RESPONSE TO THE ANONYMOUS BLOGGER’S DEBATE REQUEST
With great humility, I am writing to thank everybody who has participated in our series of debates. Those of you, who have rendered me their support, please accept my gratitude and heartfelt appreciation. Those who opposed me, I am thanking you as well, because you have given me a mirror that I can use to see my shortcomings, that I would not otherwise be able to see. It would have been a self deceit, and an illusion for me to believe, that all was going to be smooth. Your criticisms are crucial because they are needed in my effort to curb human’s number one enemies of pride, and arrogance.
While my anonymous colleague (blogger) has extended an open invitation to a public debate, which I welcome, with open hands, I am however, questioning the significance of this debate and the purpose it is going to serve. How is it going to serve Tanzania? And who is going to benefit out of it? Without a doubt, one of us is going to come with arsenals of war to eliminate the other, and result being; one disappearing into oblivion, while the other into limelight. Why must this be the end result? Why can’t we use those weapons to reason together for the best interest of close to 40 million Tanzanians?
In the meantime Mr. Blogger, can you please present what you would have written (your own Idea) so that we can all look at it and “perhaps” contemplate debating you? And why must it be in the Radio and not here, you found my article here, dint you, Mr. Blogger?
Wars within countries are never won by one or two men; they are won by the people. This is not war about Mashaka, it is war about Tanzania. Mashaka has no ability to win a war, but Tanzanian’s can. And so my brother, and blogger, a war can never be between two brothers, war must be against our enemy, and that is poverty. My weapon to counter your words of hate is the weapon of love and compassion. My only weapon to neutralize your anger, fundamentalism, fanaticism, and frustration, is the weapon of reason, and the more we disagree; the more chance there is that, at least one of us is right.
While I respect your abilities to insult and discredit, I must caution you, that knowledge is a deadly weapon that must be used with care and wisdom. You cannot use it wisely while hiding under the cover of anonymity and darkness, and still claim to be a peace loving human being, intellectuals do not do that. Mind you, darkness is always synonymous with evil. If your intellectuality is intended for the benefit of your people, then you cannot use it to demonize your opponent, can only use it to uplift and model the future of your society; think of Tanzania without Agriculture.
Think of economic diversification, and that was my point. This was never a political or anti government presentation; it was a piece for ALL of us to think about, and I kindly urge you to re-visit the article
In the play, Henry IV, by William Shakespeare, humans are described as “diseased nature often times breaks forth with strange eruptions”. My fellow anonymous blogger, debates are conducted by humans, with intent to express beliefs and understanding, accompanied by achievable objectives. They are never carried by the unknowns or mysterious people.
In the play, Henry IV, by William Shakespeare, humans are described as “diseased nature often times breaks forth with strange eruptions”. My fellow anonymous blogger, debates are conducted by humans, with intent to express beliefs and understanding, accompanied by achievable objectives. They are never carried by the unknowns or mysterious people.
Your eruption into a debate without anything substantial contrib
uted by you, has left me dismayed on how this man could be right hundreds of years later after he stumbled upon such a comparable disease? His observation has clearly, vividly, and accurately diagnosed a strange disease you must find a cure for; a disease of “STRANGE ERUPTION”.
And if you allow me to ask Mr. Blogger, how would you in your right mind to meet an angry mysterious person just for the sake of it?
You have arrested, tried and convicted me personally rather than my idea, I cannot reciprocate even though I have the ability to dismember you, considering your linguistic immaturity; it would be unwise, immature and primitive on my part to do so. Above all, it is out of my character and moral beliefs. To your credit, I can only say that all human beings must be tried in the eyes of the public. The weak drop the cause while the strong struts on, and die for what they believe in if the need be.
While you have spent little time to read my article which was intended to instigate a school of thought, we are yet to read yours and maybe we can debate. You simply can’t lead, because a leader takes time to weigh between the bad and the good. A leader does not recklessly jump into conclusion of matters, a leader is always patient while finding logic behind every matter before him/her; a test you have miserably failed.
Please note, that you cannot succeed in suppressing my conviction, neither can you kill the Idea because it is an idea whose time has come; an idea for the 40 million Tanzanians, and the future generations. It is an idea bigger than all of us. It is a God given Idea; it is an Idea in the light and not in the darkness, and being articulated from heart. It is an idea of the people that cannot be betrayed by self interest, and quest for glory.
Mind you, my work does not involve sitting in TV and Radio studios, it involves using my hands to wipe tears off the eyes of that child feeling abandoned, and unwanted. It involves personal sacrifice and using our abilities to serve the vulnerable, and defending the defenseless.
It is work which does not pay anything or require arrogance; this is work that needs patience and compassion, it is work blind of religion or level of education, it is work that comes from heart and only a few can endure it; not people living in the darkness, but those in the light with just and rational minds let’s unite to fight against hopelessness, lets unite and fight our number one enemy and that is poverty. We must unite to fight hunger, illiteracy, homelessness and despair.
Let’s use our intellectual weapons, not to tear down each other, but to reason together on the fate of our nation 100 years from today. Let’s find a way to rid ourselves of hate, jealousy, selfishness, arrogance and pride. Let’s find a way on how to be rational and humble. Let’s use our hands and might to do things from heart; things beneficial for the humanity, and let’s find away to fight side by side for the common good.
Mungu Ibariki Tanzania
John Mashaka
John Mashaka
Michuzi..Nakushauri uchukue busara zako na kufunga huu mjadala..Hauna faida kwa waTanzania kwani ni Vita Binafsi..Tukumbuke hii blog inapokea watu wenye upeo wa aina mbali mbali..Kuna watakaopenda kuendelea kwa mijadala isiyo na faida, chuki binafsi, majidai etc.
ReplyDeleteKwa mtazamo wangu, watanzania wengi wana uwezo mkubwa, upeo wa kufikiri, skills etc. Lakini tukumbuke Watanzania hatuna utamaduni wa malumbano au debate zenye kulenga kuboresha interests za Taifa letu. Hata wale wachache wenye mawazo hayo watapingwa na wengi. Kiini kikubwa ni kutojiamini na backgrounds zetu..wakati nasoma nyumbani ..debate kwenye shule zetu zilikuwa mara moja kwa mwaka na kwa wale genius..Sidhani kama hali hii imebadilika kwa sasa..Midahalo mingi ni ya siasa na hasa ikiwa ni interests za kifisadi..na kuwadanganya watanzania..
Itachukua muda kufika..lakini kwa kuanza..badala ya kushabikia malumbano binafsi tu change direction, tuone points na kuchangia hizo points kwa interests za taifa na sio utumbo..na pumba..Otherwise Tanzania tutaendelea kuwa kichwa cha mwendawazimu daima..
My Take: Mashaka has identified very well his cause and his intent he is not a politician thus he needs not be debated, what will come of the debate ??? why should there be any debate ?? where are your articles oh the anonymous one ?
ReplyDeletecome out and let us see what you have to say for our country, i always put this words spoken by a father of an american president who was overtly and unjustly criticized over his candidacy YOU CAN NOT KICK A DEAD DOG ! for it is dead and wont feel or hear you, so please US blogger rest your case and join a good cause
fare thee well Mashaka
Huna lolote Mashaka, ni bora ukanyamaza tu...
ReplyDelete"your anger, fundamentalism, fanaticism, and frustration"..."fundamentalism and fanaticism?"???? Get real!!!!!
ReplyDeleteHivi wewe Anyony wa 8:06AM, una uelewa kweli? kwasababu haiwezekani mtu mwenye akili timamu akamsema mwenzie kwamba hana lolote kwa kifupi kiasi hicho bila kutoa weakness ulizo zi note. Michuzi nakuomba ndugu yangu kuna watu wamezoea kukaa mabalazani na kukandia kila mtu anayepita, watu wa hivyo tupilia mbala coment zao wanaishushia hadhi hii blog ya jamii.
ReplyDeleteMashaka umamshutumu US Blogger uchafua ambao na wewe mwenyewe unaufanya: hate, name calling etc..!!
ReplyDeleteBongo Radio na KLH News inasikilizwa na watanzania kama ili ilivyo hii blogu ya jamii, nashindwa kuelewa kwa nini unaona ni hapa tu ndipo utakapoweza kufikisha ujumbe kwa watanzania?
Hoja zako ulizotoa kukwepa debate ni dhaifu sana; mojawapo ikiwa ni kwa nini unataka sana kumfahamu US Blogger ni nani. US Blogger ana hoja, hizo hoja ndizo Watanzania wanatakiwa kuzisikia na kuzitafakari; sisi US Blogger awe Juma au Amina, ana Diploma au PhD haijalishi na wala hatutaki kujua.
With due respect Mh Balozi nakuomba uwashauri Mashaka na Aluta wafungue blogs halafu tutakwenda huko kusoma hayo wanayoyaandika. Mkuu hutupatii habari mpya zaidi ya kutujazia maelezo marefu ambayo mwisho wa siku nobody is interested. Kama wanataka kuandika maelezo marefu basi waende mlimani UDSM kuna kazi ya kufundisha na kuandika researches pale.
ReplyDeleteMr.Mashaka, Iclearly see you have hit back.Not only that, but you have hit back hard, where it hurts !! All I can do id sit back and wish you all the best in your course of thoughts and actions. God bless you !!
ReplyDeletehuyu mashaka sounds suspicious unataka umaarufu?polititians like youshould be discouraged their motives are always personal gain
ReplyDeleteperiod!
Mr Mashaka, kwa uzuni kubwa nimesoma response yako. Sidhani kabisa kama Mr Blogger alifanya insultation yoyote alipokuwa akijibu article yako.
ReplyDeleteNadhani unacho kipinga wewe ni kuwa criticized kutokana na article yako. Kitu ambacho mimi naona ni insufficient of thoughts. Lengo la bwana blogger sio kutafuta winner and losers kwa kupitia debate. Bali lengo lake yeye ni kudefend serikali kwamba still kwa kupitia Agro based economy Tanzania inaweza kuwa mmoja ya super power in Africa, kama tutafuata misingi yote ya ukulima.
Kwenye argument zako ulibase kwenye indicator kama GDP kitu ambacho ni poor indicator of a growing economy kama wa Tanzania sababu GDP ina include kila mataka taka ambayo wanachi hata faida yake hawaoni. Moja ya kigezo cha kukua kwa GDP yetu kwa asilimia 7% ni sababu sababu ya transporation ya dhahabu, ambayo serikali yetu inapata less than 2% out of it.
Wakulima wetu wamekuwa tied kwenye mti, wakikataliwa na IMF and World Bank kupewa msaada na serikali kuu, sababu ya Free trade argument which doesn't make sense.Wakati huo huo Mkulima wa Mahindi huko IRINGA inabidi ashindane na wakulima wa Mahindi Huko IOWA ambaye kwanza ana dhana zote za ukulima, pili serikali yake imemuandalia mazingira yote ya ushindani includes PRICE FLOOR and CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE ambayo inamuwezesha yeye KUHEDGE all of the risk associate na ukulimwa wake. Sasa unataka serikali ifanye nini? Iwape pesa wakulima wetu then automatic itakuwa imekiuka misingi yote ya Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC).
Kuongea ya kwamba tunaweza kuacha kilimo sababu una compare kilimo na mafuta doesn't make sense at all. Hizi ni commodity mbili tofauti, mmoja ni muhimu kwa mwanadamu na huwezi kuibypass as long as watu wanazaliwa then watu watakula na watu watavaa. While Mafuta business siku zake zinahesabika. Soon tunaingia kwenye Biofuel ambapo nchi kama Tanzania ambapo kuna aridhi kubwa yenye rutuba tutakuwa well targeted na nchi za west.
Umeongelea diversify uchumi wetu kwa kuformulate strategy amabazo zinalenga kwenye sector kama utalii. Nafahamu unajua kwamba utalii una positive correlation with economical uncertainty, that means if the economy is at doom then na sisi tupo kwenye shaka.
Umeongelea all this massive projects, however hujagusa kabisa section mmoja ambayo inahusu WAPI HIZO PESA ZITATOKA? UNATAKA TUCHAPISHE PESA? Tanzania sasa Par Capita yetu ni less than $400. Hao wajiri wakuu kama Voda, Tigo and Zain hawajahajiri hata 10,000 people. Bado serikali ndio muajiri mkuu. Where the money for all those fancy projects that you mentioned will come from? How are we going to get there? We need to stop blaming and come out with measures that if Government will take then we're going to eradicate poverty by certain percent if not all.
Tatizo letu tuliosoma USA and other Western countries tunaona kwamba tunaweza kuapply kila kilichofanyika western.....
