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| Wednesday, 21 December 2011 12:38 |
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The Political Platform Correspondent Arusha. Tanzanians elsewhere are yearning for clean and safe water, schools, hospitals, tarmac roads and other social services to improve their living standards. Every election electorate exchanges its sovereign power with politicians’ promises to provide them with the social services only to realise shortly thereafter that they were cheated. But the latest generation of hunter-gatherers community currently confined to a far northern corner of the country has since time immemorial abhorred these contemporary social services. The Hadzabe community maintains that the so called clean and safe water, schools, hospitals, tarmac roads and you name it, are detrimental to their living standard. All what the community members have been asking for from both colonial and post-colonial governments is respect to Mother Nature, as the so called social services were greatly threatening her welfare and theirs as well. Population The community, according to Naftal Zengu Kitandu, 56, a Hadzabe, comprised over 5,000 members in early 1990s when its members were scattered around what has now been ‘reduced’ to northern tourist circuit. Its habitat was endowed with abundant natural resources by then, including the world heritage sites of Serengeti National Park and Ngorongoro Conservation Area.Hardly 1,500 of the remaining community members are now con Add this page to your favorite Social Bookmarking websites           |
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