Boost manufacturing before banning ‘mitumba’

Despite the well-publicised ban, by the Tanzania Bureau of Standards (TBS), of innerwear early last year, that hasn’t been implemented and it is business as usual—very openly!. PHOTO/FILE 

What you need to know:

We deliberately use the qualifier, “on the outset,” for we dread the idea of banning imports just to end up with a majority of our people going about semi-naked for lack of affordable apparel to cover their bodies!