rvp20182:
The ease of doing business captures all that. Just say Tanzanians have no experience setting up business outside their country. Kenya has open door policy. Tanzania honestly cannot hack in Kenya - if South Africans companies cannot - please save your money and run. Kenya has brutal competition - and those that fail or find they cannot come - and get favours they normally get from banana republics - they start bad-mouthing kenya.

Setting up a company in kenya is easy and free for all - you don't need to see a minister or name - but be ready for competition.

There is a reason why our economy is a largest non-mineral economy in SSA - it down to a very strong private sector that is guaranteed to give you the most brutal competition.

It isn't that Tanzania can't but rather your government makes it so hard for foreign African companies to start business in Kenya let alone get a foothold in the market. Proof is in the stalling from 2017 of $100M investment in gas from Rostam Aziz a prominent Tz businessman and he met your president at State House, imagine if a person who has access to the highest people in power can't start an investment in Kenya imagine the thousand who don't have that sort of access?

rvp20182:
More evidence of your failed education policy. I said South Africa companies excel everywhere in Africa except kenya. We let them come and we bury them.

Proof that Kenyans are idiots. Reason this, if a company can thrive in every market except one and all markets have similar characters, the failing market is the one with problems. You guys like to complain about other nations doing you bad while you play the same dirty games. the sooner you accept the facts the less it will hurt in the future. You guys have a terrible and biased business environment.

rvp20182:
The ease of doing business captures all that. Just say Tanzanians have no experience setting up business outside their country. Kenya has open door policy. Tanzania honestly cannot hack in Kenya - if South Africans companies cannot - please save your money and run. Kenya has brutal competition - and those that fail or find they cannot come - and get favours they normally get from banana republics - they start bad-mouthing kenya.

Setting up a company in kenya is easy and free for all - you don't need to see a minister or name - but be ready for competition.

There is a reason why our economy is a largest non-mineral economy in SSA - it down to a very strong private sector that is guaranteed to give you the most brutal competition.

So you also want to say that South Africa, the country with more business investments outside her land can't set up a business in Kenya? Your system is flawed, just take the L and go sleep.

rvp20182:
Kenya ease of doing business is behind Mauritius, Rwanda, and Morocco ONLY. If Tanzanian business cannot make it in Kenya - it's really their problem.

Suluhu seem ready to reset Kenya-TZ back to Jakaya Kikwete and Benjamin Mkapa times - not the Nyerere/Magufuli chip on the shoulder.

Ease of doing business when your white, who many African companies come to invest in Kenya and fail but their European counterparts succeed? Yall just greedy and corrupt.

rvp20182:
Kenya becomes the bigger person - and scrap works visa for TZ.
https://www.businessdailyafrica.com/bd/economy/kenya-scraps-work-visa-for-tanzanians-3389226

But still put road blocks for Tanzanian investors. You're all talk no show, you say you're doing this to improve the business environment but when Tanzanians come to invest in Kenya they meet obstacles.
Go to the comment section and see how many Kenyans agree with mister Rostam Aziz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QroMex7qLmM

rvp20182:
Of course, everyone in Kenya speaks English, Kiswahili, and their mother tongue. Your educational language policy is one huge mess.

I was being sarcastic. The "Kenyans can speak Swahili" myth is always proved to be false when ever a Tanzanian delegate goes to Kenya, shit even the speaker of you parliament struggles to say 2021, Elfu Mbili na Ishirini na Moja. And you come here saying you speak Swahili.

rvp2018:
See my corrections above.The average TZ high school graduate cannot speak or write in English emperical data says.Those are factoids.

And the Average Kenyan can speak simple Swahili.

rvp2018:
Tz and English are not friends

Says the idiot whose post is full grammatical and spelling mistakes.

rvp20182:
Tanzania promise to be good kids - can't beat them join them - honestly, Kenya can help Tanzania - deal with their lethargy. This Suluhu doesn't have a chip in her shoulder coming from the forward-looking Zanzibar unlike the mainlanders here.

Remove the autonomous Zanzibar - and Kenya bordering North Tanzania - and Tanzania is HELL HOLE like CONGO

I will Miss You ; My TZ sweetie KAziKazi CCM will not like this.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDF0rws8AWg

Can you please sit down and write something that is coherent. Not everyone here is fluent in Jibrish.

rvp2018:
Typical OBTUSE Tanzanian. None of those countries border Kenya apart from Uganda - and yet they run miles away to look for kenya to rescue them - some including Zambia come all the way to Mombasa port.

Our non-contiguous neigberhors are Somalia, South Sudan and Ethiopia.

