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| John Mashaka |
A RESPONSE TO DR. MWESIGA BAREGU…DEBATE
Couple of weeks ago, The Citizen newspaper, carried a very interesting article authored by Dr. Mwesiga Baregu. The article discussed China’s role in the African peace and security. Dr. Baregu’s insight was very nationalist, and timely, considering the social-economic, and political state of affairs in the African continent. His observation is similar to that of other millions around the country, or other continent; Chinas encroachment of our RESOURCES as time bomb, or modern day form of social-economic colonization.
Dr. Baregu touched on an underlying problem many of our politicians see as a hot potato, and simply do not want to touch in their effort to maintain their political correctness. This is the main reason Tanzania is always going to remain a charity case, because her leaders have no guts to say no when necessary, or stand their ground to defend what they believe in for the best interest of the country. Chinese goodies bag for Africa must be re-evaluated, because they are coming at a high price!
Beijing has been mum at the time when the international community is struggling to mediate for peace in Africa. For example in Tunisia, Somalia, Sierra Leone, Libya and so forth, Beijing has failed to take a stand in the face of bloodbath despite her vast interest in the continent, which ranges from thirst for natural resources, to a market for goods and semi-skilled labor force in need of work. Chinese government has instead been pledging billions of dollars to Tanzania government and others across the region, but at what cost?
While we welcome the Chinese help in many sectors of our economy, we must also raise our eyebrows as to why are they are so much interested in our country? It will be an absolute dishonesty to accuse Beijing forthwith, without providing sufficient reasons to do so. In the height of Zimbabwe social-political, and economic nightmare, Chinese flagged ship docked in the nearby South Africa with heavy weaponry destined for Zimbabwe; an act that drew international condemnation, and outrage against China.
Beijing knew that the weapons purchased during the violence were not for peaceful purposes. They were meant to tame the opposition and their supporters into submission. They were meant to attuning the opposition into singing Mugabe’s song. China has been the main backer of brutal and oppressive Robert Mugabe’s regime that starved and killed its people. China siphoned large quantities of Sudanese oil to quench her growing thirst for energy amid human catastrophe and genocide in Darfur, only to turn around and cite her STRICT non-Interference policy on internal affairs of other countries.
BEIJING has signed numerous oil exploration contracts with a number of African countries including Kenya, in which her president Hu-Jintao himself signed. China is in Angola, Nigeria, Democratic Republic of Congo, Zambia and many others just name a few, hunting for minerals, oil, timber, market for her goods, and work for her people. And now China is expanding her wings into Tanzania. We have a new State of Art National Stadium; thank you to the People Republic of China. Chinese have promised to modernize our Airport and many more. Let us be logical and ask ourselves a basic question, what are we paying Chinese in return?
China has over a billion people, and some of her citizens are poorer that Tanzanians. It would be quite illogical and a dream in the wonderland to believe, that all the Chinese are doing is simply an extension of their love and generosity to the people of Tanzania. China’s “potentially explosive” population raises a concern for her leadership, who are visioning hundreds years ahead, and Africa resources seems to be a viable option to ease social, political and economic strain that lies ahead. Character traits of skillful intruder.
China has not been an honest player at the United Nations Security Council, standing on the International community’s way against imposition of sanctions needed to get some rogue regimes to comply with world body demands; notably Zimbabwe, Sudan and Iran. She has become a global player, not only militarily, but also politically and economically, and must play a positive role that will go parallel with her role, instead of staging economic coupe de tat against the Africans.
Every country has the right to choose her friends; likewise, Tanzanians have the right to choose countries they can partner with towards their economic prosperity. In light of this, the country must tread carefully while weighing heavily, as to what price must be paid for such cooperation. Equitable and balanced gain by both sides should be the guiding principles in Chinese economical endeavor in Africa. Our government must move rapidly to control the nuance being caused by the Chinese in all sectors of the economy. Else, time will come for LIBERATION when people’s natural reaction will take care of the matter; the youth needing their manual jobs back.
Dr. Baregu will appreciate the fact that, China’s main want or interest in Africa is oil, minerals, and other natural resources. She is seeking dumping grounds for her semi-skilled labor force that can’t find jobs at home. Our domestic manufacturing plants are dead due to the cheap and dangerous Chinese goods. It is not in our best interest to keep silent, yet our labor market is being taken over by the semi-skilled, Chinese hawkers as in the case of Kariakoo, where Chinese machinga are rapidly replacing domestic businesses. China must be met with caution for that matter, and serious questions raised about her true intentions, ethical and peaceful role, not only in Africa but in the world.
