISHA PAMOJA NA WACHUMI WA NCHINI KUCHAMBUA ZAIDI HALIYOZUNGUMZIA.
KWA MDAU WA KWANZA HUMU KILA MTU ANARUHUSIWA KUTUMIA LUGHA YOYOTE NA UTAPATA KUNDI LA WATU AMBAO WATAKUELEWA TU.HATA UKITUMIA KIMAASAI,KICHAGA WATU WATACHANGIA MADA TU. NAKUSHAURI UKIONA KITU SIO MUHIMU KWAKO ENDELEA KWENYE POST ZINGINE UCHANGIE.
by mdau "cha mtu mavi"
NIMEMFATILIA KIJANA MASHAKA KWA UKARIBU KUHUSU IDEOLOGY YAKE NA MIMI KAMA MTANZANIA NINAEONA KWAMBA NCHI YETU HAIJAPIGA HATUA YEYOTE TANGU TUPATE UHURU NA VIONGOZI WETU WAMEKUWA WAKIENDA IKULU KUTALII KWA MIAKA 10 NA KUIACHA NCHI IKIWA IMEDORARA KULIKO WALIVYOACHIWA.
ReplyDeleteMAONI YANGU NAMSHAURI BWANA MASHAKA AANZE MIKAKATI YA KUGOMBEA URASI KWA SABABU ZIFUATAZO:
1.HUYU KIJANA ANA HURUMA KWA MTANZANIA WA KAWAIDA,WATANZANIA KAMA 80% WANAISHI MAISHA DUNI KTK DIMBWI LA UMASIKINI,SASA MASHAKA TAYARI KISHAONYESHA KUJALI WANYONGE NA NIMATUMAINI YANGU HUYU BWANA ATAWASAIDIA SANA WANYONGE WALOTELEKEZWA KWA MIAKA HII YOTE TANGU TUPATE UHURU.
2.BWANA JOHN MASHAKA NI MCHUMI AMBAYE ANAELEWA CURRENT ECONOMIC ISSUES AND HOW TO SOLVE THE CRISIS,HUYU JAMAA NI MWELEWA NA NI MSOMI MAKINI.NI MATUMAINI YETU ATATUSAIDIA SANA KUJENGA UCHUMI WA NCHI YETU.REJEA ARTICLE YAKE HAPO JUU.AMEWEZA KU-FORESEE WHAT OUR COUNTRY NEEDS,SIO VIONGOZI WETU WANATUDANGANYA TU HAWANA DIRA YOYOTE KUKWAMUA NCHI YETU TOKA KWENYE UMASKINI WAKATI RASILIMALI TUNAZO NYINGI TU.
3.JOHN MASHAKA NI MNYENYEKEVU ASIE NA MAKUU NA HII NI SIFA KUBWA SANA KWA KIONGOZI WA TAIFA.
4.JOHN MASHAKA NI KIJANA AMBAYE AKILI,FIKRA ZAKE NI ZA KILEO HIVYO HE WILL DRAMATICALLY OVERHAUL THE CRISIS OUR COUNTRY FACING RIGHT NOW.
5.JOHN MASHAKA HANA HARUFU YA UFISADI NA ITAKUWA RAHISI KUSAFISHA MAOVU NDANI YA MFUMO WA UTAWALA.
BWANA MASHAKA MIMI NAKUPA 5 NA NIPO TAYARI KUKUPIGIA KURA RIGHT NOW.....HUYU KIJANA NI GENIOUS TUMPE SUPPORT AWEZE KUTULETEA MAENDELEO YA KWELI.JOHN, I GOT TRUST IN YOU MAN NA NINAOMBA WASOMI WOTE VIJANA TUSIMAME KUMSUPPORT HUYU NDUGU YETU NA MATUNDA MTAYAONA,MAY B TUJADILI NI VIPI ANAWEZA KUPATA HII CHANCE YA KUGOMBEA URAIS.
