John Magufuli

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John Magufuli

John Pombe Joseph Magufuli (born October 29, 1959 in Chato District , Kagera , Tanganyika ) is a Tanzanian politician of the Chama Cha Mapinduzi . In 2015 he was elected President of Tanzania .

Life

Background and education

Magufuli is married to elementary school teacher Janet Magufuli and has five children.

After finishing school, Magufuli attended a college for education , where he graduated in 1982 with a degree in education with a focus on chemistry and mathematics . In 1982 and 1983 he was a teacher of chemistry and mathematics at a secondary school ( secondary school ). He did his military service from 1983 to 1984. Between 1985 and 1988 he studied at the University of Dar es Salaam and earned a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry and Mathematics. Between 1989 and 1995 he worked as an industrial chemist. During this time he also completed further studies at the universities of Dar es Salaam and Salford ( England ), which he completed in 1994 with a Master of Science in chemistry. During his time as minister , he obtained his PhD from the University of Dar es Salaam between 2006 and 2009, also in chemistry.

Political career

Magufuli has been a member of the National Assembly of Tanzania since November 1995 . Under the presidency of Benjamin Mkapa , Magufuli was Deputy Minister of Labor from 1995 to 2000 and Minister of Labor in Tanzania from 2000 to 2005. From January 6, 2006 to February 13, 2008 Magufuli was Minister for Rural Development and Settlement. From February 13, 2008 to November 28, 2010 he held the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. He was then again Minister of Labor until 2015. In this office he was nicknamed tingatinga , German for "tractor" or "bulldozer".

On October 25, 2015, Magufuli won the presidential election with around 58 percent of the vote against the politician Edward Lowassa . On November 5, 2015, Magufuli was sworn in as the fifth president in the history of Tanzania .

Positions

Magufuli announced the fight against corruption , nepotism and waste of taxpayers' money by the elites. In December 2015, the entire management of the Tanzanian port authority was dismissed for corruption and mismanagement. At the start of his term in office, one of his first acts was to cancel the Independence Day celebrations, as the funds could be better used to fight cholera . Tax evaders received an amnesty for one week in the event of voluntary disclosure. For government officials traveling abroad, travel expenses in first class have been canceled.

In September 2018, Magufuli spoke out against contraception . He claimed that people who did contraception were too lazy to support large families. He recommended not listening to contraceptive counselors, suggesting that some of such advice came from foreigners with evil motives. This statement has been criticized from several quarters, including Amnesty International .

Magufuli takes rigorous action against critics. He enacted restrictive media laws and temporarily closed four newspapers. Since then, bloggers have had to pay high license fees to be able to write texts.

As Prime Minister, he personally campaigned to ensure that pregnant students were not allowed to return to school after giving birth. The World Bank then canceled a loan that was intended to expand schools. After the European Union envoy had also been called back, Magufuli praised China for not making any conditions for the aid.

As president, Magufuli is increasingly taking action against members of the opposition. They were banned from campaigning outside of the election campaign. In June 2019, the seat of opposition leader Tundu Lissu ( CHADEMA ) in the National Assembly was declared vacant by the government. Lissu was shot in 2017 and had to receive medical treatment from then on.

As part of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic in Tanzania , Magufuli raised the proposal to pray against the virus. He also stated that he wanted to order a kind of tea from Madagascar as a supposed remedy.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Portrait on ikulu.go.tz (English), accessed on December 1, 2018
  2. ↑ Portrait at bbc.com (English)
  3. ↑ a b c Isabel Pfaff: The uncompromising. Süddeutsche Zeitung of November 30, 2018, p. 10.
  4. ↑ Deutsche Welle: Comment, Tanzania has a new president
  5. ↑ Dominic Johnson : One choice, two election winners. taz.de from October 29, 2015, accessed on April 17, 2018
  6. ↑ Magufuli sworn in as Tanzania's 5th president. thecitizen.co.tz of November 5, 2015 (English), accessed November 7, 2015
  7. ↑ #WhatWouldMagufuliDo - a head of state on austerity course. tagesschau.de from December 9, 2015, accessed on December 9, 2015
  8. ↑ Tanzania's president says women using birth control are too 'lazy' to feed a family . Independent. Retrieved September 29, 2018.
  9. ↑ 'Don't use birth control,' Tanzania's President tells women in the country . CNN. Retrieved September 29, 2018.
  10. ↑ Amnesty International condemns Tanzania's 'attack' on family planning . CNN. Retrieved September 29, 2018.
  11. ↑ Tanzania: opposition leader Tundu Lissu stripped of parliamentary post. Africanews.com of June 29, 2019 (English), accessed on June 29, 2019
  12. ↑ CDU MP Gisela Manderla helps Tundu Lissu from Tanzania. bundestag.de of March 30, 2020, accessed on May 14, 2020
  13. ↑ Corona with a papaya? . ZDF. Retrieved May 9, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Magufuli, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Magufuli, John Pombe Joseph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Tanzanian politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Chato District , Kagera , Tanganyika