Mungu Ibariki Tanzania
John Mashaka,
mashaka.john@yahoo.com
mashaka.john@yahoo.com
Glad to see our young people taking on very tough issues our leaders are scared of. Good job Mr. Mashaka. Nadhani huu ni mwamsho mkubwa kwa kwa viongozi wetu ikiongonzwa na mpiga ramli maji marefu ambao wanalifanya bunge letu kuwa kejeli
ReplyDeleteWee mashaka unazungumzia ajira? Hii si sawa… Hiyo cha mtoto, wachina wanazaa ka nzi. Vitoto vinaibuka mitaani na macho kaa paka, baba hajulikani, kumbe mchina. Vitoto visiyojijua ni weusi waarabu au wakorea. Nyumba yako wakipanga balaa, wanaishi ka utititiri, mtu 12 vyumba viwili. Yaani hawa watu balaa…. Hii serekari ya CCM inauza nchi kabisa. Kusema kweli wachina ni tatizo, sukuma hadi mkokoteni, wanauza hadi mitumba ilala hacha ya aislimu.
ReplyDeleteMashaka, you western educated will always hate the Chinese with your so many theories. As such you need to be in Tanzania and speak from a point of policy maker. You need to get to Dodoma. CHINA IS transforming Africa, for good and ill. The United States and other traditional trading and aid partners of Africa need to help Africans craft policies that welcome Chinese investment and trade but condemn the taking of African jobs and the destruction of African industries. Africa and the West also need to dissuade China from supporting Africa's most reviled dictatorships.
ReplyDeleteMashaka is being paid by the Americans to demonize the Chinese.
ReplyDeleteYou don’t think like an African but like a western ideologist.
We need the Chinese, they have made our country prosper
hii makala mazuri sana. Ingeandikwa kwa kiswahili ingekuwa nzuri sana. Mashaka ana wamazo chanya na angetumia jukwaa tofauti kueremisha watanzania, kwani hapa ni wachahce sana wanasoma haya mawazo mazuli
ReplyDeleteKWA KWERI SI SAWA, MIMI NIKIONA JINA RA MASHAKA, NAKUJA TU KUEREMISHA WATANZANIA KWA MAANA MNAMUONA MTU HUYU KAMA MUNGU ETI. UNAJUA SHURE PIA NI KITU KIZULI SANA. NYIE WATU MNAOSHOBOKEA MASHAKA, MASHAKA, NI KWAMBA HAMJASOMA.SISI TULIFIKA HADI CHUO KIKUU CHA MWARIMU NYERERE KULE KIGAMBONI TUNAEREWA SANA VITU NA MADA AMBAVYO TUNAANDIKA. SIWEZI KUSHOBOKEA USHALOBALO WA MASHAKA NA KUSIFIA KWAMBA YEYE NI MTU ALIYEBOBEA. AMEBOBEA KUUZA KALANGA TU. MIMI NAMJUA HUYU JAMAA FIKA, ANAUZAGA VIATU FEKI PALE KALIAKOO. NA YEYE ALUDI KUSOMA KULE KWA MWL. NYELELE KIGAMBONI NA MTAONA UELEWA WAKE WA MASWALA KUWA MKUBWA ZAIDI.MNAONA SUPA STAA HASHEEM AKIJA BONGO TUNAJIACHIAGA FULU KURE KEMPINSKI NA MASHAKA NI MTU WA QBAR TUU, BWANA MTU NI HASHEEM WA NBA TU. MAMBO NI KWA HASHEEM BWANA TUNAKUNYWA HADI UNAJIKOJOREA NA MA DEMU WA KUMWAGA, NGUVU YAKO TU. WACHINA WANJIFANYA VITU VIZULI NA WANAJIFUNZA KISWAHIRI
ReplyDeletemashaka, i concur with you, China has sought to place its African investments and diplomacy within the context of the old non-aligned movement and “Bandung spirit”, an era when many Africans viewed China as a brotherly oppressed nation, and thus supported efforts by the People’s Republic to gain a permanent seat on the United Nations security council, to replace Taiwan. And, of course, China offered firm backing for Africa’s anticolonial struggles and efforts to end apartheid.In trying to depict its current dealings with Africa as “win-win” co-operation, China deliberately seeks to portray Africa’s current relations with the west as exploitative. Unlike China, its leaders claim, the west continues to hold African countries hostage through a combination of unequal trade deals, lack of access to capital markets, aid dependency, financial deregulation and economic liberalisation, budget austerity, crippling debt, political meddling and military intervention.What the Chinese are silent about is that their country’s growing engagement in Africa has created both opportunities and risks for African development. Although China’s trade, foreign direct investment (FDI), and aid may broaden Africa’s growth options, they also promote what can only be called a win-lose situation. For, excluding oil, Africa has a negative trade balance with China.
