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Registration of microfinance loans It has been my business since 2010. I buy new Chinese motorcycles (bodaboda) and enter into a contract with bodaboda drivers for them to pay back my cost price and add a mark-up within twelve months. Recently, a friend told me that I need to register that business as what I […]
I have a house which has an electric security wire fence installed seven years ago. I was recently visited by people who introduced themselves as officers of EWURA who asked me why I have not put a warning in my electric wire fence to alert people that the fence is dangerous. Secondly, they asked me […]
Pupil refused admission for delay to report My son was selected to join a public high school for social science studies. Due to my financial constraint, I could not buy the required needs for my son and he was late to report to school for three weeks. The headmaster refused to admit him on the […]
I have seen a clip in the social media showing a person practicing witchcraft in the middle of a road in broad daylight but was not arrested by police or militia. Is that conduct not a crime? Does the law allow people to practice witchcraft in broad daylight like that? GF, Dar es Salaam Under […]
I have been abroad for the past ten years pursuing my undergraduate and postgraduate studies. For this entire period, I never came back home due to inability to afford travel expenses. Also, considering that my family lives in an interior part of Tanzania, I had no regular communications with my family. After completion of my […]
Citizenship of a child born with foreign boyfriend I am a citizen of Tanzania by birth and have a child born with a foreigner boyfriend who was working in Tanzania as an expatriate. My boyfriend has now left the country and headed back to his home after the expiration of his employment contract. Since my […]
Legal Update – 18 August 2023
My uncle is a contractor working on construction projects mainly in Iringa and Mbeya. He had an issue with a certain company which had awarded him a tender and the matter was taken to the Contractor’s Registration Board (the Board). He recently called me and told me the Board has issued its decision on the […]
Using Power of Attorney for divorce proceedings I am a Tanzanian married woman with two children. Due to my husband’s infidelity, our marriage has now become unbearable. Just as he will not accept sharing me with someone, I cannot accept sharing him with someone, this is not what marriage is about. To add to the […]
Few years ago I fell into a rain storm drainage that had no cover on a pedestrian lane and fractured my shoulder. Please advise if I can see the City Council or the Municipality concerned for the cost of surgery, hospitalization and loss of working days, trauma and other relevant damages? MK, Arusha Our understanding […]
We completed the winding up proceedings of our company a few weeks ago. For purposes of certainty and strict compliance with the law, we consulted with the Registrar of Companies to seek guidance regarding disposal of the wound-up company documents. To our surprise we have been told that the Registrar requires us to retain the […]
Dependent pass for same sex spouse I am an engineer based in Europe and have recently secured a job in Tanzania in a company involved in a big strategic project. To be very honest I am in a same sex marriage and have been living with my partner for a number of years. Subsequent to […]
Legal Update – 31 July 2023
I was retrenched two years ago and since then have been depending on my rich wife for accommodation, food, clothing and other basic needs. My wife has filed a divorce petition in Court against me. Can I claim maintenance that she be ordered to pay me maintenance costs in case the Court grants the divorce? GR, Mtwara […]
I was charged with the offence of knocking a pedestrian and causing him bodily injury due to reckless driving. I pleaded guilty to the charge and the Court ordered I pay a fine of TZS 200,000 or serve a one year term in prison. In addition to the fine sentence, the Court canceled my driving licence and disqualified me from […]
Restriction on residents to maintain foreign bank accounts I am a newly-appointed head of legal of a company operating in Tanzania. As I joined the office, I came across the Foreign Exchange Regulations, 2022 which prohibit residents from opening and maintaining bank accounts outside Tanzania. At our company, we have officials who are not Tanzanian nationals but […]
Legal Update – 26 July 2023
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Legal Update – 24 July 2023
I am a Tanzanian and businessman running different types of businesses within Tanzania and even outside Tanzania. My understanding has been that the Tanzania Investment Centre is a government institution that is there to assist investors from outside Tanzania who wish to invest in Tanzania by giving them certain incentives so as to promote foreign […]
Suing husband to recover loan Four years ago I took a bank loan amounting to TZS 10M and gave it to my husband to purchase a Toyota Hiace for business. My husband bought the Hiace and started the business but never gave me the profits from the business to repay the loan. He also kept […]
There is a smart graphics designer in town who specializes in copying and infringing trademarks. What he does is directly copies trademarks that are well known to make logos for his clients without the client knowing this. The logos are well packaged and expensively priced. Is this not an offence? PP, Mwanza Apart from contravening […]
Our father died and left us with properties including apartments in some prime areas. We have recently noticed that some of the title deeds are missing from our father’s file of documents. We suspected our uncle and reported him to the Police. A search was conducted in his house and the police found him with […]
Both parties claim divorce Six months after marriage, I left for overseas to study, leaving my wife behind at my parents’ home. Whilst there I got bad news that my wife had left my parents’ home and joined a former boyfriend. I decided to fly back and immediately upon my wife finding out I was […]
I lost a child in the course of delivery due to negligence of a doctor. I want to sue the hospital and the doctor but am getting advice that it is impossible for an adult to sue for death of an infant because only an executor or administrator of the deceased estate can file suit […]
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