Official Magazine of The Automobile Association of Tanzania 12th Edition • 2020 • Free Copy Safer roads for Children remains a priority. 1 2 3 CONTENTS Welcome by Mr. Yusuf A. Ghor AAT CEO. It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to read the 12th edition of “On The Move” magazine. These are exciting times at AAT and I hope our publication creates an opportunity for our valued members in Tanzania and members of sister clubs worldwide to learn more about Tourism information and AAT Traffic Offences ision for promoting Tourism Tanzania our operations, programs, strategies, services, introduction of tourism in Tanzania amongst FIA enya services, road safety initiatives, and motor sports activities. r Magufuli The president ho maes the impossible possible Members orldide. ganda This edition contains statistics and data on accidents, motor importation, to Motor Sport Developments / Road Safety Initiatives. I hope you will all enjoy our magazine for all AAT and FIA members as well as stakeholders in the industry who make up our thriving and vibrant community. Accident and Fatality Reports FIA funded oad afety Go-Karting Launch and Training Week launched in Dar es over 40 million injuries worldwide. This has to stop. AAT was in the Salaam front line of this and we started by training 5000+ Boda Boda Riders in Tanzania 5 years ago followed by training 2565 School Teachers on Road Safety Signs and erected Road Safety Signs outside Schools in Dar es Salaam in 2018 and in 2019 further trained more school directly more then 75,000 children in Dar es Salaam. Enjoy reading, safe driving. Ory ally of Tanzania eople and Eents C AC Aards Editorial Commitee Nizar Jivani, Yusuf A. Ghor, Satinder S. Birdi, Justine Mwandu, Muharram Mchume Design/Art Abbas Y. Ghor Automobile Association of Tanzania, Kilombero/Isimani Street Plot No. 365, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Email [email protected] © AA Tanzania. All Rights Reserved 4 4 Registered Print Media Licence Number 00000335 with Print Media Services under Media Services Act 2016 “ON THE MOVE” dated 29th January 2020 5 130 kilometres from Tabora to Isaka and 249 kilometres The President Who from Isaka to Mwanza. The bridge has helped to deconjest traffic along the Makes the Impossible junction of Nyerere and Mandela roads. This SGR is designed to use electricity to power its Possible. locomotives and is expected to accommodate passenger In line with Mfugale Bridge, there are two major projects trains traveling at 160 kilometres per hour while cargo that aim at deconjesting traffic in the commercial City of By Rodney Thadeus trains traveling at 120 kilometres hour. Dar es Salaam. The construction of Ubungo Interchange MagufuliSince he assumed the power of Presidency in November, The current government under President John Pombe is underway and after it completion it expected to reduce 2015, President John Pombe Magufuli who is known Magufuli who is known for making bold decisions that The railway line is intended to ease the transfer of goods traffic congestion on the busy Ubungo junction with for making bold decisions, is considered to be the best creates a better future for Tanzania, opted to revamp the between the port of Dar es Salaam and the cities of Kigali more than 60,000 vehicles passing daily. among African leaders of the time after he managed to national carrier by purchasing new flights to enable ATCL in Rwanda and subsequently to Bujumbura in Burundi transform Tanzania to prosperous economy. compete again in the airline industry. and to Goma in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Delivering Social Transformations Magufuli who always walk his talk, has managed to Under the Fifth Phase Government, the country has From the lake port of Mwanza, surface water ferries are Another major achievement of the Firth Phase implement pledges that had never been implemented witnessed the revival of ATCL, the flag carrier airline of expected to transport goods between Mwanza and Port government is provision of free education to all students for many years like that of shifting the government Tanzania, after the government purchased new fleets. Bell and Bukasa Inland Port in Kampala, Uganda’s capital in primary and secondary schools. This initiative has capital to Dodoma. Last October, ATCL received second new Dreamliner to city. The SGR is expected to accommodate passenger witnessed the increased number of pupils enrolled in make a total number of flights to ten. trains travelling at 160 kilometres per hour and cargo schools. Forty three years down the road from 1973, the dream trains travelling at 120 kilometres per hour of shifting the country’s capital to Dodoma from The state-owned carrier continues an ambitious, state- The government is allocating over Tshs. 23 billion to commercial capital Dar es Salaam became the reality in backed revival programme aimed at making it one of the The Rufiji Hydro-Power Project finance free education that the initiative has liberated 