Tanzania's information minister told young people to actually read what the founding leaders wrote and listen to their speeches if they want to stop screwing up the country's core values. Professor Palamagamba Kabudi was hyping up Ambassador Daniel Ole Njoolay's new biography in Arusha, saying kids need to learn from older generations instead of constantly catching heat for making avoidable mistakes. He brought up a 1965 speech where Julius Nyerere basically warned youth to defend the nation by sticking to ethics, and he wishes Nyerere had written his own autobiography because that would have been fire.
Kabudi said the ambassador's book covers everything from struggling through school in a community that didn't value education to...
Tanzania's minerals minister told the Mbogwe zone to investigate 191 mining permits in Geita that have been sitting dormant forever without any actual development happening. Anthony Mavunde wants a preliminary report hitting his desk showing who owns these prospecting licenses and what progress they supposedly made, and he's basically fed up with people hoarding huge chunks of land while doing nothing with them.
The minister said anyone sitting on prospecting or primary mining licenses without putting real money into development is getting their permits yanked. Mbogwe officials confirmed the zone handed out nearly 2,000 small-scale mining licenses on top of the 191 sketchy ones under review.
Local mining groups are saying these...
Tanzania dropped serious cash to wipe out some sheep and goat diseases by 2030, and officials say the country is basically carrying the whole continent on this one. Permanent Secretary Agnes told a workshop crowd that the government has already put down 200 million shillings over five years for vaccination programs, with 69.2 million hitting accounts for this year. President Samia Suluhu Hassan apparently pushed hard to get livestock health funded properly.
The African Union rep said Tanzania sits at the southern edge where this PPR disease stops spreading into the rest of Africa, which makes it a critical firewall. Some guy from FAO and livestock keeper groups are hyped because the vaccine opens up international markets that were...
Tanzania's ruling party ran internal votes to pick who gets to lead cities and districts for the next five years, and CCM councillors across the country chose their mayoral and council chair candidates. Dormohamed Issa kept his Mbeya mayor nomination after beating two opponents with 28 votes, while John Noya swept Babati District with every single ballot against someone who literally got zero support.
Maximilian Iranghe snagged the Arusha nomination with almost unanimous backing from 24 CCM councillors out of 25 total. Thomas Ngobei ran the table in Longido with all 26 votes present, and Engelbert Qorro took Karatu District Council after pulling 15 votes against two challengers who combined for only six.
Sima Constantine grabbed the...
Tanzania just landed a $640 million farming deal that's supposed to create over 100,000 jobs in the next decade. Pan-Tanzania Agriculture Developments Limited grabbed 62,000 acres in Kilwa District, where they're setting up cassava farms and an industrial park to process stuff for Chinese and Asian export markets, plus some meat operations on the side.
Professor Kitila Mkumbo handed over the land rights and said the Lindi Region needs an economic boost since it only puts up 2 percent of the country's GDP right now. The company's getting four villages wired up with better infrastructure and irrigation while building a 2,000-acre industrial zone inside the bigger farm plot.
Officials made it clear the land isn't a freebie, and they're...
Local government bigwigs in Tanzania are pushing hard for better neighborhood tracking systems because knowing who actually lives where makes everything from security to basic services way easier to handle. Peppino Sudi from Ubungo District says the old ten-cell leader system for tracking residents basically fell apart, and he wants laws forcing everyone to register with their block captain so authorities can keep tabs on sketchy people moving around.
Street-level officials across Dar es Salaam and Arusha are saying proper ID systems help them spot troublemakers faster and get things like water and electricity to the right places. Security volunteers are complaining they don't have enough people or cash to run community policing...
Two city councillors from Chinhoyi nearly got locked up after calling someone a prostitute on WhatsApp, and Ruth Chikukwa plus Jacqueline Zenda each had to cough up $350 or face three months behind bars. They got busted under Zimbabwe's Cyber Security and Data Protection Act when Linda Sauramba reported them after getting screenshots of the group chat insults.
The whole thing went down when Chikukwa posted something nasty about Sauramba on a WhatsApp group, and then Zenda jumped in, calling her a sex worker who wasted her chances. Someone named Martha Tafirenyika tipped off Sauramba about the messages flying around.
The magistrate ruled against both defendants after prosecutors showed they broke the law by publicly trashing someone...
Zimbabwe's national rugby squad finds out who they face at the expanded 2027 World Cup when organizers run the draw in Sydney. The Sables locked their spot by beating Namibia to win the Rugby Africa Cup after sitting out global competition since 1991, and they join South Africa as the continent's reps at a tournament that jumps from 20 squads to 24.
Australia hosts the revamped format with six pools of four teams instead of the old setup, and knockout rounds start earlier with a Round of 16 that takes pool winners plus the best third-place finishers. Zimbabwe landed in Band Four alongside Samoa, Portugal, Romania, Hong Kong, and Canada based on world rankings.
The tournament gives more countries a shot at making noise on the big stage...
Econet Wireless Zimbabwe is throwing what they're calling a massive tech expo at Harare International Conference Centre that runs for three days starting next week. The whole thing goes by Future-Ready Tech Synergies, and the telecom giant wants to show off AI, IoT, 5G, and cloud stuff while getting African innovators together to talk about where digital tech is headed on the continent.
The setup mixes business sessions with public access, and they're planning keynotes, hackathons, masterclasses, and gaming competitions. Corporates, startups, regulators, students, and investors are all supposed to show up for what amounts to Econet flexing its digital transformation credentials while pushing for more cross-sector partnerships and...
