Delivering the Promise: Analyzing Samia’s success 2020–2025
TANZANIA: When you measure the cause of a country’s destiny through a social media lens, it is often chastened by what seems like a decline in trust between the people and their government. But public confidence is not only reflected in virtual crowds’ mechanical followers of trending social media sensibilities, which often thrive on what is either popular or infamous.
On the real ground, one gets a more sentimental critique of what I would call the political hydra of the establishment. Yet when it comes to confidence in the presidency particularly President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s delivery of CCM’s party manifesto the evidence supports the pronouncements.
Backlash over missteps and challenges to democracy is inevitable (we are not living in a utopian world). But alongside these critiques are clear perspectives on an array of successes in implementing the 2020–2025 election mandate much of which has unfolded under President Samia’s leadership. I do believe in quality of a civil and constructive public dialogue, on critical issues, that happen on the crucial moments of our time, my goal is to crystallize public interest and knowledge, for the sake of our nation, so when I say the evidence supports the pronouncements, I do believe that through reading pieces like this, having a critical argument, we end up being participants in the cause of our democracy and perhaps reach a fair end of knowing real life is politics itself, and realpolitik, is beyond social media.
So where do Tanzanians find these achievements? These achievements are through implementation of the CCM party manifesto.
For global readers, I will refer to the “party manifesto” as the election mandate, to avoid confusion with Cold War-era ideological jargon tied to radical communism or 1960s Marxist diction.
Health Sector: A significant new legacy
President Samia’s policy approach to healthcare defines domestic policy success. Since President Benjamin Mkapa’s third administration, no leader has reduced maternity and child mortality rates more effectively than she has, under the 2020-2025 election mandate.
By 2020, Muhimbili Hospital remained the nation’s sole referral crown jewel since independence. Under her leadership, nine additional well-equipped referral hospitals have been built across more than nine regions—including Morogoro, Mbeya, Geita, Rukwa, Mtwara, and Njombe.
Tanzanian children are not only growing healthier; they are surviving after birth.
Her vision is to bring health services to the people and reduce overcrowding at Muhimbili. Today, over 2,000 health centers have been built, including the 9 referral hospitals equipped with CT and MRI machines. Tanzania now ranks 9th in health sector quality in Africa, and 1st in East and Central Africa. Confidence in local health care has also risen.
Tanzania has received over 2,150 foreign patients, mainly from Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Malawi. Medical quality is a pan-African challenge, but under this administration, 99 per cent of the health mandate has been delivered. With 3,000 new health workers added in four years, services like cardiovascular care, heart surgery, and dialysis are now widely available. Private sector investment has also grown to over 1bn/- especially in Dar es Salaam, with more than three start of the art modern private hospitals, well equipped and well-staffed, emerging under Samia’s tenure.
Agriculture: Fertilizer, tractors, and farmers first: In 2020, the national agriculture budget stood at 200m/-. In 2025, it is 1.2tr/-. A huge leap.
While most of us know Tanga for mangoes and Morogoro for rice, behind those flavors is strategic action: fertilizer subsidies were prioritized. The price per bag dropped from 140,000/- to 70,000/- a 50 per cent cut since President Samia took office.
You might be scrolling for Yanga vs Simba results or viral news, but 10,000 tractors are now mechanizing agriculture across regions. Seed subsidies include wheat, cotton, and palm oil offered free to farmers. Cooperative banks are also on the rise, giving farmers better borrowing terms compared to commercial banks, which require monthly repayments. The election mandate is working.
Sugar and Wine: A toast to local reform
If you believe in the Latin maxim in vino veritas that in wine, truth is found then truth has never tasted better. There is more red wine production now than ever.
But what does wine have to do with sugar? A lot. Wine prices have dropped. Sugar supply has been balanced thanks to expansions like Kilombero Sugar Factory, Mkurazi factory, and a planned facility in Bagamoyo.