SWALI LANGU NI MMOJA TUU, JEE UNAONA MEXICO AND OTHER SOUTH AMERICA COUNTRIES, WAMESHAJARIBU ALL THOSE ASPECTS OF PURE CAPITALISM, WHY THEY FAILED? CAPITALISM ONLY SUCCEEDED IN AMERICA AND IT FAILS EVERYWHERE..... ONE FITS ALL STRATEGY WILL NOT TAKE US OUT OF POVERTY TRAP. WE NEED TO THINK ABOUT ECONOMICAL MOVEMENT WHICH WILL EMPOWER OUR PEOPLE AND FITS OUR ENVIRONMENT, AND NOT WHAT USA OR UAE THEORY.
I support debate 100% through Radio, we can get VOA, BBC Swahili or else where... You name Mr. Mashaka
Mchumi wa Texas
Now I realize Kuna Watu na Viatu...
ReplyDeleteMashaka is very generous and very calm individual "it is My opinion" hapayuki kama huyu Ananymous, he is very organized and well contemplative.
Ila One thing for sure, I see no reason for a debate at the moment, however if you Guys think debating is very Important; there are several forums to accommodate your need(s) of disproving one another, for now On lets not make this Public blog to become a battle ground for personal attacks and hate.
Michuzi nasubiri yaliojiri Bongo leo. Otherwise tutahama hii blog.
I said it before and I'll say it again, Let Be ONE!.... hivi kwa nini lakini!?....
Remember, Discipline is what makes a MAN; without it you are NO-one... William Edward Burghardt Du Bois.
Moto-Moto.
Mashaka,
ReplyDeleteBiblia inasema kwamba na mwenye masikio na asikie. Nadhani huyo bwana amesikia.
Regards
Kama u usually dont copy and paste huna sababu ya kuogopa debate Mr.Mashaka.
ReplyDeleteThis is the Fact I didnt know Before:-
ReplyDelete1. Mashaka is arrogant, he didnot respond acordingly to the US Blogger critism
2. Mashaka belive in most of the Bush's Doctrine, look the language he used ''My only weapon to neutralize your anger, fundamentalism, fanaticism, and frustration, is the weapon of reason, and the more we disagree; the more chance there is that, at least one of us is right''. thats prove to me why he used Venezula and Iran example
3. Mashaka has no debate skills like most Tanzanians.
By RAF
Siyo vizuri kuufunga huu mjadala!Labda tu niseme tu kwamba kama huna cha kuchangia,kama anonymous wa 8:30 a.m. bora unyamaze.
ReplyDeleteBw. Mashaka ni mtanzania anayejali. What I have noticed from his long articles- naomba nirudie- long articles - sometimes I cannot find time to read everything, I just skim through, and maybe as a result I dont get the gist of the argument.
I think Bw. Mashaka needs to be more succinct - pse dont take this negatively. Besides, if you look at some of his recommendations,he appears to be somewhat out of touch with realities on the ground. Well, he is allowed to,as he does not live in bongoland. It is our duty to tell him that such and such a thing has already been implemented. I am sure he will appreciate that and that he does not just want to criticize, but to learn as well.
Huyu anayejitolea ku-moderate a debate give a clear message "huyu mashaka najifanya anajua, ngoja tumweke kitimoto". These are some of the attitudes we need to get rid of.
Bw. Mashaka , you are doing a good job, dont let these prophets of doom take your valuable time.
Mimi sioni tatizo la kuwepo kwa debate, nadhani ni wazo zuri kabisa na linaweza kufumbua macho wengi, sisi hapa tunataka kujua John Mashaka na mwenzako US Blogger je vitu mnavyoandika ni mawazo yenu binafsi au mnakopi kutoka kwa watu na mnakuja hapa kujipa ujiko tu kwa kazi za watu wengine. Kwa hiyo debate inaweza kuweka sawa utata huu na tukajua nani mchango wake unaweza kuleta maendeleo kwa Taifa au la.
ReplyDeletewe anony unaye sema mesh hana lolote we ndo mbumbumbu mzungu wa reli ndo mana umeshindwa kutoa comm. unabaki kuandika pumba get lost nyambafu
ReplyDeleteHuyu Mashaka, mbona anajiandikia tu mistari kama kasuku? Andika mistari yenye substance. Usiandike kama wahubiri wa makanisani. You sound like a movement organizer who often end up gathering the ignorant mass, in the trust of all fancy words which carry nothing. Huna tofauti na maneno au hotuba nzuri ambazo hutolewa na ndugu yetu aliyeapishwa sasa. Everything you preach is too good to be good, man! We Mashaka, achana na wabongo bwana. Unajitetea kuonyesha kuwa waliochangia hawana haki ya kufikiri walivyofikiri. Kwanini wewe tu uwe sahihi na msimamo wa kuwajaji watu bwana. That's shit! I want you to shut up as from now, or i will kick your ass!
ReplyDeleteMdau
"Please note, that you cannot succeed in suppressing my conviction, neither can you kill the Idea because it is an idea whose time has come; an idea for the 40 million Tanzanians, and the future generations. It is an idea bigger than all of us. It is a God given Idea; it is an Idea in the light and not in the darkness, and being articulated from heart. It is an idea of the people that cannot be betrayed by self interest, and quest for glory"
ReplyDeleteAah! hii statement uliyoitoa inaonyesha wewe hujui unachokiandika!!
If it is an idea from God how could you dare to ask as to debate it? FUNNY? CRAZY? STUPID?
with this quoted statement from you MASHAKA it seem you have so many Mashakas in your life.
please dont associate Tanzanians with your own distress... find your own solutions and let us live with new hopes of changes in this historic beautiful year 2009
DRE...
ReplyDeleteI see dead people!!
Mi sioni kama kuna haja ya mashaka kuogopa debate, tena ingekuwa poa zaidi coz ingekuwa chachu ya vijana wengine kujifunza kuongelea masuala ya siasa na uchumi wa home.Huwezi jua, inawezekana ndo ingekuwa mwanzo wa GeeQue kuandaa mijadala ya moja kwa moja kujadili ishu kbao za maendeleo.Anyway, John hivo ndivyo ulivyoamua, lakini baadhi yetu tunaona kama umepoteza nafasi kubwa sana kuwaonyesha wadau kuwa hubahatishi manake wengi wanakuchukulia kama vile wewe ni mzee wa copy-paste idea unazosoma kwa watu.Mimi binafsi nishakusikia BBC swahili ukiongelea kuhusu uchumi na ningefurahi kama ungeikubali hii debate.
I'm out!
Great mans great response. Majibu yaliyotulia bila jadhba. Majibu ya kisomi tena toka kwinywani mwa mtaalamu. Sasa tuone anasemaje, kwa manenoo yoooote umemtoa mdomoni huyu mtu. Arudi kufanya blogging huko mwana haramu
ReplyDeleteOur genius, Our rising Obama, we believe in you. Like many of us have said many times, Mashaka you are always touching so many lives with your humility. You are humble young man.
ReplyDeleteI admire the lady who gave birth and raised you. I wish I was around to shake her hands.
Good job, you have gotten that rude and arrogant fool, we are celebrating.
Let him move on and look for fame elsewhere. Maybe in his blog he will be getting soething.
Right to the point, yaani nirudie kusoma hii atiko mara ngapi?. Mashaka, wewe ndo kiboko, huyu mtu mkorofi kapata kiboko yake, kapata dawa yake. Wanajifanya wajuaji magengeni, hapa nadhani kafika mwisho wa reli. Mashaka kula-5
ReplyDeleteYaani wa-TZ tumejaa dharau na kujisheua kusiko na msingi.....quo [Huna lolote Mashaka, ni bora ukanyamaza tu...]quo...Wewe una nini?
ReplyDeleteCha msingi, kama mtu ana issue anayoweza kuileta globuni, ailete wenye kuchangia mada watachangia, wa kusoma na kubeba elimu iliyomo watafanya hivyo, na siyo kuendekeza upuuzi ambao hauna maana aidha kwa taifa au hata kwa mtu mmoja mmoja....
Tubadilike jamani, hee...
OBAMA, OBAMA, OBAMA, OBAMA
ReplyDeleteOBAMA, OBAMA, OBAMA, OBAMA
OBAMA, OBAMA, OBAMA, OBAMA
Mashaka, Mashaka, Mashaka
Mashaka, Mashaka, Mashaka
Mashaka, Mashaka, Mashaka
Yes we Can, Yes we can
yes We can, Yes we Can
Yes we can, Yes we can
safi sana . Ukitaka kusikia watua ambao vichwa vyao utadhani waliwekewa akili za ziada ndo hapa, majibu ya kilaini lakini yanayongia kichwani.
ReplyDeleteYule mkenya aliyataka kayapata huyu mtu naye umemkomesha na akome sasa. Tumchangieni nauli arudi Bongo au aende IRAN
mashaka, nakuomba tu kitu kimoja, naomba unifundishe kidhungu ntalipia.
ReplyDeleteUkitaka kusikia watua ambao vichwa vyao utadhani waliwekewa akili za ziada ndo hapa, majibu ya kilaini lakini yanayongia kichwani.
Yule mkenya aliyataka kayapata huyu mtu naye umemkomesha na akome sasa. Tumchangieni nauli arudi Bongo au aende IRAN?
Mashaka, nakufiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, njooo baba, nataka mwanao,,, naona zinapanda.
ReplyDeleteWaambie wote ushachukuliwa, tena pete nitanunua mimi siyo ww tena baba yangu, waache walie tu hpa umefika, bb yangu.\\
JAMANI NATOKWA NA MACHOZI
Ohooo umekuwa mtango huu sasa!!! Hebu basi tena tuzungumze mengine, tuko kwenye blog hatuko kwenye vikao vya bunge au chama.
ReplyDeleteWadau are you the best in everything you do, or is just that you are 'lucky'. Then please continue to read the script below:
ReplyDeleteI was at a dinner in London given in honor of one of the most celebrated English military men of his time. I do not want to tell you his real name and titles. I will just call him Lieutenant General Lord Arthur Scoresby.
I can not describe my excitement when I saw this great and famous man. There he sat. The man himself, in person, all covered with medals. I could not take my eyes off him. He seemed to show the true mark of greatness. His fame had no effect on him.
The hundreds of eyes watching him, the worship of so many people did not seem to make any difference to him.
Next to me sat a clergyman, who was an old friend of mine. He was not always a clergyman. During the first half of his life, he was a teacher in the military school at Woolwich. There was a strange look in his eye as he leaned toward me and whispered, "Privately – he is a complete fool." He meant, of course, the hero of our dinner.
This came as a shock to me. I looked hard at my friend. I could not have been more surprised if he had said the same thing about Napoleon, or Socrates, or Solomon.
But I was sure of two things about the clergyman. He always spoke the truth. And his judgement of men was good. Therefore, I wanted to find out more about our hero as soon as I could.
Some days later I got a chance to talk with the clergyman and he told me more. These are his exact words:
"About forty years ago, I was an instructor in the military academy at Woolwich, when young Scoresby was given his first examination. I felt extremely sorry for him. Everybody answered the questions well, intelligently, while he – why, dear me – he did not know anything, so to speak. He was a nice, pleasant young man. It was painful to see him stand there and give answers that were miracles of stupidity.
"I knew of course that when examined again he would fail and be thrown out. So, I said to myself, it would be a simple, harmless act to help him, as much as I could.
"I took him aside and found he knew a little about Julius Caesar's history. But he did not know anything else. So I went to work and tested him and worked him like a slave. I made him work, over and over again, on a few questions about Caesar which I knew he would be asked.
"If you will believe me, he came through very well on the day of the examination. He got high praise, too, while others who knew a thousand times more than he were sharply criticized. By some strange, lucky accident, he was asked no questions but those I made him study. Such an accident does not happen more than once in a hundred years.
"Well, all through his studies, I stood by him, with the feeling a mother has for a disabled child. And he always saved himself, by some miracle.
"I thought that what is the end would destroy him would be the mathematics examination. I decided to make his end as painless as possible. So, I pushed facts into his stupid head for hours. Finally, I let him go to the examination to experience what I was sure would be his dismissal from school. Well, sir, try to imagine the result. I was shocked out of my mind. He took first prize! And he got the highest praise.
"I felt guilty day and night – what I was doing was not right. But I only wanted to make his dismissal a little less painful for him. I never dreamed it would lead to such strange, laughable results.
"I thought that sooner or later one thing was sure to happen: The first real test once he was through school would ruin him.
"Then, the Crimean War broke out. I felt that sad for him that there had to be a war. Peace would have given this donkey a chance to escape from ever being found out as being so stupid. Nervously, I waited for the worst to happen. It did. He was appointed an officer. A captain, of all things! Who could have dreamed that they would place such a responsibility on such weak shoulders as his.
"I said to myself that I was responsible to the country for this. I must go with him and protect the nation against him as far as I could. So, I joined up with him. And away we went to the field.