I strongly believe that if we have concrete programmes/plans and implement them wisely and cautiously Tanzania can survive without agriculture. The agriculture I am talking about is the colonial based agriculture – producing raw materials for EXPORT ONLY not otherwise. To think about 100 years (in deed the next generation) and even 200 centuries to come is a major contributing factor in the growth and prosperity of any country – it is sustainable. In my humble opinion it is the right time to think and work hard towards the industrialization of our economy as a necessary and sufficient alternative for our agricultural economy as I explain below:
ReplyDeleteThe need to promote industrialization in our country remains as strong as ever. Only rapid industrial development can create the resources to satisfy the basic requirements of our population i.e. food, health, education and shelter and jobs for our growing labour force. Along with the development of a mass internal market for basic goods and the strengthening of forward and backward linkages within the national economy, our country will also need to rapidly expand manufactured exports in order to strengthen our balance of payments and make our economy less vulnerable. In today’s highly competitive international economy, success in this task will be vitally linked to the modernization of our industries and establishing the new ones.
To achieve these objectives, we need not only to improve our previous industrialization strategies but also to develop new plans. We know that the industries established were not well-adapted to local conditions and skills, made little or inefficient to use of domestic resources, and required high level of imports and energy input. In some areas appropriate link with agriculture and regional balance in industrial development were in particular neglected. In addition, industries relied too heavily on a sheltered domestic market and failed to seize opportunities in international markets, with negative consequences in terms of economies of scale, technical change and learning processes.
Particular importance needs to be attached to industry’s link with agriculture. The rapid expansion of cultivation of food and cash crops can be facilitated by industrialization. Expanding agricultural activity generates increasing demands on industrial sector. It requires a growing supply of tools and implements, consumer goods, and services, from the manufacturing and other sectors of the economy to the farmers. To eradicate rural poverty in our country it is also necessary to create employment on a large scale not only in a mechanized agriculture but also in other activities, particularly manufacturing and construction of infrastructure.
An important part of such new industries need not be capital intensive and could be located in rural areas, as was done, for example, in China and other East Asian economies. Rural industries can be highly efficient in promoting labour-intensive processes and the processing of local resources. More generally the spread of small industries throughout the countryside and the improvement of infrastructure in rural areas are key elements of efforts to reduce disparities of income and wealth and to create a better balance of economic opportunities between urban and rural areas. At the same time, rural industries should give greater emphasis to the production of consumer articles and agricultural inputs adapted to local conditions. The mechanization of agriculture phased in more rationally than in past attempts would not only contribute to broad-based improvement of agricultural productivity but also to industrial development. The production of simpler, modern agricultural tools and implements would be an activity suitable for small-scale industries, which as they expanded would in turn add to the reservoir of industrial skills and create employment opportunities.
The People – The Subject and Object of Industrial Development
Since one of the preconditions for a viable development is the welfare of the people and the satisfaction of their wants, then the answer to our sustainable development problem must take these issues into account. We need a policy which satisfies the people’s material wants and at the same time creates conditions for expanding home market, and in turn makes the development of HEAVY and LIGHT INDUSTRIES inevitable. The problem of capital accumulation must, therefore, be tackled from this starting point, since it contains both the subject and the object of development-not profit, but people. Mwalimu Nyerere emphasized that as long as people, rather than the profit, is made the subject and object of development, hitherto untapped human ingenuity and material resources will come into full play, crushing all obstacles on the towards sustainable development in our country as it was successfully achieved in China. We know that the basic needs of people are: food, clothing and shelter. Consequently the answer to solving economic problems must be found in the course of supplying these basic needs, especially at the low level of development at which Tanzania must start its industrial development process. At this level of development these basic needs are real, acute and widespread.
In the course of supplying food there is enormous potential for industrial development, in the areas of dairy products, the leather industry, the manufacture of fertilizers etc. Clothing the people cheaply will expand the textile industry, ginnery output, the mechanization of agriculture (which involves tractor production, water pumps irrigation, and the HEAVY INDUSTRIES to produce these), inevitable accompanied by increased agriculture productivity. Historically, increased agricultural productivity has always led consumer industry to go through what development economists call the “crucial stage”, which in turns leads to industrial development. Historical evidence also shows us that, beginning with Industrial Revolution in England, and more dramatically in the United States, the textile industry has always been a most important stimulant to industrialization and the concomitant economic development, and even to the expansion of world trade. In England this was made possible thanks to slavery and cheap labour of colonial cotton producers; and in the U.S. thanks to cheap slave labour. In both these cases, however, demand came largely from the simultaneous development of industry and urban centres internally.
