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January 5: Chadema clash with police leaves three dead in Arusha. Chadema national chairman Freeman Mbowe, Arusha Urban MP Godbless Lema, Rombo MP Joseph Selasini and Moshi Urban MP Philemon Ndesamburo are detained.
January 6: Chadema’s Josephat Manyerere wins Mwanza mayoral post after defeating CCM’s Stanlaus Mabula by a margin of two votes. Chadema also won the post in Karatu, Ukerewe, Kigoma, Moshi and Musoma councils.
January 10: Police use tear gas to disperse the University of Dodoma students, who were demonstrating to demand belated allowances.
January 11: Legal and Human Rights Centre files a petition at the High Court to block payment of Sh94 billion to Dowans. The move came a week after the government announced that it would pay the controversial emergence power generating firm for breach of contract.
January 13: Clergy urgfes mayoral poll repeat, as Arusha pays last respect to victims of the January 5 fatal skirmishes. January 14: Police launch probe into Arusha chaos to establish charges against Chadema leaders. Former CCM secretary-general Yusuph Makamba rules out negotiating with Chadema over controversy surrounding Arusha mayoral post. Home Affairs minister Shamsi Vuai Nahodha holds indoor meeting with senior police officers over increasing usage of live ammunition against unarmed civilians.
January 20: UVCCM differs with Energy and Minerals minister William Ngeleja over Dowans compensation ruled by the International Commercial Court (ICC), saying the firm inherited the contract from Richmond, which was established as a phantom organisation.
January 23: Secretary of the self-proclaimed minority opposition in Parliament David Kafulila vows to table a private motion to push for a no-confidence vote against the government in case it paid Sh94 billion to Dowans.
January 24: National Assembly Speaker Anne Makinda quashes the idea of forming two opposition camps in the House.
February 4: Police use tear gas, water canon and pepper spray to disperse the University of Dar es Salaam students, who wetre marching to State House to present their demands for increased meal allowances from Sh5,000 to Sh10,000 per day due to increased cost of living.
February 8: Chadema walks out of Parliament just before the House voted to amend some parliamentary Standing Orders, saying the changes amounted to a ‘force marriage’ among opposition parties.
February 10: MPs elect three chairpersons of key parliamentary oversight committees, namely John Cheyo for the Public Accounts Committee (Pac), Zitto Kabwe for the Public Organsiations Accounts Committee (Poac) and Augustine Mrema for the Local Auhtorities Accouts Committee (Laac). Media Council of Tanzania cleaers Mwananchi of biased poll coverage claims by the government, saying the newspaper had exercised high degree of professionalism compared to others during the 2010 General Election campaigns.
February 14: Leader of Official Opposition in Parliament Freeman Mbowe names shadow Cabinet to hold the government accountable whenever it goofed.
February 16: National Muslim Council, Bakwata, wants probe into religiousl tensions in a bid to contain the animosity, lest it goes out of hand.
February 17: Explosion rocks the Tanzanian People’s Defence Forces’ barracks at Gongo la Mboto suburb in Dar es Salaam, killing about 20 people.
February 20: Self-procalimed principal shareholder of Dowans Brigadier General (rtd) Sulaiman Mohamed Yhya Al Adawi indicates willingness to negotiate with the government on easing the burden arising from the award ruled by ICC against Tanesco over breach of contract.
February 24: Chadema challenges the government during a mammoth public rally held in Mwanza to find lasting solutions for hardships facing Tanzanians, lest the opposition party staged mass protests like those in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya.
February 31: President Jakaya Kikwete pleads with Tanzanians to ignore Chadema demonstrations in his monthly address.
March 2: The high Court issues an order barring the government and Dowans owners from interfering with plant or switch it on to generate power without its permission following a request by 16 human rights groups challenging the government’s decision to pay Sh94 billion compensation to Dowans.
March 6: Hundreds flock to Pastor (rtd) Ambilikile Masapila at Samunge Village in Ngoronogoro District in search of a miracle cure for chronic diseases, including diabetes, high blood pressuer, cancer and HIV and Aids.
March 15: Seven civil society organizations file a petition at the High Court seeking nullification of the newly enacted Constituency Development Catalyst Fund Act, claiming it compromised powers of the National Assembly to supervise the executive.
Mar 22: The government restricts inflow of people thronging Samunge Village in search of the miracle cure.
March 23: EU denies claims by CCM that five of its members were financing Chadema to instigate chaos in the country.
April 7: Public hearing forums on the constitutional draft bill are marred by chaos in Dar es Salaam and Dodoma.
April 9: CCM Central Committee members are forced to resign and the ruling party’s secretariat is dissolved.
April 11: CCM announces new secretariat team headed by new secretary-general Wilson Mukama.
April 13: CCM pledges to cleanse itself from district to regional level across the country through its ‘sloughing off’ campaign.
April 15: National Assembly Speaker Anne Makinda withholds parliamentary debate on the controversial Constitutional Review Bill 2011 to give the public time to discuss it.