"And there – oh, dear, it was terrible. Mistakes, fearful mistakes – why, he never did anything that was right – nothing but mistakes. But, you see, nobody knew the secret of how stupid he really was. Everybody misunderstood his actions. They saw his stupid mistakes as works of great intelligence. They did, honestly! His smallest mistakes made a man in his right mind cry – and shout and scream, too – to himself, of course. And what kept me in a continual fear was the fact that every mistake he made increased his glory and fame.
"I kept saying to myself that when at last they find out about him, it will be like the sun falling out of the sky.
"He continued to climb up, over the dead bodies of his superiors. Then, in the hottest moment of one battle down went our colonel. My heart jumped into my mouth, for Scoresby was the next in line to take his place. Now, we are in for it, I said.
"The battle grew hotter. The English and their allies were steadily retreating all over the field. Our regiment occupied a position that was extremely important. One mistake now would bring total disaster. And what did Scoresby do this time? He just mistook his left hand for his right hand…that was all. An order came for him to fall back and support our right. Instead, he moved forward and went over the hill to the left.
We were over the hill before this insane movement could be discovered and stopped. And what did we find? A large and unsuspecting Russian army waiting! And what happened? Were we all killed? That is exactly what would have happened in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred. But no – those surprised Russians thought that no one regiment by itself would come around there at such a time.
"It must be the whole British army, they thought. They turned tail. Away they went over the hill and down into the field in wild disorder, and we after them. In no time, there was the greatest turn-around you ever saw. The allies turned defeat into a sweeping and shining victory.
"The allied commander looked on, his head spinning with wonder, surprise and joy. He sent right off for Scoresby, and put his arms around him and hugged him on the field in front of all the armies.
"Scoresby became famous that day as a great military leader, honored throughout the world. That honor will never disappear while history books last.
"He is just as nice and pleasant as ever, but he still does not know enough to come in, out of the rain. He is the stupidest man in the universe.
"Until now, nobody knew it but Scoresby and myself. He has been followed, day by day, year by year, by a strange luck. He has been a shining soldier in all our wars for years. He has filled his whole military life with mistakes. Every one of them brought him another honorary title.
"Look at his chest, flooded with British and foreign medals. Well, sir, every one of them is the record of some great stupidity or other. They are proof that the best thing that can happen to a man is to be born lucky. I say again, as I did at the dinner, Scoresby's a complete fool."
Author Mark Twain.
Nakubaliana huyu mjomba wa kwanza kuwa sisi hatuna Utamaduni wa hii midahalo na sio hiyo tu bali pia hata hii mila ya elimu rasmi pia ni kitu si cha muda mrefu kwetu na hivyo vyote vinavyokuja na haya maendeleo. Na hii ndio haswa tatizo letu sisi Waafrika kwa ujumla tunapofikiri kuwa tuna maendeleo au tumepiga hatua kidogo basi bwana weeee tunataka dunia ituone, sisi tusiojua hata kutengeneza sindano ndio watumiaja wakubwa wa vitu vya teknolojia kama magari ya fahari (shangingi, simu za mikono na vitu vingi vingi vilivyojuu sana ya uwezo wetu sisi ambao hata maji safi na umeme bado ni tatizo kuvipata. Haya sasa katika hiki kijiji chetu basi akitokea mtu anayefikiri yeye kakata kamba na sisi tukaamini hilo basi huyo ndio Chonya wetu kila asemalo tunaliona sawa na umaarufu anaupata fungu moja kwa senti tano. Sio nataka kumtoa mtu nishai lakini huyu Bwana Mashaka nimesoma mjadala wake naona ni haki kabisa kumhakiki, tunahitaji hii ili kwenda mbele sio mtu kwa kuwa anauwezo wa kuandika hii lugha ya Waingereza basi ndio kapita bila kupingwa, kwa kuwa anafanya fanya mambo fulani Ughaibuni na kupiga picha na wabunge wa nje basi tunamuona mjuzi isiwe hivyo, mtu akubali kutainiwa kama kweli anaufahamu basi tutamjua. Tusikubali kumpa ujiko mtu kwenye kijiji cha Chamwino na mara akifika Dar es Salaam tu hana la kusema nasema hii kama mfano. Iwe kama alivyokuwa Baba wa Taifa sioo tu anakubalika duniani pote lakini pia ni kweli alikuwa ni mtu wa kuyatafakari mambo kwa kina. Jambo lingine jamani uwezo wa kufaulu mitihani darasani sio kipimo cha kuwa na akili ya kupambanua na kukabiliana na maisha kwa upeo wake, hilo pia tuliangalie, sio kuwa unazula na Phd za Harvard basi kwetu hiyo inatosha tuache hizo maana ndio maana tunawapa watu madaraka kwa uwoga wa vyeti vyao hata kama kasoma KAFANYA NINI..? kipimo kiwe uwezo wa kutumia ile elimu kubadirisha au kuchangia kitu kwenye maisha ya binadamu kwa ujumla na sio kuandika makaratasi lundo kwa lugha za watu. Du kasheshe kweli. Mungu Ibariki Afrika. - Mpambalioto
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ReplyDeleteMashaka
It is pretty obvious to me that all you want is to capitalize on people who support you blindly.
Your beginning remarks of the original thread was that agriculture is the main contributor to GDP' u were dead wrong on that one.
Back in around the 2nd quarter of 2008 our Tourism Minister revealed very encouraging news that tourism is the leading contributor, ahead of agriculture. The Governor even stated that it is in fact almost 3 times as that of agriculture. You are telling Tanzanians that agriculture GDP contributor.
It is pretty obvious u do not exercise any due diligence in what you write and say. All your focus is based on searching for pretty words and demonstrate that you can use the dictionary.
I told you Tanzanians need solutions not English version of what the Government is doing now.
A $650 million dollar project will be completed this year. Instead of discussing what we need to do to capitalize on it and congratulate the Govt for such an accomplishment all you do is demand investment in infrastucture as if they are not doing that.
Thank you!!!
(US Blogger)
ww blogger you are a dead horse, you need to get lost. hasira zako na mashaka hazitakusaidia kulipa bills za ubba boxi. sasa siyo kukopi na kupaste, ni kusearch words kwenye kamusi, pole mwenzangu. una kazi kweli. masaka endelea na kazi yako, ummemmaliza HUYU senene. atafut kazi ya maana kuliko blogging pengine atapata mafanikio kuliko kutaka kujadiliana na wewe
ReplyDeletenimekuwa na wasi wasi na uwezo wa Mashaka kwenye uchumi. kweli kwa kizungu ni mzuri. Mashaka for the sake of 40 Mil. Tanzanians amboa umesema unawafanya kazi ya kalamu ili waondoke kwenye umasikini na kama kweli unayoyaongea yanatoka maoyoni mwako nenda mjadili. sisi tusiojua uchumi tutapenda kusikia na itatufaidisha na kutujenga.
ReplyDeletemijadala sio mibaya na ndo maana hata hao wenzetu hufanya midahalo ambayo ni manufaa ya taifa.
WANA JAMII FORUMS
ReplyDeleteMASHAKA HAS JUST MURDEDED OUR OWN PUNDIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OUR OWN PUNDIT !!!!!!!!!!!
Kwa jinsi ambavyo Mashaka alianza kujijengea heshima na Umaarufu, majibu yake ya leo si tu amejishusha kidogo bali pia inaonyesha ameumia.
ReplyDeleteHii inatia Mashaka kidogo juu ya busara zake ambazo wengi tulianza kumuamini.
Kwa mtu kama yeye kuanza kutukana tena kwa mtu ambaye pamoja na kumshambulia yeye binafsi, pia amejaribu kujibu baadhi ya hoja kwa kutoa takwimu.
Si lazima kuwa na mdahalo wa Radio au TV. hata hapa panatosha.
namwomba Bwana mashaka apunguze jazba na aache matatizo binafsi ya US BLOGGER ila ajibu hoja zake. hapo atarudisha heshima yake ambayo kwa kweli imetetereka kutokana na majibu yake haya.
sijapendezwa na lugha yako. kizungu poa lakini unaonyesha kama wewe ndo mwenye jazba. Mashaka sisi wasomaji wa hii blog tu nyutro. tunapenda kusoma mambo mazuri na si ubabe au matusi. hiyo imekupunguzia kredit.
ReplyDeletewewe unawapenda watanzania lakini hutaki kuwapa ulichonancho kwa mijadala. kwani huu ni uwanja wa siasa ambao wanasiasa huogopa maswali? nadhani sio kanisani vile vile ambapo hakuna kritics. kwani mtu akiku criticize kakutukana? acheni tabia za kizamani kwamba wewe ndo unayejua na hutakiwi kupingwa.
kama uliandika kwa lengo la kuifaidisha nchi sasa tueleze kwa kina kwani hapa huandiki yote kwa sababu ya limitation ya ukurasa.
Ushauri wa bure
ReplyDeleteMi nakushauri ndugu yangu mashaka, hizo ambitions zako za kisiasa na umaarufu wa bei nafuu utakuponza. Huhitaji kuongea sana au kuandika sana ili kuwa maarufu.
We fanya kazi kwa bidii upate ujira wako kabla hiyo benki haijauzwa au kufilisiwa
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ReplyDeleteMashaka
It is pretty obvious to me that all you want is to capitalize on people who support you blindly.
Your beginning remarks of the original thread was that agriculture is the main contributor to GDP' u were dead wrong on that one.
Back in around the 2nd quarter of 2008 our Tourism Minister revealed very encouraging news that tourism is the leading contributor, ahead of agriculture. The Governor even stated that it is in fact almost 3 times as that of agriculture. You are telling Tanzanians that agriculture GDP contributor.
It is pretty obvious u do not exercise any due diligence in what you write and say. All your focus is based on searching for pretty words and demonstrate that you can use the dictionary.
I told you Tanzanians need solutions not English version of what the Government is doing now.
A $650 million dollar project will be completed this year. Instead of discussing what we need to do to capitalize on it and congratulate the Govt for such an accomplishment all you do is demand investment in infrastucture as if they are not doing that.
Thank you!!!
(US Blogger)
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ReplyDeleteMashaka
It is pretty obvious to me that all you want is to capitalize on people who support you blindly.
Your beginning remarks of the original thread was that agriculture is the main contributor to GDP' u were dead wrong on that one.
Back in around the 2nd quarter of 2008 our Tourism Minister revealed very encouraging news that tourism is the leading contributor, ahead of agriculture. The Governor even stated that it is in fact almost 3 times as that of agriculture. You are telling Tanzanians that agriculture GDP contributor.
It is pretty obvious u do not exercise any due diligence in what you write and say. All your focus is based on searching for pretty words and demonstrate that you can use the dictionary.
I told you Tanzanians need solutions not English version of what the Government is doing now.
A $650 million dollar project will be completed this year. Instead of discussing what we need to do to capitalize on it and congratulate the Govt for such an accomplishment all you do is demand investment in infrastucture as if they are not doing that.
Thank you!!!
(US Blogger)
(US Blogger)
ReplyDeleteMashaka stop kidding us. You brought up this debate and I am ready to debate with you.
Why do you question the benefits of the live debate? Why should the benefits change by just changing the medium from live to copy and paste?
You have called yourself a man of humility yet you take cheap shots telling us about your mastery of the English language!! I am ready to satisfy your ego by doing the debate in any language as stated earlier. Kama unajiamini kwa nini unaogopa? kama wanaokushabikia wanakuamini kwa nini hawataki uwaoneshe umahiri wako wa fikra?
Be serious.
(US Blogger)
US BLOGGER, NINGEKUWA WW NISINGEPOTEZA MUDA WANGU TENA.
ReplyDeleteSIMPLY GET LOST. UMETUTESA SANA JAMII FORUM, LAKINI KIHAMA KIMEKUPATA
HONGERA MASHAKA, HUYU MNYAMA AMENIDHALILISHA SANA, LEO YAMEMPATA
PEACE OUT
US BLOGGER, NINGEKUWA WW NISINGEPOTEZA MUDA WANGU TENA.
ReplyDeleteSIMPLY GET LOST. UMETUTESA SANA JAMII FORUM, LAKINI KIHAMA KIMEKUPATA
HONGERA MASHAKA, HUYU MNYAMA AMENIDHALILISHA SANA, LEO YAMEMPATA
PEACE OUT
Mashaka umetaka kujiingiza kwenye siasa kwa mwavuli wa Msamaria sasa yamekukuta.
ReplyDeleteNi bora ungejitangaza tu kwamba wewe ni mwanasiasa.
Credibility yako kwenda na maji. Kama kweli una mchango wa fikra kwa nini usidahalo?
Gentlement!
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading the article and the arguments thereafter. But I want to be honest, Mashaka, I like your English. It may not be the only thing you are good at, but the article you wrote had no substance in my view. I am not Tanzanian, but I do know much about the country's political and economic factors more than your self it seems.I do believe in the idea of diversification and poverty reduction, but you should think of another article with valuable ideas as to how this can be done. But I can say you are a brave man.