2016 under the Magufuli’s leadership. continent’s biggest airlines by 2025 and as to date the children from poor families who could not afford the company operates nine news flights purchased by the (RHPP) school fee to now enjoy the right to received education. In his maiden speech as the new Chairman of the ruling government. The Rufiji Hydro-Power Project (RHPP) formerly known as CCM in 2016, President John Magufuli, says he was Stiegler’s Gorge Dam is another Tanzanians ‘Dream Come For the period of four years in power, President Magufuli optimistic that all government offices and institutions ATCL now has a total of eight aircrafts in its fleet whereby True’ power plant that will produce 2,115 megawatts. has also managed to increase the higher learning would be shifted before the end of his first term in office. four are Dash 8-Q400, two Airbus A220-300 and two student loan budget from Tshs. 348 billion in 2014/2015 Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner and two more Airbus A220-300 The plant is expected to spar social and economic to Tshs. 450 billion in 2019/2020. Last year, Head of the State launched the government are expected to be delivered by July 2021 making the growth in the East Africa’s fast growing economy as it city in Mtumba on the outskirts of Dodoma City, the total number of aircrafts to twelve. will generate electricity that will contribute to national Moreover, the government of President Magufuli has city from which the government exercises its authority. power grid. increased the health facilities budget almost ten times Mtumba provides space for all ministry’s offices and With improved fleet, ATCL is confident to regain its and modern health facilities are now constructed from public institutions. position as a serious competitor in the air transport Apart from increasing power in Tanzania’s rapidly the village, ward, District to regional level. market. The ongoing ATCL fleet and network expansion industrilised economy, the project is unleashing a myriad Shifting the government to Dodoma was part of President program include more destinations in Africa and Asia of untold benefits to the people of Tanzania. At the national level massive modernization of hospital Magufuli’s pledges during the 2015 campaigns, where he and new destination in Europe and US. services is on. Tanzania is now receiving patients from vowed to implement the plan which remained in papers The expected benefits include creation of employment other African countries due to its improved national for many years since the era of the First President, Julius The airline currently operates on 10 domestic routes and to Tanzanians where it estimated that 12,000 people level specialist services like heart surgeries, kidney Nyerere who initiated the idea. provides regular flights to Harare-Zimbabwe, Bujumbura- will be directly employed during the three years of the transplants, cancer diagnosis, and care and cochler Burundi, Entebbe-Uganda and Moroni-Comoro Islands. project. implants. The President’s move for shifting the capital city to Dodoma has also seen the United Nations becoming the It will also boost tourism through sports fishing and first international organisation operating in Tanzania to Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) Reforms in Mining Sector, Protection photographic safaris. Other benefits are social and officially move its headquarters to the country’s capital Project economic activities such as agriculture, aquaculture and and Equitable Distribution Natural from the commercial capital, Dar es Salaam. This is another mega project under President John fishing that will change lives of people living within and Resources Magufuli, the country has managed to undertake. The outside the project. The building housing at least seven UN agencies at Three laws have been enacted to enforce the protection Mlimwa in Dodoma City was formally opened by Prime Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) which will link the country The RHPP project is a restored will of the current and benefits for the locals from their mineral resources, Minister Kassim Majaliwa with a call to other international with neighbouring countries namely Rwanda, Uganda, government government deliver the 1980 designated controlling dark markets to increase national revenues. bodies in the country to follow suit in support of the Burundi and Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) aims plan that could not take off due to financial constraints government’s own commitment to make Dodoma the at transforming and easing transportation system in until after 39 years when President Magufuli made bold For example, revenues from the mining sector has now bona fide political administrative capital. Tanzania. decision to pioneer the future of Tanzania’s indstrialised more than doubled, gold production is up, more Tanzanite germstones are produced than before and that over 28 The 2,561 kilometres SGR from Dar es Salaam to Mwanza economy.