Housing and urban development, accompanied by or resulting from industrialization, have always been, like the textile industry, an important stimulant to further economic development, involving such sectors as timber, cement, ceramics, pipe manufacturing, electrical appliances, glass manufacture, and engineering equipment. No wonder the early American pioneers used to say, ‘When the building industry is all right, everything is all right.’ But the truth of this saying can only be realized if building construction is directed at housing the people and is carried out within the context of a general strategy for development.
Capital and Expertise Required
In attempting to solve the basic needs of the people we will succeed at the same time in producing conditions for a rapid development of the productive forces in both HEAVY and LIGHT INDUSTRIES. However, how are we going to implement these plans/strategies in the face of constraints in terms of capital and expertise? There is no doubt that, for the development of industries mentioned above, external economic relations of special type for a specific period of time will have to be entered into, with the friend developed economies like China. The basis of these transitional economic arrangements with ‘friend developed countries’ will be objective economic complementarities. A trade arrangement aimed at economic co-operation, rather than dependent on mercantile considerations, with these countries for the supply of capital goods and training of manpower in the exchange for agricultural products or minerals should transform our economy in the shortest possible time into genuinely self-reliant, self-sustaining and independent economy.
Economic Planning
The prerequisite for successful economic planning is to understand in the first place that planning is a POLITICAL action first of all, and not economic. We have to plan for FREEDOM; we have to make a conscious effort to liberate our economy, our people, from the realm of poverty and necessity to the realm of FREEDOM. Our economists should always be told that our motive is to serve the people and always they should keep in mind that our major objective is to attain an ECONOMIC FREEDOM; and therefore they have to facilitate and hasten the move of our economic liberation from the realm of poverty and necessity to the realm of freedom. Political leaders must have no illusions about the political nature of this objective; they must articulate this objective - ECONOMIC FREEDOM to the masses. In this context freedom means freedom from natural fetters; freedom from the constraints imposed by imperialism, neo colonialism, corruption, braindraining, brainwashing and other people in our country; and freedom to exercise human rights. All these aspects of freedom are interrelated.
Let us aim at improving the standard of living of our generation and work hard for the happier and better life of the next generation (s). We have to make sure that (a) the productive forces are rapidly developed to hasten people’s liberation from natural necessity; (b) the social relations are radically altered, to realize social control of socially produced wealth; and (c) a steady increase in the well-being of the working people through an increased supply of consumer goods, followed by a steady lowering of their prices and a steady increase of wages and agricultural income so that each year the people see for themselves that they are better off than they were the preceding year.
We have to be very careful with the ‘Market Forces’ strategy because its main concern is with those people who can spend; if there is exert pressure in the market (i.e. demand) then the economy must respond (supply). If there is no demand there is no supply; and that’s that. This is a painful and destructive way of solving problems of underdevelopment, and as the economy meanders through labyrinth of never-ending twists and turns of the market, it leaves the wayside millions of people who are too poor to spend. In type of economy the poor do not count; they merely constitute ‘the rest of the economy’, and they do not constitute ‘effective demand’.
"If you want see the change be the change of the change that you want to see," Mahtima Gandhi
Mungu Ibariki Afrika
Mungu Ibariki Tanzania
Aluta Kontinua
Amani Ramadhani Millanga
Balozi wa Zein,
ReplyDeleteKwa masikitiko makubwa, napenda kutoa mchango wangu ambao umejaa jadhba ya aina yake. Nikilirejea swala la usenene, nadahania kwamba hili swala linakuwa kero, bugdha ambayo inatia kichefuchefu, kinyaa na aibu kubwa.
Kwa muda mrefu sasa, nimekuwa nikifuatilia habari na ushauri ya bwana mdogo john Mashaka. Ambaye amekuwa mvuto mkubwa wa wadau wanaosoma mtandao na yombo mbali mbali vya habari.
Bw. Mashaka mara nyingi anachokizungmzia ni hutu wa kusaidiana na mambo ya kitaifa ambayo ni muhimu kwetu wote, lakini matokeo ya ushauri wake umekuwa ni aibu kwetu tunaomuunga mkono.