US Blogger. You must be an economist working in the central government or something, for that reason you have defended well your points knowing what you are talking about, eventhough you went further to make it personal. I like the fact that you opened up many people's eyes to see and realise that Mashaka's article was a bit of a hot air.
the Best thing is to unite and build the country by sharing valuable ideas than throwing stones to each other. For Mashaka to bring up the argument(though he did not contribute anything to it) is good on it's own because some people learned few thing they did not know before (mentionedd by US blogger).
I like the quote " Mungu ibariki Tanzania"
sina mbavu kuna annons hawajatulia ata kidogo umu,,,
ReplyDeletemashaka jamani naoma picha yako japo nikufahamu wafananaje,michu tutumie pic mzee,,,
yan i wasnt interested with this debate but kutokana na hii nakala uvoandika (sijajua sana km ni copy/paste)but naamini ni yako UMENIGUSA SANAAAAA KINOMA YANI WAONEKANA ZINGA LA MSTAARABU,MSOMI ALIYEELIMIKA,DISCIPLINED MAN etc
achana na hiyo debate na uyo anonimous US blogger whether radio/TV/blog,,,not worthy it!!!
na uyu mchumi sijui texas,,,kimeo kweli
kuna mtu alisema kwamba mashaka is a "ROSE" in the wildness. hii ni kweli, waungwana someni hii makala ambayo yamezagaa kwenye mtandao
ReplyDeletehttp://www.thecitizen.co.tz/newe.php?id=9763
Jamaa anakipaji ya kipekeee
NIMESHINDWA NIIBANDIKE WAPI HII
ReplyDeletehivi michu huna newz ya UDSM RE-ADMISSION UBANDIKE APA WADAU WACHANGIE???
MAANA KUNA VIMBWANGA UKO WEE ACHA YANI MADENTI MAELFU WAMEFUTWA SHULE,JAMANI WANA HILA GANI NA WANA WA MASKINI??WATOTO WAO WAKU MIGUU JUU KUKU KWA SANA NA SCHOLARSHIPS ZA KUMWAGA UROPA,UKU ETI WATOTO WA MASKINI HAWANA NIDHAMU
JAMANI HII DHAMBI???
wametolewa kafara wengine
INANIUMA SAAAAAAAAAAAAAANA
Hi Michuzi,
ReplyDeleteJamani myself I am tired of Masha,kila siku Mashaka Mashaka what about Ma-doubt...???!!!Please stop this Michuzi,Talk something of constrictive....!!.
...with great humility? then you end up insulting somebody,Mashaka acha kuchafua line za watu safi kama obama,for the record hiyo ni line aliyotumia Obama kule Denver Colorado wakati akikubali nomination yake,US blogger didnt insult anybody,he just want more debate,lakini wewe you want to complicate what is simple a kuanza kulia lia umekuwa insulted..ooohh mara sikujui jina or why dont you post your own solution,if you dont like the debate/challenge just say No and you dont have to complain or explain anything,we'll understand and its that simple,mtu smart with humility hawezi post what you just posted,let people tell what they know,they might have a point,somebody just posted Tourism is ahead of Agriculture interms of foreign earnings..sure you didnt know that,hizi shut out or petty arrogance hazisaidii anybody,kama huwezi debate just say NO lakini sio unnecessary complaints na kuzima debate just because you started it!
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ReplyDeleteHA HA HA US BLOGGER NGOJA NIKUKUMBUSHE MSEMO HUU LABDA UMEUSAHAU "WISE MEN TALK BECAUSE THEY HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY;FOOLS,BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO SAY SOMETHING".sasa usiendelee kuwa fool jamaa anaongea sio kwa nia mbaya kama unavyofimkiria wewe.
ReplyDeleteMCHUMI WA TEXAS mkubwa wewe rudi kapige madili yako ya cheki za wizi hapa sio kwako mkubwa utaibika bure.siunaona mwenyewe umeishia kuwa cheerleader.
haiwezekani lazima kwanza tujue huyo us blgger ni nani? kabla ya hiyo debate,maana isiwe tunapigishana makelele hapa ya debate kumbe us blogger ni JINI, lazima ajitokeze tumfahamu maana mashaka tunamfahamu tayari.mimi nahisi huyu us blogger ndiyo anayeogopa au anaudhaifu fulani ambao anajua akijitokeza watu wote wanaomtetea hapa watachoka wenyewe. wewe us blogger kama ni mtu wa kiukweli jitokeze basi tukujue maana hiyo debate ikiwepo si tutakujua tuu!!! na nyie wenye hizo radio.. wajameni ahaa! hivi ni kweli au mnatania nyie mtakubali vipi debate ambayo mmoja wa anaye debate ni JINI? a.k.a us blogger au mnamjua nyie huyo us blogger? tuambieni basi tujue kuliko kuendelea kusoma maneno ya huyo us blogger ambaye labda hata haishi duniani, WEWE US BLOGGER KAMA UPO JITOKEZE KWANZA TUKUJUE MAANA ISIJE IKAWA TUNAONGEA NA MNANIHII MMOJA TUU HAPA, NA UACHE KUJIANDIKIA COMMENT ZA KUJITETEA UJINGA, TOKA TUKUONE AU KAA KIMYA, USITUPOTEZEE MUDA HAPA, MASHAKA MIMI NAKUFAGILIA ACHANA NA HAO WANAOITWA SENENE, KILA LA HERI MASHAKA MAANA POINT ULIZOMPA HUYU HARUDI TENA KWENYE MAIN PAGE ATAISHIA KUJITETEA UJINGA HUMUHUMU KWENYE COMMENT NA WANAOFANANA NAYE.
ReplyDeleteHuyu Mashaka naona ni Mchemkaji anayetafuta umaarufu kwa nguvu kupitia migongo ya watanzania dhaifu, mbumbumbu na wasio na upeo wowote. Hatutaki watu wanao-copy and paste hapa, tunataka watu wenye mawazo gunduzi na upeo wa hali ya juu. Fanyeni hii Debate tuwasikie kwa lugha yetu ya kiswahili inayoeleweka na wengi na sio kutuandikia kwa vingereza vyenu huku mkijua asilimia kubwa ya watanzania hawatowaelewa.
ReplyDeleteHIVI JAMANI KUJUA KINGEREZA NDIO ISHARA YA USOMI TANZANIA??
Offering solutions of a way Tanzania can diversify from subsistance agriculture and also finding a way of 10percent of Tanzanians producing enough to eat and export instead of 80percent of us not even being able to feed ourselves is welcome.But being unclesam's mouthpiece in attacking Iran and Venezuela who;s leadership even the state department agrees reflects the will of its people does not help.Talking of missuse of public funds it is common knowledge that the Bush administration will go down in history as the most wasteful not mentioning what happened to poor people money under his watch(so called credit crunch which was banks being robbed by management).
ReplyDeleteMASHAKA PUNGUZA JAZBA NA INAONEKANA UNA AMBITION NYINGI SANA NA UNAJITAHIDI KUTUMIA MAJUKWAA KAMA HAYA KUJITANGAZA NA KUTAFUTA CHEAP POPULARITY. SASA UNAOGOPA NINI KUFANYA HUO MDAHALO? TUNATAKA TUJUE KATI YAKO NA US BLOGA, NANI MWENYE MAWAZO YA KUJENGA NCHI NA NANI ANA MAWAZO PUMBA.
ReplyDeleteTUNATAKA TUWASIKIE KWENYE HUO MDAHALO TUMESHACHOKA NA COPY AND PASTE.
To both Mashaka and the Blogger
ReplyDeleteNadhani hii ni nafasi nzuri kwa tulio USA kushiriki katika siasa na kuiendeleza nchi yetu ya Tanzania. Nia hasa sio confrontations na kuona NANI ZAIDI bali ni kujaribu kuyaweka pamoja mawazo yetu tofauti na kuona ni namna gani ya kuweza kutusaidia. Pia kama kuna talent katika leadership kama ni Mashaka, the Blogger au wengine ni vizuri kupeana moyo na kusaidiana to achieve our dreams.
John Mashaka might not be right kwenye facts and details lakini kikubwa ni Ideology, ameweza kuja mbele na ku-initiate an Idea. We need a platform ambapo watanzania tunaweza kukutana na discuss mambo ya nyumbani na kuweza kuona tunaweza vipi kutoa mchango wetu katika kuleta maendeleo. Kuna mengi tunaweza kujifunza from Obama-Hillary, na John kama ulivyoandika is not about you, and so far you have being doing very well, kama ni foundation na kusaidia nyumbani, just be open to work with different people with different ideas to reach a common goal.
Kwa upande wa the Blogger inabidi uje kwenye huu uwanja ukiwa neutral and positive. Kwanza tuwe na ideas zetu wenyewe, halafu tuone tunaweza kuchanganya vipi na ideas za wengine kupata success. Itakuwa vizuri japo na wewe ukajitokeza na kuwa real katika kujaribu kuleta positive changes nyumbani.
Nadhani tunachokihitaji ni platform ambapo John Mashaka, the Blogger na watanzania wote in US tunaweza kukutana na kujadili mambo mbali mbali kwa maendeleo ya Taifa letu. Mimi mawazo yangu napingana na nyie wote, nadhani tunahitaji good governance maanake hata kama tuwe na agriculture and tourism, what is the point kama kuna mafisadi wanaiba mabilioni? Tanesco hailipiki na hospitali hakuendeki, East African Community not federation, etc. Najua serekali ya JK inajitahidi kufanya vizuri, point hapa ni umuhimu wa tu kukutana, na kwa vitendo kuona ni namna gani we can bring change.
(US Blogger)
ReplyDeleteWewe usiyejua sekta gani inaongoza Tanzania utaweza kuni dismember mimi?
Unadanganya watu wewe una humility halafu unatishia nyau kwa kuni dismember.
Mimi nikuonee wivu wewe unayefundisha watu kwamba uchumi wa Dubai solely depends on maritime and tourism. Tena eti mashabiki wako wanasema ukafundishe UDSM, mashabiki wako wanadharau sana vyuo vyetu, yaani wameona wewe una kiwango cha kufundisha elimu ya chuo kikuu!!
Mtu mzima hatishiwi nyau, njoo kwenye live debate. You have until tomorrow kuamua.
Nimesema watu wote ruksa kushiriki na kuuliza maswali, kwa nini usiwachukue wanafunzi wako wa Dubai ni nchi wakusaidie?
Nataka debate ili wa-Tanzania wapime hoja zetu za ufumbuzi, sitaki mikwara mbuzi.
Wewe ulivyoleta debate hukujua uta debate na watu usiowajua, kwa nini sasa unatumia mysterousness yangu as an excuse kukimbia debate. Mbona watu wana debate anonymously. Ulidhani mpaka lini ungedanganya watu? Narudia, chukua wafuasi wako wooote mu debate na mimi kwa lugha munayoitaka.
(US Blogger)
Mashaka Bogus tu
ReplyDeleteangekuwa ana hoja angekuwa ameshammaliza huyu US Blogger.
US Blogger, ninaamini una uwezo sana na utamshinda Mashaka. sasa ficha silaha zako akija kwenye debate utumie zana zako.
ninaamini una 'zana nyeti' za Kiserikali.
Mashaka, unfortunately you are all what you think "Mr. Bloggler" is, and in the other hand, "Mr. Blogger" is all what he thinks you are!
ReplyDeleteHow and why should you welcome an open debate to which you do not know the beneficiaries, as you have stated? Why should you wrote it and allow it to be posted here!
Accept challenge Mashaka, stop getting anger so easily. Use your wisdom rather
Mashaka, unfortunately you are all what you think "Mr. Bloggler" is, and in the other hand, "Mr. Blogger" is all what he thinks you are!
ReplyDeleteHow and why should you welcome an open debate to which you do not know the beneficiaries, as you have stated? Why should you wrote it and allow it to be posted here!
Accept challenge Mashaka, stop getting anger so easily. Use your wisdom rather
RESPONSE TO JOHN MASHAKA.......!
