Friday 19 April 2013

Re: [wanabidii] The Mtwara Rockefellers

'Ron Foster, the
logistics manager at Mtwara's port, says his company looked for 25
locals to train as welders but found only two who were suitable. As
the required number of workers in the port doubles every few months,
that means that companies must hire from abroad. Local tribes such as
the Makonde, the Yao and the Makua may miss out'. WHY NOT EMPLOY OTHER EXPERIENCED TANZANIANS FROM ALL OTHER REGIONS WHO CAN EASILY SHARE THEIR INCOME WITH LOCALS THROUGH SOCIAL INTERACTIONS

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On 19 Apr 2013, at 13:17, Jovias Mwesiga <ngonzy@gmail.com> wrote:

Ndugu wanabidii drilling inafanyika ndani ya bahari sijui kama
angalizo la mazingira lipo hapa kingine nachokiona cha muhimu ni juu
ya murahaba kama nimekosea mnisaidie. HAPA SENEMA ya mapanki inaweza
kuandikwa upya sa sijui mwaka huo wana ccm wataandamana kumpongeza
rais gani. NIKUMBUKA wajumbe wa serikali walokuja texas kwa ajili ya
mambo haya wengi hawa hata idea hapo mwekezaji lazima atupende tu

On 4/19/13, Abdalah Hamis <hamisznz@gmail.com> wrote:
THOUSANDS of tonnes of drill pipes are neatly stacked in a yard at
Mtwara port in southern Tanzania, waiting to be loaded onto vessels
supplying gas rigs 100km (60 miles) offshore. There drill bits, guided
with centimetre-level accuracy, will bite into the seabed 2km
underwater and then penetrate the reservoirs of gas that locals hope
will fuel a long-awaited leap forward for their sleepy country.

Tanzania has seen many false starts. When the British colonial
authorities opened the deepwater port at Mtwara in 1954, partly to
replace a naval port at Simonstown in South Africa, it was billed as a
turning-point for east African trade. But the port decayed and Mtwara
and its cashew-growing hinterland were neglected by Tanzania's rulers
after independence in 1963. Work on a road linking Mtwara to Dar es
Salaam, the commercial capital, began half a century ago and is still
unfinished.

Most tellingly, Tanzania's education system has failed to equip the
local Makonde people with skills. Many are illiterate and lack the
work ethic to satisfy even the most tolerant of employers. The Makonde
are often stereotyped elsewhere in Tanzania as dancers and guards,
with a love of the sensual, a talent for wooden sculpture and a taste
for bush meat.

But the scale of the coming gas bonanza bears no comparison with
anything in the past. Tanzania's gasfields abut even richer ones in
the waters of neighbouring Mozambique. Britain's BG and Norway's
Statoil have won licences to exploit the bulk of the gas found so far.
Tanzania's government wants the companies to put some of the gas to
use in Tanzania and to invest in local infrastructure. Exporting the
rest will mean constructing a liquefied-natural-gas plant that will be
the biggest project in Tanzanian history. The government has also
signed up a Nigerian company, Dangote, to build a cement factory near
Mtwara. A new railway will have to be laid to carry material from the
port to the factory. Within a few years coal, ores, timber and food
should be shipped out of Mtwara in greater quantities than before.

Joseph Simbakalia, who is in effect the region's governor, sees the
coming railway as a further opportunity for local development. Why
not, he wonders, insist that spur lines are built to serve the people
of Mtwara, where the population is expected to grow tenfold, to 1.3m,
by 2025. Despite laws making it hard for foreigners to buy land,
property prices in the Shengani area of Mtwara have tripled in the
past year. As a former army engineer and a loyalist in the ruling
party, Mr Simbakalia is adamant that New Mtwara must be well laid out.
He says he is unrattled by festering protests, the rise of Islamists
or the prevalence of witchcraft. "I am juju-proof," he says.

A shortage of skills may be more of an obstacle. Ron Foster, the
logistics manager at Mtwara's port, says his company looked for 25
locals to train as welders but found only two who were suitable. As
the required number of workers in the port doubles every few months,
that means that companies must hire from abroad. Local tribes such as
the Makonde, the Yao and the Makua may miss out. Foreign mining
companies have previously extracted Tanzania's diamonds, gold and ores
without benefiting the locals much. Tanzania's challenge now is to
make sure that does not happen again.
http://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/21576412-gas-bonanza-brings-hopes-wealth-mtwara-rockefellers

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