Nasikitishwa sana kumuona mtu mzima anakaa kwenye computer yake na kuweza kuandika kwamba UDSM haitaki uozo, abakie huko huko apige deki? Jamani hutu uko wapi. Nikimuuliza kwamba Mashaka, kamsosea nini, jibu lake litakuwa hakuna, sababu ya kumrushia maneno yasiyokuwa na maana, wivu.
Chuki tulizonazo dhidi ya wenzetu ambao wamepiga hatua, ni makubwa mno. Ni chuki na majungu ambayo hayakubalika katika taifa lolote lenye uzalendo.
Baada ya kukosa forum ya kuonysha chuki za hadharini, sasa wameanzisha tovuti inayoitwa ze- utamu ili yoyote mwenye chuki na mwenzio aweze kummaliza kabisa huko. Ze-Utamu siyo maadili ya kitanzania.
Inabidi tujitafakari upya watanzania wenzangu, sidhani kuna mwelekeo ikiwa tutazidi kukumbatia vitu kama ze utamu ilhali tunajaribu kuwakata moyo baadhi yenu wanajaribu kuibadilisha taswira ya nchi yetu.
Mchangiaji
H-Towni, TX
Kwa jina jingine huu ndio unaitwa UCHAWI..!! Maana yake ni kurudisha wengine nyuma kimaemdeleo. Hatutaki kukubali yanayoendelea tunataka tu-behave kama binadamu wa kale. Mzungu anaposema Binadamu wa kwanza katoka Afrika na alikuwa katika form ya Sokwe sisi tunafurahi kwamba we are the first ancestors..!! Maana yake ni kwamba sisi ni wanyama hatutaki kukubali ukweli na maendeleo tunataka tubaki hivi tulivyo. Yeye alikubali ndio maana kafika huko kote aliko akaangalia nyuma na akaona mtu mweusi ambaye ndio wa kwanza bado yuko vile vile anavaa majani ndio maana wanatuita "Africans Are Monkeys". Sasa badala ya sisi ku-appreciate changes and development around our society tunataka tum-back mtu down..!! Unategemea lini tutaendelea na kufika huko tuliko? Wewe unadhani kwa nini Marekani in early 1800s wali-suggest kurudisha baadhi ya wafungwa Africa(Liberia) baada ya kupitisha sheria ya kuwaacha huru wafungwa? Walidhani kwamba kama watawaacha wabaki watashindwa ku-assimilate na Western Culture ya Civilization na Maendeleo.
ReplyDeleteInaniuma sana ninavyoona Watanzania(WaAfrica) tunakosoana wenyewe kwa wenyewee...
naona wabongo tunaanzisha taifa la mashakamania. bwana mdogo anakuwa star wa aina yake, watu wanmfuata kana kwamba hawana akili. niliwaambieni, kama jamaa ana akili, akili ni zake.
ReplyDeletemashaka, anzisha biashara ya commercial za kuuza condoms, nadhani hiyo itakufaa na kukuondoa pamoja na familia yako katika dhiki
TATIZO SIKUHIZI KILA MBONGO ANAJIDAI ANAJUA, LAKINI UKIANGALIA KIUNDANI WATU WANO FANYA USENENE, WENGI WANA IFRIORITY COMPLEX, YAANI WAMEISHIWA SASA WATAFANYAJE ILI WASIKIKE NDO WANAISHIA KUSEMA MABO YASIO FAA!
ReplyDeleteILA USIJALI NDUGU MASHAKA NADHANI UKIANGALIA WATU WANAO KUUNGA MKONO NI WENGI KULINGANISHA NA HAO SENENE!
WASIKUTISHE KITU, NAJUA KWAMBA WATU WENYE USENENE MARANYINGI HAWANA MAENDELEO, NA WAMESHASHINDWA KWAHIYO WAKIONA MWENZAO ANAFANYA KITU CHA MAANA ROHO ZINA WAUMA ! KWAHIYO USIJALI NDUGU YANGU.
Mashaka acha kuandika Essay/Insha za sekondari.
ReplyDeleteNashangaa pia watu wengi wanasifia tuuuuuuuuu bila hata kutamka ni nini katika insha ya Bwana Mashaka mnachosifia. Hii ni inathibitisha tu Umasikini wetu wa Fikra.
