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ContentsFrom the Director General

Editorial

JK decorates NSSF

Hon. Kabaka tours NSSF Projects

Member - recruitment drive assumes new dimension

NSSF’s accomplishments tickle President Kikwete

Top NSSF managers meet, hone communication skills

NSSF undertakes to produce 150 megawatts

Fare thee well Lucy Njeama and Waziri Ndonde

WESTADI Special

Clinical investments propel Fund’s soaring successessays Crescentius Magori

NSSF workers donate foodstuffs to Tabata Orphans

Jollity as NSSF once again scoops top DITF Prizes

Katani Limited pushes Kilimo Kwanza initiative to new economic height

Tabora Region surpasses registration target

New improvements at Dr Livingstone’s Memorial Centre

Kigoma Region is now racing fast to catch the rest of Tanzania

Susi and Chuma’s mystery lives on

Shinyanga NSSF Branch focuses on more investments

NSSF Investments HIT one trillion MARK

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Dear Readers

From theDIRECTOR GENERAL

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I am pleased to welcome you to yet another edition of Hifadhi News. It is slightly over six months now since I last addressed you in the fourth edition. The period of January-July 2011 has been exciting to the National Social Security Fund because it has been marked by a signifi cant number of developments.

I am pleased to inform you that in the last few months the National Social Security Fund played host to visitors from Kenya’s National Social Security Fund, led by the Fund’s Managing Trustee Mr Joseph Kimote. The delegation also included an offi cial from Kenya’s High Commissioner to Tanzania. I am honoured to have hosted a number of equally important local visitors from both the public and private sectors.

As you are aware, the nation has been experiencing recurrent power cuts for the last few months. In view of this, the Fund has taken an initiative to produce 150 megawatts and feed it into the national power grid.

Presently we are undertaking due diligence that will guide the procurement of essential machinery for the project. Our target is to produce electricity by the end of this year.

You will also recall that construction of the Kigamboni Bridge across the Magogoni Creek has been high on our agenda for a long time. I am now pleased to inform you that the process of approving a contractor has started. Our projections are that the contractor will be on site by December this year.

Work on the joint venture between the Fund and the Apollo Hospital of India to build a world-class hospital in the precinct of the University of Dar es Salaam is progressing well. At this point in time we are drawing relevant partnership documents to seal the undertaking.

The Fund is also working on building a high profi le hotel in Mwanza City. Already we have picked a contractor for the job. At the same time, NSSF is undertaking preliminary studies to build affordable houses in Mwanza City, for which we will give top priority to Fund’s members.

As you already know, this is a replication of our pilot projects at Kinyerezi and Mtoni Kijichi in Dar es Salaam. The latter project is still under construction.I would also like to recognize the efforts of our team at the 35th

Dar es Salaam International Trade Fair which took place from July 1-10, 2011. As you are probably aware, NSSF has won the 1st overall prize ahead of many local and international exhibitors. They also won the service sector’s prize, repeating last year’s triumph. On behalf of the Chairman of the Board of Trustees and Management, I salute them and task our exhibitors to work even harder.

Finally, I would like to update you on the WESTADI project, which seeks to register members from Tanzania’s Diaspora throughout the world. I am pleased to inform you that after making all the necessary arrangements, the WESTADI Scheme was formally launched by His Excellency Dr. Jakaya Kikwete on 23rd September 2011 in Washington DC.

The launch took place during the 3rd Diaspora Council of Tanzanians in America (DIACOTA). The Board and Management were represented at the occasion by Mr. Abubakar Rajabu (Chairman) and the Director General.

Dr. Ramadhani K. DauDirector General

EDITORIAL

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President Jakaya Kikwete hands over a prize to the

DG Dr. Dau in recognition of the Fund’s support to local contractors at Mlimani City

Hall recently

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Welcome to you all, esteemed readers. This is the fi fth edition of your revived never miss newsletter, Hifadhi News. It covers the period of July-December 2011.

Let me begin by thanking you for your understanding and commitment to Hifadhi News. Again we are grateful for your comments and observations. For, without this feedback from you it would be diffi cult to weigh and gauge our performance. We thank you very much and please keep the advices fl owing in.

As proposed in our four earlier issues, we are still pursuing the internal dictum of dividing the country into fi ve special zones, for the purpose of making it easy to cover one area at a time. We have done so in the last four publications getting what some commentators have termed ‘a standing ovation’ from our readers. We accept the compliment because we understand our readers’ wish to be part of this publication. It is a genuine cause.

We have done the same this time around. We carry in this edition news from three NSSF regional branches. The involved regions are: Kigoma, Shinyanga and Tabora. From Kigoma, we bring hot news about the Lake Tanganyika town that has shown signs of expanding faster than expected.

Apart from a remote observation of Kigoma, we have taken liberty to include issues pertaining to the Dr. Livingstone’s Memorial Centre at Ujiji. As you may probably know, the Centre is now one of the world’s heritage spots, attracting many tourists from within Tanzania and the world at large. Certainly, the place has yet to be properly patented and packaged as a tourist place.