Legal reforms under the new Sugar Act empowered the Sugar Board and Sugar Fund to directly purchase sugar. This has stabilized market availability.
So, if sugar prices rise, ask your economics friend, he will have all the technical aspects on contours of the market and pricing. As far as implementation goes progress is happening.
Energy: Green power, real projects
A 400-megawatt solar project is underway in Kahama, as part of President Samia’s clean energy push. When she took office, the Mwalimu Nyerere Hydropower Dam was 30.4% complete. It is now at 100 per cent.
No “green eggs and ham” here just real flavor, no artificial promises.
Today about 12,300 villages across the country have been electrified through Rural Energy Agency (REA) projects. Cooking gas subsidies are on the way good news for weekend pork and fried chicken lovers, as prices per kilo may drop!
Even a Gold mine in Geita, which never used national power due to high demand, per day, been surpassing the monthly usage of both Iring and Njombe combined, now taps into Geita’s upgraded electricity supply. Which means there is progress.
Automobiles: Middle-class on the move
If there’s one thing Tanzanians agree on, it’s that vehicle prices have skyrocketed like never before. A second-hand Nissan Bluebird Sylphy now costs 36 million TZS more than double its 2019 price. A second-hand BMW Mini Cooper or a Toyota RAV4 goes for about 55 million, 15 million higher than in 2018. Yet there are more of them on the roads, more “E” plated vehicles, and clearly, that could be a sign of a swelling middle class. It is hard truth to swallow, but surprisingly digestible if you think about it. Which means a middle class has risen tremendously in the 5 years of President Samia.
What does that tell you? It means Mitano Tena five more years for President Samia.
The Toyota Land Cruiser is no longer just for government bigwigs or symbolic for government power; Today plenty of suburban new monies are buying and own one. And guess what, they are not second-hand ones, but brand-new Toyota Land cruisers, and a couple of ford rangers.
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At my church each Sunday, there are seven Range Rover Autobiographies and one Rolls Royce. By all estimates, the good Lord is pouring economic grace on Tanzanian households. While this paragraph is both realistic and a bit hilarious, truth of the matter is, business folks are making more money, which means implementation of the 2020-2025 party manifesto has been a success.
Infrastructure: Rails, roads, and the capital Dodoma
When President Samia took office, the SGR railway was only 30.2 per cent complete. It’s now 99 per cent, and the line from Dar es Salaam to Dodoma is fully finished. The SGR is Tanzania’s most favored transport system today modern, punctual, and customer focused. The Judiciary HQ in Dodoma was at 20 per cent; now it is complete.
The government city in the capital was at 40 per cent, now 89 per cent.
The Magufuli Bridge over Lake Victoria was at 18 per cent, now 100 per cent to be opened on June 19th, 2025.
Education and employment
No president has paid teacher debts more effectively than President Samia.
Employment opportunities are up. Investments in technical and vocational training continue to rise.
E-Government: Digital reforms
At Tumbi Hospital, the Gott-Hommies system raised collections from 15 million TZS to 366 million. When filtered through real-life results not just the 4R policy the President isn’t just a transitional figure. She’s a manifesto chairperson who delivered the promise.
On foreign Policy: I do not want to push the case that the Tanzanian political culture has been perfect; the fabric of Tanzanian society is becoming less interested in true interpretation of politics itself, and even less interested in foreign policy, in my humble opinion. Perhaps confused from seeing the big picture, but hydras. There is a sense of question that splits into two questions, what happened to the country, what is really going on? Fueling a debatable silent majority apolitical character, and aloofness, fueling more puzzles and questions seeking a clarifier. Somewhere we all touch base; by feeling it is the new norm, acceptable behavior. Whether that behavior is intellectually horrendous we don’t speak, we don’t ask, we live. We let it become a new Tanzania as we know it. But what about foreign policy? On foreign policy there is still a promise of a Tanzania, after the resumption of a new foreign policy in our time.
