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Tanzania 2025 Contested Elections - Vol. 7 of 12

by Rutashubanyuma Nestory
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9798235823068
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Rutashubanyuma Nestory.
  • Publisher Imprint: Rutashubanyuma Nestory.
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  • Pages: 118
  • Original Price: USD 17.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 291 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Political Economy

Tanzania's 2025 Pre-Election Crisis: Enforced Disappearances, Judicial Deference, Digital Repression, and the Architecture of Fear

This book provides a comprehensive, real-time analysis of Tanzania's political environment during the lead-up to the October 29, 2025 general election. Drawing on court filings, official statements, human rights reports, media coverage, and family testimonies, it examines the systematic contraction of democratic space under conditions of heightened state control.

At the centre of the analysis is the alleged abduction of former Ambassador Humphrey Polepole on October 6, 2025, including subsequent habeas corpus proceedings dismissed for "insufficient evidence." The case is used to explore broader structural issues: evidentiary burdens in disappearance litigation, institutional opacity, and judicial reluctance to infer state responsibility in the absence of direct proof.

The book further documents the disqualification of the main opposition party CHADEMA, treason charges against its leadership, the use of contempt proceedings to restrict political activity, and widespread digital restrictions affecting platforms such as X, Clubhouse, Telegram, and Jamii Forums.

It also analyses expanded cybercrime enforcement, surveillance of religious leaders under political criteria, coercive bail conditions in online speech cases, and pre-election economic announcements-most notably the declaration of 41,500 public service jobs-interpreted as electoral signalling rather than structural reform.

Nestory, Rutashubanyuma: -

The author is a Tanzanian national who has been penning down various issues concerning Tanzania political situation. He has been writing on print and digital media for at least the last 30 year and holds an M.A in public administration from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada (1990).

He has worked in both public and private sectors in Tanzania for the last 38 years.

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