Chama Cha Demokrasia na Maendeleo (CHADEMA) was founded 32 years ago (May 1992). The founding leaders of CHADEMA include Mr Edwin Mtei, who was the Governor of the Central Bank (father-in-law to the current Chairman, Mr Freeman Mbowe), Brown Ngululupi, Dr Amani Walid Kabourou, Philemon Ndesamburo, among others. Religion and ethnicity have been a thorn...
Chama Cha Demokrasia na Maendeleo (CHADEMA) kilianzishwa miaka 32 iliyopita yaani mwaka 1992. Viongozi waasisi wa Chadema ni pamoja na Ndugu Edwin Mtei aliyekuwa Gavana wa Banki Kuu (Baba Mkwe wake Mwenyekiti wa sasa, Bwana Freeman Mbowe), Brown Ngululupi, Dr Amani Walid Kabourou, Ndesamburo na wadau wengine. Suala la udini na ukabila limeendelea kuwa mwiba...
The Chama cha Demokrasia na Maendeleo (Chadema) has submitted four major proposals to the Parliamentary Committee on Administration, Constitution, and Legal Affairs regarding amendments to election laws presented by the government in Dodoma in November 2023. Our correspondent reports from Dar es Salaam… (continue). The proposals were presented on January 10, 2024, by the Secretary-General...
In a significant legal development, the High Court of Tanzania in the Dar es Salaam Region has delivered a verdict in favor of Halima Mdee and her fellow Members of Parliament. This ruling stems from a case they brought against the Chama Cha Demokrasia na Maendeleo (CHADEMA) party’s decision to expel 19 Members of Parliament....
Today on January 25, 2023, the Chadema Deputy Chair, Tundu Lissu and the former MP for Eastern Singida in Tanzania arrived from Belgium, where he was self-exiled since 2020 after the general elections. Mr Lissu immediately flew out of the country after being defeated in the 2020 presidential race by the late John Pombe Magufuli,...
A few days after President Samia Suluhu lifted the ban on political rallies in Tanzania that her late predecessor placed in 2016, oppositional leaders around the country have praised the move, calling it the restoration of Tanzania’s democracy. Chadema’s oppositional leader and the former Tarime MP, John Heche, has praised President Samia’s historic decision and...
The CHADEMA staunch leader, Freeman Mbowe, said neither he intends to sell CHADEMA nor will he do that in the future despite circulating rumours that he wants to sell the party. Mbowe even admitted to having lost some of his personal belongings and was intimated by echelons of the government intimidating him to sell the...
The High Court has approved Special Seats MP Halima Mdee and 18 others to file a counterclaim against the expulsion of their CHADEMA membership after the court agreed with five arguments stated by Halima and 18 others. Similarly, it has given Mdee and his colleagues 14 days to file the case as required by law,...
The acquisition of a new constitution, an independent electoral commission, the ban on rallies and scars for the 2020 general elections are among the issues carried by CHADEMA leaders to President Samia Suluhu when he met with CHADEMA and CCM leaders at the State House, Chamwino region. Dodoma May 20, 2022. According to a report...
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania (ELCT) Karagwe Diocese Bishop Benson Bagonza has said that CHADEMA’s decision to suck 19 members, including the former CHADEMA women’s wing (BAWACHA), has to be respected by National Electoral Committee, Political Parties Registrar and the parliament. CHADEMA looks forward to sending an official letter to the speaker, Dr Tulia Akson,...