ReplyDeleteSASA WEWE MASHAKA NAONA UMESOMA SANA NA UNAUPEO MKUBWA NA AKILI NYINGI TU KAMA MIMI.LAKINI NASHINDWA KUELEWA KAMA UNAUPEO MKUBWA NA AKILI NYINGI KWA NINI BASI USIRUDI NYUMBANI KUGOMBEA KITI CHA URAIS MAANA NIMESOMA ARTICLE ZAKO NAONA UNAMACHUNGU MENGI NA NCHI YAKO SASA NJOO NYUMBANI UPAMBANE NA KINA MTIKILA MARECELA NA MREMA ZITTO LIPUMBA NA WENGINE WENGI KULIKO KUPAYUKA HUMU KWENYE BLOG YA MICHUZI MARUMBANO YASIYO KUWA NA MWISHO. KWANZA KWA NINI UNAPOTEZA MUDA WAKO MWINGI KURUMBANA NA MTU ASIYE JULIKANA? UKIBISHANA NA KICHAA NA WEWE UTAITWA JUHA? SASA HUYU BLOGGER HATAKI KUJITAJA JINA BADO NA WEWE UNAENDELEA KURUMBANA NAYE TU! MICHUZI EBU NISAIDIE HUYU BWANA ANABISHANA NA MTU ASIYE JULIKANA WEWE UMEYAONEA WAPI? MASHAKA MIMI NI PETER NALITOLELA VERY EDUCATED DUDE FROM MUZUMBE UNIVERSITY I ASK YOU TO COME HOME AND RUN FOR OFFICE JUST LIKE MY COMRADE OBAMA DID, I HOPE YOU WILL WIN AND HELP OUR POOR NATION, BUT YOU WILL ALWAYS LOOK DUMB IF YOU CONTINUE TO DEBATE WITH UNKNOWN DEBATERS. I THANK YOU FOR YOUR ARTICLE AND I WILL SIT DOWN AND SEE IF WE CAN DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT SINCE WE ARE HERE AT HOME AND YOU ARE THERE ABROAD. COME BACK HOME TO HELP YOUR COUNTRY IF YOU REAL LOVE THIS TANZANIA BUT OTHERWISE STAY THERE AND DISCUSS AMERICANS ISSUES UNTIL YOU LEARN THAT HOME SWEET HOME. I DECIDED TO TELL YOU MY NAME SO THAT YOU KNOW THAT I LIVE HERE IN TANZANIA AND CRY HERE IN TANZANIA.COME HERE YOU WILL FIND MICHUZI AND I SITTING STRUGGLING TO OUR POOR MOTHERLAND NOT STANDING THERE IN COLD WEATHER WATCHING OBAMA WALKS. COME HERE TO WATCH KIKWETE WALKS THEN YOU CAN TALK ABOUT US. THANK YOU MICHUZI FOR YOUR TIME AND PLEASE PASS MY RESPONSE TO HONORABLE JOHN MASHAKA!
US BLOGGER YOU ARE DEADLY LIER, IA HAVE GONE EVERY WHERE TO LOOK FOR YOUR UONGO KWAMBA TOURISM INAONGOZA KATIKA UCHUMI NA INACHANGIA KIASI KIKUBWA KATIKA GDP NI UONGO MKUBWA SANA UNACHAKUSEMA UNATAKA KUBISHA ILI KUBISHA UONEKANE UNAJUWA EBU ANGALIA HII PAPER YA SERIKALI YA 2005, HADI LEO NI MIAKA 3, SIDHANI KAMA NCHI HIZI ZA KIMASIKIN ZINAWEZA WITHIN 3 YEARS KUCHANGE KIASI HICHO, WEWE NI MUONGO SANA SHAME ON YOU, CHECK HII HAPA CHINI.
ReplyDeleteUNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA
MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SECURITY
AGRICULTURE AS THE BACKBONE OF THE ECONOMY OF TANZANIA
A Paper Presented at The Convocation General Meeting of The Open University of Tanzania by The Minister of Agriculture and Food Security,
Hon. Charles N. Keenja, (MP.)
Dar es Salaam
14th October, 2004
1. The Agricultural sector encompasses activities which fall under four ministries: Water and Livestock Development, Natural Resources and Tourism, Agriculture and food Security and Cooperatives and Marketing. In this paper, unless otherwise specified, the word agriculture will be used to mean the agricultural sector as defined above.
The Place of Agriculture in the Tanzanian Economy
2. Agriculture is the lead sector in the Tanzanian economy and it is going to continue to occupy that position for several decades to come. The sector contributes approximately 50% to G.D.P., food crops contributing about 35% of the agricultural GDP followed by livestock production which accounts for 30% of the agricultural GDP. The table below shows the average contributions of crops, livestock, fisheries and forestry to GDP over the ten years ending in 2002.
The Contributions of various agricultural Sub-sectors to GDP
Agriculture
- Crops
- Livestock
- Forestry
- Fisheries 45.8
35.1
4.8
3.2
2.5
3. Agriculture contributes over 60% of export earnings. It is estimated that about 95 to 97% of the food consumed in the country is produced locally with imports consisting mainly of food items which we do not produce in adequate quantities such as wheat in which we are only 40% self-sufficient, sugar in which we are 75% self sufficient etc. With carefully focused planning and investment, we could be self sufficient in all items of food and food exports could contribute a greater share of export earnings.
4. Over 70% of the population lives in the rural areas where agriculture and related non-farm activities are their main occupation. Most urban dwellers engage in some kind of agriculture and even those who are not active farmers identify themselves with agriculture. Agriculture provides workers and urban dwellers with additional income and food items to supplement their incomes from employment and other sources.
5. Finally, agriculture produces raw materials for the agro-processing industries which are the main types of industries at our current level of development such factories include food processing facilities (grain mills, plants which make fruit juices and jams etc.), sugar factories, cashewnut factories, coffee hulling plants and coffee roasting and processing factories, textile mills, paper mills, furniture workshops, breweries, tobacco factories etc. In addition to processing agricultural products to add value to them and to make them more readily usable, these factories provide employment to a substantial number of people.
6. Due to its great contribution to the economy, agriculture is often described as the back-bone of the economy and the sector is often referred to as the lead sector. This is the situation as it is. The peasants deserve praise for the great contribution which they are making to the very survival of the Nation. We often hear people ridiculing the agricultural sector, particularly the reference to it as the “back-bone” of the economy. Those people feel that the sector has remained backward, its growth has remained sluggish over the years and those engaged in it have tended to remain poor. These observations do not change the basic facts –that agriculture makes the greatest contribution to GDP, export earnings, food security, employment and supply of raw material to our industries and its is because of these facts that agriculture continues to be the back-bone of our economy, the other factors not withstanding.
7. Our agriculture depends on smallholder farmers who cultivate between 0.2 and 2.0 ha. per year, mainly for subsistence with little surpluses which can be sold to raise money for buying other requirements for the family. Most families do not produce surpluses of food and are forced to sell part of their produce to raise money with which to buy such goods and services as they cannot produce themselves. It is estimated that 40% of the population does not get enough to eat, either because they do not produce enough food or they cannot afford to buy enough food. In most cases, little attention is paid to the nutritional content of the food our people eat, a situation made worse by traditional food preferences and taboos which do not have any scientific basis.
The Role of Agriculture in the National Economy
8. I have already mentioned the fact that over 70% of Tanzanians live in the rural areas where they engage in agriculture and related non-farm activities. Studies show that poverty in more entrenched in the rural areas than it is in the urban areas. –The figures are staggering. It is estimated that the incomes of rural dwellers are only one third of those of their countrymen who live in the towns and cities. Put differently, people who live in the rural areas are three times poorer than those who live in urban areas. Poverty in this country is mainly a rural phenomenon.
9. Studies also show that approximately 36% of Tanzanians live below the basic needs poverty line. A joint study between the then Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperative Development and the World Bank published in 2000, indicated that there were positive signs of rising rural incomes a fact borne by the Household Incomes Survey of 2002 which showed a modest decrease in poverty defined in broad terms.
10. Due to the fact that most of the poor live in the rural areas where agriculture is the main or in some cases, the sale economic activity, it is obvious that agriculture must be the vehicle through which rural poverty and indeed poverty as a whole, can be addressed. But the Sector will need considerable reforms if poverty alleviation is to be speeded up in line with the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) which aim at halting poverty by 2015 or the Vision 2025 which aims at reaching the same goal by 2025.
11. The Second role which our agriculture must play is that of increasing its contribution to the economic growth effort of the country. As we will see later, the country abounds with natural resources which can be used to greatly enhance agricultural production and thus earnings from the sector. Agricultural growth will provide resources which can be invested in the others sectors of the economy so as to enable them to grow and to increase their contributions to the national economy to a point at which their contributions will surpass that of agriculture. Agriculture must play the role of being the engine of economic growth and it will continue playing this role for the foreseeable future and even when the proportion of its contribution to the economy decreases, its role of providing food to the nation, providing raw materials for agro-based industries and contributing to export earnings will remain important.
The Performance of the Sector
12. Over the last decade, the agricultural sector has grown at an annual average rate of 3.7%, compared with annual population growth of 2.9%. In recent years the sector has shown signs of increased rates of growth partly due to favorable weather conditions and partly due to interventions by the government aimed at stimulating growth. In 2000 the sector grew by 4.0%, 5.5% in 2001 and 5.0% in 2002. The table below shows performance trends for the agricultural sector for the period 1993 – 2000.
Table 2: Performance trends for the agricultural sector from 1993 to 2002
Sector/Sub-sector Average Growth Rate per Annum (%)
Agriculture
Crops
Livestock
Forestry
Fisheries 3.7
3.8
2.8
2.8
4.4
Source: Tanzania Economic Survey 2002
A study by the Ministry of Agriculture and the World Bank concluded that if agriculture is to have the desired effect in poverty reduction and economic growth, it must grow at a greater rate than it is doing at present and a growth rate of over 10% per years has been suggested.
13. The United Republic of Tanzania has a land area of 944,800 km², larger than Kenya and Uganda combined. The country is endowed with a wide range of resources offering considerable socio-economic potentials including 44 million hectares of arable land, (equivalent to 42% of total land area), a coastal and marine zone, wildlife reserves and parks, forests, rivers and lakes. However, only 10.8 million ha, or 24.5 percent of the arable land is under cultivation. This includes around 2.2 to 3.0 million ha. of annual crops, fallow of up to 5 years duration, permanent crops and pasture. It is estimated that out of 50 million ha. Suitable for livestock production only 26 million ha., is currently being used for grazing. The rest is restricted due to tsetse fly infestation and various forms of protection. Tanzania is estimated to have 17.7 million cattle, 12.5 million goats, and 3.5 million sheep and 47 million poultry. Forests and woodlands occupy about 38.8 million hectares of which two thirds consist of woodlands. About 13 million hectares of the total forest area have been gazetted as forest reserves. Despite tse-tse infestation and substantial areas under various forms of protection, there is still a lot of land available for cultivation. What we need to do is to define the land available on a district by district basis so that investments in agriculture can be directed accordingly.
14. The country is divided into twenty agro-ecological zones (Samki et al 1981) based on soil types, annual rainfall and rainfall patterns and length of the growing season. The Ministry has divided the country into seven agro-ecological zones and various services are located in stations in those zones. Crops to be recommended for cultivation in various parts of the country are based on those zones. The pastoralists and agropastoralists were restricted mainly to the semi-arid parts of the country but they have been migrating to the wetter southern parts of the country where there are better pastures. This southward migration of pastoralists usually with a lot of cattle, goats and sheep has brought them into conflicts with settled smallholder farmers.
15. There are rainfall variations in various parts of the country with some parts having two seasons while other have a unimodal system. If recommended cropping patterns were observed by the farmers, every part of the country would be able to produce enough food and commercial crops. Unfortunately, most farmers prefer to grow maize, the national staple, even in arid areas which get short and often erratic rainfall.
Water for Irrigation
16. The country is endowed with considerable fresh water resources which can be used for irrigation : perennial rivers, the great lakes, underground water and water harvesting are all sources of water for irrigation. Out of 10.8 million hectares under cultivation only 254,610 hectares are currently under irrigation. Potential land for irrigation is 29.4 million hectares out of which 2.3 million ha. are of high potential, 4.8 million ha. medium and the 22.3 million ha. are low potential. It has been demonstrated that yield response to irrigation is 2 to 3 times compared to yield from rainfed agriculture. Irrigation development in Tanzania is constrained by the high costs involved in constructing irrigation schemes. The Government of the United Republic of Tanzania has greatly enhanced budget allocations for irrigated agriculture in recent years and the area under irrigation has been increasing by about 30,000 ha. per year. Emphasis has been placed on rehabilitation of schemes built in the past, construction of low cost schemes which serve the highest number of people and the creation of green zones around the main water bodies, especially around Lake Victoria. An Irrigation Master Plan to replace the National Irrigation Development Plan of 1991 preparation and when ready, it will be the basis on which irrigation programmes will be prepared and funded .
17. Water harvesting schemes are given high priority in West Iringa, Dodoma, Singida, Shinyanga and Manyara regions. Where such projects have been implemented, they have greatly transformed the lives of the people involved. Little work has been done in exploiting ground water reserves due to lack of equipment and funds.
Lack of Farmers’ Organisations
18. The Cooperative movement which was first introduced in the country in 1932 was abolished in 1976 at a time when some cooperative societies were strong the supportive of their members. The dissolution of the Cooperative movement left the farmers without organisations to which they could turn for credit, agricultural inputs, extension services and marketing. This state of affairs has had seriously adverse effects in the development of agriculture in the country. It is to correct those effects that the 3rd Phase Government decided to establish a fully fledged ministry to revive the Cooperative movement and to put in place marketing arrangements for products produced by the agricultural sector.