We are interested in frying BIG FISH. Ethiopia and DRC. We already colonized East Africa the last 30yrs - and only compete with boers of South Africa.

Kenya is keen on 100M Ethiopia - and 90M DRC. In Ethiopia we just completed 1,000 plus KM electricity connection. Kengen is drilling their geothermal rings. Safaricom wants run their telcome. Lamu port is on trial now and begin operation next month. Kenya run it's flower industry. Kenya banks are hovering - waiting for her to open up -with representative offices.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=si_onRbAf0A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNihL1T3_Uc
As for CONGO - our companies have gone there big time - KQ, Serena Hotels, Equity - Equity Bank run their 2nd biggest bank - and will do wonders there. DRC president has sign a defence pact that will see 2,000 kenya highly trained soldiers fix that country. The entire eastern congo is logistically run by Kenyans.

Not Tanzanian cowards that got whipped by rebels. Tell you what - most of East and Central Africa armies - including TZ are glorified militas too. So it was evenly match btw Mai Mai and poorly trained Tanzanian Army

Kenya will run DRC Congo in less than 5 yrs....both private sector and the minerals.

Meanwhile Suluhu bring herself to Kenya - but we are NOT interested - Ethiopia and DRC are better suitors.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15YK72dq5cM

Next will be Museveni running with his pipeline because TZ is just not ready for business....Uganda oil was discovered I think 2005 and it will be 20yrs-- opps 30yrs before it goes to market - and by then Oil will be obsolete.

Which Mombasa port? Every economic analysis shows transporting cargo through Dar is cheaper that Mombasa, plus the distance, and ohh! Did you forget the railway? And having a business or two doesn't mean its an economic take over. Kenya will have a minimum impact on DRC and more over Zambia. Speaking of oil, you also have oil, mmefikia wap?
And saying we have a glorified militia is funny cause mmekaa Somalia how long? and every year your intelligence organisation fails you and when you get attacked the British SAS has to come and save your ass.

gallivant:


I put it to you Suluhu will leave Nairobi a happier woman and a better president.

If better you mean loan mongering then no thank you.

rvp2018:
We only have problems with somalia due to their support for secession of kenya somalis otherwise we are friendly with all.Tanzania petty jealous we got used to... otherwise all in east and central africa admire kenya enterprise and tenacity..so much south sudan copied our flag.Tanzania got out of their communist mess with help of kenya fdi

HAHAHA.As usual Kenyan got their heads up their asses. Kenya has lost favor in East and Central Africa and most african countries would rather deal with Tanzania than in Kenya. If you were that admired by ECA nations most of the deal and projects that Tanzania is doing to connect the region would have been done by you but who got the pipeline deal? Tanzania. Who is going to connect Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and DRC with the coast via SGR? Tanzania. Who is pushing for Swahili to be the main language in ECA? Tanzania. Who helped rid DRC of M23? Tanzania. Who is going to put boots on the ground to help Mozambique? Tanzania. And Kenya didn't become a noticeable player in Tz economy before 2010. So sit down, look around and think before you say anything stupid again.

rvp2018:
Kenya Soldiers to replace the hapless Tanzanian, Malawians and South Africans in the DRC Congo - East - mineral rich Bonobo land like Ghana.

The mineral rich eastern Congo has been the scene of deadliest conflict since WW2.

Kenya soldiers will hopefully fix the mess there.

1) Some soldiers will be under UN peace keeping
2) Some engaged directly after DRC signed defence pact.

https://nation.africa/kenya/news/inside-kenya-s-plan-to-deploy-military-to-the-dr-congo-3383586?view=htmlamp

The troops to be deployed to the epicentre of the deadliest conflict since World War II – according to some experts – include Kenya Defence Forces commandos, who are said to be so well-trained that they are “walking weapons”.

The Special Forces include some of the soldiers who carried out a daring raid in the Somalia town of Jilib, then the only remaining bastion of al-Shabaab militants, where they neutralised a top al-Shabaab commander in 2018.

Nation.Africa is a dumb propaganda machine of Kenya.
Read UN resolution 2556 (2020) that the article is referencing and tell me if they even remotely mention Kenya. https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/3895605?ln=en

rvp2018:
Look like Magufuli misadventure and petty jealousy over kenya is over. The new president keen to reset the friendly relationship. Kenya and TZ were supposed to be allies - both being kiswahili speaking - but TZ need to accept the fact that kenya is more progressive - and try to copy it.

Her Excellency
@SuluhuSamia
, President of the United Republic of TanzaniaFlag of Tanzania will arrive in the country on Tuesday, 4th May 2021 for a two-day State Visit to the Republic of KenyaFlag of Kenya.