ReplyDeleteThe famous Mh. Nabii Yohana Mashaka, pointi zako ni chanya sana tena endelevu, ila tatizo ni kwamba, badala ya kuandika makala mazito namna hii, Profesa Baregu ambaye ametokea kuwa mwalimu wangu, ange appreciate zaidi, vijana kama wewe wangetoa mawazo kama haya kwa Kiswahili tena bungeni Dodoma. Unatoa faida kubwa sana kwa wamerekani. Kumbuka fimbo la mbali halimuuwi nyoka, unadhani ukirusha makombora kutoka atlantiki yatafika Tanzania? Ikiwa wewe ni mpambanaji, njoo uungane na wakina Tindu Lissu kuwatetea wana Tarime. Njoo uungane na Zitto, Mnyika, Mdee, na Lema. Hacha longolongo za kisomi. Unatumia watanzaia vibaya sana. Njoo nyumbani kijana huu ndio muda wa Ukombozi
ReplyDeletewadau miaka miwili kutoka sasa sidhani kama kutakuwa na m-bongo anayefanya biashara kariakoo, sababu nimepita karibuni mitaa miwili nimekuta asilimia 80 ya vibanda vinashikiliwa na wachina, tena wanauza bidhaa reja reja, kazi kwetu watanzania...
ReplyDeleteAn interesting article highlighting some interesting points not in the focus off big brand, western media. It has often been said that there are few morals in business and we can find comparable events throughout history at both company level and on a national/global scale.It’s just China’s turn and it’s called ‘doing business’.
ReplyDeleteIntelectuals of Mashaka, and Dr. Baregu caliber, needs to lead a revolution against the Chinese. Check out this related (and depressing) article from Fast Company on China’s economic interest in African without any scruples attached.http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/126/special-report-china-in-africa.html
ReplyDeleteHii atiko wangepelekewa Chama Cha Magamba
ReplyDeleteMr. and your fellow economists and intellectual must see this. The deal proposed to sell 50% of Madagascar’s arable land to a Chinese company for one dollar is an interesting example of China’s African resource grab.No technical training was to be provided in-country, all technical skills, management and equipment was to be imported from China- all infrastructure, such as new ports and the logistics to get the produce from the point of production to the ports was to belong to and be for the exclusive use of the company.The role of the locals was to provide the labour for the grunt work.No labour unions were to be allowed. Policing on the plantations was to be provided by the company.No wonder the deal was one of the major factors in the overthrow of the government. The first act of the new government was to cancel all negotiations with the Chinese.
ReplyDelete1. Mashaka “Firstly, China’s model of aid has a much lower capablity of corruption than Western aid models, as the development outcomes are directly funded, without the 10% admin charge typical of Western aid contracts which encourages graft.”- you have got to be kidding, I mean seriously right? Haven’t you a clue how totally and utterly corrupt the Chinese bureaucracy is? Probably the two only comparable systems would be the Ottoman Empire and the British East India Company.They don’t don a new suit when they get on a plane to Africa, bribery is a way of doing business that they are just as use to doing as any Tiny Rowland.
ReplyDelete2. “Secondly, dealing with the governments that exist is clearly better than the Chinese state using its economic, military and diplomatic clout to change other countries’ domestic politices to suit China’s interests. ” Sudan, Zimbabwean occupied Congo, Zimbabwe- there involvement is an intervention, one to actively support the regime in power, fund the ruling elite and exploit the natural resources and people for the company’s and the existing elites benefit. Now to be charitable it is no better of worse than say Rio Tinto involvement with the Apartheid regime in Namibia- but personally I was demonstrating outside of their AGMs and calling for a boycott of their goods. But is that really the low standards that you hold by?
3.”Of course we can all list working conditions that do not come up to first world standards; but the questions here are are those conditions worse in Chinese linked developments than in non-Chinese enterprises in the same country? Is the Chinese aid and economic deevlopment beneficial to the host country? and, are the low wages and poor conditions the reason the Chinese are there?” On the first point I think you are right, Chinese companies behave no better or worse than the others but whereas Western companies can be influenced by campaigning such as was the case during the Rhodesian and Apartheid years Chinese companies are relatively immune from it. On the second point however you are once again off the ball- the whole point is that Chinese companies behave just as Western ones do, all the benefits are exported, with a small % handed back to the ruling elites. The countries as a whole do not benefit and are in fact depleted of their natural resources and impoverished environmentally.