Bwana Ramadhani Mlanga anaonyesha mwelekeo ingawa nae hana mifano halisi kutoka Tanzania zaidi ya kuandika tu literature kutoka vitabuni.
Hizi hadithi za Mashaka si mpya tumeshasikia tokea Enzi ya Nyerere hadi leo.
Porojo si kitu kizuri na ndio maana mimi nashindwa kusifia wala kukandya Jitihada.
Mungu iokoe Tanzania
Mzawa
swala la huyu kjana, ni swala ambalo linatubidi tujitazame vizuri katika taswari.swala la mashaka ni swala ambalo linaonyesha na kuilezea kwa undani maana ya neno usenene, wivu usiokuwa na maana ya aina yoyote
ReplyDeletesioni kosa lake licha ya kujituma na kuitakia mema nchi yeti, wanamtupia majungu kwanza hawana sabu za maana zaidi ya wivu, kwa hiyo kama huu ndio usenene basi nakubaliana nawe bwana michuzi.
ww mashaka, unapoona watu wengi wanachangia kiasi hiki kwa muda mfupi baada ya makala yako kuchapishwa, ujue kwamba kuna jambao. wengi wa hawa watu wanaguswa lakini wanashidwa kusema au kuchangia vya maana, matokeo yake ni mambo mengi yasiyokuwa na maana. niaminie, wanaokuunga mkono ni asilimia 98% kwa hiyo hawa wachache hachana nao, endelea na kazi zako siku moja wote watayaona matunda ya kazi zako. na ubarikiwe
ReplyDeleteAmina.
Most of the time, people believe that country’s wealth lies on natural resources. This has proven not to be the case. The reason being that, you can have so much yet don’t know what to do with it, and other people ending up benefiting more than the country itself.
ReplyDeleteThis is the case in Tanzania today. Many our riches (wealth) is being enjoyed by foreigners, and a few in the government (FISADI’S -in the ruling CCM). This is happening because we don’t have true wealth. We have poor brains.
John Mashaka, has proven to be a such a valuable ASSET, or other few of the brains we need to claim full riches. I am baffled by this Youngman’s genius mind, no wonder he was tapped to Wall-Street. He has instigated thinking among the Diaspora and has been lightning rod of envy.
I must admit, that this is a well written article, well thought, and timely delivered. These are very challenging times, which needed brains to counter the challenges. John Mashaka’s Ideas and thoughtfulness is superb; he has erased all the doubts we had about him, if at all he wrote the article
Mashaka, tumekusikia vizuri ujumbe umefika, . Pia ningependa ushirikiane na Dr. Hildebrand Shayo ili mtoe mwanga zaidi kwa wenzenu ughaibuni.
Umetoa darasa bila kutegemea. Mimi pia nimetokea kuwa mwanafunzi wako bila kutegemea ingawa umri wako ni sawa na wa mwanangu wa tatu. Itakuwa vyema ukianzisha darasa la wanamtandao linaloitwa Finance -101. Bisha shaka ninakuwa mwanafunzi wako
You are Tanzania’s Gold,
Mdau Theodore Mlawa
Copenhagen- Denmark
mdhee mdhima mm kidhungu not reachable, kwa hiyo nisamehe nichangie hii hata kama ni ya mtu lakini ni ya maana. Samahani sana
ReplyDeleteBravo Mr J. Mashaka,
Country like U.S.A, U.K, Japan,.... and many other country in developed world/Civilised world VALUE people like John Mashaka. And for a country like Tanzania of course we deserve also to Value this MAN. Makala anazoandika na kama watu wetu wangekuwa wanaziweka katika Magazeti yetu ya hapa BONGO na watu wakawa wanazisoma nafikiri tungekuwa mbali sana kwenye DUNIA hii.
Very few people in this world who are Brilliant like John Mashaka and that's why Country like U.S.A does not want to lose this potential asset on the Financial Market, we need him and we need his attributes or his inherent value to add to our national Economies.
Let us be realistic and not all the time optimistic on matter that touch our interest, we must learn to admit when some one has done a Tremendous job.
BRAVO AGAIN MASHAKA & KEEP IT UP.
ww mashaka, nadhani ulitketeza miili ya watuu wa aina fulani, yani wakina nanihiiiiiiiiii, nani hii ndi maana mambo yako swafi.
