EYAKUZE: Poll fuss will pass and we’ll have our holiday

Security workers carry ballot boxes at a polling station in Dar es Salaam on October 26, 2015. PHOTO | DANIEL HAYDUK | AFP

Since 2014 opposition parties in Tanzania have been facing a number of challenges trying to carry out their work—let’s call that a euphemism.

And there is something worth noting about how we are going about it: the unspoken truce. It seems Tanzanian democracy can involve the strongest invectives and other forms of competition without having to resort to violence...until recently.