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| John Mashaka (middle) with Steve Kanumba and Ankal in Dar es salaam |
History tells us that, major global conflicts and wars have been caused by the need for land, and imperialism; Quest for territorial expansionism and influence, need for natural resources, and food sufficiency. From the agrarian period, to the never ending Israeli-Palestinian conflict, land has been at the center stage. Similarly, the challenging internal and cross boarder future conflicts will be land related. The conflicts will be characterized by deadly internal uprising; hungry rural population looking for water and land for farming, turning against investors-land grabbers- or modern day settles if you will, while urban dwellers dying to have food revolting against their regimes
There is a new wave of scramble for the African continent and its resources. Rich nations with population explosion are buying huge tracts of the continents arable farmland, to meet their domestic food needs and security. Many wealthy nations, with no arable land, are exploiting the cracks of greed and corruption within the African regimes, to address the pressing food needs within their countries, leaving Africa in a potentially explosive situation. South Korea, China, Japan, India, Britain, UAE, and Saudi Arabia are leading the pack in land grabbing spree. Saudi Arabia has signed a deal for 500,000 hectares of land in Tanzania. South Korea has grabbed 960,000 hectares in Sudan, and 1.3 million hectares in Madagascar. These neo-colonialists are in Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Congo, Mozambique, and Zambia just to name a few
In return for selling their countries, most of the African ill bent regimes have been receiving so called economic aid and personal goodies or incentives, as in the case of Madagascar’s former president Ravalomanana, who was given a private jet for selling his country. The leader was eventually overthrown by angry urban poor, who could not afford to feed themselves. These foreign land grabbing, food pirates and colonialists are flocking in large numbers in the name of investors, taking African resources without firing a single bullet. They are coming with briefcases, and good to resist promises to the greedy African leaders, who are willingly signing contacts to hand over their countries to the settlers as modern day colonies,
The most troubling secret behind these neo-colonialists, is that, all of the food produced in these farms, are not for domestic consumption; they are being shipped back to their home countries to feed their populations. According to London’s Financial Times, Madagascar’s regime leased the land to the South Korea’s DAEWOO company for 99 years, and all the harvests during the period, had to be shipped back to feed South Koreans. The company paid nothing for the land, and the only promise to the government was the improvement of the country’s infrastructure. This is the pattern across the continent. As long as the leaders can have posh homes, fat foreign bank accounts, and better education for their children abroad, they care less of their citizens. These African leaders have in the past inhumanely evicted, and burnt their citizens’ houses at the expense of these neo- colonialists, food pirates, and land grabbing settlers
In the case of Madagascar, The public was not informed of the land deal, and when the news leaked, the regime’s life came to an abrupt ending. The country’s leadership was toppled by the outraged population. The following leadership nullified the contract, declaring Madagascar’s land neither for sale nor rent by foreigners. Natives many a times have had no significant gains in these deals, apart from providing slave labor. In a series of African leaders selling their countries, president Museveni In early 2000’s, violently displaced his own people, and gave the land to a German coffee investor leaving his population in extreme poverty and despair.
Millions of people around the continent have been violently driven out of their ancestral lands at the expense of land grabbers, and food pirates. It leaves us to wonder what’s wrong with us Africans. Can w even think the basics? Can a Tanzanian national for instance go to Saudi Arabia, South Korea, India or even China and purchase 300 hectares of land? I took a big offence when a foreign politician told me that, an African is a big problem, especially when he has power, and a weapon. Indeed an African is a problem; he kills himself and blames it on foreign invaders. He rather trot the world looking for handouts, than take care of his diamonds and gold being stolen by foreigners. He is a pathetic creature that kills his own blood with a machete for money. An Africans is selling his land to foreigners to grow bio-fuel, yet he has no food. He is a slave in his own state of mind
Tanzania has been, and is still facing hunger, and starvation caused by food shortages, even with her current smaller population. With projection of nearly 70million people by 2025, need for farmland, and water sources will be significant. Strain on these resources will be enormous and challenging, especially when the resources will be in the hands of foreigners. We have to realize that, there is no sanity, restraint, or tranquility where there is no food. We are likely to face internal lawlessness when people will have to deal with live or die situations due to lack of food. This tragedy will only be averted, if our future food security and sustainability planning takes into account the fact that our farmlands and water sources remains off limits for foreign lease, acquisition or purchase.
Brazil moved to tighten her land ownership laws last year, in which no foreigner is allowed to purchase land. The same approach should be applied in Tanzania. We cannot allow foreign governments to ease their population congestion by taking advantage of our country to re-settle their land less. Tanzania is nobody’s colony and is not going to be. We are a growing nation, leasing our land for 99 years to foreigners is a political suicide and betrayal to the people of Tanzania. Nationalists in the parliament of Tanzania must rise and confront this issue head on, be it in the East African Federation or Far East friends, Tanzania’s land must be off limits
our land and resources have no expiration date, and MUST remain out of bounds and completely out of the equation either through lease, or purchase by foreigners. Nyerere’s administration regarded them so sacred, to an extent of leaving them intact for generations to come. Likewise, our present leadership must do the same as the current generation is in position to develop our land and its resources in very few years to come. We must adopt the Brazilians approach to maintain our future economic independence, and food security, averting the modern day economic colonization, food piracy, and land grabbing that is likely to ignite deadly survival conflicts of our times
Mungu Ibariki Tanzania
John Mashaka
Mashaka.john@yahoo.com
Kwa jinsi Mashaka alivyoandika haya makala mazuri,
ReplyDeletenadhani muda itafika watanzania waataanza kula mbwa kwani hawana chakula. Mashamba yao yatakuwa mikononi mwa young wong. Na te-kwon, wang chung.
Ardhi ndo chanzo cha machafuko. Serikali lazima isimame imara kwamba hakuna mgeni kunua ardhi. Hii ni onyo kwa wabunge… wasipolishugulikia hili swala, 2015, 90% hawarudi bungeni
CCM ingekuwa na akili, isingewaogopa CHADEMA au chama chochote cha kisiasa. Wa kuwaogopa ni hiki kizazi cha wakina Mashaka. Brilliant articulate and internet savvy. Hawa ndio walioleta mabadiliko misri , Tunisia hata na Libya. Enzi zetu ya chama kimoja, kila kitu kilikuwa ni CCM. Hakuna kununua chochote bila kuwa na kadi ya CCM. Mambo yamebadilika hawa watoto wamepata elimu, upeo wao ni wa hali ya juu. Wanafahamu haki zao, hauwezi kuwadnganya sijui na vyeo. Hawa ni kwamba hawadanganyiki tena.Serikali ispojiangalia na hili swala la ardhi itaingia kubaya. Wangesikia vilio vya watanzania wote wanaonyanyasika na tabia pamoja na matendo ya ufisadi na wawekezaji wanaoipora nyinchi bila ya huruma. Chama chetu tawala kingeamka na kuona vijana wanvyo kuja juu
ReplyDeletena mawazo mbadala. makala mazuri kweli
Mashaka unashangaa, haya hapa makala toka nipashe!
ReplyDeleteUchunguzi wa gazeti la NIPASHE umebaini tayari makubaliano yamekwishafikiwa kati ya mkodishaji wa ardhi hiyo ambaye ni kampuni ya Agrisol Energy LLC ya Marekani na Halmashauri ya Wilaya ya Mpanda kwenye maeneo ya Katumba hekta 80,317 na Mishamo hekta 219,800 ambayo yalikuwa makambi ya wakimbizi.
Kati ya masharti ya maamuzi ‘magumu’ ambayo yanakiweka kipande hicho cha ardhi rehani ni utata wa kisheria ambao unaeleza kuwa ikiwa mgogoro utatokea kati ya mwekezaji na Halmashauri, itatumika busara na kama itashindikana shauri hilo litaamuliwa na msuluhishi, jijini London, Uingereza.
“Kutumia busara kutatua mgogoro, ikishindikana itapelekwa kwa msuluhishi ambaye atakuwa Chemba ya Biashara ya Kimataifa (International Chamber of Commerce), usuluhishi utafanyikia London Uingereza,” inaeleza sehemu ya makubaliano kati ya Halmashauri na kampuni ya Agrisol, yaliyofikiwa Julai, mwaka jana.
Mbali ya utata huo wa kisheria, mwekezaji huyo ambaye amejieleza kwamba anamtaji wa dola za Marekani milioni 700, analazimika kulipa Sh. 200 kwenye Serikali Kuu kama kodi ya ardhi kwa ekari na Sh. 500 zitalipwa kwa Halmashauri kwa ekari. Jumla Sh. 700 kwa ekari. Hata hivyo, mkataba huo hauelezi kiasi hicho cha fedha kitalipwa kwa muda gani yaani kwa mwezi au kwa mwaka.
Sharti lingine analopewa mwekezaji ni kutoa msaada wa kijamii kwa wananchi wanaozunguka eneo la uwekezaji, “Halmashauri inaitaka Agrisol kila mwaka kuweka mpango wa kujenga uwezo wa wakulima na maafisa ugani pamoja na kuzisaidia taasisi za serikali na kutoa soko kwa mazao ya wakulima,” inaeleza taarifa ya Halmashauri ya Mpanda.
lazima niwaambie kitu kimoja, john Mashaka is someone to be in the African continent. Anayoyaandika yanagusa watu wa kila rika na tabaka. Haya anayoyasema ni maswala ambayo bara la afrika linahangaika nao, na viongozi wetu wanshindwa kulishugulikia
ReplyDeleteOh my God. Mashaka?
