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The East African
Thursday May 20 2021
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Tanzania’s founding president Julius Kambarage Nyerere peacefully passing over the presidency to his hand-picked successor Ali Hassan Mwinyi was a rarity in Africa at that time, it also marked the start of the private sector’s involvement in the country’s development agenda.
It saw former president Mwinyi earn the nickname Mzee wa Rukhsa, which in Kiswahili means the elder who permitted almost everything.
Mzee Mwinyi practically reversed all Nyerere’s Ujamaa na Kujitegemea, the socialist-inspired policies that dominated Tanzania’s politics, society, and economy during the 24 years of Nyerere’s tenure. His government moved from one of the most influential and passionate defenders of socialism and self-reliance to a free market economy, referred to as neoliberal capitalism.