ReplyDeletenimelitoa kifuani
huu ni uenda wazimu jinsi watu wanavyofatilia hbari za mashaka, yaani mnamfanya shujaa, an instant celebrity,,,, hamna cha maana cha kufanya zaidi ya kufatilia habari zake. ni kijana wa kawaida anayebeba boxi jinsi tulivyowote.
ReplyDeleteha hah aha hha hah wabongo bwana kazi sana.....Ukiongea tanzania kudhungu tu unaonekana genius.
ReplyDeleteYani hii article inaonekana ni ya genius? Wabongo tuko nyuma, ni illiterate, ni uninformed vibaya mno. Kwanza kabisa Bongo tunategemea misaada sio kilimo! Mwandishi has no clue. Anasema suluhisho la kupanua vigezo vya uchumi ni kujenga viwanda vya ndani, hajaeleza, hajui, viwanda vilikuwepo vikafa, sababu hazijui, anagusia juu juu tu, wafanye hivi wafanye vile. Hajawahi kufanya kazi au kuishi Bongo zaidi ya wakati alipokuwa kula kulala. He has no clue! Zilch!
ReplyDeleteHaya, kaeleza kwamba uchumi wa Iran na Venezuela umeumia kutokana na kushuka kwa bei ya mafuta, lakini hajaeleza uchumi wa kilimo unaweza kuporomoka kwa mabadiliko gani, pamba itashuka bei soko la dunia? Solution yake, jenga kiwanda cha nguo, si ndio? Nguo hazitashuka bei? Sasa kwa nini maduka ya nguo kwenye ma mall ya Marekani yanafungwa sasa hivi?
Anaongelea kupanua nyanja za uchumi. Hebu jibu hili: Marekani inategemea aina ngapi za nyanja za uchumi na ilikuwaje uchumi wao ume tank baada ya industry moja, ya soko la nyumba, kuanguka wakati wana ma sekta ya uchumi kibao?
Msanii tu huyu John. Atatisha vilaza wenzie wa mitandaoni tu humu.
Eti "US based Banker"! Sio "Wall Street Banker" tena? Unajiita banker unafanya nini benki, ni meneja wa ngazi za juu kujiita banker au umepewa ki-cubicle unafanya routine tasks za pass along paperwork na kupanga makaratasi kwenye ma-shelfu? Angalia fagio linalopita kwenye kazi za financial industry lisikukumbe tukakukuta ume resort kwenye u-bank teller drive thru za Wachovia. Unavyopenda ujiko sijui utaficha wapi uso wako.
wabongo bwana mnakera kweli. yaani naona hata aibu kujiita mbongo, kweli tena
ReplyDeletesasa niulize swala, tumeshayasema amapungufu yake, sasa ujadilini paper yake au mada yake....usenene ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Mashaka,
ReplyDeleteGreat article man.
You have asked a question that requires multi-answers. Development economics is a complex puzzle. It's complex because it requires one to place all the pieces in their respective places to crack the puzzle. The same goes to your article on whether Tanzania can survive without agriculture or not.
Our national policies on agricultural sector in the past and today are analogous to when one puts the cart before the horse. The result is a dead end. I believe what we need to do as a nation is to make it a priority by investing heavily in human capital (applied education is key here) and infrastructure. To me these are the two horsepowers we need to bolster the agricultural sector. Once we have such instruments in place, local and foreign capital will tend to flow into the agricultural sector.
The governmet would of course need to make deliberate efforts to create an enabling environment in order to attract the capital inflow into the agricultural sector but applied education and infrastructure are the fundamentals.
Inno
I couldn't agree more with the comments from Inno, i.e. it is paramount in our country that we invest sufficiently in human capital development. And this is not just building huge university structures, but guaranteeing infusion of education from the grass-root level to the vocational training and management skills.
ReplyDeleteAs long as I can remember, we have been singing the same song over and over "agriculture is the backbone of our economy" but little progress to show for to date. Despite GDP growth above 7% in recent years, agriculture sector averages at dismal 5%. Certainly, we require more than just singing.
In addition to human capital development, we need to prioritize which sectors to develop targeting to enhance growth and increase employment. Prioritizing need to go hand in hand with creating ideal business environment - curbing corruption, improving infrastructure, project due diligence, improving procurement processes, etc. Otherwise, we would advertize our beaches, our mountain, our parks, and they will come but nothing will happen. Or even worse, they will reap us off.
