Remember this.
I know that you are a young, energetic and very optimistic about your future
I do understand that you are doing everything you can to make yourself better and pack your backpack full of resources in order to begin the battle, the one you need to fight with your surroundings so to make sure you are going to make it later.

Before kick staring the engine that will drive you through the good, the bad and the ugly of your survival, there are a lot of things I have to remind you.
The first thing you have to know that, tomorrow when you wake up you won’t be able to get breakfast because the price of your loaf of bread will be as 10 times as that you bought a new brand limousine, the cost of two spoons of sugar you will need to put in one cup of your tea would buy you Armani Jacket in Milan and kerosene you need to prepare the tea costs the new jeans from D& G.

All these costs you will not afford because your father is a government worker who is paid 60,000 Tsh per month, so expect to start your day without a breakfast.

You will take your way to school, when you reach there, the number of students outside of the school gate, you will surprise to see why are they outside while you didn’t late to school and they were there earlier than you.

Ask them, are you late? ”NO” one of them will say
Is the Headmaster sick today that the school is not going to be opened?
“NO” another student will reply.
So what’s the problem?

Three of the students will tell you that all of them were expelled because they didn’t pay the school fee and told not to go back if they didn’t pay.
You will yourself one among them and decide to leave the school and go to solve the fee problem.
You will probably go to your brother who’s making a living by selling children clothes in the city centre, he doesn’t have a permanent shop but he lays his products down and sell them.
At the time you get there, people are running away towards you, you notice them as small scale traders who also lay down there products the same place as your brother and sell.
Suddenly you see your brother also running faster towards you, when he came near you you accompany him and ask him what was the problem the they are running away from there working place, he says that police and municipal council officers have been chasing them and all his money and other assets been taken away.
My brother, my sister you don’t have the hope to pay the school fee and return to school.

On the way back home you meet your sister who was about to join a University, she from the Ministry of Education to enquire about her admission process, the result she got is that she has been refused the admission, she was confused and didn’t believe her ears because she had very good enough results to join the University.
When she left the Ministry building told her that isn’t that she missed the admission due to the poor results but there were two chances left one for minister’s son and another ministry’s senior officer’s daughter.
No way out sister.

When both of you got back home your cousin came from immigration department to apply for a passport to travel to Europe where he is going to do test for the football team need to test and possible sign his for new league season.
He probably has less than a week to leave the country because he uses his friend’s email that was outside the city when the mail came.
To get the passport, he was told to pay 200,000 by one of the department officers so as to get it faster.
The reason an officer told him was that” you are going to make a lot of money in Europe and you will not remember me if I will help you, so give me that amount”

According to father’s salary no more soccer.

These are my African brothers and sisters who suffer many injustice in there countries let’s unite and help them out.

I was impressed to read in the african history books that the african elites helped in enduring freedom and indepence in africa,at the the moment i'm suprised to see and hear that the same african scholars are involving in the actions of denial of freedom and independence to their african brothers because they are living in better life in the western countries.
The good example,i was shocked when i watchet one interview involved Collien McEdward of cnn and one african scholar from University of Georgia saying that CCM brought changes and development in Tanzania and opposition was unable to remove CCM from power.
I would like to remind that scholar and the world at large that if he doesn't know,within four decades of CCM in power,it has done nothing than victimizing Tanzanians in poverty,diseases and destruction of people resources.
He doesn't know that those who so called clean leaders by the western nations,like Benjamin William Mkapa,has been the Commander in chief of Tanzania who has been giving orders to his troops to kill,rape,innocent young girls,and steal properties of still poorest creatures in Zanzibar part of Tanzania.
If this scholar doesn't know Tanzania,we have been born and raised here,our people still living with less than four dollard a day,our education type doesn't make us face changes of the modern world,the people are still travelling from rural to urban and from Tanzania to rich countries in search of better life and opportunities.
So what changes does this scholar from one of the respected unversity means.
For the scholar to say that Tanzanian opposition is unable to remove CCM from the power,it shows the implications in his understanding the truth of the matter or he is in the moral of hiding the issue so as to make his daily bread from his westetrn bosses.
It is openly known that the people of the United Republic of Tanzania are fed up with CCM and it's leaders so CCM does whatever possible even if the price is innocent human blood to make sure it remains at the power because from the starting of the multipartisim system in TANZANIA,the people's power has been defeating CCM in all three general elections.
This is the great shame to us the young people of Africa from our African scholars.
We are depending upon them to bring changes to African but it seems they are blocking the changes.
In this way the development of African continent will remain to be unfulfilled dream.

Bloodshed on Tanzanian islands



There has been tension since October's election

Violent clashes between Tanzanian police and opposition demonstrators on the semi-autonomous islands of Zanzibar and Pemba are reported to have left at least 16 people dead.


Police fired teargas and then live bullets in the air as a warning, and then aimed at the crowd

Eyewitness to Zanzibar clashes
Eyewitnesses spoke of running battles in the streets, with police firing repeatedly at supporters of the Civic United Front (CUF), who are demanding a re-run of last year's election.

In one incident, on Pemba, a policeman was decapitated with a machete.

The CUF has made repeated calls for a re-run of last October's poll on the islands, which international observers said was not free and fair.

Police killed at least two CUF supporters on Friday after raiding the party's offices in Zanzibar town.

Live bullets

Saturday's violence appears to have started when the police tried to prevent the demonstrations from taking place.



