Union between Mainland,
Zanzibar at a crossroads?
THISDAY REPORTER
Dar es Salaam
Dar es Salaam
SERIOUS cracks have started to appear in the 44-year-old Union between Tanzania mainland and Zanzibar, with various commentators warning that the political marriage is passing through a particularly testing period in its history.
Several members of parliament interviewed separately by THISDAY have cautioned that the ongoing squabbling over Zanzibar’s status in the Union could revive demands for mainland Tanzania to have its own government.
The concerns follow a recent declaration by a senior minister in the Isles Revolutionary Government that there will be no sharing of oil revenues with mainland Tanzania if economically viable deposits of the natural resource are discovered in the Isles.
The minister’s remarks were the latest salvo in what is seen as an increasingly heated debate over Zanzibar’s sovereignty - or lack of it.
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