My 2 cents.
mithupu nadhani unapata ujiko kuweka articles za john mashaka kwenye blog yako.
ReplyDeletekwa sababu dogo akiwekwa humu, watu wanatiririka utadhani kuna mgao wa petroli.
mpe basi ya kupiga picha au unadahni malipo yake kwa saa yatakuwa makubwa? mgumu huyo mbeba boxi hamind hla yoyote....
USENENE, ALUTA CONYUA………………………………..
ReplyDeleteMZEE MZIMA MITHUPU. KWANZA KABISA HUYU MTU (US BASED BLOGGER) NITAMUITA MDUDU MWENYEWE SENENE. HAFAI KUWA KIONGOZI NA WALA SIDHANII NI KIONGOZI YEYOTE KATIKA TAIFA LETU. KAMA NI KIONGOZI, BASI INABIDI WIZARA ANAYOIFANYIA KAZI IFANYIWE MAREKEBISHO.
USENENE WAKE UNAKUJAJE, YEYE KAZI YAKE KUBWA NI KUMPONDA MASHAKA BINAFSI BDALA YA KUYAPONDA MAKALA YAKE.AKIWA NI MTU MWENYE UPEO NA MSOMI, ITABIDI ACHKUE MUDA WAKE NA KUANDIKA MADA INAYOSEMA “ TANZANIA CAN SURVIVE WITHOUT AGRICULTURE” VINGINEVYO INATUBIDI KUMUITA SENENE MWENYE MAJUNGU NA WIVU.
HUYU NI MBEMA BOXI MCHOVU, ALIYEJAA JADHBA NA HASIRA ZA KIPUMBAVU. HUYU BLOGGER NA SURROGATE WAKE MCHUMI WA TEXAS, AMBAYE KAZI YAKE NI KUANDIKA USHUZI KILA WATU WANAPOCHANGIA AU KUTOA MAONI YAO. HUYU US-BASED BLOGGER NI MDINI MWENYE ROHO MBAYA AMBAYE HAITAJIKI KATIKA TAIFA LETU, KAMA SIKOSEI NI MWANA CUF NA SIYO CHADEMA JINSI MCHANGIAJI MOJA ALIVYOTAMKA.
WANA CHADEMA NI WATU WALIOELEMIKA NA WENYE UPEO WA HALI YA JUU, HIZI HASIRA NI HASIRA ZA WANA “CUF” AMBAO WANAONA UDINI TU NDIO DAWA YA MAENDELEO
ANAYETAFUTA UMAARUFU NI MCHUMI WA TEXAS MBUMBUMBU, PAMOJA NA BLOGGER WAKE KUPITIA MGONGO WA MASHAKA. SIYO KWAMBA NAMTETEA MASHAKA, HAPANA. MIMI NAMUUNGA MKONO KWA SABABU AMELETA MADA YENYE MAANA AMBAYO INABIDI TUITOLEE MICHANGO YA KITAIFA. MASHAKA NI KIJANA WA KUJITUMA, AMBAYE SIYO TU ANAIELEMISHA JAMII, ANAJITOLEA KWA HALI NA MALI. WEWE BLOGGER UMEFANYIA NINI TANZANIA? UKICHOKA KUBEBA BOXI MAJUU, RUDI TUTAKUKARIBISHA, LAKINI USILETE MAMBO YAKO YA UDINI HAPA
NI RAISI SANA KUKOSOA KULIKO KUTENDA. IKIWA BLOGGER ANA UWEZO KAMA WA MASHAKA, BASI AANDIKE MAKALA YAKE NASI PIA TUSOME.WOTE TUNAIPENDA TANZANIA NA SIYO WEE TU. KILA MMOJA WETU HUMU ANAIPENDA TANZANIA, HATA MASHAKA MWENYEWE NI MZALENDOWAKUTUPA. NIKIKUMBUKA WAKENYA WALIPOTUTUKANA, WENGI TULIONA ALIVYOWAJIBU SIYO KWA JADHBA BALI KWA MPANGILIO NA USTAARABU
Mashaka:
BILA SHAKA, WOTE TUNAFAHAMU UWEZO WAKO, ILA, JARIBU KUTUMIA KIZUNGU RAISI ILI WOTE WAELEWE IKIWA LENGO LAKO NI KUIELEMISHA JAMII YA KITANZANIA. USIWE NA WASIWASI, TUNAKUUNGA NA TUTAKUUNGA MKONO KWA HALI NA MALI, HAKUNA ATAKAYEKUGUSA, UMUHIMU WAKO KWA TANZANIA TUNAIELEWA.