But the most tempting reason that attracted me to the site, six years after my fi rst visit there, is the historicity of the great British explorer, his 19th century

excursions into Africa and especially, the whereabouts of his two loyal servants; Susi and Chuma.

During my earlier stint at Precisionnews, I had stumbled on a hitherto unknown piece of information, that Susi and Chuma escorted their master’s body all the way from modern Zambia to Zanzibar and onwards to his burial at Westminster Abbey in London. The most perplexing claim was that the two disembarked at Bombay in India, on their way back from England, never to be seen again!

I put this proposal to historians and the public at large, prompting them to dig deeper into the whereabouts of the two Africans. It was the immediate former chief justice Hon. Augustine Ramadhani who extensively researched and published befi tting fi ndings in the following issue of Precisionews. Find all this and a new startling twist to this view in this edition.

From Shinyanga, we cover news and events surrounding the performance of the NSSF Branch under the able stewardship of Mr. Omar Mziya. Such coverage is repeated for Tabora Region.

As indicated on its cover, the hottest topic in this edition is the launch of the Welfare Scheme for Tanzanians in the Diaspora (WESTADI), which was recently inaugurated by the President H.E Dr. Jakaya Kikwete at a well-attended event at the Marriott Hotel in Washington DC. We bring you photos and photos again about the function.

The other interesting report is on the 35th Dar es Salaam International Trade Fair which took place from 1-10 July 2011. Once again, the Fund’s team emerged the 1st overall winners ahead of several local and international companies. We bring you an exhaustive photo display of the event.

Please fi nd these and more in this issue.

Alfred B. NgoteziChief Editor

Dear Readers

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President Jakaya Kikwete has ‘garlanded’ the Director General Dr. Ramadhani Dau in appreciation of the National Social Security Fund’s contribution to local contractors.

The President awarded the NSSF a certifi cate of recognition in connection with its support to local contractors and the construction industry at large.

This took place on 5th Sept 2011 at the Mlimani City Hall in Dar es Salaam where he was opening the Annual Consultative Conference for Architects, Contractors, Eng ineers and Quant i ty Surveyors.

Dr Kikwete paid glowing tributes to NSSF for assisting to empower local contractors and cited the Fund’s Mtoni Kijiti Project in Dar es Salaam where the NSSF is constructing 300 low-cost houses for sale to its members and other stakeholders. The entire project is being undertaken by local contractors.

The President also commended members of the construction sector for being responsible for the strides the country has covered since independence. However, he warned bad

elements among them for tarnishing their good image by indulging in corrupt practices.The meeting whose theme was “50 years of Construction Indust ry in Tanzan ia and Challenges Ahead,” attracted participants from across Tanzania and from as far afi eld as South Africa, Zambia, Kenya and Malawi.

NSSF is a signifi cant stakeholder of the construction industry in Tanzania. In the last few years it has not only fi nanced the construction of big buildings throughout the country but also empowered local contractors winning admiration of the public.

The Fund is committed to further empower local contractors in the days to come in order to put them at a better competitive e d g e a g a i n s t f o r e i g n contractors currently operating in the country.

President Jakaya Kikwete decorates NSSF for supporting local contractors

The President also commended members of the construction sector for being responsible for the strides the coun t r y has cove red s i nce independence.

President Jakaya Kikwete in a group photo with some heads of intitutions who attended the recent Annual Consultative Conference for Architects, Contractors, Engineers and Quantity Surveyors at Mlimani City Hall in Dar es Salaam.

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The Min ister for Labour and Employment Mrs. Gaudencia Kabaka recently toured some of the projects of the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) in Dar- Es- Salaam.

The Minister who was taken around by the NSSF Board Chairman Mr. Abubakar Rajab and Ag. Director General Mr. Crescentius Magori made the tour recently.

She visited the Mtoni Kijichi NSSF Estate off the Kigamboni Creek where the Fund is constructing 300 medium and low-cost houses. The houses are meant for sa le to members and other stakeholders of the Fund.

Mrs. Kabaka also toured the Mchikichini area in Ilala where the Fund is partnernaling with a Malysian fi rm and the Ilala Municipal Council to construct a satellite city.The multi billion dollar project involves pulling down the existing run down houses which will be replaced by modern high rise buildings.

The Minister’s delegation also toured the site of the proposed Kigamboni Bridge whose tender for preliminary works has already been fl oated. Subsequent to holding a wrap up of the tour the Minister visited the Machinga Complex.

This is the second time Hon. Kabaka is visiting the Fund. Early this year she paid a familiarization visit following her appointment to her present cabinet post.

The Minister’s delegation also toured the site of the proposed Kigamboni Bridge whose tender for preliminary works has already been fl oated.

