Joel Nkaya Bendera was a Tanzanian politician who was

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for the

Morogoro Region Morogoro Region (''Mkoa wa Morogoro'' in Swahili) is one of Tanzania's 31 administrative regions. The region covers an area of . The region is comparable in size to the combined land area of the nation state of Ireland. Morogoro Region is border ...

, in the

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Tanzania Tanzania (; ), officially the United Republic of Tanzania ( sw, Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania), is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region. It borders Uganda to the north; Kenya to the northeast; Comoro Islands and ...

. He worked as the deputy Minister of Information, Culture and Sports since 2006. Jole Bendera was a former football player and also a former trainer. He was the coach of

during more than 10 years. He was the coach who clinch the only qualification of Tanzania for the African Nations Cup: " Nigeria 1980". As Morogoro Regional Commissioner, Mr Bendera worked on numerous initiatives to improve various farming sectors in the region. In 2013 he worked with tobacco companies, and praised them for being 'job creators' in the local area, and the next year he attempted to push initiatives to allow farmers better access to weather reporting systems as a measure to reduce disasters cause by flooding and

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. In the same vein, he called for pastoralists to be forcibly evicted from the region after an order to voluntarily relocate was ignored. He cited conflicts with local farmers and environmental issues caused by illegal grazing as the main cause of the evictions.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bendera, Joel Nkaya Members of the National Assembly (Tanzania) Chama Cha Mapinduzi MPs Tanzanian footballers Tanzanian football managers 1950 births 2017 deaths Association footballers not categorized by position