ReplyDeleteDark Continent. It is very sad. There will be no justice in this world until Jesus comes back. It does not matter what people say or write. This is the truth.
ReplyDeleteGod bless us.
Mr. Mashaka Kudos ! you are the man. You are igniting what we all want to hear. This Is a timely piece. We must address foreigners grabbing our land. The extent to which the left is invariably the enemy of good ideas never fails to astonish me - nor does the enthusiasm of comfortably-off western dogmatists for subsistence farming (as long as it is for other people, that is). What is wrong with large scale agriculture in Africa? It offers a route out of poverty for millions. The people the writer saw growing tomatoes are earning wages that they could never hope to achieve in other ways. How utterly astounding that there are those who prefer a continuation of the status quo: poverty, starvation, disease and hopelessness.
ReplyDeleteAfrica is at a cross road. All the battles of human existence are being faught here. The far easterners are now coming to re-settle their people in Africa after their land becomes inadequate to feed and settle their population pressure. Mashaka is very right, time is coming and we are going to suffer
ReplyDeletehaya ni mambo mazito na utabiri ambao kweli unakuja kutokea katika hili taifa.
ReplyDeleteUmeme umekuwa tabu siyo ya kawaida
lawama wanatupiwa TANESCO wakati mijitu Fulani ndo inatafuna nchi
I wish I was seeing mashaka’s writings more and more. He should have written a lot by mere fact that the deep knowledge he brings into any of his writing is worthwhile of knowing. Having said that about my wish, I admit, as always, mashaka’s delivers a well-researched writing. I have never read till now a well-thought-out article about the African land grab. mashaka's statement " what makes the current colonization of Africa slightly different is that 'this is colonization by invitation.'" is true to anyone who cares about the future of Tanzania. For those who blindly follow anything the government is doing as just what the country really needs, I wish you read this article carefully. I hope even the most addict labelers could not call mashaka a politician who is bent on undermining the wisdom of ruling chama cha magamba. Those who support the government at least should voice their dissent on issue that they disagree with the government's stance. To be guided blindly without questioning anything the government is doing is just renting one's mind willingly to the government. I know there are those who cannot really think outside the frame of black and white kind of politics. I am not talking about them. But those who support the government, but not confined repeating slogans, at least on this issue they have to think critically. It is a scary thing that is happening now. Long time after we exit, to think, even to predict there will be a fraction of chance, the future Tanzania woman will be a servant to the new farmer from India should unite any Tanzania, no matter what political persuasion one espouses. Mashaka you are a hero
ReplyDeleteWhat Mashaka writes will make you toa machozi.... yaani hawa sijui wachina sijui wazungu kumbe ndo malengo yao, kuja kuitumia ncho yetu kama mali ya mama zao? They are full of truth, we are not going to be watumwa in our own country
ReplyDeletewazalendo tuwaandikie Rais, waziri mkuu na kuwaonya kuhusu hawa wezi wakoloni mamboleo. hawa wana magamba wasilete usenge kwenye swala la ardhi. yaani inabidi wasitishe mara moja mambo ya kuuza ardhi. hatutaki kabisa
ReplyDeleteNilicheka kweli nilipokutana na mchina anayehiita Issa Michuzi mwingine anaitwa bakari, mwingine waridi, na kwao ni wapi?? Magomeni. Inakaa mtu 9 nyumba moja, yamezaa mitoto macho kaa paka hapo jirani….Ndo wawekezaji wetu wakuu.
Hiyo mijitu michungu kwa hela kaa walizaliwa nayo.
Chenji lazima irudi, ukitaka hata kubai na chenji ya mia, utasikia
Mashaka nakuonea wivu wa kuthubutu na kuchambua maswala. Hii atiko imetulia kweli kweli. Nadhani ujumbe umefika, wazibe masikio wasizibe, ujumbe umefika
ReplyDeleteMashaka, makala mazuri sana. Rafiki zako wamarekani wana ardhi kubwa mno, Canada ina ardhi kubwa msana lakini hagusi mchina kwend akulima vitunguu..Hivi, ni bara la Afrika peke yake lililo na ardhi isiyotumika? Marekani kuna ardhi isiyotumika na baadhi ya wakulima hulipwa kila mwaka wasilime ili kusaidia bei za mazao ya kilimo ya Marekani. Kwa nini basi hao wawekezaji wasitafute ardhi Marekani au Canada, au South America? Sababu ni rahisi. Africa is the most exploited continent and there are no policies to safeguard our land. So foreigners see it as an easy money making destination. Na sisi tulivyo mbumbumbu tunaona kugawa ardhi yetu for nothing ndio uwekezaji wenyewe. Huu ni uonevu ambao hatuwezi kuukubali. This is unacceptable
ReplyDeleteI will be the first to comment on your article, in facts i have just circulated an email to friends lamenting about Tanzania being up for grabs to foreigner. This is more than sad, where do you find in a developed country a farmer to be a foreigner? except in Tanzania? I am telling you Tanzania is turning to be the old Zimbabwe where natives owned nothing and what was produced was shipped to feed England. This is outrageous to see our ambassador going around and selling our country for 700Tsh/acre. I don't know what happened to our leaders, you are not serving our country but betraying Tanzanians who put you in Power. We need our country back and get rid of the leadership that careless for its peoples. Ohh God help Tanzania
ReplyDeleteLove him or hate him. John Mashaka is a force to reckon with. I think he is emerging as a unique figure in the country… hili swala analolizungumzia litagusa hisia za watu wengi sana. Nadhani hii mada imekuja katika muda muhafaka… good job john Mashaka
ReplyDeleteMashaka, unayoyaandika ni ya maana sana katika hili taifa. Kinachohitajika ni wahamasishaji tu na tatizo litatatuliwa. Miaka 10 ijayo tutaanza kutoana roho kwa sababu ya rdhi. Hatutakubali wachina kuichukua nchi yetu au kuifanya sehemu ya Tanzania kama kimkoa chao.
A well presented analysis by mashaka.You really predicts the most likely things that may happen.And the solutions you proposed also are very great in my opinion.
ReplyDeleteAnd I have found no reason why we need to transfer our land for foreigners.I guess evrey one should come close together and try to make an influence on Tanzania government at least to assess their policy very carefully and modify the contract.
Eventhough we dont use the excess land,we dont have to give it to some one else.Especially,the future consquences it may bring is really really terrible.So the governemnt should protect the country and its people. Review the policy!!!
I am always very keen reading Dr. Mashaka’s articles. They contain worthy reading literature, they are eye opening. The “land grab” of fertile farmland in Tanzania was the subject of a recent post, but is not the only area of Africa that is being made available for foreign countries to buy up, sometimes with the blessing of the international community. The New York Times recently detailed the scope of land grabs across the continent: A World Bank study released in September tallied farmland deals covering at least 110 million acres — the size of California and West Virginia combined — announced during the first 11 months of 2009 alone. More than 70 percent of those deals were for land in Africa, with Sudan, Tanzania, Mozambique and Ethiopia among those nations transferring millions of acres to investors
ReplyDeleteMr. Mashaka, first of all, congratulation for this wonderful piece. we share same opinion and hope many can emulate your footsteps and conviction and belief on matters. I am an Ethiopian living in Tanzania for the past 7years now. And can say that we are all suffering the same disease. Bad governance by the rulling party. most of them are upto ripping their country, they dont care of the future generation.
ReplyDeleteThe whole purpose of land policy in Ethiopia was to pull Ethiopia out of poverty and become self-sufficient like any other developed countries.
In developed countries, many foreigners own properties including land and buildings. There won’t be any different if the same applies to Ethiopia. You just have to know and adapt how other developed countries developed including South Korea and Japan for that matter.
In the past thousands of years, none of the leaders of Ethiopia has ever tried to make Ethiopia free from poverty one way or the other than enjoying their comfort life in public’s energy and money.
They were focusing to facilitate their own personal life in exploiting Ethiopia’s money and land. There fore, they didn’t make any changes in people’s lives as a matter of fact.
They have been focusing and concentrating to their own tribes and towns/cities where they live disregarding the vast part of the country and the need to Ethiopian public.
There fore, what narrow minded individuals have been struggling was for their own personal political gain but nothing else to benefit either the country or the people of Ethiopia. Tanzanins, Ethiopians and so forth, need to stand up and resist these corrupt leaders who are killing their people for the sake of new settles. I support you thinking Mr Mashaka
This is modern day colonialism, maybe 1,000x worse than Victorian colonialism. And who's behind all this? The usual suspects. I think that we all know what we have to do to stop this. Boycott the big food giants, and shop locally wherever, whenever we have the option, physically and financially. I'm afraid that Oxfam donations won't be much help this time.
ReplyDelete@Mashaka, this is extremely shortsighted. When the produce goes to Saudi Arabia, the Tanzanian people will see none of it. And when it goes into Cargil's corn silos, to be re-imported later in a highly processed form at a grossly inflated price those "high" wages won't buy them any more than now. All that happens is that they sacrifice their independence and any chance for self-sustainability.
kitu nimegundua, ukiichamba ccm, michuzi anabania, bania tu, lakini haki yetu inakuja. nyie ndo mafisadi uchara wanapigia waarabu dili, wote mtatoswa baharini mliwe na nyangumi kwa maana hamfai
ReplyDeleteAncestors wa Watanzania watalia na nyie na vizazi vyenu vyote kwa kuuza na watoa aridhi ya vizazi vyao kwa wageni,endeleeni siku ikifika itakuwa kulia na kusaga meno.Migodi shughuri yake bado aijaishi tayari mmedakia Ardhi jamani mbona maisha ya Mtanzania mmeyageuza mchezo wa kuigiza.
