Lowassa's successor as water minister Mark Mwandosya said the project was the 'biggest in Africa' and 'entirely financed with local money'...
Famously after he had won the nomination race one of his opponents Professor Mark Mwandosya said Magufuli had never held a party position even at branch level and suggested he was Kikwete's placeman...
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Kikwete (AC Vol 46 No 7) took 1 072 votes (64 per cent); Salim Ahmed Salim former Secretary General of the Organisation of African Unity got 476; Communications and Transport Minister Mark Mwandosya 122...
The British Broadcasting Corporation recently ran a text-message poll from London: Kikwete scored 48 per cent; former Organisation of African Unity Secretary General Salim Ahmed Salim won 27 per cent; Premier Frederick Sumaye 7 per cent; CCM Vice-Chairman John Malecela 5 per cent and Minister of Communications and Works Mark Mwandosya 4 per cent...
Also-rans include: Mark Mwandosya 55 Communications and Transport Minister; had a difficult year with a railway disaster and controversy over the privatisation of Tanzania Telecommunications; says he'll make no pledges before seeing CCM manifesto...
Professor Mark Mwandosya Telecommunications Minister...
Other contenders include Professor Mark Mwandosya Transport and Communications Minister and discredited by a rail disaster in which 280 people died on 24 June; and Works Minister John Magufuli...