1. Hon Kabaka (l) is taken around by NSSF’s Acting Director General Mr. C. Magori

2. Hon. Kabaka listens to disabled traders at Machinga Complex

3. Hon. Kabaka is shown a prototype of the Kigamboni Bridge by NSSF Chairperson Mr. A. Rajabu, far right

Mrs. Kabaka also toured the Mchikichini area in Ilala where the Fund is partnernaling with a Malysian fi rm and the Ilala Municipal Council to construct a satellite city.

The National Social Security Fund, NSSF has taken its member-recruitment drive to new heights following the introduction of a new approach.

This was disclosed recently by the Fund’s Karagwe District Manager Ms Shani Mtani during a Public Education Seminar to Ward Executive Offi cers in Karagwe Township.

Shani explained to the WEOs from the area that the Fund was now encouraging people from the informal sector to join it. She asked the government offi cials to persuade their subjects, mainly pastoralists and peasants, to register and taste the NSSF’s benefi ts.

The Fund’s plan, she told them, was to use the offi cers to reach out to the people in the area. If the project works well, Shani said it would be replicated throughout the country.

Responding to the DM’s request, the Acting District Executive Director for Karagwe Mr. Kahabi Ernest Mwinga promised to work with the WEOs to make the most of what he called NSSF’s progressive offer.

Subsequently, Mr Mwinga ordered the Offi cers to submit a monthly report on the progress of the project. Further, he directed them to take the message far and wide to bring in more members from across the board

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Member - recruitment drive assumes new dimension

Ms Shani Mtani addresses participants at the seminar at Karagwe recently

NSSF Karagwe District Offi ce

Some of the participants at the seminar follow the proceedings

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NSSF’s glittering accomplishmentstickle H.E President Jakaya Kikwete

President Jakaya Kikwete (back right) and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (back left) watch as the Principal Secretary in the Ministry of Health Mrs. Blandina Nyoni and Chairman of Apollo Hospitals Group Dr. Prathap C. Reddy sign protocals on the planned partnership between NSSF and the Apollo Hospital of India to build a heart hospital in Dar es Salaam (fi le photo)

President Jakaya Kikwete has showered praise on the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) for undertaking successful operations.

The President made the remarks recently at the Ministry of Labour and Employment in Dar es Salaam during a scheduled tour.

He was speaking to the Minister for Labour and Employment Mrs. Gaudencia Kabaka, her deputy Dr. Makongoro Mahanga, senior Ministry offi cials and other high ranking officers from affiliated organizations.

NSSF, which falls under the Ministry of Labour and Employment was represented at the occasion by Acting Director General Mr. Crescentius Magori and the Director of Planning and Investments Mr. Yacoub Kidula.

T h e P r e s i d e n t w a s s p e a k i n g a f t e r a presentation by the minister covering the Ministry’s activities, achievements and challenges for the period 2006-2010. “NSSF is doing a tremendous job”, exclaimed the President after hearing a l ist of projects that have been earmarked to be undertaken in 2011.

These include the Kiwira Coal mine Project in Mbeya, a power project to produce 150 Megawatts in Dar es Salaam, construction of the Kigamboni Bridge and establishment of a joint hospital in partnership with the Apollo Hospital of India.

The others are laying of a gas pipeline from Mtwara to Dar es Salaam, construction of a 100 km Dar es Salaam-Chalinze dual carriage road, and redevelopment of the Mchikichini slum area in Dar es Salaam.

However, the President was of the opinion that the Fund could earn more social and economic mileage if its houses could be affordable to Fund members and other members of the general public.

He also chal lenged NSSF Management to evaluate the possibi l i ty of extending special house loans to its members in which the Fund could build a house on a member’s plot and retain the title deed until the debt is fully repaid. The President promised to assist by providing more land plots for the Fund to achieve the goal.

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Top NSSF managers meet, honecommunication skills at MorogoroSenior managers of the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) recently attended a strategic communication training at the Morogoro Hotel in Morogoro.

The Human Resources Manager Mr. Dominic Mbwette said recently that the 4-day training started from 17th to 20th August this year. ..

Mr. Mbwette added that the course focused on improving top management’s skills and profi ciency to communicate in a variety of settings so as to smoothly manage their directorates and departments.

Mr. Mbwette explained that the training was conducted by a US-based Tanzanian expert Professor Nichols Boaz who teaches Communication, Leadership and Managerial Skills at the University of Maryland University College in the US.

Dr. Boaz told this reporter that he has tailor-cut the NSSF Communication program to enhance among others, the ability of the participants to resolve workplace confl icts, their capacity to be better listeners and oral communicators.

M r. Mbwe t t e f u r t he r e xp l a i ned t ha t t he communication training would be followed on Monday 21 August by a special course on HIV at work places to be run by facilitators from AIDS Business Coalition Tanzania, ABCT, whose motto is ‘uniting employers against HIV/AIDS at the workplace and beyond.’ The Communication program was attended by directors, chief managers, regional managers as well as other senior members of staff from across the Fund’s pan-territorial outreach.

