President Dr. Jakaya Mrisho kikwete talks to heads of diplomaticmissions and international organisations during a New Year Sherry
Party he hosted on Friday, 9th January, 2015 STATE HOUSE PHOTOS
President Dr. Jakaya Mrisho kikwete addresses heads ofdiplomatic missions and international organisations during a New Year
Sherry Party he hosted on Friday, 9th January, 2015
President Dr. Jakaya Mrisho kikwete addresses heads ofdiplomatic missions and international organisations during a New Year
Sherry Party he hosted on Friday, 9th January, 2015
: President Dr. Jakaya Mrisho kikwete in a group photo with heads
of diplomatic missions and international organisations during a New
Year Sherry Party he hosted on Friday, 9th January, 2015
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Honourable Bernard Membe (MP), Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation;Your Excellency Juma Alfan Mpango, Ambassador of the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Dean of the Diplomatic Corps;Excellencies, Heads of Diplomatic Missions and International Organizations;Distinguished Guests;Ladies and Gentlemen:Welcome Remarks I welcome you all to the State House. I thank you for accepting
my invitation to attend this traditional event to commemorate the end
of 2014 and welcome 2015.
I do hope that, those of you who joined the diplomatic community
in Dar es Salaam in 2014, have settled down, and are receiving the
necessary cooperation of my government and of your diplomatic
colleagues. I extend our very best wishes for the New Year to you all
and through you to your Heads of State and Government, Heads if your
respective institutions, your people, your spouses and staff,.
Economic and Political Development Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen; The year 2014 has been a very eventful year for Tanzania. We are
witnesses to important landmark events happening in the
social-political and economic landscape of the country. The economy
continued to register strong macro-economic performance. GDP growth is
expected to be 7.4 percent compared to 7.3 percent in 2013. Inflation
rate dropped from 6.0 percent in January 2014 to 4.8 percent in December
2014. This drop is a result of an increase in food production. Last
year, we produced a surplus of 3.25 million tonnes of grains which is an
increase of 31.4 percent compared to a surplus of 2.23 million tonnes
in 2013. The objectives of Kilimo Kwanza and SAGCOT are working and
succeeding.
We also registered an increase in export earnings. By 31
October, 2014, Tanzania exported goods and services worth USD 8.539
billion compared to USD billion 8.332 recorded at the same time in 2013.
Had it not been for the fall in the world prices of coffee, tea, cashew
nuts, cotton and gold, we would have done much better.
Excellencies;
In another development, last year, we concluded the rebasing
exercise of our economic statistics. The base year will now be 2007
instead of 2001. Accordingly, therefore, the GDP of Tanzania in 2013 was
70 trillion shillings using 2007 base year compared to 53.7 billion
shillings using 2001 base year. Likewise, GDP per capita is 977 USD
compared to 742 USD using 2001 figures. Please be informed that this is
the 5th time such an exercise was undertaken in Tanzania. Previously it
was done in 1966, 1976, 1992 and 2001.
Social Progress Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen;
We also registered commendable progress in the social-economic
services particularly in education, health care, water supply, roads,
airports and railways. The New Education and Training Policy was
approved by Cabinet. The Policy underlines improving access and quality
of education and training as core tenet of the new policy. Everything
else is an elaboration of how to see this core policy tenet is realised.
There are two important factors of the new Policy that are
worth mentioning. First the renewed emphasis on ensuring that Tanzanians
get the type of education that will cater for the needs of the job
market in terms of wage employment and self employment. The second is
the aspiration of making secondary school education free from next year,
2016. The idea to make primary and secondary school education
accessible to every Tanzanian is a major undertaking on our part. That
is why we in government have given ourselves the task of ensuring proper
preparations are made so that this noble goal can be realised smoothly.
Excellencies;Ladies and Gentlemen;There are three other landmark developments in education which
occurred in 2014 that I would like to share with you today. The first
one is with regard to availability of primary and secondary school
teachers. With the employment of 36,339 teachers in 2014 we remain with a
shortage of 45,233 teachers of which 26,946 are for primary schools and
18,288 are for secondary schools. This is the lowest shortage of
teachers we have ever been in the last seven years. Indeed, the
cooperative endeavour of some of you and us, to invest in teacher
training is paying desired dividends.
The other important highlight worthy mentioning is the fact
that there is no more shortage of teachers of arts subjects in secondary
schools in Tanzania unlike the situation seven years ago. However, we
are still contending with a shortage of 18,277 science teachers in
secondary schools. The capacity of our training institutions is to
produce 2,500 teachers annually, compounds the problem. In this regard,
we welcome the innovative action by the University of Dodoma to design a
diploma course for science and mathematics teachers. The plan to enrol
5,602 students annually beginning 2014/2015 academic year should help
ease and resolve the shortage of these teachers at the earliest possible
time.
Excellencies;
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