“It seems that you would rather there was no development at all. that way there would be no exploitation, after all.” Now you are just projecting and arguing with a self made straw man. My point is that Chinese economic expansion into Africa is no more benign or well meaning that any other forms of capitalist expansion at present at play in Africa.
asa kama wabongo wamelala, kwa nini wageni wasitumie hiyo fursa?? mwisho wa siku tutahitaji huduma, kama wa ndani hatoi tutakaribisha wa out to brother
ReplyDeleteTatizo Wachina wamegundua kwamba viongozi wetu wamelewa na rushwa na ndio wanaruhusu wageni kuingia nchini kiholela na kufanya kazi za wenyeji? halafu tunalalamika ujambazi unazidi,
ReplyDeletesasa hawa vijana wetu wa Kariakoo wakafanye kazi gani wakati elimu na uwezo wao ni mdogo?
Huku mbele kwa mbele (nchi zilizoendelea) pamoja na kwamba kuna soko kubwa la ajira lakini hawaruhusu wageni wafanye kazi za wenyeji, wanaruhusu wale high skilled immigrants na sio wamachinga.
Kama hatukuamka sasa kizazi kijacho kitapata taabu sana.
Houston deportees hoyeeeeeeee!!!!!
ReplyDeletemanipata?
Mashaka, “Clearly Hu Jintao does not care who he shakes hands with.” As long as there’s money in them there hills, the Chinese ‘Communist’ party will shake hands with anyone. The government will do deals with anyone, will rape any commodity and resource, and suck up to any despot if it brings home the RMB & $.
ReplyDeleteSince the end of the 1990's, China's growing economic and diplomatic presence in Africa has attracted attention, as well as concern. In the West, many analysts and diplomats are critical of a Chinese "grand plan" whose effects would be to loot African natural resources and undermine efforts to promote democracy and good governance (as well as move western companies out of African markets, in sectors such as construction). This view is partly based on misperceptions, especially about the Chinese government's capacity (and willingness) to give directions to the multitude of Chinese organizations and individuals setting a foot in Africa.
ReplyDeleteAnd yet, Chinese policies in Africa have evolved. Now being an established power in Africa, China has gone through a learning process about the specificities of African contexts. This conference will discuss what this "normalization" of Chinese policies in Africa means.
Ikumbukwe kuwa wachina ndiyo walio wengi kwa idadi ya watu duniani humu! Kwa hiyo wana population pressure ya ajabu kwao. Kuinuka ni mpaka uwe mahiri na mtaji mkubwa mno.
ReplyDeleteSasa sie a kina pangu pakavu Watanzania bado tunahisi tuko karne ya 18. Tumefungua milango madirisha, na hata mapaa. Kila mwenye uwezo anadondokea ndani na kufanya vitu vyake. Faida tunayoipata ni kuongeza kukua kwa uchumi. Lakini still ni duni kwa kiwango cha kuweza kufanya ushindani na nchi zingine.
We want capital investment na so maua. Ni afadhali hawa wanaojenga nyumba na mabarabara. However we have to learn from them na sio luwatimua au kuwalaumu. Kwa nini sisi tusiende Uchina???
Watanzania tutambue kwamba tuko katika dunia ya ushindani tujifunze kutoka kwa wachina ni wachapa kazi wanatusaidia kuamka. Kulalamika kwetu ni sawa lakini tutambue kwamba sisi ndio tunapata faida tunajifunza kufanya biashara. Kama wachina wanauza bei ndogo sisi waswahili tujikite katika uzalishaji ili tuwe na ziada tuuze bei nafuu.Nawahasa waswahili wenzangu tuachane na kulalamika sasa dunia ni kijiji , tujifunze namna ya kukabiliana na ushindani tujinyime tuachane na starehe tufanye kazi wachina si lolote wala chochote tatizo ni sisi tunapenda kazi za uchuuzi kama hatuwezi basi tuingie katika uzalishaji mchicha kwa wingi, kabichi kwa wingi na matunda kwa wingi n.k. ndio njia pekee ya kufukuza wachina tutafute mbinu ya kupunguza bei kulalamika ni kwa mtu aliyeshindwa pia umasikini ni katika akili.Tubadilishe akili zetu na mitazamo yetu "mindset".Je ? hamuoni jinsi Rais wetu anavyo chakalika tufungulia njia za kushindana bilioni moja kila mkoa si kwa ajili ya uchuuzi , zalisha mali kwa kukopa hizo pesa faida mtaiona. Achana na wachina fanya kazi.
ReplyDelete“either Chinese investment is really cool because they don’t interfere with whatever dodgy dictatorship is in power or they do interfere which sort of makes them just like everyone else”
ReplyDeleteChina largely doesn’y interfere in the soveriegn affairs of other nations, that simply is a fact; however, in the cases of Burma, Zimbabwe and Sudan they have pragmatically bent with the wind a bit; in particular in Zimbabwe they saw that the growing political instability migt jeopardise the Zimbabwean state’s ability to repay Chinese loans.