Tanzania had good relations with everyone except Kenya. And Kenya has problems with almost all her neighbors and you think Tanzania is the one with problems?

ovcwality:

I don't understand how that works, but gdp is money that a country make through trading for a year rigHt? Are you saying we sell our products on credits? since we don't have the money in hand. Lol

GDP is the estimated amount of money exchange in a given timeframe. Its not a good economic indicator of the state of economy.
Example:
If a farmer used to produce 5 bags of maize and sells 2, the sell of the 2 bags will be added in gdp. If the farmer increases the production from 5 to 10 bags but still sells 2, it will be calculated that the production is the same since he still sold 2. If he make still makes 5 and increase sells by 4 it will be calculated that the economy has grown while in reality the production is still the same.

Plus, using GDP PPP (Purchasing Power Parity) is more accurate than Nominal GDP sincel nominal uses the exchange rate against the dollar while PPP compares the commodity value of a nations against the US. A nations central bank can rise the value of its currency of some reason and it will be seen that the nominal GDP is higher while in reality its not.

Example:
USD against the Tanzanian Shilling is 1 to 2300 while by PPP is 1 to 880.
If you google the average price of a burger in the US and Tanzania it is $5 and Tsh. 4500/= respectively.
By this using forex rate a normal $5 beef burger should cost Tsh.11500 while by PPP it cost Tsh. 4400.
From the above, you can see if GDP is used for measure of economic performance, PPP is more accurate than Nominal.

rvp2018:
But district council led by the DC are gov appointees! That will not work! There is no autonomy there; Magufuli has to go round inspecting small stuff. In Kenya we want to have ward dev fund - lead by ward rep - that is like location - and they can do small projects.

Look at CDF - every const has managed to build good schools, colleges and name it - responding to local needs. They also do murram roads, bridges and such.

County gov do more than that...and ultimately national gov is left to deal with national issues

No the district council isn't led by the DC, its led by the mayor who is an elected by the councilors who are elected by the people.

rvp2018:
Kenya has similar economic structure - but you can keep the revenues centralized and shared equally. What is important is people from Njombe to have more autonomy and control of their future.

In kenya we started with district focus of 1980s - similar to TZ model now - and it didn't work - because the problem was people running the show were appointed by central gov - District Commissioners and their lackeys.

Then we went for CDF - const dev fund - every MP get 1-2m dollars annually to deal with small issues in their constituency - and we saw tremendous impact.

Now we have gone to devolution - with 47 counties with elected members of assemblies and governors - and we are seeing development spreading all over the country including in Turkana and neglected northern kenya.

What is important is people in any given small area need to have as much autonomy as possible - so they can make best decisions for themselves - without all knowing Magufuli going round fixing problems.

The autonomy comes in what we call district council where the council members decide where the money allocated from the government and local revenues is going to be used.
Its like this, Tanzania has the central (regional and union matters) and local government. The central government oversees every thing while allocating power to the local government. Thus, when the local district council needed anything the local elected representatives seat in council and decide what they need and the budget then from local revenues as well central government funds is allocated for that matter. If the area has a certain problem the citizen can demand it either from the central government or the local depending on the matter.
So for the matter of autonomy people have plenty of that.

rvp2018:
At least your provincial gov are not monolithic - when ANC run down everything - National Party can salvage some.
What is growing fine in TZ - when road network is 80,000 - 10 times less than South Africa. Tanzania badly need devolved or federal gov.

Road network in Tanzania is 80,000km because most of the land is either protected forests, national parks or game reserves (about 30% of the land) and Tanzania under the Ujamaa policy brought people together in villages for ease of providing services so why the large network? There are some places in Tanzania where you can travel for 3hrs without seeing a single human habitat, why put roads there? Cause it looks good on paper?

rvp2018:
I think chinese province have more autonomy than TZ's districts and provinces. They badly need devolved gov elected by the people.

Okay, let me tell you this. Most of the revenues in Tanzania are collected from the region of Dar es salaam which is the main business hub of the country. If we went into provisional governance only the regions having major cities like Dar, Mwanza, Arusha and Mbeya would have noticeable development while other regions with low revenue collection will have non, to fix this we have a centralised government where revenue from Dar es salaam will be used to build roads in Njombe apart from that it will be like in the US where people are moving from low revenue region to high revenue regions much like in the US where people are leaving Blue States to Red states such as Texas.

Tayser:


Wareva Kikwete did is child's play and saintly compared to what bulldozer did.