ReplyDeleteMaisha kamwe si jumba la maigizo japo wenye mamlaka wanataka tuamini maisha ni maigizo.Na kama kweli maisha ni maigizo basi omba scine iishe kwa audience kufurahi mchezo huo ulioigizwa,vinginevyo patakuwa hapatoshi na sijui kipi bora kuishi siku haupo mbele ya uso wa wana dunia unaacha familia yenye furaha kuwa ni Watanzania au kuishi siku haupo duniani familia yako ikaishi ughaibuni na kutafutwa kuja kuludisha mali mliowauzia wageni.
I am really touched by mashaka’s article . I have been all over in east africa and I am awitness to this the so called Chinese, arab and indian investors . please our goverment change your idea with not time . Don't let the land to go to outsideers by all means speiall this long term lease . No question about it, it is a disaster . people please stand up and we stop this
ReplyDeletemichuzi, nimeweka comment kuhusu CCM lakini umeibania, poa. kwani unadhani hawajui wananchi wanaichukia??
ReplyDeleteTungekuwa na wapiganaji 10 kama mshaka, kuhusiana na swala la ardhi, chini ya miezi sita, mashamba yote yangerudi kwenye mikono ya watanzania. Nadhani wabunge wetu, wanazosma alama za nyakati na watalishugulikia hili swala la wizi na ukoloni mamboleo. Anayoyazungumzia Mashaka, ni matatatizo ambayo yanaisumbua jamii kwa ujumla.
ReplyDeleteUhamiaji pitieni taarifa za huyu ndugu john mashaka , lazima kutakuwa na utata kwenye uraia wake
ReplyDeletenawasilisha
Ni upole wenu wabongo ndio mnaokula sasa na baaaaado mbona mmeingia kwenye soko huria juzi tu hata miaka 15 bado! Watu bado hawaijui Tanzania ukiwa huko nje ya nchi ukiwaambia watu umetoka tanzania wanakuambia ni wapi huko, unawaambia East Africa, wanasema in Kenya, halafu na wewe unasema south of kenya, ndio wanaanza kupata picha. Sasa wakijua vizuri kuna nini tanzania si ndio watainunua yote pamoja na raia wake!!! Wake up watanzania!!!!
ReplyDeleteOne contributor described john Mashaka as a jewel for Tanzania. His keen observations represent what majority of Tanzanians think. He is a young man this country should embrace with extra ordinary abilities. I am challenging John Mashaka to return to Tanzania and actively participate in the nation building.
ReplyDeleteHis counterpart Dr. Shayo has been a very good contributor in this country and Mashaka should follow the suit to fight against this cropping vice.
This land-grab is fast becoming a wave of neo-colonialism which in the longer term is likely to go the same way as colonialism and back fire on all involved. Political opponents will use it to stir up unrest amongst those dispossessed and when famine threatens those directly affected, crops will be destroyed and exportation disrupted.
Meanwhile Western Donor Aid used to purchase food for the rural poor in Africa is likely to be reduced as Donors will see what is happening and be reluctant to continue. Then Governments in affected countries will be forced to ban exports if mass rioting or starvation is threatened.
Sasa hivi kila kona ya nchi wafugaji wanafukuzwa eti wamevamia hifadhi za taifa. Kwa nini hiyo ardhi wasipewe wao kwa ajili ya kuendeleza mifugo yao? Inakuwaje mgeni apewe ardhi kubwa kiasi kile wakati wananchi wenyewe wanateseka?
ReplyDeleteHapa serikali ya mjinga Mkwer'e inatakiwa kuangalia namna ya kuwasaidia wafugaji waondokane na hii adha ya kukaa wanakimbia kimbia na mifugo yao utafikiri ni wahamiaji haramu. Tanzania tunajisifu ni nchi ya 3 kwa wingi wa mifugo barani Afrika lakini Mkwer'e ameshindwa kuona namna ya kuinua hii sekta ya mifugo. Napingana na wazo la kuuza ardhi kama njugu!! Miaka ijayo tutachinjana hapa sababu ya ardhi (kama siyo sisi basi ni vizazi vijavyo). Na hii mizee ya sitting allowance imekaa tu inachekelea!!
Eight Maasai villages in the Loliondo region of Tanzania have been burnt to the ground, leaving 3,000 people without food, water or shelter. On 4 July, heavily armed Tanzanian riot police set fire to Maasai homesteads and foodstores to evict them from their ancestral land. Thousands of Maasai are now destitute with their cattle in acute drought conditions. They were forced from their villages to create a game hunting area for the Otterlo Business Corporation (OBC).
ReplyDeleteOne Maasai said, ‘Today our land is being taken for investment: luxury tourist hunting.’
Survival has also received disturbing reports that Maasai women have been raped and severely beaten during the evictions. Describing her ordeal, one woman said, ‘Two armed men chased me and forced me to lie down, at the same time another six men followed them and all raped me’.
Otterlo Business Corporation is reportedly linked with the United Arab Emirates royal families and has held exclusive safari and hunting rights in Loliondo, northern Tanzania since 1992. The area is traditionally Maasai land, but since obtaining the concession the company uses the area to hunt large game animals. The hunting concession has severely restricted the Maasai’s access to grazing land for their cattle, resulting in ongoing tension between the Maasai and OBC.
The recent atrocities show that the situation is now critical. Maasai women recently demonstrating in Loliondo against the violent evictions were told they had no right to protest. Anonymous threats have also been made to local community leaders. The burning of villages has now stopped. But any Maasai herding cattle within the OBC hunting area are being arrested. Five people have already been tried without access to legal defence or bail, and have been imprisoned for six months. A further ten Maasai are due to appear in court on 24 August.
Powerful safari hunting companies have a history of impacting on the lives of tribal people in Tanzania. In 2007, the small hunter-gatherer Hadza tribe narrowly escaped eviction from part of their ancestral land following Tanzania UAE Safari Ltd’s withdrawal from its hunting concession in the Yaida Valley after pressure from Hadza, indigenous organisations and Survival.
Tanzania is for sale’ is how some characterise it; whether Joh Mashaka put it in what way, that is the fact. There is a ‘land grab’ underway. Others are more cautious, speaking of ‘large-scale land acquisitions’, while the World Bank notes euphemistically the ‘rising global interest in farmland’. Whatever the prevailing terminology and ideologies, there is now ample evidence that large swathes of African farmland are being allocated to investors, usually on long-term leases, at a rate not seen for decades – indeed, not since the colonial period. The fact that much of this land is being acquired to provide for the future food and fuel needs of foreign nations has, not surprisingly, led to allegations that a neo-colonial push by more wealthy and powerful nations is underway to annex the continent’s key natural resources.
ReplyDeletetatizo la inchi yetu imekua ikiendeshwa kwa siasa zisizo safi kwan wanasiasa wa sasa ni mafisadi tu. mie nimepata bahati ya kwenda South Korea, kule maendeleo ya inchi ile yamefanikiwa kwa serikali kushirikiana vizuri na masomi(maprofes sa) katika kufanya research za maendeleo ya inchi ile.
ReplyDeletetatizo la serikali ya Tanzania inaona maprofessa kama kitu cha kawaida sana na ndo maana wasomi wengi wamekua wakikimbia inchi na wengine kujiingiza kwenye siasa. kubwa zaidi serikali ya Tanzania haisamini kabisa mchango wa wasomi na hata haitaki kabisa kuwatumia katika utendenji wa shughuri za maendeleo ya inchi yetu. mie kwa mtazamo wangu maprofessa ni watu muhimu sana na ukiangalia haswa manaibu waziri wa Tanzania elimu yao duni sana, kwahiyo matito yeto haya ni kwakua serikali hati kuchukua na kutumia ushauri wa hawa wasomi (maprofessa).
Mh.raisi kama kweli unataka maendeleo ya inchi yetu, tumia ushauri wa maprofessa wetu na kwa mtazamo wangu, ipo siku Tanzania nayo itakua kama inchi ya south Korea ambayo imepiga hatua kubwa sana katika maendeleo kwa kuwatumia maprofessa yan wasomi kwa ujumla.
Dr. MASHAKA,
ReplyDeleteAll what you have said is I would say perfect. What we need now is not crying or begging others to understand. They will not understand. We have to be the actors and we have to act in unison before it is too late. This is why I say, before anything else, we need to unite and stand together and then we will have the power to stop any illegal or neocolonialism now.No human right, no NGO, UN, WB, IMF,.. will save our land, and our people except ourselves. It is time to act than to cry cry, and the robbers keep on robbing and we keep on crying, crying, crying,... who is going to hear us? Who ROSTAM AZIZ, kikwete? no ways, kikwete is drunk with money, he is intoxicated by money drug. He cannot feel any feeling and he has lost all his senses. kikwete's five senses are now, money,money, money, money, and money. That is all. No moral, no symapthy, it is 100 % greed. Greed blind people's heart. If a human being has got a blind heart, then there is no wrong or good. Everything is the same. My point, why we do not unite with good faith and stand together and drive out the Chinese, arab and south Korean Indian, Arab,...? If there is something that burns me inside it is the land issue in tanzania. CCM is adorned with a national crime. The party want to make sure the country is completely destroyed before he dies. That is the dream of this man. What are we going to do with his road? jk, Unite, most tananians contributing to injustice by promoting hatred , division among us. The hatred, division,.. has weakenend us completely and one man driving us like his camels. The about 44 million people of Tanzania has become jks camels and sheeps? Unity, and action is needed. If we do not defend ourselves, no one will defend us. To tell you the truth, if land grabbers and others stay 20 years, leave alone, 99 years, they will call Tanzania kwan-zu province.. The same scenario will happen to our children. tanzanias will become slaves like South Africans in thier own land.CCM you are a curse, a complete curse.
nawashangaaa kwa kuona kupigwa ''vita sana na nchi za magharibi'' kuwa ni sifa.
