Where do we stand?, as countries dependent on foreign donation to carryout basic functions of our governments we are between a rock and hard surface, we are bound to be squashed. Do we have to welcome foreign investors who are bent on exploitation? The answer in my view is NO. We as the owners of our own land and what is in it we have to have the final say on terms of which who ever is interested would abide and adhere to. We should be the one writing up rules and regulations and terms of their activities in our countries and not otherwise.On paper foreign investments seems to be the right remedy for economic ills facing many poor countries. As Mr Mashaka pointed out that foreign investors are supposed to provide opportunity for the host country to develop its natural and human resources, on contrary companies are profit driven with multitude of shareholders waiting for their invested bucks. Well established companies will seek any opportunity to increase their profit margin without care as long as their backers are happy. That’s why bigger companies have a wall of lawyers surrounding them in case of legal action against them.
I have nothing against people of goodwill for our country because I believe that not all companies are purely exploitative some have good policies that allow growth in both the companies and their host area of influence in both environmental and personal growth. The most pressing issue is that we do not have policy makers with expertise in looking after our natural resources, most of them look at the end of the balance sheet paper to see how much they will be taking home without regard to the impact of that investment on the environment and the population. This is evident on many cases aforementioned by many critics and activist. We all do the blame game and I think we have become experts on it, what we need is action plan and implementation of those plans. We all know that the earth has finite resources let alone a country like ours at this moment of having natural wealth abundance we are beggars when our natural resources are depleted what will we become.
China is now booming in terms of a phenomenon economic growth such that it is financing the whole world including America and it is to do with them exploiting their natural resources at tremendous rate. But naturally growth boom time is followed by bust time because they will not be able to sustain that growth forever due to finite availability of natural resources that’s why they are expanding their tentacles to countries like ours hoping to sustain their growth by collecting our natural resources to fuel their fire.
Now instead of us be in a position to negotiate these deals for our greater benefit we are doing the opposite by having few people without regard to the well being of the populace, making decisions that will impact our very existence in the near future. We can not allow few people to decide the fate of our lives our children lives for few bucks without a hint of shame that are putting this country in danger of both social and economic collapse.
The days of exploitation will never end if we do not take effective actions against it. They need our natural resources we should be ones putting up prices not them as they have been doing over millennia. They exploited us because we could not do anything with our produces (cotton, and others) we did not have technologies or industries to process them, it is still the same story we have rare earth minerals but we do not have industries to transform them into components used in mobile phones or other consumer gadgets.
This is different era now education is not confined in one part of the world it is global the same to technologies are not confined in one part of the world so we should put special emphasis is developing internal technologies and learn and copy other people technologies so that we can exploit our own natural resources and develop our know-how and hence transform our lives for the better. We should come-out our shells and realise that things do not just happen they are done and we are the people who should do it.
In nineties we had a lot of small scale businesses producing goods ranging from shoes to the making of car accessories, what we needed was to support them and be proud of our own products and the government to offer special help to develop such businesses so that they can improve the quality of their products. We still have such business in various aspects of industries ranging from furniture making to mineral explorations. They need help because they are the majority employers in our country. Since not everyone will be employed by the government these small businesses are the backbone of the real economy if given chance and help in terms of knowledge and capital they will become a formidable force against poverty in our country.
We can play politics all the time to amuse our unquenchable friends but when the natural resources are gone they will be gone forever.
Mungu Ibariki Nchi yetu na utuondoshee UBINAFSI kwenye nafsi zetu
Ndimi Mdau Saidi Ally Saidi aka Mwanafunzi..
(samahani kwa kutumia lugha ngeni)
saidi ushauri wa bure, ukitaka kubishana na mashaka au kuchangia mada zake, vi vyema uandike kwa kiswahili........kiingeza ni kigumu hasa ikiwa lugha ambayo haujaizoea. ulikuwa na mvuto mkubwa ukiandika kiswahili.....kiingereza inaonekamana ni ngumu kidogo kwako. ni ushauri tu. ila ongera kujitahidi ingawa umekoroga sana na kuwa kila sehemu
ReplyDeletethis is horrible. Saidi Hally Saidi, iF i AM YOU, I WOULD NOT HUMILIATE MYSELF. by wriitng in english. i would right in kiswahili. hapa umechemsha. USE KI9SWAHILI IN YOUR NEXT ATIKO, THIS ENGLISH IS HORRIBLE alafu mbona you have copy and pasted this document ma friend? Ningeendelea kuchangia lakini here no. This is too much of nalitotela
ReplyDeletekweli lazima tuwe na uchungu na nchi la sivyo watajimegea mpaka iishe
ReplyDelete....mkubwa u got it, however u should try to separate one paragraph frm another atleast by double or triple spacing just to let the flow ur ideas be well understood to readers....just sayin' otherwise people won't be attracted to read such a packed article....