19. A viable cooperative movement would solve many of the problems which the farmer faces. Before their dissolution. Cooperative societies used to provide the farmer with his production needs on credit, a system which recognised the fact that the smallholder was so small that he was not credit worthy but when many farmers joined forces in their Cooperative societies, the societies became viable and were able to borrow from the financial institutions on their behalf. Similarly, the farmers produces very little surplus for the market and he needs an organisation which can bulk up produce from many farmers and do their marketing for them. Savings and Credit Societies provided systems of saving and they gave the farmer credit when he needed it. Finally, these organisation provided the farmer with managerial support which enabled him to increase his production, observe quality requirements, process his produce for value addition to find markets for him. It will take time to return to where we were in 1976 but the government is doing all in its power to shorten the time required to get there.
Inadequacy of Funding
20. Public expenditure on agriculture, both development and recurrent and including donor assistance declined in the 1990s reaching a level of 2.1% of government expenditure in 1997/98 for the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperative Development. Donor assistance also decreased during this period. As already alluded to, most small farmers in this country do not have access to agricultural credit and they are forced to use whatever sailings they may have to procure their needs. Subsidies for agricultural inputs were removed gradually over a five year period, starting with 30% reduction in 1990/91 and ending with full elimination of all subsidies by 1994/95 –the prices of fertilisers increased by 3-4 times between 1991/92 and 1996/97 and regional prices differences also emerged putting agricultural inputs out of the reach of most farmers while at the same time rendering their use economically infeasible.
The Hand Hoe
21. The studies carried out by the World Bank and the Ministry have identified the hand hoe as the greatest impediment to agricultural growth. Due to the relative abundance of land in Tanzania farm mechanisation holds a great potential for Tanzania and given the fact that chemical fertilisers and improved seeds are priced out of the economic feasibility of most farmers, area expansion where possible and advisable becomes relevant in achieving the goal of increased production.
22. It is estimated that 70% of all land is cultivated with the hand hoe mainly by women and the elderly. 20% of the land is cultivated using animal power and only 10% by tractors. It is estimated that a farmer can cultivate between 1 and 2 ha. using the hand hoe, 4 – 5 ha. using oxen and more than 20 ha. with tractors. What is needed is the combination of prudent use of agricultural inputs and oxenisation or tractorisation to maximise production.
Low Productivity of land, labour and inputs
23. One of the greatest weaknesses of our agriculture is low productivity which is mainly caused by other deficiencies in the agricultural sector such as lack finance for procuring production – enhancing inputs, limited access to support services such as extension, research findings, information and plant and animal protection services, leading the farmers to produce for subsistence. This situation is found in all crops : most cotton farmers produce between 250 and 300 kg. Per acre while by observing basic agricultural practices they could easily produce over 1,400 kgs from the same area. The same could be said for tea. Smallholders own as much land as large scale or estate farmers but they only account for a mere 10% of tea production. Due to low production most rural families remain relatively poor and life in the rural areas becomes unattractive and those who can, run off to the towns in search of greener pastures which they rare by find.
Inadequate agricultural research and extension services
24. There are many technological innovations that are yet to reach the majority of smallholder farmers, such as improved seeds, post harvest technologies and animal breeds. In many cases they are not adopted because they are unknown to smallholder farmers or there are inadequate effective delivery systems in place. Despite many successes, research and development in the agricultural sector is still facing many constraints including declining resources, programmes that are fragmented in different institutions and disciplines rather than integrated into production systems. The extension service is blamed for being ineffective and Mwalimu once said that he could have disbanded the service without anybody noticing the difference. In all fairness, the extension service has problems which constrain its performance which are currently being addressed so as to improve its performance. Those problems include low morale caused by lack of advancement in the service, lack of resources, inappropriate training and supervision and the difficulties inherent in dealing with small farmers scattered over a large area. The Government has embarked on a mass promotion exercise, it has designed retraining curricular and teaching programmes and farmers are being organized into farmer groups under various programmes.
Poor rural infrastructure
25. Investments in rural infrastructure particularly rural roads, water supply, transportation, processing facilities, communications, electrification, crops, livestock and fish markets and irrigation infrastructure are critical to stimulating increased agricultural production. However, rural infrastructure in the country is still inadequate and its coverage is generally limited. Poor rural roads, limit farmers' access to markets, increase time and cost of transport and often result in deterioration of produce quality. The absence or inadequacy of communication facilities constrains access to and dissemination of knowledge and market information. Agricultural performance is adversely affected by weak agro-industries, poor linkages within the marketing, processing and production chains, poor market-orientation and inadequate processing facilities leading to high levels of produce wastage.
Crop and animal pests and diseases
26. Crops and livestock production is affected by pest and disease infestations often at epidemic proportion. Major crop pests include locusts, Quelea quelea, armyworms, rodents, and various fungi, bacterial and viral diseases. Livestock production is challenged by outbreaks of foot and mouth diseases, rift valley fever, contagious bovine pleuropneumonia, east coast fever, lumpy skin disease, trypanosomiasis and poultry diseases. Infestations by the tsetse fly, a vector of trypanosomiasis, have rendered 60 percent of the total rangeland unsuitable for livestock production. The management and control of pests and diseases increase the costs of production and hence reduce producers’ incomes. It is estimated that between 40 and 50% of harvested crops are lost to pests and if this problem was corrected, food security would be greatly enhanced.
Erosion of the natural resource base and environmental degradation
27. Unsustainable utilization of production resources may result into many environmental problems including land degradation, desertification, deterioration of aquatic systems, widespread pollution from improper handling and inappropriate use of agrochemicals, livestock drugs and fertilisers. Further, the environment is degraded through overgrazing, poor cultivation practices, bush fires, overexploitation of forests and invasion by exotic organisms. This may result into rapid reduction of biological and land productivity. Environmentally destructive fishing such as the use of explosives, excessive trawling, chemical poisoning and small mesh size nets often lead to irreversible destruction of marine biodiversity and habitats.
Depressed prices for primary commodities in global markets
28. Depressed prices for primary commodities in global markets and constraints to access traditional markets constitute a continuing challenge to the agricultural sector. The share of traditional exports in global markets has been shrinking, largely due to increased competition from other suppliers, subsidized exports and non-tariff barriers on traditional exports. For example, Good Agricultural Practice (GAP) demands high quality and standards and labour conditions. The current situation requires us to take measures to produce what can be marketed in terms of quality and other specifications and also by departing from the so called traditional crops and growing new types of crops which can be more easily marketed. For example, the production of cut flowers and horticultural crops in Arusha brings in about USD.11m/= per year competing with earnings from long established traditional crops with earnings from long established traditional crops.
Health sanitation HIV and AIDS and waterborne diseases
29. The prevalence of malaria, tuberculosis, HIV and AIDS is high and is spreading affecting economic activities in the agricultural sector. Studies indicate that about 1.5 million people are living with HIV and AIDS, 70 percent of whom are within the most productive age groups (between 15 and 59 years). Only one percent of the total rural households have access to safe tap water and 65.5 percent get their drinking water from unprotected water sources. The cumulative health problems increase household vulnerability to food (especially immunity building food) and livelihood insecurity and deepen their poverty levels.
THE WAY FORWARD
30. In order for Agriculture to tackle the problem of rural poverty and become a strong pillar of growth, it must at least grow at a rate not less than 10 per cent annually. This calls for massive and targeted interventions in the agricultural sector. In order to achieve this, the government adopted the Agriculture Sector Development Strategy (ASDS) in 2001. The Objective of the ASDS is transforming the subsistence dominated agriculture into commercial, profitable agricultural production systems by creating an enabling environment favourable for improving agricultural productivity and profitability, improving farm incomes, reducing rural poverty and ensuring food security. In line with the ASDS an Agricultural Sector Development Programme has been developed.
31. The main focus of ASDS and its ASDP is to offer possibilities for smallholder, medium and large-scale producers and agribusiness to realize profitable operations through increased production and productivity. Continued emphasis will be placed on enabling the subsistence producers to become commercial producers, creating rural employment and hence reducing rural poverty.
32. In operationalizing the ASDP, the Government has concentrated efforts and resources towards formulation and implementation of District Agricultural Development Plans (DADPs). About 80 per cent of these resources are directed at the district. The DADPs are developed in a participatory manners taking into consideration development priorities of the districts. Programmes which are currently being implemented include smallholder irrigation schemes, construction and rehabilitation of infrustructures such as central pulperies and hullers for coffee, dams, dips and rural roads, multiplication and distribution of improved seeds and planting materials, This year DADPs have been extended to cover the whole country compared to 90 districts covered last year.
Increasing productivity of land, labour and production inputs
33. Using improved seeds, agrochemicals and proper crop husbandry practices can enhance production and productivity of land, labour and production inputs. For example, maize production per hectare can be increased from 1,000 kg per ha. to more than 3,000 kg per ha. in almost all areas of the country (Annex 1). The same is observed for paddy, millets, and most cash crops. This requires strengthening of agriculture research and extension systems so that they can respond to farmers’ demands and facilitate their access to improved technologies, water, finance, information and markets.
34. Research and extension is increasingly geared towards responding to demands of farmers and stakeholders in general as more client oriented research and extension programmes are being implemented. Further more, there is increasing partnership between the public and private sector in financing and carrying out research programmes. For example, research in commodities such as coffee, tea and tobacco is jointly carried out by the Government and the private sector through institutions such as TACRI for coffee, TRIT for tea and TORITA for tobacco. The sugar industry contributes significantly to sugarcane research. The local Government Authorities have also been contributing funds for facilitating research activities at zonal level.
35. The Government has continued to offer training opportunities to farmers and extension workers in its training institutions. Sponsorship for training is offered to both pre and in-service students in order to build capacity and maintain future requirements of human resources. There are successful centres of excellence in training farmers such as Kilimanjaro Agricultural Training Centre, Lyamungo and Tumbi offering tailor made courses on rice, coffee and tobacco cultivation respectively. The Government has been striving to strengthen the training institutes in terms of manpower, working facilities and curriculum development to address current economic challenges.
Increasing food supply and food security
36. The problem of rural food insecurity is essentially a problem of poor rural households. Overall, the strategy to reduce food insecurity must focus on assisting low-income households to produce more food and cash crops, livestock and marine products, to feed their families and generate cash for non-food needs. It is also important to reduce the level of post harvest losses from the current high levels averaging about 30 percent by encouraging better hygiene, use of pest avoidance measures and application of post harvest pest management and processing techniques.
37. In order to facilitate increased food production and productivity and reduce food insecurity, in 2003/2004 the Government reintroduced support to farmers by subsidizing fertilizer transportation costs to the major food producing Southern Highland Regions of Iringa, Mbeya, Rukwa and Ruvuma. The Government allocated Tsh 2.0 billion in its 2003/2004 budget for this purpose. This initiative increased consumption of fertilizers from 77,557mts in 2002/2003 to 88,390 mts in 2003/2004. Productivity increased from an average of 1.0 tons per ha. to 2.5 tons per ha. In view of these positive results, in the 2004/2005 season the Government has allocated TSh 7.244 billion from its budget for expansion of the fertilizer transportation and supply subsidy arrangements to cover the whole country.
38. In order to improve the profitability of the livestock sector the government has embarked on construction and rehabilitation of the livestock marketing infrastructure including stock routes and holding grounds, abattoirs, livestock marketing centres and training centres. The Government also introduced incentives for investment especially in processing facilities for the sector. The incentives among others include removal of taxes on packaging materials fro diary products, protecting the dairy industry through tariffs and duties. These initiatives have contributed to the revival of export of live animals as well as for search for new export markets.
Reducing over-dependence on rain-fed agriculture (through promotion of irrigated agriculture)
39. Tanzania is implementing several measures designed to realize and utilize its existing irrigation potential. These measures, include preparation of the National Irrigation Master Plan (NIMP). The plan has identified existing land, water resources and social economic potentials for development of irrigated agriculture in Tanzania. Through the plan, diverse technologies including water harvesting in low potential areas, use of shallow wells and treadle pumps in areas with high water table and drip irrigation technologies are gradually being adopted. The Government has started initiatives for the development of a green belt around the Lake Victoria Basin. Equally important, the master plan provides for the rehabilitation of existing irrigation schemes including traditional schemes. Other measures include strengthening the capacities of producers and producer groups to access land, water, production inputs and other technologies.
40. Remarkable achievement have been recorded in terms of development of irrigated areas which have been increasing annually from 4,806 ha in 2001/2002, 11,242 ha in 2002/2003 to 23,970 ha. in 2003/2004. This brings the total areas developed between 2001 to 2004 to 40,018 ha. The total irrigated area has therefore increased by 44.9% from 157,000 ha in 1999/2000 to 227,486 ha in 2003/2004. The target is to develop about 30,000 ha for irrigation annually.