ReplyDeleteunaemataja hapo juu ni Mwinyi huyu anaesemekana kuwa ni ''ambaye aliongoza serikali ya awamu ya pili iliyoruhusu mabadiliko makubwa ya kisiasa, kijamii na kiuchumi kiasi cha kupewa jina la Mzee Ruksa" Au unaongelea Mwinyi yupi?. nakubaliana nawe kwa hili "Mwalimu hakuwa perfect alifanya makosa yake'' sikubaliani na wewe katika hili "makosa yake ni madogo sana ukilinganisha na mazuri mengi aliyoyafanya alipokuwa madarakani" nijuavyo mimi ni kuwa alikuwa na makosa mengi tena makubwa kuliko Rais wa Awamu yeyote Tanzania. From experience, na namshukuru Allah, kuniwezesha kuziona awamu zote nne zilizoshika madaraka Tanzania na kabla ya kuwa Tanzania, nilikuwepo wakati wa Nyerere toka alivyokuwa waziri mkuu mpaka alivyong'atuka, hadi hii leo (Alhamdullillah). Sijaona, ''mazuri'' yaliyopita ''mabaya'' aliyoyafanya Nyerere kuwashinda viongozi waliokuja baada yake, never. Kweli, tumwacheni awepo apapendapo kumuweka Mungu, na aliyochuma akiwa hai, alipwe kwa kipimo chake, huko aliko, bila kuzidishiwa wala kupunguziwa.
dont be suprised. they are selling the land to south korea. South Korea says it has agreed to develop farmland in Tanzania - the latest in a series of such deals between rich and poor nations.Korean officials say 1,000 sq km (386 sq miles) will be developed - half for local farmers, half to produce processed goods for South Korea.
ReplyDeleteSeoul also signed a deal last year to lease a vast area of Madagascar.Rich countries have increasingly sought farmland in poorer nations to help shore up food supplies. Countries such as China, Saudi Arabia, South Korea and Kuwait are short of arable land and have been seeking agricultural investments in Africa.
But South Korea's deal in Madagascar - which would have seen it lease an area the size of Belgium from the island nation - has been thrown into uncertainty.
Madagascar's government was overthrown in a coup earlier this year and the new leaders said they would scrap the deal, which was cited as one reason for the unrest.
'Colonialists' gibe The state-run Korea Rural Community Corporation says a memorandum of understanding will be signed next month. The corporation says it will produce processed foods like cooking oil, wine and starch on the land.Lee Ki-Churl, a corporation official, said he expected Tanzanians to benefit from the deal."Some African countries export fruit and import fruit juice, or export olives and import olive oil, simply because their past colonialists did not teach them how to process food," he told the AFP news agency."We plan to set up an education centre for Tanzanian farmers in the food-processing zone in order to transfer agricultural know-how and irrigation expertise to them." He said about 100bn won ($83m) would be spent to develop an initial 100 sq km of land over the next few years. South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported that the corporation hoped to exploit deposits of iron ore, gold and copper in other parts of the Tanzania to help fund its project. The deal comes weeks after Tanzanian Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda visited Seoul, when the two nations promised closer ties.
Hivi bunge letu linafanya kazi ipi? Nafikiri ifike mahala na ikubalike kwamba mikataba mikubwa yote ambayo serikali inataka kuifanya lazima ipate baraka za bunge kwa maana kwamba ipelekwe huko ijadiliwe na wabunge wapitishe hiyo miradi kwa kula ya ndiyo ama hapana kwa kutamka kila mbunge mmoja mmoja kwa nafsi yake ili baadaye kila mbunge awe accountable kwa watu wake na watanzania kwa ujumla,yanayofanyika sasa kama ni kweli hayaingii akilini mwa mtu!! tumeona ardhi na mashamba yalivyoleta taabu sana Zimbabwe na mpaka sasa ni shida tupu, hivi sisi bado tunakimbilia kutoa ardhi kubwa namna hiyo bila kufikiri kwa kina!! lakini shauri ya 10% who cares? Rais alisema kuwa ange review mikataba ya madini, alikiri kwamba ni mibovu lakini cha ajabu akamteua aliyeandika mikataba hiyo yaani AG wa wakati ule Chenge kuwa waziri wa miundombinu, sijui ni kwa kazi nzuri iliyotukuka aliyoifanya kama AG ilibidi apewe uwaziri tena wa wizara nyeti!! au ni uswahiba this God alone can tell! ya RITES tunayaona leo, kwa maana hiyo serikali isipewe tena mamraka ya kusaini mikataba mikubwa bila kibali cha bunge!! mfano ni huo kwamba raisi kwa maana ya serikali anaona chenge ali draft mikataba mibaya ya madini na akaahidi kuireview kwa maslahi ya Tz lakini pamoja na hayo akaona ampongeze kwa kumteua kuwa waziri!! Ndo serikali tuliyo nayo na raisi tuliyenaye!! Nafikiri it is common sense dictation mwenye mamcho aambiwi Tazama!!
ReplyDeleteMungu ibariki Tanzania
Hata tukiongea sana na kuguswa na hii article, so what?? Madili ya kuuza nchi kwa wageni yanaendelea kufanyika this very moment. Mimi nina hamu sana ya kuwa Rais wa Tanzania, ila pia ninajua nitauwawa on the second day for what I shall do, should I care anyway? The answer is yes, because after I'm dead the next president will go back to belonging to the same chain of dirty and compromising practices that I will crudely work against.
ReplyDeleteWhen asked why Tanzania is poor, the very first answer I always give is because of ill and non-competent leadership for the past 30 years or so. It has nothing to do with the party that produces the president but the person becoming the president. Though changing the party can be a short-term solution because of new motivation to prove betterment, it cannot be a trusted solution in the long-run. Tanzania remains for grabs, unless it's all put on a 'pause' mode until the people who will care are born. Tanzania ni kama timu zetu za soka, au jeshi letu la polisi, au matumizi ya barabara Dar es Salaam, au watoa huduma mahotelini na airport. View Tanzania that way and it'll save you lots of heart pain and insanity. BUT CHANGE MUST BE LAUNCHED NOW, 30 YEARS AGO! I CAN NEVER BE ANGRIER!
Yes, the scrabble for Africa's arable land by powerful multinationals can be presented in glossy terms but we know it will never solve the food crisis in the communities from which the land is taken because it is "someone else's initiative".
ReplyDeleteThe players involved in the transaction come in as unequal parties. The Foreign multinationals are driven by profit, not the food security of the natives. In fact in will increase the food insecurity in already marginalized communities as arable land is given up for "cash crop." This is a repeat of what happened in the colonial Africa that supplied raw materials for Europe's industries.