ReplyDeleteComrade this is terrible.write in English haueleweki kabisa. Hivi unamaanisha nini?
ReplyDeleteHuna haja ya kuomba samahani kwa kutumia kiingereza.Ulijua wazi unaowaandikia ni waswahili ambao kiingereza hawana hamu nacho,hivyo ulihitaji ujikite kuandika kwa Kiswahili ili andiko lako lisomwe.
ReplyDeleteMimi wala sijasoma hata kidogo maana nimeangalia tu nikaona sioni hata paragraph inaanzia wapi na inaishia wapi, na nyingine inaanza wapi na inaishia wapi.
In general, if you really want to share something genuine with people Of Tanzania, please ask yourself first if your article is genuine, then think of the readers which language is preferable to them so that your massage will be delivered and well understandable.There is no need to spend your time roaming in finding hard words in dictionaries just to bother yourself by looking for "Ujuaji na umaarufu fulani" which does not has any competence in this diversity.Writing good or bad English that is not our concern, what we want right here is the content of your thoughts if that help Tanzanians to look out of the box. Said, will you please rewrite your article in Swahili??
me naona hii imekaa sawa tu ujumbe umefika
ReplyDeleteMjomba ulivyoshauriwA, tumia kiswahili. You are still so crude in English. Tumia kiswahili unakuwa na mvuto sana badala ya kulazimisha hii Lugha ya watu. Ni ushauri tu
ReplyDeleteWewe mdau wa pili, na wewe ni vyema ungeandika kwa kiswahili moja kwa moja. If I am you.....; i would right..... siyo sahihi.
ReplyDeleteOndoa boriti kwenye jicho lako kabla ya kuondoa kibanzi kwenye jicho la mwenzako.
article yako ni nzuri ila kama wengine walivyosema ingekuwa vizuri zaidi kama ungeandika kwa kiswali.Naelewa sometimes inakuwa easier to express your opinions in english but its time for us to appreciate and value our language...
ReplyDeleteOtherwise ujumbe wako umefika na cha muhimu ni kufikiria ni hatua gani tunatakiwa kutumia kusuluhisha hili tatizo..By hatua naamanisha step by step, maana watu wengi tayari wanaona hii shida ila hakuna anaetaka ku take action..Kama una maoni ingekuwa vizuri kuyahusisha na watanzania wenzako tuangalie jinsi ya kutatua tatizo hili.
"we have to be the change we want to see"..ghandi
I’m proud to be Tanzanian and I feel sorry for all of you guys, im not sure if its luck of education or its just ignorant and stupidity. The gentlemen was making very good valid point instead of supporting him your criticise him, English, Swahili, or any language does not matter as long as the point is well made, shame on you and I feel sorry for you guys
ReplyDeleteNaungana na wengine kupinga uandishi wa makala inayowahusu watanzania kwa lugha ya kiingereza. Labda kama unataka ujumbe uwafikie hao wawekezaji wasiojua kiswaha. Hata hivyo hawapaswi kutafuniwa wao wakabaki kumeza tu. Wanatakiwa wasome ujembe kwa kiswahili ili kama unawakera watafute mkalimani wamlipe awatafsirie. Hiyo pia itakuwa changamoto kwao ili wajifunze kiswahili.
ReplyDeleteKuja kwenye mada yako bwana Said. Mimi naona wawekezaji ni muhimu ila namna gani wawekeze ndio kilikuwa kitu muhimu. Tulitakiwa tutengeze "framework" ya uwekezaji na kuitengenezea sheria zake kabla hatujaamua kuwakaribisha hao wawekezaji. Sio kusimama tu kwenye vyombo vya habari na kutangaza uwekezaji. Uwekezaji upo dunia nzima ila wenzetu wanaweka mikakati endelevu ya uwekezaji kabla hawajawaita wawekezaji. Pia sheria kwao zinasimamiwa ipasavyo. Hapa kwetu viongozi wanachotafuta ni vya juu (10%) na rushwa kutoka kwa wawekezaji ndio maana sheria hazisimamiwi. Matokeo yake tunaona uwekezaji hauna maana.
Sasa hivi mnawachukia wawekezaji kwa kuwa wanatunyonya lakini haohao mliwatafuta baada ya kuona maisha ya awamu ya kwanza yalikuwa magumu. Kumbuka wabongo hatuna mitaji ndio maana tunashindwa kuendesha uchumi wetu wenyewe. Watatanzania mnataka nini hasa?