Strengthening access to capital and financial services
41. There is a need to develop and efficient systems for financing the agricultural sector and at the same time provide a framework for empowering producers through access to credit. To achieve this, a strong commitment by both the public and private sector is inevitable.
42. The Government is facilitating provision of agricultural production inputs loans to inputs distributors through its Agricultural Inputs Trust Fund (AGITF). The AGITF has established partnerships with private commercial and community banks, Savings and Credit Societies and Local Government Inputs Funds with the view to expand network for distribution for inputs. Other initiatives include providing loans for agricultural machinery purchases and rehabilitation through the AGITF and operation of the Rural Financial Services project.
Strengthening agricultural research, technology dissemination and adoption
43. Due to limited success of the agricultural research and extension services in reaching producers, new ways of ensuring responsiveness to clients needs ought to be developed. Critical issues addressed include:- Developing a common agenda for agricultural research and extension services, enhancing producer involvement in research and dissemination of technologies (Client-oriented, demand-driven technology) and encouraging collaborative research nationally and internationally.
44. The government has continued to build the capacity of researchers to conduct research on-farm rather than on station. The Government has also involved extension officers in the design and selection of experimental sites with a view to improve the research- extension farmer linkage. In the process of providing incentives and reviving workers morale, the Government has promoted more than 8,000 staff and therefore reduced complaints from staff while the exercise is ongoing
Improving rural infrastructure and trade-related capacities for market access
45. Infrastructure is an essential physical asset base for economic growth. An improved road network, including farm-to-market roads, will increase farmers’ access to inputs and markets as well as value of farm produce. In line with the Rural Development Policy and Strategy, the Government through the President’s Office for Regional Administration and Local Government has embarked on the development of rural infrastructure with emphasis on rural roads. This aims at improving access to inputs and produce markets and reduction of production and transportation costs. This will ultimately motivate farmers, input dealers and agricultural produce traders to invest in agricultural production and agribusiness.
46. The Government in view of fall in world prices of traditional export crops and stiff market competition, encourages farmers to diversify their production enterprises mainly by embarking on production of high value non-traditional export crops. Spices like Vanilla and paprika are among the high value crop introduced which have enabled farmers to improve their incomes. The Government also promotes other crops such as flowers, oilseeds and fruits and vegetables and organically grown traditional crops such as coffee which fetches premium prices in external markets. From successes registered in contract farming for sugarcane and tea farmers, the Government encourages increased contract farming arrangements.
Timely control and management of crop pests and diseases
47. Due to the recurrence nature of migratory pests each season, it is important to build the national and regional capacity to pest outbreaks. This should include procurement of control inputs and application equipment including aerial capabilities, training of operators, development of early warning systems and pest information dissemination systems. Available technologies to manage non-outbreak pests, if disseminated and utilized by producers, can successfully enable them to reduce its level of pest damage by more than 50 percent.
48. The Government in collaboration with international pest control agencies has continued to carry out pest surveillance and control activities thoughout the country. The service has enabled the country to manage migratory pests such as army worms, locusts, quelea quelea birds and rodents which in other countries such as those in West Africa have` recently devoured crops at disaster levels threatening agriculture and food security of those countries. Taking into consideration the effect of agrochemicals on the environment and people, the Government has adopted and successfully implemented participatory methodologies in pest control and management such as Integrated Pest Management (IPM).
49. The Government has put in place the Plant Protection Act of 1997 and continues to enforce the legislation in view of safeguarding the farmers and the environment. The Phytosanitary services at entry points like, sea and air ports, border posts have been strengthened to protect the county’s agriculture form influx of plant pests and diseases.
Promotion of sustainable utilization of natural resources and environmental protection
50. Tanzania is a party to several international conventions, agreements and treaties relevant to the agricultural sector. These include those made under the World Trade Organization such as the Agreement on Agriculture, Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS), and Trade and Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS). Under the Rio Convention (Agenda 21) there are several agreements relevant to agriculture. These include Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Convention to combat desertification (CCD), and Convention on Wetlands (Ramsar Convention) and the Convention on Climate Change. Implementation of these conventions will no doubt impact the way we produce, process, transport, trade and consume agricultural produce. The immediate challenge is to strengthen our compliance capacity, failure of which may lead to negative impacts such as loss of markets and destruction of our environment. Success in protection of the environment is heavily dependent not only on awareness campaigns and capacity building, but also on the involvement of the community and equitable sharing of benefits.
51. The Government has reviewed crop industry legislation in view of the international treaties and conventions to protect the environment and bring about sustainable agricultural development and poverty reduction.
Development and promotion of enabling environment (framework conditions for development)
52. The above four critical areas for intervention are addressing investment areas that will ensure quick returns. However, there is a need to create an enabling environment for the benefits accruing from such measures to be realized sustainably. This includes formulation of appropriate policies and ensuring their compliance through formulation and enforcement of appropriate legislation, financing mechanism, and timely access to reliable information services.
53. In order to improve agriculture, the Government is taking additional measures aimed at creating better environment for attracting investment in the sector, and at the same time enabling small scale farmers to increase productivity and reduce poverty. The measures include:-
(a) Removal of taxes on equipments and inputs.
(b) There is a reduction of produce cess in order to encourage production and trade on agricultural products. The Act prohibits Local Government to charge crop cess at more than 5 percent of the farm-gate price.
RECOMMENDATIONS
54. The most important initial step in escaping from rural poverty is raising the productivity of small holder farmers thorough a package of rural interventions that collectively lead to increased productivity. This requires simultaneous investments in soil health through a combination of chemical and organic fertilizers, improved varieties of crops and livestock breeds, water management, community extension services; with a special focus on reaching women farmers; increased agricultural research; post harvest storage; improved rural infrastructure in the form of roads, irrigation; power and communication; and investment in restoring natural resources through conservation, improved land management; secure rights to land and natural assets. Investments are also needed to raise rural incomes through better access to credit and the development of networks of agro dealers and farmers associations.
In order to attain this, the government shall concentrate on addressing the following:
Low productivity of land, labour and production inputs
55. Special efforts should be put in ensuring farmers have access to fertilizers, improved crop seeds, animal breeds, pesticides and veterinary pharmaceuticals. It is recommended that: -
• The use of fertilizers should increase from the current 7 kg/ha to 10 kg/ha by year 2007;
• The use of improved seed should increase from the current 8,000 tons per year to 30,000 tons per annum by 2010.
• Access to veterinary services improved by decreasing the current ratio of veterinarians from 1 per 35,000 heads of cattle to 1 Veterinarians per 5,000 heads of cattle.
Increase area under sustainable management and reliable water control system
56. The Government and the private sector should increase resources to enable utilization of the vast national irrigation potential. Emphasis should be put in developing irrigation schemes along all the areas described as high and medium potential. It is recommended that on average a total of 30,000 hectares be put under irrigation per annum. To realize that minimum of US $ 30 million should be made available annually for investment in irrigation development. At this level of investment, it is estimated that by year 2017 a total of 405,400 hectares will be developed for irrigation.
57. Integrated water resource management, which promotes coordinated development and management of water, land and related resources in order to maximize the resultant economic and social welfare in an equitable manner without compromising the sustainability of vital ecosystem should be adopted.
58. Mapping and surveying of land is a prerequisite to investment in large-scale production and establishment of the land bank, land use planning and allocation. Mapping and surveying are costly operations and should be treated as part of investment in development of national infrastructure such as roads and railways. Parcels of land for agriculture must be identified and surveyed ready for allocation to would be investors. Increasing the area under crop and livestock production is one of the key strategies for increasing production. The size of farms per household should be increased. To realize this, each household should be allocated a minimum size of a surveyed land for producing food and cash crops. Likewise, the area for agriculture and livestock production should be demarcated.
59. To promote large-scale commercial production, the government should expedite the processes of surveying, mapping and make it available for would be investors through a special land bank.
Development and promotion of enabling environment
60. The sustainability of most of the interventions to promote development of irrigation, increased utilization of production inputs, development and dissemination of appropriate technologies through research and extension requires appropriate policies, supporting legislation and financing mechanism. To ensure these policies and legislation are developed and enforced, the following activities need to be implemented:-
• Subsidize the cost of production inputs particularly fertilizers, pesticides, farm machinery and irrigation equipment;
• Strengthen financial services to the agricultural sector by consolidating the current credit services and funds serving the agricultural sector into an agricultural sector development bank;
• Review and update agricultural sector policies and legislation to make them capable of providing policy guidance and ensure compliance to macro policies and strategies; and
• Strengthen the information collection, processing, storage and dissemination capacity for the sector.
Development of rural infrastructure
61. It is recommended that:-
• The government will continue to increase the ratio of paved roads;
• Improve rural road network to enable producers to access markets for inputs, produce and services;
• Railway cattle transportation wagons be increased from the current 95 wagons to 150 wagons; and
• Serviceable markets for livestock be increased from the current 56 markets to 305.
Increase storage capacity
• Attain the set capacity level of 150,000 tons of grains of the national grain storage reserve to increase the government’s capacity to respond to emergency food requirements.
• Encourage storage at household level such that each household is capable of meeting its grain requirements for a minimum of 12 moths after harvest. Based on the average household size in Tanzania of about 5 people, each household should store about 1.2 tons (about 12 bags of 100 kgs) after harvest.
Control of crop and animal pest and disease
• The Government will build its capacity to respond and control outbreaks of migratory crop pests from the current 14 days within 3 days upon confirmation of locust, armyworms, and Quelea quelea outbreaks.
• The Government will strengthen its capacity to timely respond to livestock pests and diseases outbreaks from the current 7 days for emergencies containment to within 2 days and mounting ring vaccination campaigns from the current more than 30 days to within 3 weeks. Likewise, disease confirmation reports will be issued after 5 working days upon receipt of the samples.
Strengthen agricultural research, extension, technology dissemination and adoption
62. The Government in collaboration with the private sector will devise new methodologies to ensure client-oriented and demand driven agricultural research. The agricultural research system should develop sector capacities to conduct and disseminate research on: market and socio-economic issues, post harvest technologies, livestock production and produce marketing, sustainable utilization of production resources (soils, water and agro-biodiversity) and technology transfer methodologies. The capacities of research and development institutions will be developed to meet these new challenges.
Sustainable management of natural resource base and environment
63. Expedite the enactment of the Environmental Act and ensure its internalization in all sectors including the agricultural sector as way to guarantee enforcement and compliance. All the agricultural sector policies and legislation should be updated in line with the environmental policy and its legislation.
Mitigating the effects of depressed terms of trade
64. The expected growth in urban population is a potential for increasing trade domestically. Growing urban population coupled with increasing incomes, improving transport and communication infrastructure will increase interaction between rural and urban areas and provide an opportunity for trading in agricultural products.
Mitigation of the effects HIV and AIDS, malaria and waterborne diseases
• Mainstream HIV and AIDS in agricultural development projects and programmes.
• Control of malaria and water borne diseases.
• Facilitate promotion and production and utilization of immune building food for affected individuals.
Conclusion
The development and growth of the agricultural sector to a level that contributes significantly to economic growth, poverty reduction and food security will need the efforts of all stakeholders including Government, private sector, the farmers and the academia among others. Institutions of higher learning and in particular universities such as the Open University of Tanzania are known to be centres of excellence in various fields of academics, research, capacity building and human resources development. The challenges in the sector lies in the areas of technology development, transfer and replication so that the end users in this case including the farmers, processors, agribusiness and entrepreneur will be able to improve their production and productivity in their respective areas. The role of universities therefore cannot be overemphasized in meeting the national objectives in the Vision 2025 as well as other regional commitments such as the NEPAD/CAADP, SADC Dar es Salaam declaration as well as international goals such as the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs), the World Food Summit Goals of 1996.
Annex 1
Current and Potential Productivity Levels
No. CROP Current Productivity Levels (Kg/ha.) Potential Productivity levels (Kg/Ha.)
1. Maize 600 – 2,200 in minor maize growing areas
5,000
1,000 – 3,000 in major maize growing areas (Ruvuma, Mbeya, Rukwa & Iringa)
2, Rice 2,900 under rainfed conditions 4,000 – 4,500
3,500 – 4,500 under rirrigated conditions 6,000
3. Sorghum & millets 640 1,200
4. Coffee 100 – 170 for smallholders 550 - 600
5. Cotton 500 1,400
6. Tobacco
Flue cured 950 – 1,000 1,800
Dark Fire cured 950 1,800
7. Tea 400 2,000
'Mashaka is just another economist'
ReplyDeleteHata kwenye vitabu imeandikwa kuwa siku za mwisho zitakapokaribia manabii wa uongo watajitokeza. Mashaka ana malengo ya kisiasa lakini anakosea anajificha nyuma ya pazia la usamaria mwema. Hii itamletea matatizo pale atakapo tangaza dhamira yake halisi anayoificha. Kwani asipofanya hivyo sasa basi atakuwa amejiweka katika fungu la ma-opportunists.