Prof Boaz has lived in the US for the last 28 years and has taught both Undergraduate and Graduate Communication Programs for the past 21 years.

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The National Social Security Fund has resolved to produce 150 Megawatts of electricity to mitigate the current power woes.

This was announced in Parliament recently by the Minister for Labour and Employment Mrs. Gaudentia Kabaka when she presented her ministry’s budget for 2011/12.

She told the House that the Fund would soon produce 150MW. The NSSF is one of the institutions that fal l under the Ministry of Labour and

Employment.Elaborating on the task later, the Fund’s Planning and Investments Manager Mr. Ali Mseli said plans were already underway to produce the power by December 2011 and that in due course, a power plant would be erected at Ubungo close to TANESCO’s power houses.

Mseli added that this would be NSSF’s own investment with an estimated life span of 20 years and a Pay Back Period

of up to 10 years. He explained that this involves an agreement between NSSF and TANESCO which would commit the latter to pay capacity charges and tariff charges.

He described capacity charges as costs covered whether or not power is produced, for whatever reason, and tariff charges as costs covered through the sale of produced units of electricity. This means the Fund’s investment in the energy sector will be safe, come fl oods or draught.

NSSF undertakes to produce 150 megawatts by December 2011

The National Social Security Fund (NSSF) has had a booming year. However, the Fund also lost two o f i ts commi t ted managers during the period. Mrs. Lucy Fidelis Njeama (47) who was Manager of the Procurement Unit passed away on July 6th 2011 while Mr. Ndonde Waziri Hussein (58), Regional Manager for Ruvuma died on April 10th 2011. They all died of cancer ailments.

Lucy joined the Fund in 1992 as Supplies Offi cer and rose through the ranks to head the PMU Section. She was promoted to principal supplies offi cer in 2002 before becoming the Unit’s

manager at the beginning of 2011.

Ndonde jo ined the former National Provident Fund in 1982, on secondment from the Treasury. He graduated from the University of Dar es Salaam in 1982 with a B.Com degree. Ndonde instantly became manager at Head Offi ce.

S ince then he was reg iona l manager a t var ious p laces in Tanzania. From 2005 he was posted to Ruvuma, which would be his last station.

We on the Editor ial Board of Hifadhi News join the immediate family members of the two workers to mourn our fallen friends.

FARE THEE WELL DEARL. Njeama and W. Ndonde

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WESTADI SPECIAL

President Jakaya Kikwete has launched the National Social Security Fund’s newest product, the Welfare Scheme for Tanzanians in Diaspora (WESTADI).

The President launched the scheme at Marriott Hotel and Resort at Dulles in Virginia in the US on 23rd September 2011.

Speaking at the well attended event, the Fund’s Director General Dr Ramadhani Dau said the new

scheme was an insurance arrangement targeting to register as many Tanzanians in the world as possible.

Dr Dau told invited guests from Tanzania and the US that WESTADI members are supposed to pay a token premium of $ 300 per year in return for a generous benefi t package.

According to him, the benefi t package includes free air carriage

back home of a deceased member’s body plus a return ticket for one accompanying person. Alternatively, the scheme will cover the cost for burial service, if the insured person opts to be interred overseas.

Members are also eligible to free medical care, which benefits any four chosen relatives of the insured person back home.

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London: 2008 Mr Boniface Kanemba (Senior Internal Auditor, left) issues a registration form to Mr. Mlolele Mavanza

Pioneer’s Efforts...

1 President Kikwete arrives at the Marriot Hotel in Washington DC

2 The President tours some of the exhibitions at the Marriot

3 He addresses a multitude of Tanzanians

6 The Chairman of the NSSF Board of Trustees Mr. A. Rajabu, the DG Dr Dau and other NSSF officials follow proceeding at the DACOTA 3 meeting

8 A cross section of participants at the event

10 The President is thronged by admirers and well-wishers

Clinical investments propel Fund’s soaring successes, says Crescentius Magori

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The D i r ec to r o f Ope ra t i ons Mr. Crescentius Magori has revealed that the Fund’s soaring successes are due to clinical management of resources and shrewd investment decisions.

He said because of this strategy the Fund had attained a tremendous capacity to concurrently carry out mega national projects.

M r. Mago r i was speak i ng on Friday 19 August 2011 at B-Z Hotel Morogoro to over 200 participants attending the Ministry of Finance’s Workers’ Council.

Elaborating the remarks, Mr Magori explained that the Fund’s total assets by June 2011 had soared to Tshs1.437 tril l ion adding that total operat ions income during the same per iod was a hef ty Tshs. 729.5 billion.

NSSF’s investment policy dictates an annual investment of 75 percent o f opera t ions income and 25 percent for payment of members’ benefi ts and administrative costs.

