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Heads Of Government Of Zanzibar
This is a list of the heads of government of Zanzibar, an autonomous region of Tanzania. The office of Chief Minister (later changed to Prime Minister) was established in 1961 and abolished in 2010, having been previously abolished between 1964 and 1983. Chief ministers of the Sultanate of Zanzibar ;Status Prime minister of the Sultanate of Zanzibar Prime minister of the People's Republic of Zanzibar Chief ministers of the Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar See also *Tanzania **Politics of Tanzania **List of governors of Tanganyika **President of Tanzania ***List of heads of state of Tanzania **Prime Minister of Tanzania *** List of prime ministers of Tanzania **List of sultans of Zanzibar **President of Zanzibar **Vice President of Zanzibar *Lists of office-holders External linksWorld Statesmen - Zanzibar {{DEFAULTSORT:List Of Heads Of Government Of Zanzibar * Zanzibar, List of Heads of Government of Government of Zanzibar Government ministers of Zanzibar Z ...
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Flag Of Zanzibar
The flag of Zanzibar was adopted on 9 January 2005. It is a horizontal tricolour of blue, black, and green with the national flag of Tanzania in the canton. Historical flags Zanzibar was a part of the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman, which flew a plain red flag, beginning in 1698. Majid bin Said declared an independent Sultanate of Zanzibar on 2 November 1856 but did not adopt a new flag. The red flag remained in use during the British protectorate period. When Zanzibar gained independence from the United Kingdom on 10 December 1963, a green disk with two yellow cloves was added to the flag. On 12 January 1964, John Okello overthrew the Sultan of Zanzibar and adopted a black-yellow-blue tricolour as the flag of the People's Republic of Zanzibar. On 29 January, the country's flag was changed to a blue-black-green tricolour. This design, which was based on the flag of the Afro-Shirazi Party, was the longest-lived of the post-independence flags and eventually formed the basis ...
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Abdullah Kassim Hanga
Abdullah Kassim Hanga (1932–1969) was Prime Minister of Zanzibar from 12 January 1964 to 27 April 1964. He was executed without Trial for an alleged 1967 plot to overthrow the Karume regime of the now united new country of Tanzania Russian journalist Yelena Khanga Yelena Abdulaevna Khanga (russian: Еле́на Абдула́евна Ха́нга), also transliterated as Elena Hanga (born May 1, 1962), is a Russian journalist who was raised in Moscow, USSR, and came to the United States in 1990 to write (w ... is his daughter. References 1932 births 1969 deaths Zanzibari politicians Government ministers of Zanzibar {{Zanzibar-politician-stub ...
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Amani Abeid Karume
Amani Abeid Karume (born 1 November 1948) is a Tanzanian politician, the former president of Zanzibar. He held the office from 8 November 2000 to 3 November 2010. He is the son of Zanzibar's first president, Abeid Karume, and a member of the Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party. Early life and career A Muslim born in 1948, Karume was schooled at the Lumumba Secondary School until 1969 when he became an accountant. During the 1970s he held various positions in the Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar including Chief Treasurer (1970–1971), Principal Secretary in the Ministry of Finance (1971–1974), Principal Secretary in the Ministry of Planning (1974–1978), and Principal Secretary in the Ministry of Communications and Transport (1978–1980). During the 1980s, he worked as a private consultant for a British-based business in Zanzibar. Karume returned to government and politics in 1990 when he was elected to the Zanzibar House of Representatives from the Raha Leo constituency. I ...
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Mohamed Gharib Bilal
Mohamed Gharib Bilal (born 6 February 1945) is a Tanzanian politician who was Chief Minister of Zanzibar from 1995 to 2000. He was Vice President of Tanzania from 2010 to 2015. He is a nuclear scientist by profession and also served as Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education from 1990 to 1995. Early life and career Dr Bilal completed his primary education at Makunduchi, Zanzibar in 1958 and attended his secondary education at Beit-el-Ras in 1962 and later joined Lumumba Secondary School in Zanzibar. Before completing Form Five, Dr Bilal received a scholarship to study physics at Howard University in Washington, graduating in physics and mathematics in 1967. He earned an MA in physics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1969, and a PhD in physics in 1976. Later the same year he joined the University of Dar es Salaam as a lecturer in physics. In 1983 he was elected head of the Department of Nuclear Physics. In 1983 he participa ...
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Salmin Amour
Salmin Amour (born 1942) is a Tanzanian politician who served as President of Zanzibar from 25 October 1990 to 8 November 2000. He was elected in 1990 as the sole candidate and received 98 percent of the votes. In Tanzania's first multi-party elections in 1995, Amour was accused of rigging the Zanzibari presidential election by opposition leader Seif Shariff Hamad Seif Sharif Hamad (22 October 1943 – 17 February 2021) was a Tanzanian politician who served as the First Vice President of Zanzibar and as Party Chairman of ACT Wazalendo. He was the secretary-general of the opposition Civic United Front (C .... References 1942 births Living people Presidents of Zanzibar Chama Cha Mapinduzi politicians Tanzanian Muslims {{Zanzibar-politician-stub ...