Cause his evils weren't paraded.
During Kikwete's time,
i)He ordered the capture and torture of the chairman of the Tanzania medical council because he wanted doctors to go on strike.
ii)A regional commissioner that he appointed shot and killed a public bus driver because he overtook his car(Regional commissioner is our equivalent to governor)
iii) He ordered the arrest of 5 Muslim leaders in Zanzibar and up to date are still in prison waiting trail.
iv) Pressured a judge to convict a father and son on the basis of child molestation while their was no evidence and the prosecution was shady just be cause his wife had a "thing" for the father. And don't get me on embezzlement and mismanagement of public funds.

You knew Magufuli was bad cause all of the media was saying so and who controls the media? The world powers. But when Kikwete did shady stuff you wont hear it cause he was working in their benefit.

Tayser:


Will you still deny the truth?

With every Tanzanian president there was some sort of "repression" eg. when Kikwete was in office they tortured the chairman of the doctors association because they wanted to start a strike, but, you will only hear that Kikwete was a champion for democracy, things were better under him or that he fought for human rights because he let chaos and corruption run rampant but truth is things were worse under him in terms of suppression of individual freedom.

Tayser:


On the contrary we are concerned for the dictatorship and torture he put you through.

Which torture? Again if your asleep WAKE THE F@CK UP.

Tayser:


The fact that he died tells you how sinful he was, according to the bible, because the wages of sin is death. Just quoting his favorite book back at him

Jesus, Mother Teressa, Ghandi, King Solomon, Elijah, King David, Moses, Isaiah, Elisha, Amos, John the Baptist and lets not forget Job who was tested by the devil and prevailed in faith by your logic are filthy sinner who are rotting in hell cause they died.

Tayser:


You are stampeding to death over the tinpot dictator. How many died this week? Heard its in the region of 50. Even in death, the dangerous man is still taking lives. Was he Illuminati?

Hard for you guys to believe but he was a president who made promises and kept them, fought for the lower class and always put Tanzania first. I know you can't relate but IT IS WHAT IT IS.....

Tayser:


We already have Suluhu who is Uhuru's side dish. Over the next 4 years he will impregnate her and officially incorporate Tz into Kenyan territory. Its the final straw we've been waiting.

The same country that is loosing $27M everyday to corrupt leaders is going to do what? If you dreaming I suggest you wake the f@ck up.

Tayser:


You are stampeding to death over the tinpot dictator. How many died this week? Heard its in the region of 50. Even in death, the dangerous man is still taking lives. Was he Illuminati?

That tinpot dictator built 90 hospitals,400 health centers, tremendously reduced public corruption, brought back discipline to civil servants, built over 5500km of road, increased tax collection from $300M to $869M per month and kick started education without tuition for primary and secondary students. Increase medicine budget from Tsh.10B to Tsh.200B not to mention various infrastructure projects all over the nation, Tanzania moved from the fifth nation in Tanzanite sales to the only nation selling Tanzanite and ended mass pouching of our wide life, went against gold mining giant Barrick Gold and won ensuring Tanzania took 50% of the profits from gold mining and moved Tanzania to a middle income economy all in 5 years.

Call him names, spit on his grave, curse him or what ever you want to do but to the millions of Tanzanians that saw what he did for this nation we will always pray to God that he rests his soul in peace.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obKmN7bsGIY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5A9-Dtv5wxQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqYiamGUsnc

Tayser:
Magu's eulogy

And this is the guy you want to be Tanzanian president?

vaxx:
There will always be legal ground to avoid tax payment . a well structured policy can be effective in collecting tax in whatever form an organization operate. it doesn't matter at all. . being able to enjoy all the necessary program that comes with traditional banking just on a simple telecoms chip is a beautiful technology.

We have mobile banking. The matter is telecom companies venturing into insurance and other sectors. In one way, it can create monopolies that can affect the citizen. Just to give you and example, last month all the major telecom companies in Tanzania raise their prices on data bundles, the government had to set up to fix this. If these same companies are into health insurance, the can raise prices for the ordinary citizen with great effect, thus, separation of sectors.

But its not bad. I don't know it might work.

Mkenya2019:
I go to agree with this description of Magufuli and TZs.

For all his antics TZ was actually back sliding. On all fronts; social economic and foreign relations they were worse off. He died before he could see the full results of his misguided policies like Chavez of Venezuela. He was the leader Tanzanians deserved because he mirrored their national character: petty, violent, superstitious, bombastic, jingoistic, anti intellectual and meddler in all affairs. He was unbecoming of a president imo and had very low IQ

You don't know Tanzania so just hush. Find a way to stop your government from bollowing Ksh.2B per day.