In so many valid ways yohana mashaka’s article is an excellent description of events that have taken place in Africa, and Tanzania in specific. However; while many companies have dashed out to secure land for development they have done so without due regard for the need to model development opportunity in such a way as to deliver food and fuel security as well as improved land ownership rights, water management, training, and encourage FDI into the alternative energy as well as other bio resource/processing industries. Strategic thinking has eluded the vast majority in favour of attempting to bolster the companies capital base (land) and size of project opportunity. No one has investigated the absolute requirement for synergy with multiple united nation goals nor have any (seemingly) given any regard for the costs associated with professional agricultural extension of any plant species (for oil or biomass) upon semi arid rain fed peripheral land locations where opportunity exists within strategic regions. For several years now KBC has continued to research, investigate and draw conclusions that can steadily work towards the delivery of a new and exciting industry platform that will enhance the lives of rural agricultural communities of developing regions, deliver improved land use opportunity, promote enhanced water management, support both food and fuel security, add value to tourism and conservation ideology and most of all stimulate quality FDI inflows with associated technology transfers, skills development and life style opportunity lifting many above subsistence. While one can appreciate the fears expressed by the article we should keep in mind that the developing regions have to attract long term substantial investment into agricultural extension. This can only be achieved with reference to the sale of CHP and advanced liquid fuels for both domestic markets and export. It costs no less than $4000 USD per Ha of development. Under any circumstance lands set aside in semi arid rain fed regions are the toughest most expensive to cultivate successfully. These newly cultivated or developed land areas can belong to ....continue
ReplyDeletethe work forces that are engaged within the development program. Land has to be prepared, planted and maintained with a clear route to market for any harvest values. All of these services must be established around the community. If not project simply fail. The notion of exporting oil to the EU for value adding to bio fuels is nonsense. Value adding must be carried out at strategic locations were complex bio refinery operations have been designed and commissioned to deliver end products to market at the refinery gate. Any export must be for immediate utility and purchased as such. Products for local market development must include CHP and Green Diesel and/or petrol replacements. If we were considering a 300,000Ha use of semi arid rain fed land with a complete agriculture to industry profile then we must consider that this regionally strategic development would cost no less than $3 Billion dollars to establish over about 16 years producing over $4 Billion of revenue to the region with desirable ROI to investors. KBC-JCL has identified over 40 strategic locations where such regional development can take place sustainably in the sub tropical regions of Africa, India, Asia, South America and several island states. In all cases ownership of the land rights may remain with indigenous communities. Ownership of the Bio refineries is a feature of the Investment Protection Policies of all the countries investigated. KBC-JCL will continue to refine the business model further over the coming months in order to arrive at a model that has long term credibility for all parties. While many are concerned with the reduction of GHG emissions we must focus on the reality. The developing regions need to produce their own energy from Biomass as and where possible. This will require massive long term investment. To end: While one may value many of the comments made by alarmed commentators and/or NGO groups we must also state that subsistence farming or deriving minimal utility from land is not an option. There has to be sustained first class investment into agriculture in the developing regions the demand for alternative energy and advanced
ReplyDeleteMR.Mashaka, How about you write a book!! it would be better and proceeds for your Foundation.Hapa ni makelele tu! hakuna mwalimu atafundisha usemayo. Ask me why I am not Anonymous.I think it easy to say heb muangushe twende Zetu, remember people in power are more educated and lived in States ten times have been. I use to be critical as you do, but after see reality, I found myself to be a fool. BE THE CHANGE not THE PEDANT
ReplyDelete(THE PEDANT = left-wing view - who don't produce anything that can help society OR A pedant is a person who is excessively concerned with formalism and precision)
Watanzania wengi tunatabia ya kuogopa mabadiliko lazima mabadiliko yaje. lazima wanaouza ardhi washugulikiwe. Hili ndilo linalotukwamisha sana. Katika kujadili hili, Wengine wanataka tutoe mifano ya nchi zilizofanikiwa kwa kukodisha ardhi, huku wao wakisita kutoa mifano ya nchi kama Tanzania zenye ardhi tele lakini zinanunua juisi ya embe toka Uarabuni (na hili tunaliona ni tusi, lakini kwani ni uongo jamani? Maaza zinatoka wapi? Hata Kenya tu si wananunua machungwa Muheza halafu wanatuuzia juisi?Wengi wetu tumejadili namna tunavyoshindwa kuitumia ardhi hii kwa miaka kadhaa, lakini mbona hatuna njia mbadala za kupendekeza? Ni kweli uongozi hauna sera makini za kutufanya tutumie ardhi kwa kutunufaisha, lakini sasa ndo tufanyeje? Kujadili mustakabali wa taifa kwa kashfa na matusi (nasoma kuna mtu kaita mchango wa mwenzake eti "utoko," ni kielelezo cha ufinyu wa mawazo yanayotegemea kuiga tu, na wala hakuna ubunifu unaotakiwa kutuwezesha kupambana na mazingira yetu. Tunazunguka mbuyu tu pasi na kutoa muelekeo, tutafika wapi? Ni wajibu wetu kama "great thinkers" basi kujadili hoja ya kuleta wawekezaji toka nje tukichambua kwa umahiri faida na hasara za kufanya hivyo. Katika uchumi wa sasa, kama tutaendelea kujiziba masikio na kuendelea na fikra zetu tulizodumisha kwa miaka 45 iliyopita, tutajikwamua lini na lindi hili la umasikini? Kuna mtu ameuliza, hivi tunaweza kufanya nini kama hata kulima mpunga kwa kiwango cha kibiashara hatuwezi? poor policies, so what's next? Nchi kadhaa zimetusaidia miradi ya kilimo iliyokufa, je, tumerithi nini toka kwa Kapunga Rice Project ya Wajapani? kuna miradi mingi ya chakula inaanzishwa na kufa mara tu wenyewe wakiondoka, je hii inatufariji sana?Tunajisikiaje tunapoona ardhi kubwa kule Ruvu, na maji yake yanamwagika tu Baharini, wakati kuna watu wanalala njaa? Israel ina ardhi yenye kulimika ambayo ni 2% tu ya 23,000km hivi, lakini wanajitosheleza kwa chakula na kuuza sana Ulaya. Kuna ubaya gani tukitumia ujuzi wao wa teknolojia, kwa kuchanganya na maji yetu na ardhi yetu, kujikwamua kiuchumi? Mimi naunga mkono kuwakaribisha wawekezaji kwa ajili ya kilimo cha chakula ili mradi tu maslahi ya taifa yalindwe, kuliko kuwapa wawekezaji ardhi kubwa kwa ajili ya biofuel production, ambayo ni garantii ya kutuletea mfumuko wa bei ya chakula na njaa. Mbona mnaopinga Wakorea hampingi biofuel investments ambazo ziko tayari huko bagamoyo, Kisarawe? Mnajua kuna masikini wetu sasa hawalimi mashamba yao ya mahindi na wamekimbilia kufanya kazi kwenye mashamba ya jatropha? Mimi naona hili jambo ni sensitive sana, na tujadili kwa umakini badala ya blah blah. Hasira na kejeli haisaidii kuzuia globalisation, na hatuwezi kujifungia na ardhi yetu wakati misaada yao tunapokea kwa mikono miwili! Dawa yake ni kujifunza namna bora zaidi ya kunufaika na ushirikiano huu wa lazima, badala ya kupiga kelele tu.
ReplyDeleteWatu wanaoitwa Wawekezaji wanawanufaisha viongozi wa nchi hii na sio Taifa la Tanzania. Mimi kwa kifupi tu nawaambia kuwa hapa sio kwao na kwa kuwa tumeshaona wapi tulikosea kumchagua nani na wapi tulikosea kuwekeza wajiandae kuondoka.Tanzania ni yetu na tutaikomboa ndani ya mwaka mmoja.Kama Tunisia waliweza,
ReplyDeleteMirsi wameweza hata sisi Tanzania tutaweza.
CHADEMA hamasisha watu wajue haki zao na wajue mali zao zinaporwa na wajanja wachache mwisho wake hata Polisi na Wanajeshi watakuwa upande wenu kama walivyokuwa upande wa Wananchi kule Tunisia na Misri.Mwanzo Polisi na Wanajeshi walizuia lakini walipoona nguvu ya umma ni kubwa na uharibifu unakuwa mkubwa wakaona hakuna haja ya kutetea mtu hatakiwi. CHADEMA tutaweza kazeni kamba tukomboe Tanzania.
mashaka hapo umenena. wanaokupinga wakitaka waone ukweli waende sehemu ambapo kumefanyika ubinafsishaji waone jinsi hawa jamaa wanavyochuma fedha zetu na kutuacha wazawa tukitaabika. tena wanatumia mfumo wa ukoloni, maana wanatafuta wazawa wachache kuwanyonga wenzao. njooni kagera sugar mtashuudia wenyewe wahindi wanavyoneemeka huku wakipaisha bei ya sukari kwa kasi ya kimbunga. wamejazana yaani mpaka storekeeper ni muhindi. kweli watanzania sijui tumelogwa na nani?
ReplyDeleteYAANI NINAPOZIDI KUSOMA HAYA MAKALA NDIVYO NINAVYOZIDI PUNANDWA NA HASIRA. KWELI NYERERE ALITUACHIA RASILIMALI NYINGI SANA, LAKINI HAWA MAJAMBAZI WAKAUZA KILA KITU, HAWANA AKILI KWELI KWELI NGUVU YA UMMA ITAWASHUGULIKIA
ReplyDeleteI always like your thinking mr. mashaka. To prove that the Chinese are becoming a problem, see what they did. Follow this link
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Dr. US Blogger)
ReplyDeleteYohna Mashaka is always very irrational towards Chinese and other investors who have been our greatest supporters and friends. Yohanna Mashaka is using scare tactic, his rhetorical might, persuasive ability and English command to mobilize the young in this country to see foreigners as a future problem.Yes he smart but not a genius.
Allow me to call him with is own name self proclaimed “fake prophet” he is trying to prophesize what many people already know. Unfortunately this is not the fact. Tanzania has vast land that will not be utilized in this century. Mashaka is trying to use his fame to grab power, he wants to an MP by deceiving the public Mashaka is trying to lure people into believeing that, by selling our land somehow we are going to suffer greatly.
The truth of the matter is, our Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda (mtoto wa mkulima) told us that, “Tanzania ina ardhi kubwa sana, kwa hiyo tusiogope wageni kumaliza ardhi yetu” that said, I don’t know why Mashaka is trying to mobilize the country to see land selling as a problem? By welcoming these foreign investors to invest in our land, we are going to have food sufficiency, jobs; government revenue will increase and above all contribute into our export which is currently lagging behind.
These investors have really developed our hotels and tourism sector. Without Barrick, our mining sector would still be one of the least developed.As economist, Mashaka should realize that, without opening our resources, there is no way we can develop as a nation. We must opne our mines, natural gas sources to exploration so that we can use revenue to run our hospital, schools, and build our infrastructure. His skepticism goes to the hedge. He is part of the problem not the solution.
What Mashaka is not disclosing to the public is that, they are the architectures of some of the deals that have now plunged the world in this economic. Mashaka worls for Wells Fargo- formely Wachovia and their job involves squeezing poor countries into submission by putting their natural resources in order to get loans. So who is the problem here? Does he want the same for Tanzania? No Mashaka NO.