Tatizo ni nini? Kwamba ni wachina au? Je wangekuwa wasomali , Wangazija,Wanyarwanda, Wakenya? hiyo ingekuwa sawa?
ReplyDeleteWaache wafanye biashara, kama sisi tunashindwa kufanya biashara, au hatuna ubunifu wa kibiashara waache watu wengine waje. Maana wafanyabiashara huendelea kuwepo kama bidhaa/huduma zao zinanunuliwa. Wakishindwa, wataondoka, au wataacha kama sisi. Hebu fikiria, ni kwa kiwango gani tumechangamkia kwenda kuuza hata mitumba nchi za jirani, au zile tulizopigania uhuru wao. We are not aggressive. On the other hand, nani anawaruhusu? Kama serikali inawaruhusu basi ni halali na tuache serikali ikusanye kodi hata kidogo, kuliko kutegemea kodi za soda, beer sigara na motor vehicles, kumbuka pia kuwa watz wengi hawalipi kodi labda inakuwa ngumu kwa TRA kuwafuatilia watu weusi (angalia madalali wa nyumba, madereva na makonda wa magari wasivyolipa kodi). Na kama biashara zao sio halali, well.. serikali yako uliyoichagua inatakiwa kuwa imewaona na iwakamate.
Dawa mojawapo ya kuwashinda wafanyabiashara wenzako, ni kutoa huduma nzuri zaidi kuliko wenzako, Watanzania wakiwa serious na biashara hao wachina watakimbia tu. Mbona sasa hivi wahindi na waarabu hawamtishi mtu? Lakini tukikaa tu tunacheza bao na kunywa bia badala ya kufikiria njia za kuboresha huduma katika business zetu wachina watatushinda, pia watakuja hata watu wa mataifa mengine.
ReplyDeleteHivi umeishawahi kupeleka gari garage za kiswahili? Hawakawii kukuliza, sasa kama mchina au mhindi au mkenya akianzisha garage inatoa huduma nzuri, si lazima atapiga bao tu? Na kama nina garage, ninaajiri mmachinga, anaiba taa za gari la mteja ilhali mchina au mhindi haibi, si nitaendelea kuajiri watu ambao najua si wezi
Very good perspective BUT what do we do? chase out the Chinese, fine, then what? Write a portrait of "Africa / the World Without the Chinese" and see for yourself the reality!! Let's think about alternatives rather than describing problems
ReplyDeleteMchina akikupiga kete kwa mahesabu mazuri..mkubali. You can never compare what the chinese are doing to what the western powers did. Ni vitu viwili tofauti kabisa. I am all for the chinese investment in Africa. You see when a china man comes to your country and with no time becomes more prosperous, the typical african would think the chinaman used foul tactics and the few honest africans would accept the chinaman has worked harder/smarter than him.
ReplyDeleteWhen a mzungu comes to your country and prospers more than you, the african thinks its because the mzungu is superior.
Sasa who really causes the most damage? Mzungu katuweka tulipo, where we feel inferior to them. Mchina pamoja na kuzomba mchanga na goldi..bado hatufanyi sisi wenyewe tujione kwamba ni watu wachini kuliko wao.
Wache waje tugombanie kazi za ukarani. Mshahara wa makarani 100 wa kichina haufiki ule mmoja wa M.D wa kizungu aliyekuja hapa na tukamkubali kwa mikono miwili.
So where
hawa wachina hamuwawezi na lugha yao ndio da!!xhxhmhsvhjxnsko!!
ReplyDeleteJamaa kawachana na kuwachamba wachina laivu,
ReplyDeletekaz kwel kwel
mashaka nenda mjengoni, ukachome vichwa vya wana magamba mkuu
ReplyDeletehuwezi kuja nchi kama marekani na kufanya kazi ambayo wamarekani wa kawaida wanaiweza bilia kuulizwa. Ndiyo maana wageni walioko marekani ama ni wataalamu waliobobea katika taaluma zao au ni wafanya biashara wenye mitaji isiyopungua $500,000. Wale wa kubabia ndio hao unawaona wanapigiwa kelele za mara kwa mara kama illegal immigrants na maisha yao kwa juma hayana amani ya kutosha. Iweje Tanzania mtu aningia na kuanza kujinufaisha bila serikali kumwuliza. We must have a standard. Niliwahi kulalamikia jamaa wa Afrika ya kusini kununua makampuni pale na kuleta watu wao kufanya kazi ambazo watanzania tunaweza kuzifanya, kwa mfano flight attendants kwenye local flights.