Linking this to current operations in which the Fund is readying to start both production of electricity and construction of the Kigamboni Bridge by December this year, he asserted: “there is enough money to accomplish all targeted projects”. Mr. Magori caused laughter when he wondered what the Fund would be doing with its robust liquidity if the government did not provide investment opportunities.

Then he turned to the participants inviting them to join the NSSF, saying the Fund provided the best benefi ts package in the country with the highest paid pensioner currently cashing Shs. 15 million per month.

NSSF workers donate foodstuffs to Tabata Orphans

The Director of Human Resources and Administration Ms. Chiku Matessa (L) speaks at a brief ceremo-ny at Al-Farook Islamic Centre in Tabata recently during which NSSF workers donated various foodstuffs to the Centre’s Orphans.

Mr. Magori above and below at the MOF seminar

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The National Social Security Fund (NSSF) has once again won two top prizes at the Dar es Salaam International Trade Fair in the City.

The Fund won the First Overall Prize at the 35th DITF and also emerged first winners in the Trade in Service Category.

Following a colourful ceremony on July 1, 2011 in the Rashid Mfaume Kawawa Ceremony Dome presided over by the Vice President Dr. Mohammed Gharib Bilal, the Fund’s Director General Dr. Ramadhani Dau led the singing and dancing NSSF exhibitors back to the Fund’s Pavilion. This is the second such

victory for the Fund in as many years.

Last year, Brazil’s former president Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva awarded the fi rst prize at the 34th Dar es Salaam International Trade Fair (DITF) to the National Social Security Fund after emerging overall winners during that year’s exhibitions.

Mr. Da Silva who was in the country for a brief tour as a guest of President Jakaya Kikwete offi ciated at the Trade Fair which climaxed on July 7, 2010. The statesman was on a tour toSouth Africa where he watched the fi nal match of the World Cup tournament on 11th

July 2010.The trophy was received by the Fund’s Vice Chairperson Ms Hildegard Mziray. This brought to two the number of cups won by the Fund at the 34th Fair. On July 2, 2010 the Fund’s Chief of Public and Customer Services Mrs. Eunice Chiume received the fi rst prize in the Trade in Service Category from the Secretary General of the East African Community, Mr. Juma Mwapachu. This was the second year in a row the Fund’s pavilion had won the Second overall Prize. During the 33rd DITF, the NSSF emerged second overall winners.

Jollity as NSSF once againscoops top DITF Prizes

The DG Dr. Dau (Left) is all smiles after receiving top DITF prizes from a beaming Vice President Dr. M. Bilal (fourth from right) at the Dar es Salaam International Trade Fair earlier this year

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Katani Limited pushes Kilimo Kwanza initiative to new economic heightsA leading local sisal producer, Katani Ltd of Tanga, has offered 20,000 hectares of prime land to willing members of the public on the fi rst-come-fi rst serve order to start big farms in the country.

The fi rm’s Managing Director Mr. Salum Shamte announced this on 17 September 2011 at Tanga Beach Resort in Tanga City during the 2011 National Social Security Fund’s Editors’ Forum.

Mr. Shamte told the senior media practitioners and the Fund’s top management that the land would be given free of charge. He added that once all registration procedures were completed Katani Ltd would plough, plant and tend the sisal farms.

According to the MD, the only expense for prospective farmers is payment of 20 per cent of the total farming cost which is $700 per hectare per year. Since the 20 per cent ‘entrepreneurial cost’ is evenly spread for the plant’s three-year gestation period, it means it will cost the farmers

$46 per hectare per year.

Mr. Shamte further explained that after the three years, farmers would start harvesting the crop for the next 20 years, earning about Tshs. 1Million per month per hectare. The MD who promised to cover other areas in the country soon, attributed the crop’s high market price to its rediscovered value and the world’s current paradigm shift to agriculture.

With an industrial demand of 1 million tons, sisal fi bre which makes 2 per cent of the crop is extensively used in composites, construction and production of superior buffi ng cloth, pulp and paper.

The crop’s hitherto 98 per cent waste is currently utilized for production of biogas, electricity, organic fertilizer, ethanol, alcohol and pharmaceuticals. Already Katani Ltd has invested in power generation producing 3.8 Megawatts in its Phase One projects at Ngombezi 1, Hale, Mwelya Biogas and Ngombezi

Biogas.

Meanwhile, the Director General of National Social Security Fund Dr Ramadhani Dau has announced the Fund’s readiness to extend a $ 10 million loan to Katani Ltd for developing the sisal crop.

Dr. Dau was speaking on 17 September 2011 at the Editors’ Forum in Tanga. He said the Fund’s Board of Trustees has already approved the credit adding that what was pending at the moment was the completion of administrative steps before releasing the funds.

Further, Dr Dau told the media practitioners that construction of the proposed Kigamboni Bridge was on course adding that President Jakaya Kikwete would lay its foundation stone on December 9, 2011. At the moment, he explained, seven contractors have been shortlisted out of whom the most competitive would be picked to carry out the job.