April 19: Dr Richard Sezibera, Rwandan, is sworn in as the East African Community secretary-general to succeed Tanzanian Juma Mwapachu in Dar es Salaam.
May 2: President Jakaya Kiwete joins other leaders in welcoming news about the death of Osama bin Laden announced by the US President Barak Obama.
May 16: Police shoot five people in Tarime District allegedly for invading North Mara Gold Mine.
May 18: An irate mob stones a motorcade of Tarime MP on the CCM ticket Nyambari Nyang’wine near the mine following the shooting of the five people.
May 20: Famous astrologer in East and Central Africa Sheikh Yhaya Husseion succumbs to heart attack in Dar es Salaam.
June 2: Tanganyika Law Society and Legal and Human Rights Centre jointly sue the government at the African Court on Human and People’s Rights in Arusha challenging provisions of Articles 39, 67 and 77 of the Constitution removing the right of Tanzanians to seek to be elected President, MP or councillor unless they were political party members. June 5: Chadema national chairman Freeman Mbowe is arrested over contempt of court.
June 6: The Christian Council of Tanzania gives President Jakaya Kikwete 49 hours to name religious leaders he accused of dealing in illicit drugs. State House reacts the following day, saying it was disappointed by the clerics. June 8: Finance and Economic Affairs minister Mustafa Mkulo tables the government budget for 2011/12, which sets aside billions of shillings for civil servants’ allowances. June 13: High Court in Arusha issues an arrest warrant for the Anglican Church of Tanzania Archbishop Valentino Mokiwa allegedly for defying court order not to consecrate Stanley Hotay as the new Bishop for Mount Kilimanjaro Diocese following believers going to court stop the appointment. June 23: Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda promises that a new constitution would be in place before the 2015 General election. June 25: Former Prime Minister Edward Lowassa challenges the government to make bold decisions to boost Tanzania’s standing regionally.
July 13: Former Igunga MP Tostam Aziz quits politics to concentrate on his private businesses.
July 17: Chadema Central committee discusses the conduct of Maswa West MP John Shibuda, including defying and humiliating the party when he contradicted its stand on MPs’ sitting allowances debate in Parliament. July 18: Chadema orders its councillors in Arusha to resign from their municipal posts for defying election processes. Energy and Minerals permanent secretary David Jairo is implicated in Sh1 billion scandal for directing agencies under the ministry to contribute Sh50 million each to facilitate the ministry’s 2011/12 budget approval. July 21: British MPs order BAE Systems to pay the Tanzania government Sh73.8 billion in full and immediately or face legal action. The government sends Energy and Minerals permanent secretary David Jairo on a compulsory leave, pending investigations into fraud and corruption allegations facing him. July 23: Kilindi MP Beatrice Shelukindo complains of receiving death threats after accusing Jairo of fraud and corruption in Parliament. Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation minister Bernard Membe says the new constitution may allow dual citizenship come 2014. July 24: UVCCM wants MPs to be barred from the CCM National Executive Committee membership.
July 25: Commuter bus operators strike in protest of petty offenses imposed by traffic officers, compelling the police to use tear gas to disperse the rioters. July 27: Three Chadema MPs, namely opposition Chief Whip Tundu Lissu (Singida-East), Mr Godbless Lema (Arusha) and the Reverend Peter Msigwa (Iringa Urban), are thrown out of Parliament allegedly for violating Standing Orders of the House. August 7: A five-member committee headed by Tunduru North MP Ramo Makani hands over a probe report on allegedly corruption scandal involving ministry of Energy and Minerals permanent secretary David Jairo to National Assembly Speaker Anne Makinda.
Chadema expels its five councillors in Arusha following longstanding dispute shrouded in the city’s mayoral election.
August 17: MPs demand an explanation from the government on the fate of ocwe 132 animals smuggled out of the country late last year.
August 18: The government announces a one-year ban on licences for exporting live animals and suspends director of wildlife Obeid Mbangwa to pave th way for investigations into smuggling of the 132 live animals and birds.
August 23: Jairo cleared of fraud and corruption allegations, as Parliament forms committee to investigate the handling of the probe into allegations levelled against him. Immigration officials quiz Arusha-based Mwananchi Communications Limited reporter Mussa Juma over his citizenship, as Tanzania Intelligence and Security officials warn him of reporting on Arusha mayoral conflict between CCM and Chadema.
August 25: President Jakaya Kikwete suspends Energy and Minerals permanent secretary David Jairo a day after a committee appointed by Chief Secretary Philemon Luhanjo cleared the PS of wrongdoing in asking for Sh50 million contributions from each agency under the ministry to facilitate the ministry’s budget approval.
September 9: MV Spice Islander en route to Pemba capsizes with over 800 passengers aboard, killing about 200 of them.
September 10: CCM launches its campaigns ahead of Igunga by-election.
September 8: Chadema launches its campaign trails in Igunga by-election.
September 14: President Jakaya Kikwete appoints 15 new regional commissioners, as he shuffles others.
