Josephine Christopher is a senior business journalist for The Citizen and Mwananchi newspapers
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Dar es Salaam. The appointment of Dr Doto Biteko as Deputy Prime Minister has become a headline act of the recent cabinet shake-up marking only the third time in the country’s history that someone has held this prestigious position since gaining independence.
The first person to hold the position was politician and diplomat Salim Ahmed Salim from 1986 to 1989, and the late veteran opposition politician Augustino Mrema held the position from 1992 to 1994.
