Tanzania of course is a peaceful and democratic African country, yet living down here we are reminded every day, on occassions small and big, that democracy needs to be learnt...
Last month it was the National Muhimbili Hospital that was on the news day and night. The intern doctors, who were not paid out their allowances for quite some time now, decided to go on strike. Do you know what the State did? It fired them from their jobs, all forty plus of them! Then after the national health sytem came to a complete stop and people started yelling that their relatives are dying, the government brought in military doctors to do the most necessary dirty jobs. Well, the reason won at the end and by now all the doctors are reinstated, but it took more than a month and many official heads fell...
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| Doctors on strike |
On a smaller scale, a screening of 'Johnny Mad Dog', a film about child soldiers in Sierra Leone, got cancelled yesterday in a local art gallery. The Tanzanian film board forbade the showing of the film on no grounds whatsoever. Now, I am not aware that Tanzania would be involved in the civil war in Sierra Leone in any kind of way, so what is the deal? Are they trying to protect the good reputation of african civil wars by forbidding to show children shooting around like mad dogs? Who knows, but the film is on the black list now.
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