President Mkapa: Government banned demonstration

"The police tried to disperse some groups and people reacted," said Issa Yusuf, an eyewitness at the scene of one incident in Zanzibar Town.

He said the demonstrators threw stones and petrol bombs.

"Police fired teargas and then live bullets in the air as a warning and then aimed at the crowd. About five people fell down, but I have seen two dead."

Many of the demonstrators were reported to be carrying machetes.

Last week, the government of President Benjamin Mkapa - which won last year's elections - banned the CUF demonstrations and warned people not to take part.

The CUF had called for demonstrations not just in Zanzibar, but throughout the whole of Tanzania, to protest at the result of the election.

Election concerns

Polling in the election was relatively trouble-free on the mainland, but international monitors said it was not conducted freely and fairly on Zanzibar and its sister island, Pemba.

On Friday, the CUF chairman, Ibrahim Lipumba, was charged in the main city, Dar-es-Salaam, with unlawful assembly and disturbing the peace. He appeared in court along with 15 other CUF members on the same charges.

Mr Lipumba had injuries to his arms, which some observers said supported opposition allegations that he was beaten in the course of his arrest.

Zanzibar police seal off party HQ
The security forces on Tanzania's Zanzibar islands have sealed off large
parts of the main city around the opposition party headquarters.
The BBC's Noel Mwakugu in Zanzibar says that dozens of opposition activists
have collapsed after breathing teargas.

The opposition CUF has claimed victory in Sunday's presidential election.
Official results are expected later.

There have been sporadic clashes since Sunday, sparked by claims that ruling
CCM supporters were voting illegally.

These claims have been denied by both the CCM (Chama Cha Mapinduzi) and the
Zanzibar Electoral Commission.

'Chaos'

Our correspondent says that hundreds of CUF (Civic United Front) supporters
kept an overnight vigil outside the party headquarters before the police
moved in, firing teargas.

CUF chairman Ibrahim Lipumba said the opposition had narrowly won the
election, although he said the CCM would officially be declared the winner.

"We believe that our candidate [Seif Sharif] Hamad has won the election
despite all the attempts at rigging," he said.

"He has won by a very small margin [but] we have heard that the ZEC will
announce CCM as the winner as usual."

Government spokesman Vuai Ali Vuai, however, accused the CUF of stirring up
trouble.

"Our friends want to make chaos by telling the world results before they are
counted ... We have great hope we will be the winner," he told Reuters news
agency.

Election postponed

More than 30,000 members of the security forces have been deployed in the
semi-autonomous islands. Some 500,000 people were expected to cast their
ballots.

In elections to the 50-seat House of Representatives, the CCM has won 14
seats on the main island, while the CUF had won 19 seats - all but one on
the second island of Pemba.
Incumbent Amani Karume is running for a second term after winning elections
in November 2000, while Mr Hamad was runner-up in Zanzibar's 1995 and 2000
presidential elections.

As well as casting their ballots for a president for the islands, voters
were choosing 50 members for the legislature and 139 local councillors.

Voting on the mainland has been postponed due to the death of opposition
vice-presidential candidate, Jumbe Rajab Jumbe.

Zanzibar voters will now have to wait until 18 December to vote in
nationwide presidential and legislative elections.

Zanzibar opposition leader alleges vote was rigged
Says thousands who tried to cast ballots were foiled
By Chris Tomlinson, Associated Press | November 1, 2005

ZANZIBAR, Tanzania -- Zanzibar's opposition leader yesterday condemned the
presidential and legislative elections his region conducted Sunday as
neither free nor fair, and riot police clashed with his supporters.

The balloting, following a campaign marked by violence and recrimination,
saw voters on the ''spice islands" choose between socialists who have ruled
for more than 30 years and an opposition promising privatization and
wholesale economic change.

Opposition leader and presidential candidate Seif Shariff Hamad said some
80,000 opposition supporters were denied their right to vote in Sunday's
balloting, Zanzibar's third election since the semiautonomous region
restored multiparty politics in 1992.

Electoral authorities announced early results that showed the ruling Chama
Cha Mapinduzi, or Revolutionary Party, taking 15 seats in the main island
and Hamad's party winning all 18 seats in the second island, an opposition
stronghold.

In several key opposition constituencies, police on Sunday trucked in
hundreds of voters, irking local residents, who said the strangers should
not have been allowed to vote. Poll results, required to be posted outside
the stations, were absent at those locations yesterday. Official results
announced on the radio awarded those seats to the ruling party.

Results from one of the races for the 50-seat House of Representatives were
nullified because of irregularities.

Opposition officials have said 10,000 votes were enough to swing an election
in this Indian Ocean archipelago with an estimated 1 million people, half of
them registered voters. Islamic radicals could find an opening in this
devoutly Muslim region if Sunday's vote is seen as flawed and proof that
democracy cannot work here.

Riot police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse Zanzibaris
celebrating what Hamad had called a clear early lead in the presidential and
legislative elections.

The demonstrations began shortly after early morning prayers. Police
arrested at least three men amid clashes with supporters of the opposition
Civic United Front. More than a dozen people were reported seriously injured
and two men were shot, opposition officials said.

Later, outside his party headquarters, Hamad persuaded thousands of young
men to go home and await his instructions concerning any demonstrations.

There were no reliable exit polls. Electoral authorities said full
legislative results were not expected until late last night. Presidential
results may not be announced until today.

Zanzibar is a semiautonomous region of Tanzania.