22Mr. Shamte, left and other Katani Limited offi cials take around Media Forum Members who visited the Hale Sisal project recently

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Registration of members at the Tabora Regional Branch of the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) has surpassed the pre-set 2010/11 target.

The Tabora NSSF Reg iona l Manager Mr. Aloyce Banigwa told Hifadhi News recently that the actual registrat ion of members in the 2010/11 fi scal year was 2049 against the budgeted 2030 members.

He said this was made possible by what he called “team spirit” in which all workers at the offi ce put their heads together to register the achievement.

Mr Banigwa added that in the same period the region registered success in terms of collections. He expalined that out of the targeted collection of Shs.4.1 billion/=, the region realized Shs.3.9billion, which is outstanding at 95.79 per cent performance level.

“Were it not for the owing contributions from public fi rms, we would have surpassed the target;” Mr. Banigwa lamented, promising to hit the top mark next year.

Meanwhile, Tabora NSSF Branch has succceeded to let all its investments’ building.

The Tabora Reg iona l NSSF Manager Mr. A. Banigwa said recently that in order to fully harness the investments house, all music halls in the building that were formerly used for recreation have now been turned into rentable offi ces.

Some of the fi rms that are currently accommodated in the building are Barclays Bank, CRDB Bank, Postal Bank, PRIDE Tanzania and the Ethics Commission, among others.

Despite these successes, Banigwa called on all employers who have not been fully compliant with the NSSF Act to do so urgently to avoid possible embarrassment.

TABORA REGIONSURPASSESREGISTRATION TARGET

Mr. Banigwa

NSSF Tabora Regional Offi ce

... Regional members of staff

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Since Kigoma and Ujiji towns are two sides of the same coin, a visit to one is incomplete without crossing over to the other.

Frankly, my route to Kigoma where there are more accommodation facilities, took me fi rst to Ujiji. There I marveled at the efforts that have so far been made to turn the place into a befi tting historical area.

My fi rst surprise was the 600 or so meter road from the main road leading to the famed Dr. David Livingstone’s Memorial Monument. The previously-unpaved road is now under construction using concrete and stones, probably to harmonize it with the name Livingstone.

On arrival at the scene of the original monument, I was surprised to see a huge concrete wall covering a wide area in the middle of which a modern building has been built. All historical materials previously kept in the old building have been moved to the new offi ce.

In the house, Dr. Livingstone’s legendary forays into present day Zambia and Democratic Republic of Congo and his travels in the then Tanganyika, from hinterland to Bagamoyo on the coast, are vividly portrayed by graphics and mainly in black and white photos. This augurs well with history: during the times of Dr. Livingstone there were no colour pictures.

The entire construction project is a tremendously well done job and the government deserves a part on its huge shoulders because more and more tourists will visit the place for eternity. In so doing they will be adding value to life in Ujiji and Kigoma as a whole.

Ms Ndeule Mohamed who is the current head of the Dr. David Livingstone Memorial is also a member of the National Social Security Fund. She told me that

increasingly more people, both local and foreign, are visiting the centre.

‘’Dr. Livingstone’s great, great grand children also came to visit the monument a few years ago,’’ she told me dispelling claims that the explorer’s family was responsible for construction of the earlier mentioned stone-road to the centre. “It is the government that is doing it, ‘’ she insisted.

The improvements notwithstanding, however, poke deep question holes on our capacity, resolve and even willingness to construct su i tab le p laces for nat iona l heroes, where people could go to pay homage.

This is not about the proposed national heroes’ acre which could take a number of decades to actualize. I refer to what we can do right now at the places of such departed legendaries as Mwalimu Julius Nyerere and Abeid Amani Karume, among others.

New structural improvements at Dr Livingstone’s Memorial Centre

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New Memorial Centre

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Surely, Mwalimu’s Msasani and Butiama places deserve to be made memorial centres.The same applies to Mzee Karume’s houses in Zanzibar.

I th ink i t is just a matter of improvising on space, making provision for tourists but keeping enough room and privacy for Mwalimu and Karume’s immediate family members. I believe this can be successfully done.

On the tricky question of managing accruing gate collections, donations, grants or alms, if you like that, I think since these leaders’ families are taken care of by the Government, proceeds should be receipted by the state. They are charging Tshs. 2,000/= per local visitor to the Dr. Livingstone’s centre. They could charge the same rate or even lower at the leaders’ memorial places.

Here is a matter that is taller than

Dr. Livingstone’s height. Whether we like it or not the two departed leaders are our own Abraham Lincolns, whose posterity will survive for as long as Tanzania lives.

Apart from cultural and historical reasons for such centres, by creating them Tanzanians could signifi cantly add to existing historical sites, which could attract more and more tourists and, therefore, more foreign exchange.

About s ix years ago, I f lew Precision Air to Kigoma. What I saw then was ‘sheepish town’, comprising mainly old buildings and bumpy dusty roads.