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Omar Ali Juma
Omar Ali Juma (26 June 1941 in Chake-Chake, Pemba, Zanzibar – 4 July 2001 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania) was Chief Minister of Zanzibar from 25 January 1988 to October 1995. From 1995 to 2001, he served as Vice President of Tanzania. Life and career Attended primary school education between 1949 and 1957 at Chake-Chake Boys' School. From 1957 to 1960 he was at Euan Smith Secondary School (now Haile Selassie Secondary School) where he attained an Ordinary Level School Certificate. In 1960 he joined the Moscow State University and was awarded with an Advanced Level Certificate in 1962 and seven years later, at the same college, he attained a bachelor's degree in Veterinary Medicine and Surgery. For a year from 1969 he was at Cairo University for a post graduate certificate in Animal Production and Health. In 1976 he attended a one-year course for a Postgraduate Diploma in Tropical Veterinary Medicine at the University of Edinburgh. In 1982 he joined the University of Florida in ...
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Idris Abdul Wakil
Idris Abdul Wakil (10 April 1925 – 15 March 2000) was the President of Zanzibar Zanzibar (; ; ) is an insular semi-autonomous province which united with Tanganyika in 1964 to form the United Republic of Tanzania. It is an archipelago in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of the mainland, and consists of many small islan ... from 24 October 1985 to 25 October 1990. References 1925 births 2000 deaths Presidents of Zanzibar Afro-Shirazi Party politicians Chama Cha Mapinduzi politicians Tanzanian Muslims Ambassadors of Tanzania to the Netherlands {{Zanzibar-politician-stub ...
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Seif Sharif Hamad
Seif Sharif Hamad (22 October 1943 – 17 February 2021) was a Tanzanian politician who served as the First Vice President of Zanzibar and as Party Chairman of ACT Wazalendo. He was the secretary-general of the opposition Civic United Front (CUF) party and First Vice President of Zanzibar until 18 March 2019 when he announced his resignation from CUF and joined Alliance for Change and Transparency. He was given an ACT Wazalendo card number One, and he also won the party nomination for the 2020 presidential candidate for Zanzibar. Early life and career 1950–1957: Hamad attended Primary School at Uondwe and Wete Boys School, in Pemba. He started his secondary education from 1958–1961, at King George VI Memorial Secondary School, in Zanzibar Town, Zanzibar. Hamad goes on to attend High school education at the same school from 1962–1963. After completing high school in December 1963, for the next nine years (1964–1972), he was prevented from pursuing University Educati ...
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Ali Hassan Mwinyi
Ali Hassan Mwinyi (born 8 May 1925) is a Tanzanian politician, who served as the second President of the United Republic of Tanzania from 1985 to 1995. Previous posts include Interior Minister and Vice President. He also was chairman of the ruling party, the Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) from 1990 to 1996. During Mwinyi's terms, Tanzania took the first steps to reverse the socialist policies of Julius Nyerere. He relaxed import restrictions and encouraged private enterprise. It was during his second term that multi-party politics were introduced under pressure for reform from foreign and domestic sources. Often referred to as Mzee Rukhsa ("Everything goes"), he pushed for liberalization of morals, beliefs, values (without breaking the law) and the economy. Early life Mwinyi was born and raised in the village of Kivure, Pwani Region. He then moved to Zanzibar and got his primary education at Mangapwani Primary School in Mangapwani, Zanzibar West Region. Mwinyi then attended Mikind ...
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Aboud Jumbe
Aboud Jumbe Mwinyi (14 June 1920 – 14 August 2016) was a Zanzibari politician. He held several positions, including the second president of Zanzibar, chairman of the Revolutionary Council, Vice-President of the Union, and the vice-chairman of the Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party. Jumbe served as president of Zanzibar from 11 April 1972 until 30 January 1984. He succeeded Abeid Karume as president, following Karume's assassination on 7 April 1972. He was initially elected by the Revolutionary Council as a part of the Afro-Shirazi Party (ASP). While he was in office, in 1977, the two ruling parties of Tanzania merged. In particular, the ASP and the Tanganyika African National Union (TANU), merged to create Tanzania's ruling party, the CCM. In 1979, Jumbe introduced the first post-revolution constitution of Zanzibar. This separated the powers of the Revolutionary Council and the House of Representatives. Furthermore, the new constitution established elections by universal s ...
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Ramadani Baki
Ramadani Baki (born 1943) was Chief Minister of Zanzibar Zanzibar (; ; ) is an insular semi-autonomous province which united with Tanganyika in 1964 to form the United Republic of Tanzania. It is an archipelago in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of the mainland, and consists of many small islan ... from 21 February 1983 to 6 February 1984. References 1943 births Living people Tanzanian Muslims Chief Ministers of Zanzibar {{Zanzibar-politician-stub ...
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