Entries by fbadmin1

Qualification for paid maternity leave

April 25, 2022 in /by

I have been working for a company for four months and am pregnant and about to deliver in four weeks to come. I have applied for maternity leave but the HR Manager is telling me that the leave will be unpaid because I don’t qualify for a paid maternity leave. Is this HR’s position legally […]

Bus stop for call of nature

April 25, 2022 in /by

During Easter vacation I travelled to my home village by bus. In the course of our journey, the driver stopped the bus near a bush to allow passengers to attend a short call of nature. Is this common behaviour not regulated by the law?  GK, Dar It is contrary to regulation 10(2)(f) of the Land […]

Q&A – 25 April 2022

April 25, 2022 in /by

Involuntary HIV test I am charged with rape and my trial is about to start. After my arrest I was detained at a police station for two days. While at the police station, police took me to a health centre where my blood sample was drawn but I was not told for what purpose it […]

Transfer of a prisoner

April 18, 2022 in /by

I have a friend who is imprisoned in a neighboring country. Last year I visited him in the prison and noted that his health condition was not good. Is there a possibility of transferring him to a Tanzanian prison? PP, Dar There is a possibility of transferring a prisoner from a designated country to or […]

Q&A – 18 April 2022

April 18, 2022 in /by

School boy charged with rape of school girl My son aged 15 years, a form two student, is charged with rape of a 14 year old girl who is also a form two student at the same school. My son does not deny having sexual relationship with the girl but pleads a defence that the […]

Compensation for delayed train

April 10, 2022 in /by

Last year my father passed away when I was still a college student. I then booked to travel to Kigoma by train the next day after receiving the message of my father’s demise. On the traveling date we departed three hours late from Dar. They only announced that the train would leave late and we […]

Cannot report employer’s wrong doings

April 10, 2022 in /by

I am a graduate of Computer Science and am about to sign a contract of employment with a Company operating in Tanzania. I have read the contract just to note that there is one clause in it which prevents me ‘not to disclose any information of the employer to any government authority’. Is this clause […]

Q&A – 11 April 2022

April 10, 2022 in /by

Transporting pesticide in a bus Last year I was travelling from Kahama to Ushirombo in a bus. While comfortably sitting with my three year old child, a substance spilled over us from the luggage packed in the bus carrier. Unfortunately, my child sipped some drops of the substance. We lamented and asked the bus conductor […]

MP claims back tractor

April 4, 2022 in /by

In 2018 our member of parliament (MP) bought a tractor for use by small scale farmers in our constituency. He told us that it was a grant from his personal savings but our Councilor is telling us that the tractor was bought from the constituency development catalyst fund (CDCF). In 2020 the MP was fortunately […]

Fertilizer burned my crops

April 4, 2022 in /by

I bought three bags of fertilizer from a vendor at our township for my garden. The bags bore the label purporting to show the fertilizer had all the primary nutrients. I used the fertilizer but after a week, all of the plants in my garden started to wither. My neighbor also faced the same problem. My neighbor and […]

Q&A – 4 April 2022

April 4, 2022 in /by

Liability for delayed flight Last year I booked a flight with a local airline for a business trip to Mwanza where I had a meeting with an investor in aquaculture. The plane was to depart at 0600hrs and I arrived at Julius Nyerere International Airport on time. However, the plane did not depart that day […]

Tenant not paying rent

March 27, 2022 in /by

My tenant has not paid my rent since 2021 despite serving him with a notice to vacate the premises for failure to pay rent. Besides, my tenancy agreement with him expired in December 2019 and I was unable to renew it because I could not travel during the pandemic. The tenant has also not been deducting […]

Q&A – 28 March 2022

March 27, 2022 in /by

Ownership of water resource In my farm there is a small spring which most of my neighbours have been using for their daily water use. For the last two years, there have been insufficient rains in our area which has caused a decline in the volume of water the pond can produce per day. In […]

Q&A – 21 March 2022

March 21, 2022 in /by

Agreement to pay below minimum wage We are investing in the hospitality industry and most of our tourists come from Eastern Europe, especially Russia and Ukraine. We have started experiencing a decline in the number of tourists coming from those countries due to the war between them. We anticipate that if this war continues, our […]

Q&A – 14 March 2022

March 14, 2022 in /by

Woman charged with gang rape My sister with two men are charged with gang rape of a woman. It is alleged that my sister called the victim who is her friend to go to her home which she did and when the victim was on her way back home from my sister’s place, she was […]