Re: [wanabidii] TANZANIAN WORKERS ARE LAZY

And that was in 1989.

Is the situation still prevailing presently? Otherwise I need a reason for this 1989 research to be submitted here today, 34 years later.

Watu wengine bwana kama vichaa vile.

Natoka.

Jabir+

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On Sat, 10/12/13, Charles Banda <chasbanda@gmail.com> wrote:

Subject: [wanabidii] TANZANIAN WORKERS ARE LAZY
To: wanabidii@googlegroups.com
Date: Saturday, October 12, 2013, 6:02 AM

Tanzanian workers are lazy and
unproductive says Tanzania's National Productivity Council
(NPC) quoted in 'Business News' on September 29th 1989.
The NPC Executive Secretary, Mr Nikubuka Shimwela attributes
the trend to a lack of a productive culture in the nation.
"People are not serious with work" he said.
According to the Council the
nation's productivity has been falling since 1980 with
adverse effects on the national economy. In financial
institutions productivity has been declining at an average
rate of 3.3% In the manufacturing sector at 6.2%, in the
mining sector at 4% and in public administration at 5.5% In
cross section interviews on productivity many interviewees
have charged that the most unproductive sector is the public
administration sector. Civil servants report late for work,
one person charged. Some leave their work well before
closing time while most spend a considerable amount of time
in dubious private ventures during working hours.
NO SAYS MR.
KASWAGA
Responding in the Mailbag column of 'Business News' a Mr
Ben Kaswaga wondered what had happened to workers in recent
years. Had the generation of early post-independence workers
disappeared? The answer was no he wrote. Many of those
Tanzanians were still alive and well. But something or other
had happened in their minds.
'How much productivity can be
expected of a Tanzanian who gets up at 5.30 in the morning
without even a crumb of boiled cassava for breakfast to make
two bus connections at 30 shillings each so as to be in time
for work? Can this hungry worker produce much when all he
has for lunch is a couple of roasted sweet potatoes to be
washed down the throat with, perhaps, one soda because he
can't afford anything better? Can this worker be
productive when, at 2.30 pm – tired, underfed and
undernourished – he has to make another two bus
connections to get back home and arrive there, maybe two
hours later ….
The Tanzanian is lazy? True,
probably, but that is mainly because he does not eat enough.
He does not eat enough because he is not paid enough (or
sometimes not at all) because there is low productivity. But
there cannot be higher productivity from a demoralised,
tired and hungry producer …..
Need we wonder why even that old
glorious self-help spirit is now only a thing of the
past?'




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