Economist like Hassan Saudin is looking at you with a keen eye. Let the Chinese come and help us. They have helped the country for so long, without them, no TAZARA, no NATIONAL stadium. We would not even have a national TV. He thinks he so brilliant and everybody shoud warship him and call him genius. But I say with his followers, he can only become a pastor of a cult which he already is with his so many followers. He cannot become even a mjumbe of nyumba kumi.
If he becomes a president, then I am moving to Somalia. Mr Nabii stop sending missiles from the US. Usitupe makombora ukiwa uhamishoni, njoo ule vumbe upambane na Dr. Slaa na Mtikila that is when we will know you are a man and a nationalist I have asked Nabii yohana Mashaka to come openly in the public and debate these issues, if he is truly a patriot and a nationalist he claims to be.
I am very rich, and ready to pay him "vijisenti" $2.5million dollars, air ticket and hotel accommodation so we can square off in TBC-1 or ITV at my own expense. Mashaka is not someone to trust because he is scared of me. Mashaka is even scared of Hassan Saudin who is a world class Financial Expert and economist. Hassan is constantly offering alternative thinking which Mashaka does not have. He is very rigid and pretending to be a genius Tanzania has never produced.
I have been advising Mugabe for more than 7 years, and you can see the economy is taking a turn around. What has Mashaka done? Nothing. Mashaka am sure you are going to read this message, repond so we can make arrangements for a debate in TBC-1 or ITV on this land issue, and stop demonizing our Chinese business partners
Dr. US Blogger
Alumni, OXFORD University
Economics Department
Before you make any judgements, you may need to consult with John the basis of this article. I find it well researched and every part of it has been put torelfetc the reality happening in these countries. The Tanzanian Investors, most of them just exhausted the land and water in Kenya and are now moving on new lands, like Ethiopia. As well, they dont make the Africans rich, instead they have made them even more poorer and dependent on wages that can barely provide their basic needs. Its even sad to note that In Kenya, it has become a Human rights issue as most of the Flower farm workers are poorly treated- no protective clothing, long working hours, poor wages, and poor living conditions in their residential areas.
ReplyDeleteIts good that John have captured the reality in this article and its time that action was taken on both government- the African countries and the investors' countries'.
if tanzanians don't like their land being sold to investors they better wake up and safeguard their common lands. They can legally register their "commons" then enter into usufruct arrangements with investors and retain custoidianship and rents locally. I have been trying to encourage chiefs in Zambia to do this for 20 years but most take the easy way out and sell to the first investor for a few bob while their subjects remain silent and poor. The governement too has chosen to encourage foreign investment above support for existing indigenous farmers.
ReplyDeleteThere is no-one else to blame for the "neo-colonialism" but the African leaders themselves. The post-colonial period of western protection is over - its now dog eats dog!
Nabii Yohana Mashaka, this is an awesome prophetic piece of advice to our brain dead leaders CHAMA CHA MAGAMBA. You should not join any political party ccm is for opportunists and corruption kingpins. CHADEMA is for certain individuals WACHAGA. As a thinker, you are not going to be useful to any party. I am therefore advising you to start your own political party or CHURCH to liberate this country. You have enough following to do well with your party especially the youth are going to follow you very aggressively
ReplyDeleteccm is playing with fire, they removed wamasai kule loliondo na kumpa mwarabu ambaye alichoma mnyumba za watu kwa ajili tu ya kuwinda. Yaani anapewa mwarabu makazi ya watu kwa ajili ya mwarabu kuwinda? Hii nchi ni kichwa CHA MWENDA WAZIMU and that is why we decide you to start a church of politics party of your own we will follow you. The young people will come in millions
hali ya rdhi ni mbaya kweli. michuzi usibanie, naona umeshaminya link yangu ya kwanza
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Hawa masultani majinga, hayaona dalili ya mvua dawa ni nguvu ya umma
ReplyDeleteOooh my, reminds me of a rock n roll song that goes "....tara ...rala..rala....We are the hopeless people, the dark people, living in a dark nation, led by dark leaders, with dark thinking and dark everything
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Mashaka I have much respect for you brother. You are a true nationalist and African patriot a black man in the most positive sense of the two words.I agree with your general argument my parents are from the Caribbean and the way some Asians. Treat black people is appalling to say the least I fear further down the road.
ReplyDeleteAn Idi Amin Dada type could possibly come from the military and take over. In Uganda the British colonial power during the 19th & and earlier 20th had to draft.A native ordinance in order to curtail the severe exploitation and racism toward the Ugandans from Asian Indians.
I hope to see more of your articles here well done. I wish we who are nationalist minded could forget our differences and create our own economic foot print in Africa.Unfortunately this won't happen for the time being too many on here are looking at the world. Through the narrow prism of ethnicity and won't entertain working with none Ethiopian Africans for example.Great point raised the honorable Dr. Yohana Mashaka, I love the way you present your argument and looking at things from different side. One thing need to be under score is, Tanzania doesn't have a government who's looking out for its own citizens. Period. We've a Banda self-centered group who cares about CCM only nobody else. The last Twenty years has been a shadow of what to come. Soon We may not to have a country. The CCM groups are on the mission to sell everything. GOD help us.
mashaka nenda mjengoni, ukachome vichwa vya wana magamba mkuu. hapa utagundua wachangiaji wakubwa ni wabeba mabox na waosha wazee ambao hawapigi kura. washabiki wako wakubwa ni hao hao. hawana chochote kipa cha kuchangia zaidi ya kuimba mashaka juu, juu juu zaidi.
ReplyDeleteWow Mashaka, kazi ipo, nchi inaendeshwa kama haina dereva,au dereva mwenyewe hajui anachofanya. Tutegemea kuingia kwenye korongo tu.
ReplyDeleteSasa mnategemea mpate matokeo gani tofauti, wakati kila kukicha viongozi wenu kutembeza bakuli tu , hawana hata vision ya kutumia rasilimali ya vichwa vya watanzania kwa maendeleo ya watanzania kielimu, kilimo na mambo mengi kibao. Wao kila kukicha kujipendekeza na kujidhalilisha kuwa ni masikini wanaohitaji misaada kila siku. Nchi hii aibu tupu Uongozi zero.
Mr. 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.
ReplyDeleteHa ha ha ha! Kigumu Chama Cha Mafisadi! WANAUZA NCHI, ardhi lakini wasichezee. wataleta mahuhaji makubwa sana hapa nchiniKigumu! Kwa hiyo wewe unaona mikataba ya kuvuna rasilimali zetu kwa bei karibu na bure kabisa na kuingia mikataba ambayo haina maslahi na nchi yetu kama ya wale wa makabuto toka South Africa Net Group Solutions waliongizwa na Mkapa kwa mtutu wa Bunduki pale TANESCO na mikatana ta akina BARRICK, RITES, TICTS, SASKATEL yote ni uzushi mtupu! Duh! Kweli Mifisadi ndivyo ilivyo! Mifisadi itauza hata nchi yao ili kuendeleza ufisadi wao na kuwaacha mamilioni ya raia wao wakiishi katika maisha ya ufukara wa kutisha.
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Koreans building an agricultural centre for farmers in Tanzania, jamani hivi sisi tuna akili kweli???? Sokoine ipo , vyuo vyote vya certificate na diploma tulivyochukua toka kwa mkoloni vinafanya nini, kwa kutuona hivyo na wakenya wakaamua kutaka kujenga chao eti kufundisha Watanzania.KNCU walijenga chuo maalumu kwa ajili ya kahawa wakati wa ukoloni kwa hela ya wakulima wa kahawa leo chuo tujengewe na wakorea ???? Disgusting.
ReplyDelete$ 83,000,000 to develop land in the next few years hizi hela TZ mbona ni hela mbuzi tu Richmond kwa siku ilikuwa US $ ngapi vile? Radar, Michuzi ya EPA tunapata miradi mingapi kama hii, meremeta hebu oneni wadau naona kama vile huu ni mchezo wa kuigiza
Mashaka john. Hasa hapo umegonga kichwa cha msumiri, wanasema you've nailed it down. Watu wameisoma hii story katika face value, imagine kuwa hilo eneo wanalodai wanataka kulima mazao lina hazina kubwa ya madini, wakianza kuchimba na kuyapeleka kwao kuna mtu atafungua mdomo kama mkataba umesema wana haki ya any natural resources zitakazopatikana katika ardhi husika? Kwanza tujue location yenyewe, kisha inaweza kusaidia kujua mambo zaidi. After all, hii ni ardhi yetu, hatujaenda kuomba kwa mtu.Ila wajinga wachache wanajipa mamlaka destructive. NAULIZA TENA, IKAJA PATIKANA ALMASI KWENYE HIYO ARDHI, ITAKUWA NI MALI YA KOREA KUSINI au ya SERIKALI YA KIKWETE INAYOLIA NJIA KILA KUKICHA?
ReplyDeleteBw. John Mashaka
ReplyDeleteMimi siyo mchangiaji kwenye hii blog lakini ni msomaji mzuri sana. Kwanza hongera kwa shuguli zako katika katika jamii. Unafanya kazi nzuri sana, na nadhani vijana wengi wameanza kuiga mfano wako. Mimi ni msomaji mkubwa ila makala yako ila hii ya leo, imenilazimisha kuchangia. Hauna haja ya kugombea ubunge au urais kama wenzako wanavyopendekeza. Nadhani sauti yako imeanza kusikika katika pembe zote za Tanzania na hata barani Africa. Endelea na uharakati wako, anza kupanda majukwaani kuelemisha umma. Hata sisi wabunge wa Jamuhuri wa Muungano wa Tanzania tunakuunga mkono kwa kiwango kikubwa. Mada zako nyingi ni mada zilizotukuka na zenye mantiki makubwa.
