Chadema’s main rivals chose refs, linesmen, commissars, spectators
Tanzanian opposition leader Tundu Lissu gestures to his supporters at the Kisutu Resident Magistrate Court in Dar es Salaam on May 19, 2025, where he was charged with treason.
The treason trial in which Tundu Antipas Lissu is (alone) charged in Dar es Salaam has its Orwellian moments, and looks like it’s going to produce more of the same as it proceeds in a Pilgrim’s Progress along the judicial process that makes it look like it comes out of the pre-industrial legal processes.
And, if you ever thought that whatever you see as really bad is what has brought you as a society to rock-bottom and that any movement from where you are can only be upward, you’ve got another thing coming.