September 22; CCM trade accusation over alleged Afghanistan-trained ‘commandos’ instigating chaos if things will not work in favour of the opposition party in Igunga by-election.
September 20: The National electoral Commission admits that buying of voter registration cards is rampant ahead of the Igunga by-election.
September 16: four people, including one the owners and a captain of the capsized MV Spice Islander, are arraigned at a Zanzibar court.
September 29: High Court rules out that Tanesco must pay Dowans, saying it was improper for the court to interfere with ICC, which had addressed the matter adequately. October 3: National electoral Commission declares a candidate on A CCM ticket Dalaly Kafumu the winner in the hotly contested Igunga by-election.
October 19: Former Prime Minister Edward Lowassa calls for an end to speculations associating him with an alleged plot to undermine President Jakaya Kikwete’s administration and CCM chairmanship.October 21: Tanzania condemns killing of former Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, cautioning that reconstruction of the northern African country could be undermined by the civil war.
October 26: Inspector General of Police Said Mwema urges Tanzanians to be vigilant and volunteer information on suspicious elements following Al-Shabaab militants carrying out two grenade attacks in Kenya, after the neighbouring country launched an operation to destroy the group’s cells in Somalia.
October 28: Chadema rejects the revised Constitutional Review Bill 2011, warning that it would campaign against it in public if Parliament approves it. Police launch investigations to establish claims that the ill health of the outspoken Kyela MP Harrison Mwakyeme resulted from deliberate poisoning.
November 2: Activists reject the constitutional Review bill 2011, calling for it to be tabled for the first reading in a bid to give members of the public to exhaustively debate it.
November 8: Chadema secretary-general Willibrod Slaa and 26 other party leaders and members re arrested and arraigned at the Arusha Resident Magistrate’s Court allegedly for staging an illegal assembly and rejecting to heed police orders to disperse, among others.
November 6: Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall arrive in Tanzania for a four-day visit.
November 9: Chadema national chairman Freeman Mbowe, who has been on a police wanted list allegedly for organising an illegal assembly of party supporters in Arusha, surrenders at Arusha central police post.
November 14: Constitutional Affairs and Justice minister Celina Kombani tables the Constitutional Review Bill 2011 in Parliament for a second reading, as Chadema MPs walk out in protest.
November 18: President Jakaya Kikwete maintains to have a legal mandate to oversee the process of writing the new constitution despite criticism over excessive powers bestowed on him to the peril of national consensus on the process of writing the supreme law.
November 20: CCM Central Committee meeting kicks off in Dodoma ahead of the ruling party’s National Executive Committee meeting.
November 21: CCM Ideology and Publicity secretary Nape Nnauye embarks on a blame game, accusing the media allegedly for distorting the meaning of the ruling party’s ‘sloughing off’ campaign.
November 22: President Jakaya Kikwete agrees the Chadema request to meet with him and hear the main opposition party’s concerns over the Constitutional Review Bill 2011.
November 23: Police ban demonstrations planned by activists to press President Jakaya Kikwete not sign into law the Constitutional Review bill passed by Parliament.
November 27: Chadema delegation meets President Jakaya Kikwete over the controversial Constitutional Review Bill 2011.
November 28: President Kikwete signs the controversial Constitutional Review Bill 2011 into law despite agreeing with Chadema that the draft law should be amended beforehand.
December 1: CUF delegation meets President Kikwete over the controversial Constitutional Review Act 2011.
December 5: Tanzania receives Sh73.8 billion from BAE Systems, being excessive amount the country paid to the UK company in 2001 for a military radar deal.
December 6: National Assembly Speaker Anne Makinda declares that MPs sitting allowances were increased from Sh70,000 to Sh200,000 a day following rising cost of living in Dodoma. The Speaker’s statement contradicts earlier announcement by the National Assembly clerk Thomas Kashilila that the new sitting allowance rate was yet to be applied.
December 7: State House denies involvement in the increment of MPs’ sitting allowances.
December 9: Tanzanians mark 50th anniversary of Tanganyika/Tanzania Mainland independence, as President Jakaya Kiwete urges them to refrain from losing hope.
December 18: NCCR-Mageuzi expels Kigoma North MP David Kafulila allegedly for spilling the opposition party’s beans in public without permission from his bosses.
December 12: National Assembly stops new allowances, pending President Jakaya Kikwete’s decision.
December 20: Record 110.3-milimetre rain in Dar es Salaam wreaks havoc, as about 40 people killed, while property and infrastructure are destroyed.
December 22: President Jakaya Kikwete visits flood victims, calling on all residents of flood-prone areas to leave, as he directed relevant officials to earmark plots for them. President Kikwete appoints Justice (rtd) Damian Lubuva new chairman of the National Electoral Commission to replace Justice (rtd) Lewis Makame whose tenure elapsed.
December 25: Clerics lash out at the process of writing the new constitution and the increase of MPs sitting allowances during Christmas sermons.
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