The Arusha declaration
The Arusha declaration
of 1967 on February under the late presdent Mwalimu J.K. Nyerere announced and
committed Tanzania to be a socialist state and self reliance in order to build
our development by using national national resources which exist within our
nation. The natural resources include land, minerals, oil and water and also the
use man power. Mwalmu J.K. Nyerere decided to adopt the principal of socialism
and self reliant after having five years of independence but still Tanzania
faces number of economic, social and political problems even thoukagh the
country had increase in agricultural production.
The Arusha declaration divided into
five parties which are
The TANU Creed,
under TANU the main purpose of policy is to build a socialist state and t
respect the humanity they believed that all human being are equal, everyone had
right to dignity and respect, every one is the part of nation and has the right
to take part in government, also all have right of freedom of expression,
movements and religious beliefs. Also to see the government mobilize resources
so as to eliminate poverty, ignorance and diseases.
The Police of Socialism,
according to Mwalmu Nyerere defines four features of socialism state which are,
First, absence of exploitation in true socialist state there is no classes of
people means the lower class and upper class and there people who have a right
to depend on others small children, elders and crippled. Second the major means
of production and exchange are under control of peasant and workers. This means
production and exchange such as land, forest, minerals, banks, industries, arms
and export trade. In order to control socialism the government should cooperate
with them Third the existence of democracy there is no true socialism simply
because the major means of production and exchange are controlled by
government. Fourth socialism is a belief, is to believe and practices socialism
principals for those who believe in socialism.
The policy of self reliance,
according to this policy in order to achieve the development in all aspect we
should depend on our on by using our people to work hard in our land because is
so fertile and get surrficient rain which can help us to produce different
crops such as maize, rice, tea, wheat, sisal and coffee also our land is good
for grazing cattle, goats, ship and chickens apart from that we can get fish
from our rivers, lakes and ocean. This is possible when we have a good polices and good leadership so by doing
that we can produce for home consumption and for export if we produce in large
quantities, so this will help us to invest in other economic sectors like
industries for manufacturing of different goods.
Another thing is to increase
working hours for instance people should work for 12
houres or 14 per day instead of 8 hours per day even on Sunday and public
holidays we should work so as to contribute to our development and lastly we
should increase our tax so as to get enough money for investment of development
on our own instead of depending on the external finance which violate our
independence as a free state.
The TANU membership,
under this part Mwalimu J.K. Nyerere eemphasis all about the importanc of
having good leadership also the leader principal and objectives of TANU also emphasis
that TANU is a party of peasant and workers.
The Arusha resolution,
this emphasis more about leadership ethics by providing the requirement fot instance
TANU and government leader must be worker or peasant should not associated with
capitalism and feudalism, should not hold shares in any company and also should
not receive to or more salary. lastly the should emphasis government to
improvement things which have been placed.
Generally,
what we see now days is the outcomes of Arusha declaration for instance our
current president have a slogan HAPA KAZI TU this is among of condition for
development which enacted during Arusha declaration by Mwalimu JK Nyerere also
the issues of increase of tax and working hours we see nowadays is already
exist during Arusha declaration.
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