ReplyDeleteMr. mashaka, you are going to be better off to join the ranks of Tindu Lissu and Mbowe in Mjengoni
ReplyDeleteMtu ambaye sio mwananchi anahitaji WORK PERMIT kabla hajafanya kazi. Kama kuna mgeni anapewa work permit ya kufanya kazi ndogo kama ya kuuza maua (nadhani unaongezea chumvi) basi huyo aliyetoa hiyo permit ni wa kufukuza kazi, na kushitakiwa kwa kuhusika na rushwa. Kama kuna mgeni anafanya kazi bila work permit, basi huyo ni mtu wa kukamatwa na polisi au watu wa Uhamiaji na kufikishwa mahakamani. Toa ripoti Polisi.
Kabla mwekezaji hajapata kibali cha kuajiri mgeni, inabidi athibitishe kwamba hakuna Mtanzania atakayepatikana kufanya hiyo kazi. Tatizo kubwa linalofanya wawekezaji wapendelee kuajiri wageni ni lugha. Hawako Watanzania wa kutosha wenye uwezo mzuri wa kuongea na kuandika Kiingereza.
Aslamun alaikum Watanzania wenzangu wote...Jamani wachina wameshaingia bongo!
ReplyDeleteWanafanya biashara za aina yote hat kuuza maua? Je Iddi Simba uko wapi wewe ? Umekaa kimya?
Hawa wachina wana uza vitu kwa bei ya chini na wana "compete" ne sisi wazawa..
Ilikuwa siku Mh Simba aliwashutumi wahindi (Asians) kuhujumu nchi na uchumi yetu..hawa ni watanzania lakini wachina siyo watanzania na wala hawana ile "patriotism"Je, mnafikiriaje katika jambo hili...?Watanzania tutatawaliwa tu na wa hawa walowezi?Amani na utulivu viko njia pande.
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ReplyDeleteNilikuwa naiomba Serikali iwape eneo maalumu Wachina ili paitwe "China Town". Hawa jamaa watawafundisha WTZ jinsi ya kulima, kuuza vitu kwa bei rahisi; siyo sasa hivi kila kitu ni ghali bila ya sababu ya msingi. Wachina wanajua kucontrol inflation.
Aibu kubwa kwa hao watoa vibali kwa watu wanaofanya kazi ambazo tunaweza kuzifanya.Lakini badala ya kuwalaumu wanaotoa vibali tunawasifia ehee jamaa ana hela kajenga nyuomba znuri etc, anafanya kazi katika kitengo cha kuruhusu wawekezaji au kutoa vibali kwa wageni kuingia nchini kwetu.
Kila mtu ana uhuru wakununua vitu anapotaka yeye, sasa kama wabongo wanalalamika waache kununua vitu vyao wataondoka tuu. Tatizo tunatafuta chakulalamikia tu maana tunalamika wakati bei na standard ya vitu tunaikubali. shida sio wachina na bora wao wanatafuta ugali, huku guangzhuo kuna kariakoo ndogo, ni weusi tu sasa uliza wanachofanya...kwa kweli kila mtu anashida ya pesa sasa kama anatafuta ki halali mwache, kabla ya kuwa na utaifa sote ni binadamu
ReplyDeleteSheria ipo wazi kabisa
imeainisha wageni wafanye biashara gani ila kwa biashara za
kimachinga wageni hawaruhusiwi kufanya kinachoonekana hapo viongozi
wetu wameshindwa kusimamia sheria na miongozo
Mr. Diaspora Dr. John Mashaka is guds of atiko you have talk of china in Africa and stealing goldi at nyamongo and killed to meny people and no governments to protect tha pour of tarime. I am coming to egypti and Tunisia and change countly from RA and EL and riz1 of camry and one hecre of land on bagamoyo
ReplyDeleteNikiona jina la mashaka, nakuja tu kuchangia na kucheka. Kwa maana hapa ndo machizi wote wanapotokea, peter nalitolela, us blogs, na machizi wengine
ReplyDeletenakubaliana baadhi ya wachangiaji inatakiwa watz tuchacharike na biashara kuliko kulaumulaumu kila wakati inatakiwa tusiwe waooga na washindani wa biashara balitutafute mbinu ya biashara ya kupambana nao sio kulalamika tu bila kutafuta mbinu ya kufanya
ReplyDeletewachina wamepandisha hata bei ya pango kariakoo!fremu moja imefikia 2m kwa mwezi! pia ktk sekta ya civil engineering,garages ni wachina tuu kila mahali!vijana wetu engineers wanafanya kazi gani siku hizi au kuwa mhandisi wa halmashauri wa wilaya?