On July 18, 2011, I went back. Although I traveled by a smaller aircraft operated by Auric Air of Mwanza, I noticed a huge face-lift on the old town.

There are far more paved roads now, making passage in the town comfortable. The other striking feature is the big number of modern buildings that have since gone up and those that are still under construction.

Close to the colonial but picturesque Railway Station, two major buildings have sprung up. These belong to the Tanzania

Revenue Authority, TRA, and the National Housing Corporation, NHC. These imposing structures have greatly beautifi ed Kigoma.

Apart from the two centrally located structures, more and more new houses stand erect all over the place. In a sign that tourism is picking up in Kigoma, many beautiful hotels have also been constructed.

This is also evident from the packed arrival schedule of tourists who arrive by air, road and even by train.

Kigoma is on the right path to development, if you ask me. However Government should also play its part by accelerating efforts to connect the region by road to the rest of the country.

They should also step up train services. Currently the train operates only twice a week between Tabora and Dar-es-salaam.

Equally important is the urgency to increase not only the frequency of small aircraft fl ying to Kigoma but also to develop the existing airport so as to use wide-bodied planes to cater for the swelling traveling public.

Since an economically vibrant Kigoma is important to the operations of the National Social Security Fund, the NSSF too, is currently constructing a modern building in the town. The four-storey building will accommodate the Fund’s offi ces and provide space for letting.

Kigoma NSSF Staff Members

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As mentioned before, when I fi rst visited the Dr David Livingstone Memorial Monument at Ujiji six years ago, I interviewed Haruna Kapitulo who was then in charge of the centre.

Consequently, I wrote an article t i t led: The Untold Story: The Mystery of Dr. Livingstone’s Servants in the Precisionews Newsletter Issue No. 6 of July-Dec 2003, of which I was editor.

Anchoring on Kapitulo’s remarks, I wrote that the two servants, Susi and Chuma accompanied their master’s body to England and that on their way back they disembarked at Bombay never to be seen again. In my conclusion I invited the academia to zoom into this matter in order to know where and how the two ended up.

One of the famous academicians who promptly researched and wrote an exhaustive rejoinder to my story was none other than the immediate former chief justice, Justice Augustine Ramadhani. He was then judge of the East African Court of Justice.

Without doubt, his valuable work, which appeared first in Precisionews Newsletter No 7 (January – March 2004) and later in the London-based First Magazine, put the question of the whereabouts and fi nal days of Dr. Livingstone’s loyal servants to rest.

His riposte, clearly, suggests that the two never accompanied their master’s body either to Zanzibar or, later, to England. Nor did they disembark at Bombay (Mumbai) on their alleged way back from England, he asserted.

Despite the valuable research, Honourable Ramadhani invited even more researchers to look into the matter. In the light of this, my recent trip to the centre made new insights into the topic, requiring even more academic eyes. Out of sheer curiosity, on moving through a new building at the Dr Livingstone’s Memorial Monument, I uncovered even more mystery surrounding the two servants.

On looking at various displayed photos on the wall, I stopped

at one black and white photo (above), which I don’t remember to have seen during my fi rst visit. The picture, ostensibly taken from a book, shows Chuma and Susi in England!

The caption of the photo reads: “Susi (centre) and Chuma (right), dressed in blue reefer jackets given them by British admirers, show (Dr.) Livingstone’s diaries to his old friends, including Horace Waller (far right) at Newstead Abbey, June 1874.”

Obviously this came as a total surprise to me, because the matter had been closed. But since history is the science of piecing together tips and information, I i m m e d i a t e l y a s k e d t h e current head of the Monument Ms Ndaule Mohamed.

She confi rmed that the picture was factual; it had been copied from a book, but whose title she didn’t recollect. On further inquiry at the centre, I spoke to another old hand Kassim Govola who

SUSI AND CHUMAThe mystery of Dr. Livingstone’s Servants lives on

By Alfred Ngotezi,

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was in charge when the photo was allegedly delivered by a BBC announcer, one Elizabeth, a white lady. The only Elizabeth I remember at the BBC around that time was Ghanaian with the surname of Ohene. I remember to have met her at a symposium in London in the fall of 1994.

Kassim further told me that Elizabeth also brought another picture which showed the two servants at the British Royal Court with Queen Victoria, who, it is alleged, had granted them audience to hear, verbatim, the exploits and f inal days of the British explorer in Africa.

As expected, the new fi ndings sparked even more questions. But both Ms Mohamed and Mr. Govola agree with Honourable Ramadhani’s submission that Chuma and Sus i d id no t accompany Dr Livingstone’s body to England. According to them, the two traveled to England afterwards after being invited to go and present f i rs t hand deta i ls to people reconstructing the explorer’s last days in Africa.