Kuhusu swala la ardhi yetu, naamini karibuni tutaanza mjadala bungeni kuhusiana na hili tatizo. Hii nchi imekuwa shamba la bibi ambapo kila mtu analikimbilia kununua ardhi. Tumechoshwa na mabadiliko ya kweli yataletwa na nyinyi vijana. Usiogope, paza sauti zaidi uwaunganishe vijana wenzio kuliokoa nchi yetu pamoja na bara la Africa. Mimi ni mbunge wa chama tawala, lakini kwa bahati mbaya siridhishwi na mwenendo pamoja na mwelekeo wa chama changu. Tunakuwa wasaliti wakubwa wa taifa letu hakuna sababu yoyote ya waarabu kupewa ardhi kwenye hifadhi ya taifa letu ilhali wazawa wanafukuzwa na nyuma zao kuchomwa mto
Sioni sababu yammchina kupewa ardhi ya Tanzania, au msomalia kununua viwanja vikubwa ufukweni mwa bahari wakiwaacha wazawa kuwa watumishi wao. Dalili ninayoiona sasa ni mbaya, na pasipo mabadiliko, tutalia vibaya sana. punde tu hii serikali yetu itaangushwa kutokana na ugumu wa maisha na chuki binafsi ambayo imejijengea kutokana na uonove ya kuwatetea wawekezaji zaidi ya wananchi wake. Nadhani swala la nyamongo ni mfano hai. Polisi wanawaua raia bila serikali kuchukua hatua , kwa sababu tu, vigogo Fulani wananufaika na hiyo migodi.
Hon: MP (CCM)
tumechoka na hawa wawekezaji, makaburu, wachina, waarabu, na wakorea tunakuja kuwafukuza. Hakuna mjadala tena. Anayoyasema Mashaka ni yale ambayo tumekuwa tukiyafahamu
ReplyDeleteIt is the product of Tanzania Corruption selling our land. they need to STOP. wataingia hatiani kwa kuuza ardhi yetu. What a surprise. If only the governments were to invest their own money to feed their people in the manner described we would not be going around begging for food. Kikwete should stop trotting the world, stay home and develop. 6 years gone. Nothing to show for except kucheka cheka ovyo na kuuza ardhi klwa waarabu. Yaani ya loliondo kuwafukuza wamaasai kwa ajili ya mwarabu anayewinda wanyama what a pathtic regime? Their days are coming pretty soon
ReplyDeletei am touched by this article. mashaka all we need is a peaceful demonstration against land grabbing. at the end of the day, the people of Tanzania will have gained nothing but will lose everything. The miniter of Agriculture is not doing a good job of weighing the risks in generations to come to Tanzania and its people. The people of Tanzania don't want their land given to Indians, I don't understand why 1% of the population should make a decision for 90% of the population. If you survey 40 million people on the subject, 99% will not want this deals. The government should stop and listen to its people.
ReplyDeleteViongozi wameshindwa kuangalia mustakbali wa watoo wao hapo baadae watakuja kuishi vipi wakati wao wameshaondoka duniani. Hebu wasijiangalie wao tu. Mm si laumu viongozi wa chama Tawala tu, mm ninalaumu viongozi wetu wote. Usaliti umejuwa mkubwa mno. Mm nadhani kwa hivyo tuwe na katiba inayoturuhusu kuwataka wale wote tunao waona hawana wanachokifanya katika nchi wajiuzulu marara moja kabla hajajenga horofa na kutafuta magari ya fahari, mana ndyo wanachofikiria tu. To my delight watanzania wanaelimika sasa angalau wanaelewa au tunaelewa.
ReplyDeleteCCM is evicting our families form their land and giving it away to “arabs”, meaning UAE, whom our fathers and forefathers fought not long ago. The Kikwete is selling the land here and there. His action is deplorable and detestable. My advice to people is “inform your family to keep evidences, such as documents and evidence for the future”. A time will come when the rule of law will reign.
ReplyDelete1)About where the money goes and how much Tanzania benefits no transparency
2)why Tanzania investers and the Governement himself are not doing this job?
3) why the land is leased for 99 years?
Does CCM Care for people of Tanzania?
For the writer: Mashaka
Thanks!Good argument and suggestion.
Wenzetu wajanja, kwa mfan marekani wana mafuta mengi siyo kawaida, lakini hawagusi. Wanayatunza kwa ajili ya vizazi vyao vya mbeleni, siye matumbo mbele tunauza kila kitu. Shenzi kweli hii serikali ya JK wasubiri siku yao nguvu ya umma utakapowavmia kwenye ngome zao. Wataiona nchi chungu na watajuta kuzaliwa.
ReplyDeletewawekezaji wa machimbo ya dhahabu,almasi wanafanya kazi masaa 24,HAKUNA KULALA KWELI KWELI,na wavifaa vyao ni vya kisasa ya hali ya juu,ninamashaka hata hiyo miaka 20 ijayo sidhani kama wanakahama,wana geita watabakiziwa hata ule ukoko wa dhahabu, labda mavumbi barabani!
Tatizo letu ni ubinafsi wa viongozi na upeo mdogo wa kuona mbali. Waziri anahongwa viji dola kadhaa basi anasaini mkataba wa kuiangamiza nchi miaka kibao. M/kiti wa kijiji anahongwa kibaiskeli anaruhusu wageni kuchukua ardhi yote yenye rutuba. Lakini lingine ni colonial mentality, bado fikra zetu zina kasumba ya kikoloni, tunafikiri mzungu/mu-asia ndo anaweza kuwekeza tu nchini. Believe me, hadi sasa serikali yetu imeshauza nchi yote kwa kisingizio cha uwekezaji toka nje. Hawa jamaa wanapora kweli, angalia hali za wananchi kanda ya ziwa kwenye eneo la madini, angalia Arusha Masai wanavyolia kila uchao na wawindaji wa kitalii. Angalia idadi ya wafanyakazi kwenye kampuni za kigeni wamejaa hata kwenye nafasi ambazo wa-Tz wanaweza.
ReplyDeleteTUNAHITAJI MABADILIKO YA HARAKA kabla rasilimali hazijaisha.
Wazazi wangu walikuwa na uwezo wa kula na kulala bila matatizo na wakiishi Kariakoo na waliweza kweli kunipeleka nje kwenda kusoma, namshukuru Allah kwa hilo, wala halina ubishi.
ReplyDeleteHawakuwa wazito kama utakavyo + sina chuki na Nyerere kama Nyerere binafsi bali nnachuki ya kutokuwa kiongozi makini na kutuharibia nchi yetu. Nashangaa sana kuona watu wengine humu, nadhani wengi wao wakati wake, ya ama hawakuwepo au walikuwa bado vikinda, wanampa sifa ambazo hakuwa nazo.
Wazazi wangu hawakuwa na ugomvi na Nyerere, na by the way, ofisi ya kwanza ya TANU na kabla ya hapo TAA iko ubavuni wa iliyokuwa nyumbani kwetu hapo Mtaa wa Lumumba. Na wazee wangu wakijuana sana na Nyerere, kabla na baada ya kuukwaa ukuu. Kama kuna sifa yoyote inayobidi nimpe, ni kuwa, mara kwa mara (kila apatapo nafasi), alipokuwa akija ofisi ya TANU alikuwa akipita pale kwetu kuwasalimia wazee japo dakika mbili tatu, hilo moja lake nilijuwalo.
Wawekezaji wanatunyanyasa serikali imetulia.
ReplyDeleteserikali inawagawia haki za watoto wetu,
Tunajikomboa subirini tu
cham cha magamba tunakuja
chimbeni maandaki na hao
wawekezaji wenu
mnyonge mnyongeni lakini haki yake mpeni. Mashaka namkubali sana.
ReplyDeleteHuyu jamaa ni kichwa !
Wahindi nao wanapambana kuwauzia ndugu zao mashamba. Kuna wabangladesh wamenunua mashamba huko pemba mnazi na walipelekwa na wabongo na wahindi hapo hapo kisutu. Kuna wengine 8 wanajiandaa kuja ila wanatuma hela kwa hao ndugu zao ili wajifunze kiswahili. Wao walikuwa wananiulizia hili eneo la pemba mnazi likoje? Tahadhari tu.
ReplyDeleteHawa siku ya siku inakuja. Waendelee tu kuuza nchi yetu kwa waarabu mabwana zao. Mashaka unayosema ni cha motto. Watanzania, tena wamasai wameuwawa wamefukuzwa kwenye ardio yao kwa ajili ya mwarabu mwekezaji. Soma hapa
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-FP2gRvziw&feature=related
yohan Mashaka is an ultra nationalist; Nyerere would have given this guy a leadership position in his government would he have been alive. Otherwise he is smiling in his grave to see our young people defend the country. Good job Mashaka, this is incredible. Some worthy reading material. I do hope Chenge, Rostam, lowasa and company are reading these wise writings.