ReplyDeleteDr. Mashaka, kudos for your insight. You are true son of Tanzania and Africa. I do have several observations to your contribution
ReplyDeleteKwa mwenendo wa bunge la vilaza tulilonalo, nadhani CHADEMA na vijana wasipopiga kelele, tatizo la wachina linakuja kuwa gumu kweli. Tuko tayari kuanza kuwatoa hawa watu kwa mbinu zetu ikiwa serikali itashindwa kudhibiti njia nyingine za vibali
ReplyDeleteKuwepo kwa Wachina kumesaidia waswahili kubadilika na sasa tumeanza kuiga namna ya kufanya biashara. Je niwatu wangapi wangeweza kwenda China kujufunza biashara?
ReplyDeleteD Siku zote wageni wajanja ndo huwapa akili wenyeji, afadhali wachina hao wanatusaidia kuinua akili zetu, kuliko hayo matapeli tuliyoyapa migodi na kutufanya vibarua. Na unajua hela ya mgodini ilivyo na laana, haitachangia hata kidogo kuboresha akili yako, itaishia kwenye... Badala ya kulalamikia wachina tungeanza kulalamikia hao wengine kwanza wanaochimba bure kwa miaka mitano,wakati wakati mwingine mgodi wenyewe hautafikisha miaka mitano ushakauka , wanaonunua urithi wetu kwa bei ya kutupa
John mashaka is love this artiko, mimi I will start to rob the Chinese @ kariakoo…. Subili tu, wakimaliza tu mauzo, nikonao. wamealibu ajila yangu, sasa nikale wapi????
ReplyDeleteEnvironmental damage, culture and so forth. China has to be stopped before they damage our county. I fully agree with masaka's learned observation. very well written article mr. mashaka
ReplyDeleteMr. Mashaka,
ReplyDeleteI am very happy to read your 'analysis', it seems between Chinese investment in Libya and the current NATO-US investment in Libya you seem to prefer NATO-US investment( the F-16s & Tomahawk investment assures a quick return compared to the opposite which is exploitation of natural resources for money). All in the name of democratising the country. And we all ask ourselves what is wrong with us Africans ??? Libya is just a simple example of western investments in Africa, Eastern Congo is another example of that type of investment from West no Chinese there do you know what goes on in there? in Tanzania which should be a point to focus on, North Mara, Bulyankulu, Tunduru (uranium deposits), Songo songo (gas) and all the mineral resources being plunders ooops 'haversted' currently all from West and you seem to care more about Chinese investment in national stadium, shame on us Africans and we try to find answers from far while the problem is in our mentality, why is it so easy to programme African minds to sing other people's songs? if we have issues with foreign intrusion it should be simple foreign intrusion full stop not today's US investment is good but Chinese is bad. I know its almost impossible to educate you as you may be paid to do what you do. However, in your quiet moments when sanity sneaks in and you start looking at this from a different lens, ask yourself as a former Tanzanian, what can we do as a country to sort out our problems instead of start blaming Chinese !!. Samahanini sikuweza kujizuia kujibu hii hoja kwa kizungu, lakini kifupi nimesema tuache kulaumu watu kwa matatizo yetu hata hao waliotutuma kuwasema wachina ndio hao hao wanaotuchukulia rasilmali zetu.
wasalaam,
Mdau Tandale kwa Mtogole
What is interesting is that almost everyone here is rushing blaming China, chinese.. whites. If you realy think Tanzanians and their leaders are to blame! I did once sometime ago wrote here that "We africans think that been white is been rich and intelligent". Most of the so called white investors in Africa are the most corrupt,ignorant and opportunists even scammers.When they arrive in to our countries our leaders bows to them and the little droppings they could get from them they reply by saying YES SIR, THANK YOU SIR. Mashaka is trying to look things in a western way but let him not forget that a western/chinese farmer differs from african farmer
ReplyDeletetatizo udhungu %^&$#@* !
ReplyDeleteSikuisoma makala yote ya Mashaka lakini nimepata picha ya anachokisema. Siyo mapya. Hizi hoja miaka ya karibuni tumezisikia mara kwa mara kutoka nchi za Magharibi (US and Co). Hata Hillary Clinton juzi hapa Dar es Salaam ametoa "tahadhari" kama hizo. Mashaka anakuwa kipaaza sauti tu cha hoja zao. Hivi hao wanaowasema Wachina wao wamekuwa wakifanya nini kwa karne na karne kwa bara hili? Kama mtu unajua chanzo cha vita vya Kongo RDC, Sierra Leone, Libera na sasa Libya huwezi kukubaliana na hoja hizo. Hao ambao sasa wanajifanya watetezi wa Afrika wameleta maumivu makubwa kwa bara hili kwa mamia ya miaka kwa sababu ya raslimali zetu. Hawana sifa yoyote ya kuwanyooshea vidole Wachina. mashaka anasema eti 'international community' imekuwa 'iki-mediate peace' katika vita hivyo. Mediate? Nani alivianzisha na kuvugharimia? wao wenyewe. Wachina wanweza kuwa na kasoro zao lakini angalao hawatushikii mitutu na kutupa masharti ya kutufunga minyororo. Kama Wachina wanachukua raslimali zetu kwa kasi sisi ndiyo wajinga.