The new twist of events comes from a book titled: The Other Livingstone by Judith Listowel -Julian Friedman Publishers (1974) which says:

“Susi and Chuma’s voyage was paid for by James “Paraffi n” Young to assist Horace Waller piece together the minutes of details of the great explorer’s last years.” (Page 231).

If the earlier mentioned caption on the photograph is anything to go by, then it means Susi and Chuma were in England in June 1874, about two months after Dr. Livingstone was buried at Westminster Abbey on April 18, 1874. Probably the next question would be: did the two wait at the coast, specifi cally at Bagamoyo, anticipating a cable to invite them to England? Again, how long did it take them to sail to England, given that there were no planes at the time to rush them?

In short, there are three time-related var iables that need to be harmonized if this story is to be true. These are the servants’

a r r i v a l da t e a t t he coas t , Dr. Livingstone’s burial in England and the timeline on the caption in the above new photo dated June 1874. Without doubt, if these three variables tally and I guess they do, then the matter is sealed.

In that case and without prejudice to Honorable Ramadhani and other scholars’ valuable inputs, we can conclude that Chuma and Susi may have disembarked at Bombay on their way back from England. If they were not killed or reproductively incapacitated they may have started mixed race families, because chances are remote that they could have found black African wives in India.

The laws of genetics might have prevailed, meaning they are survived today by great, great grand children, who are as Indian as any other Indians.

Yet these are untested hypotheses. We invite more researchers to join the debate with a view to unearthing exactly where and how the two faithful Africans Susi and Chuma spent their last days.

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Lfe-size effi gies at Ujiji commemorating H.M. Stanley’s meeting with Dr Livingstone in the mid 1800s

Backyard of the original site of Dr. Livingstone’s house at Ujiji

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Shinyanga National Social Security Fund Regional Offi ce is considering anchoring deep in the area’s rich gold and diamond fi elds.

Speaking recently to Hifadhi News Shinyanga Regional Manager Omar Mziya said the region is currently collecting an average of Shs. 1.7billion per month putting it in the Fund’s top six collectors.

The other best collectors are Kinondoni, Temeke, Ilala, Arusha and Mwanza, all of which are chieftaincies. Mziya attributed the steady performance to its location in the country’s own combination of Kimberly and Gauteng. The two South African areas are important for diamond and gold mining, respectively.

Most Fund members come from the sectors of mining, agriculture,

wholesale and retail trade, construction and building. Mining iin the area is spearheaded by world-class Bulyanhulu Goldmine, B u z w a g i G o l d M i n e a n d W i l l i a m s o n D i a m o n d s M i n e . Bulyanhulu alone turns in an average of Shs. 1.0 billion per month while Williamson Diamonds fetches an average of Shs. 100 million per month.

But that is not the end of the story. The big three mines are related to other companies such as Caspian Mid West minerals and security companies that are linked to Williamson Diamonds’ Mine.

Bulyanhulu is connected to Murray and Roberts, Enikon, Ako Catering Services, Freight forwarders, Pan African Mining

and a number of secur i ty companies, al l of which are registered with the NSSF.

The informal sector, too, is increasingly being targeted for recruitment of members. in 2010, for example, the plan was to register 120 members. The actual fi gure of new signed up members was 51 for the period.

On the way forward Mziya commended head offi ce for the efforts currently undertaken to promote the Fund inside and outside the media but felt there was still room for further improvement. He suggested to post more promotional banners at such places as airports, Ubungo Bus terminal, and Mlimani City in Dar es Salaam.

Shinyanga NSSF focuses on more investmentsGroup photo of Shinyanga Regional NSSF workers

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THE National Social Security Fund (NSSF) has for the past six years not incurred any losses, but continued to gain profi t from its diverse investments of more than one trillion shillings.

Answering a question by Kigoma South MP David Kafulila (NCCR-Mageuzi), the Deputy Minster for Labour and Employment, Dr. Makongoro Mahanga told Parliament recently that the NSSF has never incurred a loss.

The MP had wanted to know the magnitude of the Fund’s loss since the beginning of the fourth phase government in 2005.

In his principal question, Hon. Kafulila had asked, since NSSF was a major stakeholder in the construction sector, how much profit or loss had the Fund’s employees and members suffered from its investment?

In his answer, Hon. Mahanga said that both working and retired members of NSSF had gained profi t during the said period from the Fund’s investments.

He said in the past five years, NSSF had paid out more than 339bn/- as benefits to its members.

Since the beginning of the fourth-phase government’s tenure, the Fund’s investments have grown from 424.8bn/- in 2005/6 to a whooping 1.02trn/- in 2009/10.

The Fund has also been able to raise the minimum pension ceiling to retired members from 52,000/- to 80,000/-, which is currently the highest in the coun t r y. The i nc r ease i s equivalent to 141 percent. Other NSSF pensions have also been raised by 52 percent, he said.

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Some of the NSSF-built fl ats at Kilwa Road Police Barracks in Dar es Salaam

A panoramic view of the Nelson Mandela Institute in Arusha

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