ReplyDeleteFirstly, the land is not being sold as it is being leased!our laws do not allow ownership of lands.Secondly, let us ask ourselves with 960,000 sqkms, what have we as citizens done to utilize the land?Nothing!Human psychology tends to make us naive as the rule says blame the government or leaders for that matter!What did or should we expect?in this case CCM or Chadema etc to go and develope these lands and give out the fruits etc free to all?Common sense Folks, calls for us to unite and try and develope what is there in front of us?
ReplyDeleteAsk a common person currently residing in Dar to go back to his rural homestead in cultivate his parent's otherwise dormant shamba and you can imagine what the person's reply will be!
People like Mashaka are out there and deserve the right to share their views but as mentioned in some places, why can't he come here and physically be part of us and work along us? By sitting there and instigating the people by twice citing about Madagascar's coup,means he is holding some bad and/or ill intentions against the peace of our country.
If the govt is indeed LEASING lands than it is us who should be ashamed for not taking up the initiatives of developing the same..why put the cart before the horse?
I have read the article. I have read all comments. Mimi sijawahi kusoma article hata moja ya Mashaka; this is the first one and am real touched. Yaani mpaka nimelia. I am a young woman doing my PhD abroad. Na kwa weli hapa nilipo mijadala ni wachina wanavyovamia Afrika. Wanaojadili ni wazungu ambao najua kuwa wanaona wivu kuwa wachina wamewapiga bao. My point is mataifa makubwa ya western na haya yanayokuwa sasa hivi the BRICS wote wametolea mimacho Africa. Tunahitaji kuchukua hatua kama vijana kwani viongozi wetu wanatuuza kama walivyofanya machief enzi za mkoloni. Tuanzishe movement ya kupinga any future deal na kuhakikisha ardhi iliyouzwa inarudishwa kwa wananchi.
ReplyDeleteMimi ni mwanamke na niko tayari kuingia mtaani kuandamana kupinga huu utumwa. Nimesema jinsia yangu kuamasisha wengine maana nadhani wachangiaji wengi wa haya mambo ni wanaume; future ni yetu sote na vizazi vyetu.
Mimi PhD student
Mkuu Mashaka komaliana nao hawa mabwenye mamboleo. Tunasubiri tu utangaze nia ya pale Magogoni Street. Kwanza hamasisha vijana tuwaondoa wana magamba
ReplyDeleteViongozi wanaoendelea kuuza nchi, hata mkifa, tutakuja kuweka pingu kwenye makaburi yenu. Subirini tu
ReplyDeleteMost of the posters say this or that about what is going on in Africa, but they don't put the blame where they should. And that is at the feet of the corrupt leaders and govt. officials who are looking out for themselves and no one else. I get this million dollars or more, I get to go to White Country and be a big man, thats it. Many countries see Africa as a fruit to be plucked because they have something that they want and that is land and good land at that to sustain the buyers people in another land. You know what I fear, and that is when the coming resource wars happen Africa and Africans won't have a say in what happens to their lands no matter what. Other countries will be under alot of pressure to colonize that continent in order to keep under it's thumb the resources (food, minerals etc.) it's people will need. All you have to do is look at China. Tatizo ni viongozi uchwara na wapumbavu wanaouuza nchi yetu
ReplyDeleteMimi nashangaa sana maprofesa wetu Tanzania wanapenda kuhusifia ubovu uliopita hii leo inchi aina madaktari wala mainginia ndio tunapata matatizo yote, kielimu profesa shvji kila kitu ni msingi au foundation ikiwa mbovu ndio kila kitu kinaalibika. mlikuwa wapi mwanzoni. Leo hii Tanzania inaitaji wageni kwa kila kitu au matatizo hayatakwisha.walifukuzwa wageni wakanyanganywa mali zao hakuna mtu aliongea ndio hii tunalipa hii price
ReplyDeleteKwenye nchi za wenzetu huruhusiwi kumuajiri mgeni mpaka pale uthibitishe kwamba umemtafuta raia wa nchi husika kwa kipindi cha miezi 6 (kama sikosei, sikumbuki vizuri) na utoe uthibitisho wa kuitangaza kazi hiyo kwenye local newspapers au kwenye company's web site. Muda huo ukishakatika ndio sasa wanapitia uthibitisho wa kutangazwa nafasi hiyo kuona kama kweli ilitangazwa kwa miezi sita na hakuna mtu ambaye labda kwa sababu moja au nyingine aliweza kumeet hizo minimum requirements za nafasi husika. Hapo ndipo unapewa kibali rasmi cha kumuajiri mgeni, lakini si Bongo yetu ambayo haina sheria yoyote ile ya kulinda ajira kwa ajili ya wazawa. Halafu kule Barrick unaweza kukuta mbongo shule yake ni kubwa kuliko mgeni lakini anapata ujira ambao ni 10% ya ujira wa mgeni kwa sababu tu ana ngozi nyeupe na kajicerticate tu kauongo na kweli.
ReplyDeleteNadhani tuanze kuangalia ni jinsi gani tunareposses hayo mashamba kupewa wakenya mashamba hayo isiwe sababu ya sisi kuendelea kutoa mashamba kwa wakorea, waarabu na watu wengine wasio na ardhi wanaokuja kutunyang'anya sisi.
ReplyDeleteKama walipewa kwa kutoa kitu kidogo basi hii ni sababu tosha ya kutengua mkataba uliofunikwa na rushwa. Kinachofuata ni kutoa taarifa PCCB ili wafuatilie kama wanavyofanya kwenye kesi ya Liyumba wakishindwa basi tuchukue hatua nyingine za kulazimisha upelelezi uendelee.
Au haya ndiyo mageuzi ya "Kilimo Kwanza", mnaimbiwa wimbo huo kisha mnaitikia Kilimo Kwanza.
ReplyDeleteLakini huu ni upuuzi tu, hakuna cha kujitetea hapa. Kwanini tusitumie ardhi tuliyonayo kuzalisha mazao ambayo sisi wenyewe tungeuza Korea Kusini na sehemu nyingine duniani, kwa bei tunayotaka?
Lakini pia tukawa na chakula cha kutosheleza mahitaji ya nchi yetu?
Inasikitisha sana kuona tumeshindwa kuwa wabunifu kiasi hiki mpaka tunaenda kukaribisha wengine waje watumie ardhi yetu kujizalishia chakula chao tena kwa mtaji wa raslimali zetu, kwa malipo tu ya sie pia kujifunza!!! Kimeshindikana kipi kwa sisi wenyewe kutumia raslimali tulizonazo kuwawezesha wakulima wetu ikiwa hawana ujuzi basi tuwafundishe kwa kuajiri wataalamu au tuwapeleke shule. Nchi yetu ni maskini, ila inabidi tuache kujidanganya na tuwe wawazi kwa nafsi zetu kwamba katika hali zote za kimaskini tulizo nazo mbaya kuliko...ni umaskini wetu wa kimawazo. Kuanzia tunakotokea kwa kuchagua viongozi wasio na utu,ubinadamu,"logic" wala "vision"
ReplyDeleteHii atiko wangepelekewa Chama Cha Magamba ndio wakuu wa kuuza ardhi
ReplyDeleteila tatizo siyo wachina na wageni. Tatizo ni viongozi na wana magamba
That is what it is. Tanzania hatujui thamani ya ardhi. Je unatambua kuwa kuna watu wanakufa kwa njaa Tanzania? Kama jibu ni ndiyo, kwanini tunashindwa kujitosheleza kwa chakula?
ReplyDeleteSerikali inaendeshwa kibabaishaji, hakuna policy ya kilimo inayotekelezeka, wala hakuna strategy ya kufanya kilimo cha uhakika
Ninakubaliana na maoni ya Profesor mashaka ukweli kuhusu hawa wawekezaji uchwara na mafisadi. Yaani wamekuja wanatufanya sisi kama watumwa ndani ya ardhi yetu. Unakuta mtu huyu ambaye hata ukifuatilia kodi alipayo kwa serikali ni aibu mtupu lakini atatetemekewa na viongozi na watendaji wa serikali utafikiri ndiye anayetuweka hapa bongo kiasi kwamba akiondoka basi tena hali zetu zinakuwa mbaya. Hebu hili litazamwe upya
ReplyDeleteMashaka unasahau kwamba south Korea wameshapewa nchi,hii serikali inabidi iwe macho na kusimamisha mikataba yote. Italeta machafuko. Hatutakubali haya majitu kujinyakulia ardhi yetu. Tutaingia porini kulinda nchi yetu
ReplyDeleteSerikali ya Kikwete inatutayarishia vita. Lazima tutapigana na hawa wageni kuhusu ardhi yetu. Hilo halina swali.
ReplyDeleteLazima tuwafukuze kabisa, Tanzania wameifanya kama nyumba ya mama zao, nyambaf, lazima watoke
Hii kitu haikuwa siri. Viongozi wa south korea walikuja Tanzania nadhani mwaka jana kuhusu hii issue na mh. Pinda juzi alikwenda kutiliana sign tu huko kwao.
ReplyDeleteKwa upande wangu naona kama terms ziko nzuri hakuna tatizo ili mradi wachukue ardhi ambayo siyo makazi ya watu na uzuri wa kuwekeza ktk kilimo ni kwamba ardhi bado ni ya serikali. Tofauti na madini ambapo mali ni madini yakiisha basi mnaambuia mashimo
Ngojeni waweke silaa, tuko watu million 44, tutaona kama silaa zao zitatuua wote.
ReplyDeleteHatukubali mchina mzungu au
mkorea kuja kunua ardhi yetu.
NO !