ReplyDeleteWachina hawasemwi na nchi za magharibi kwa nini hawana vyama vingi na ni wavunjaji wakubwa wa haki za binadamu kamuulize Dalai Lama. sasa kama wachina hawasemwi AU KUKEMEWA unategemea wachina wawaseme watu wan chi za magharibi AU WAWAKEMEE? Wachina na watu wa nchi za magharibi wana unholy alliance kwa Africa.MWENYEZI MUNGU AWALAANI WAO NI VIBARAKA WAO WA KIAFRIKA WANAWATETEA.WAAFRIKA Tusiopoamuka wenyewe imekula kwetu tusitegemee mmagharibi wala mchina aitetee Africa
ReplyDeleteI agree with you, but what are our leaders doing about it? Can we honestly say these points you have raised have not been discussed among them? Or are they ignoring the white elephant in the room? Are they selling our country without thinking of the future generations for their present comfort and riches? It's really depressing where our country is heading. I believe in the saying ""There ain't no such thing as a free lunch". The Chinese are going to get more than what they are giving us. Hopefully we open our eyes in time before we live to regret our association with them.
ReplyDeleteMashaka, while you have provided your own view on China you must recognize the fact that what China does in Tanzania is very little compared to what it does in the rest of African continent.
ReplyDeleteMost of us don't know that China has drawn its own strategy for Africa which is partly based on natural resource for cash... Chinese have signed agreement for petro dollars in Angola ie exchange millions of oil barrels in exchanging of building infrastructure in Angola. Same can be said in Gabon, wood harvesting in Cameroon, oil exploration in Benin, Mali etc.
We should know that the fact prior to 1965 the only major Chinese investment in Africa was the Tanzania-Zambia rail which was build based on friendship.
But due to explorative and magnitude nature of Chinese needs for energy and natural resources Chinese saw an opportunity in Africa to tap the vast resources. The only difference is that China played a different game compared to former African colonies masters. China decided on a friendship based on mutual interests.
Hard facts: Between 2000 and to date, China has invested over US$ 10 billion in Africa. This is more than what colony masters invested pre-independent Africa.
The game that China plays which is part of the strategy is not to interfere with internal matters of the state concerned. Again, United States and Western Europe have all acted but based on where they have utmost interests. So really one cannot punish 100% entirely on China.
Africa must know it takes own brains and will to decide what future we want. The Chinese in Kariakoo, in the streets of Addis Abbaba or in Tunis will not come if we decide so.
It is to wake up....no one will ever decide for us. We must act and we must act now !
Ndugu Mashaka,itachukua miaka mingi sana kama sio karne watu kukuelewa.Kwa maoni yangu badala ya kutoa maoni haya mazuri sehemu kama hii na lugha ambayo watu wengi wanalalamika,kwanini usitafute mbunge wa jimbo lako au jirani ya jimbo lako na zaidi mwenyekiti wa chama chochote cha upinzani umpe hoja hii aipeleke bungeni?.Ingesaidia sana.Kumbuka kama umezoea uji wa muhogo ,siku ukipewa supu ya viazi unaweza kutapika,
ReplyDeleteHONGERA KWA MAWAZO YAKO MAZURI.
ONGEA NA ANKAL KUHUSU VOICE OF AMERIKA ITAKUFAA.
ASANTE.
Ndugu zangu Watanzania,sidhani kama Mr Mashaka amefanya kosa lolote kutoa mawazo yake.Nani anakumbuka miaka ya 70 na 80 ?.Ni vyema tuanze kujiuliza sasa badala ya kuanza kuona baada ya miaka 10 tunaambiwa uchumi umeharibika na tunaomba msaada benki ya dunia,kumbukeni wakati Mheshimiwa raisi mstaafu alipoanza uongozi alisema nini????????????.TULIKABILIWA NA KIPINDI KIGUMU NA SASA (WAKATI HUO) NI KIPINDI CHA KULIPA MADENI.Yalitoka wapi????,watanzania walielezwa?,mikopo hiyo ilitumikaje?au ndio kujilimbikizia majumba na akaunti nje za nchi?.
ReplyDeleteChangia mawazo sasa kwani kipindi kitakuja huta kuwa na muda wa kuwalaumu wachina au serikali.
asante ankal.