Anayoyandika Mashaka kwa mtu ambaye haelewi, ataona kuwa jamaa ni extraordinary, lakini si kweli, anajieleza au kuandika maudhui ambayo ni kinadharia zaidi kwa maana maelezo hayaoneshi mbinu za utekelezaji. Mashaka analijua hili na anaendelea kuandika hivi kwa malengo maalum na wala siyo kwa kuwasaidia watanzania.
Mwenye kubisha a-print posting hii yangu aiweke kwenye kumbukumbu zake kwa matumizi muafaka wakati ukifika.
(US Blogger)
ReplyDeleteWewe anonymous wa 10:18, shut up!!!
Wewe umeleta taarifa ya 2994 na kusema haiwezekani leo Tourism iwe juu ya Kilimo.
Mimi taarifa zangu ni za 2nd qusrter of 2008 kwa mujibu wa Governor mwenyewe pamoja waziri wa Uchumi.
Bettr shove your nonsense, u know where....
(US Blogger)
ReplyDeleteMashaka
Umesema 'Govt Bureaucracy and red tape must end..lakini sasa una prove kwamba wewe ni worst bureaucrat kuliko hata Serikali unayotaka iache urasimu.
Wanafunzi wako wamekutumia takwimu za 2004 na kusema 'I dont think.. sasa inawezekana utalii kuwa juu ya kilimo' is that how u bring evidence of the 2008 GDP mix? Huo ndio uchumi uliowafundisha?
sasa unaleta habari za kazi zako sijuia haziishii wapi, sijui ukisikia habari za watanzania machozi yanakutoka, mara una ubavu wa kunimaliza. Mimi nimechoka na maneno na kejeli, watanzania wamechoka na blah blah.Tunataka mipango ya ajira milioni moja, tunataka migogoro ya vyuo vikuu iishe sio kuleta habari za Shakespeare na mashairi ya Walter de la Mare.
Wewe ulitegemea kuwa Rais bila ya kuhojiwa?Nimeuliza kwa sababu wanafunzi wako wanataka uwe Rais ili uwatoe kutegemea sekta mbili tu kama inavyofanya nchi ya Dubai.
Tena you did not even apologize kwa wanafunzi wako kwamba you were wrong on facts and you were wrong kulazimisha kuuza American foreign policy katika midahalo ya Kitanzania!!!Mbona mimi naishi Marekani comfortably na wakubwa zangu wanaheshimu utendaji wangu wa kazi bila ya kuuza sera za kisiasa kwa mtu yoyote? Kwa nini hujiamini?
Unadhani Obama angeweza kuwa rais bila ya uwezo wa debates?
Chukua opportunity ya debate ujipime na nakupa ruhusa ya wanafunzi wako wote wakusaidie.
The blogger kwa kusema shut up umejiondoa mwenyewe kwenye mjadalo, you need discipline. Hii inakufanya uonekane mtu usiyeweza kusikiliza mawazo ya wengine na kufikiria kwamba unayojua ndiyo sahihi. Je ukiwa kiongozi ukakutana na wananchi unaotofautiana nao utawaambia pia shut up?
ReplyDeleteMashaka nilipendekeza issue ya kuwa na platform, what do you think?? Where we can unite , and contribute to our country? Kuna jumuia mbali mbali za watanzania kila state where we can work with. Kumbuka wa TZ wanakutana for party in Ohio, Texas na DC, and this can be done too. Nina uhakika kutakuwa na support kubwa if is well organized. As the Blogger is out now please think about this
this boy(mashaka) is making a fool of people who haven't been to school.
ReplyDeleteHe is talking about tourism while the world is in recession...
tourism is not a recession proof, agriculture is(in particular food crop is) if you dont have food security in this world you r nobody, if you can not control food price you are no body....
Diversification - if you add agriculture to your solution then it will be a more diversified solution than without agriculture one, your solution is to risky... dont trust u to run anything, go n revisit your books
Personal- ( Stop telling people you are working in new york while u r in north carolina - wichovia bank) when they someone is working in wall st in america they mean people who work in financial sector in a us regardless of their location, thou the word originates from newyork wall st.
same as in uk "City boys"
Mashaka Stop aggressive publicity stunt..
My dear brothers and sisters in here,
ReplyDeleteI have been following closely the current debate between John Mashaka and the anonymous USA based blogger and decided to write down some comments. We must understand that in this world, most people never create their own but destroy what has been created by others. We should also remember that it takes time to create issues. One has to spend time looking at the society, learning what the society need, reading books and journals before he can write. So, I advise people to respect the articles written by others. It discourages when you see what you have written is thrown stones. I am afraid that, those who were against John Mashaka since his emergence in this blog will start triumphing because now there is somebody to speak for them. In fact even his ex girl friends, in case they exist, will now start sending missiles to brother John Mashaka since there is now somebody to speak for them. At the end of the day, you shall be having camps in this blog. I like this blog and I would love to see it surviving, but I do not foresee its survival with the camps that are being created right now. We Tanzanians should be united! As Obama said yesterday in his speech, the time has come to set aside childish things.
So, I advise the so called USA based blogger to create his own articles and post them here. In fact, he is very arrogant; the character we do not like in Tanzania. In Tanzania, we solve our problems by humble discussions and we never show other people who is better than others. The USA based blogger want to show Tanzanians and the world that he is clever than John Mashaka by requesting an open discussion with John Mashaka. He has forgotten that this is not a classroom. A gentleman with serious queries in what John Mashaka wrote would consult him personally. Fortunately, his articles was accompanied by his email address.
And you John Mashaka, a typical Tanzanian would not respond the way you responded. You shouldn’t care how the message you deliver is perceived by the audience. So long you believe in what you mentioned in your article, fine! So, I would advice you to research and write on other issues instead of wasting your precious time in responding to too personal critics which are actually not constructive. If there is any constructive critique given, then research on that and give answers.
Na hawa watoa maoni wengine, somebody said John Mashaka copied and pasted here. If this was article to be published in academic journals, then John Mashaka was not supposed to copy and paste. However, this was again a personal critique whose aim is to discourage creativity. And if he does so, then the original publisher of what he wrote would seek for legal procedures to sue brother John. In case there is any one who believe John to have copied his work, let him go to court and John will be arrested.
I advise people to be very careful when taking information from internet. Most of the things you will get in the internet are written basing not research. It is here in the internet you can get information like, mount Kilimanjaro is in Kenya, no AIDS in Uganda, sasa nenda Uganda ukapige kavu ndio utajua kuwa internet inadanganya au inasema ukweli. I always remember my former president who I miss so much, Benjamin Willium Mkapa, NO RESEARCH, NO RIGHT TO SPEAK.
Lee, Zanzibar
Hi all!
ReplyDeleteI'm really thrilled by the so called "Mashaka's opinions" as well as "US Blogger's opinions" too. The only distinction here is atleast some few imperical evidence that've been shown...just for those who managed to navigate to all the opinions.
US blogger has done a very good job by telling us what he knows about the said sector, and for those who are interested in the sector have gone further looking where the substance is! however i'm not sure whether there is any one who was interested in the so proposed debate by US blogger..but i repeat that, his analysis was good and well articulated with exception of taking it personal!
Mashaka is recommended by putting the message forward, it is a piece of writting that is (to some extent) a wake-up call for Tanzania to think about the sector, in my view nothing left unappreciate for his time and of his opinion. But his responce to the so called "US Blogger" was un- propotionate, he used a very hard language that clearly create suspicious of his character...i think the other day we can advice him to think about anger management before responding to anything comes-up beyond his expectation.
Sometimes Mashaka, you have to get ready to expect unexpected and learn to agree to disagree. US blogger and Mashaka we respect your opinions and few facts some of you showed and we/i thank you for very nice articles.
I think we are not interested in debate because we're not looking for scapegoat here and join me to agree that...among you guys "there is neither victor and nor vanquished.
So to all Mashaka and US blogger, let me once again say "nothing left unappreciated" for your articles except you personal attacks to each other.
P'se try to revive the spirit of brotherhood.
Thanks.
sina muda wa kukaa na kumsikiliza mashaka.ataniambia nin.jina lake lina define himself.MASHAKA.
ReplyDeletemdau-cal
(US Blogger)
ReplyDeleteIf you are interested to debate live on Bongo Radio please confirm by Jan 22nd 2009(Thursday) so that we can start planning with the facilitators. We cannot drag this forever, I have other scheduled engagements and you probbaly have yours.
Thank you!!
sijapata kuona watu wanaabudu mtu from nonsense. sifahamu kama kweli watu wanaojitafutia umaarufu kwenye mtandao kama huu wanamaleongo ya kisiasa. siamini kama msomi kama wewe nalitolela unaweza kuwafundisha watu kama huwezi kuchambua mada iliyowakiilishwa. kumbe ndio maana tunapata wataalamu vihiyo wengi sana. ni kutoka kwa walimu kama wewe.
ReplyDeletesioni kama Mashaka ni mtaalamu sana. ninachojua ni kwamba yeye ana muda mwingi wa kukopi kwenye intanet na kupesti hapa kwa michuzi. anaogopa nini?
bwana peter N wachumi wazuri nchini kwetu ni wengi. tena wanaosoma vitabu na sio internet. nchi ikiwa na walimu kama Nalitolela na kiongozi kama Mashaka basi itakuwa kwenye shida
Wadau 2:33 na 3:13
ReplyDeleteHapa ndio watanzania mnaponichosha!
Kutofautisha tu kati ya uandishi wa Pundit na US Blogger mnashindwa sembuse tofauti kati ya maendeleo na hali dumavu ya uchumi wa nchi?Hebu tuache kuchekesha umati.
Mashaka na UBB,mtadebate live au la?Mambo ya kuzungushana hayana maana,na kama mmeamua kudebate,may be there's no need of all this uninvited foreplaying.
Tunaomba kila mmoja wenu atoe msimamo within the next 48 hours,watu tujue tunapanga ratiba zetu vipi.
Michuzi huyu mtoto ana matatizo, lakini endelea kutoa mambo yake tu, muda si muda atakwisha, watu wameshaanza kumng'amua. Hii ni kero gani Yarabi Mtume? Michuzi usiache kutoa mawazo yake na kila anachoandika, mwaka huu hauishi. Sijui ana utoto au kitu gani?
ReplyDeleteCAPITALISM IS A FAILED POLICY........IT IS NOW FAILING IN USA, UK, GERMANY ETC. THE ONLY WAY IS TO GO BACK TO NEO-SOCIALISM
ReplyDeleteFORBIDEN
ReplyDeletePLEASE SPARE YOUR RUBBISH US BLOGGER,SO INSULTING AU WEE MTANI WA JADI NINI???
jamani mimi nina swali huyu Peter Nalitolela ni yule jamaa wa Canada alisomea St. antony Mbagala? ama ni mwingine? kama ni yeye basi bange na box zitakuwa zimemuharibu kabisa alikuwa mkali sana darasani lakini jinsi anavyo toa comments humu inasikitisha sana. wadau nipeni data za peter nalitolela
ReplyDelete(US Blogger)
ReplyDeleteMr. Mashaka, why do you have 2 be 'full of it'.
You say you cannot debate with an anonymous person, when you invited the public to this debate did you expect to debate only with people you know?
Mbona wanaokusifu hukuwaambia 'sitaki mijisifa kwa sababu siwajui'?
I want it on radio so that you will not have to copy and paste misleading information.Why dont you get it?
You did not answer the questions I asked you on the blog.
Michuzi, tumechoshwa na HUYU JINI, tafadhali mfungie amekuwa kero sana
ReplyDeleteMichuzi tafadhali lifingie hili li SENENE US blogger wa London tumechoka naye, lasiyo tutaikimbia blogu ya jamii
(US Blogger)
ReplyDeleteMunataka Michuzi amfungie US Blogger, kama US Blogger ni Michuzi mwenyewe je, pia ajifungie?
Hahaha
(US Blogger)
(US Blogger)
ReplyDeleteI am somewhat perplezed by the mentality of these Mashaka supporters.They are being too vocal without anything substantial to challenge my arguments.
I have exposed gross intellectual negligence and ignorance of Mashaka in simple language with evidence so that anyone and everyone who is objective and trully concerned about our development can see. In a nutshell, I want to raise the bar so that intellectual topics can be discussed more responsibly. I wanted you (his fans) to be respected by at least being presented with researched information. No meaningful debate can be conducted out of false premise, it just cant happen!!You see what happened now, the debate died before it was even born!!! Why, because the original premise and assertions were not really economic but clearly politically motivated and false.
People live up to or down to expectations, if speakers believe the audience is not critical and learned they will be tempted to pull fast ones on you, if they know the audience demands due diligence they will be motivated to do their homework.
We need to change our attitudes and demand intellectual honesty instead of blind plagmiarism from speakers on serious discussions.
Be blessed.
(Us Blogger)