SENENE, ,,,,, “US BASED BLOGGER” NADHANI ITAKUWA VYEMA UKIACHANA NA TABIA YAKO YA USENENE.ANAYEMGUSA, ANATUGUSA WATANZANIA WOTE
PRO-MASHAKA TEAM.
UPANGA (DAR)
I agree with Inno and Mpambika’s points. There is no way we can make a significant dent on development with 5% to 7% growth rate. Single digit growth rates are ok in a developed economy. But for a developing one, there has to be a way to create double digit growth rate in order to have a noticeable change in poverty level.
ReplyDeleteTanzania without agriculture is possible, but first we need a “Formal” agriculture sector. There is no easy way to bypass a sector which gives our country 85% of exports. So before we fully diversify the economy, which I agree ultimately we should do, first let’s have an agriculture sector that is able to receive and absorb capital.
In Tanzania now we are still importing Milk, really I mean Milk, chicken and Meat mainly from South Africa. I am not kidding; we are importing things that we have in abundance. Actually in some regions things are rotting while in others we have scarcity. If we are able to create infrastructure (roads, different financial markets, education etc) then we can have meaningful economic growth.
I am not sure if Tanzania can create manufacturing industry that will rival Asian one. With Dubai, Singapore and Hong Kong all in the Indian Ocean the maritime hub that Mashaka is proposing can only take us so far.
So before we diversify, let’s become experts on what we can do best and have a chance to compete globally.
/////hamna lolote hapa, kazi zetu kubwa ni wivu na majungu. inabidi tuwe watu makini. huyu kijana kaandika la maana kweli, lakini wajuaji wa gengeni ndo wale ama zangu ama zake. hii kasumba itaisha lini, si ndio usenene huu hapa. wewe blogga ni chizi kabisa, sasa hasira zote ni za nini ndo tujue unaipenda Iran kuliko Tanzania, usituletee mambo ya OIC Hapa.
ReplyDeleteWaungwana, the issue about our brother John Mashaka is not that he is wrong when he talks about the importance of diversifying the economy. He is quite right and everybody knows it. That's actually the problem. In fact all the points he suggests Tanzania should implement in order to achieve viable economic progress that would procure security for future generations are so true and obvious that one wonders why he had to write them and make them appear like new economic principles coming out of his mind! You see, these ideas have been sung out to a common man by our politicians since the 3rd phase Govt and were part and parcel of CCM's highly chanted slogans during their 2005 election campaigns. So the problem to Tanzania is not so much the lack of knowledge by her leaders of these basic economic principles as is the bankruptcy of their willingness and ability to whole-heartedly implement them in order to maximize achievement of rapid national progress. I have no membership in any political party in Tanzania and I'll not hastate to give credit to whoever deserve it. Kikwete's Govt, though hesitant and weakened by a multitude of scandals as we know, is actually trying in its own imperfect way to do exactly what John Mashaka is talking about; which then makes his advice to them in its present form all the more redundant and unnecessary - not stupid as some feeble minded fellows have asserted. The "blogger based in USA is quite right in his comments though unfortunately he unnecessarily put in too much emotions. Mashaka unfortunately was wrong about Iran and her oil-rich Middle-Eastern neighbours. They aren't sleepy and ignorant about the fate of their under-ground petrol reservoirs at all. They know it and have taken appropriate measures to counteract it. I don't have time to develop this issue, but suffice it to say here that for over 15 years now the Iranians have been working hard to diversify their economy by developing, among other things, their manufacturing industry to a sustainable resilient level. In my view what we need in Tz is proper patriotic leadership imbued with clear vision and devoted unselfish ambition coupled with individual entrepreneurship of motivated citizens to bring about development. I trust in my people. We'll make it some day.
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