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Tabora is the capital of Tanzania’s Tabora Region and is classified
as a municipality by the Tanzanian government. It is also the
administrative seat of Tabora Urban District. According to the 2012
census, the district had a population of 226,999.
History:
Beginning in the 1830s, coastal traders increasingly settled in the
region to take advantage of the ivory and slave caravan trade. Swahili
and Omani traders established Kazeh, near present-day Tabora, in the
1850s. By 1870, Tabora was home to a population of 5,000-10,000 people
living in roughly fifty large square houses. These homes accommodated up
to several hundred people each and had inner courtyards, adjacent
garden plots, store rooms, servant quarters and outhouses for slaves.
The town was also surrounded by Nyamwezi villages, which provided
produce and caravan labor. In this period the Sultan of Zanzibar
appointed a representative there.
It was part of the Kingdom of
Unyanyembe. Tabora was a center of trade for traders from as far North
as the Buganda Kingdom. By August 1871, one-quarter of the town was
burned when the forces of the Nyamwezi ruler Mirambo sacked it. Although
the German East Africa protectorate was proclaimed over the region in
1885, as late as 1891 travellers reported it to be a lawless town, and
the German colonial administration did not gain control of it until
later that year. As a major station on the Central Line it became the
most important administrative centre of central German East Africa.
In
1916 the colonial garrison had an emergency mint at Tabora, making some
gold pieces as well as large numbers of crude copper and brass German
East African rupie minor coins Mint marked with a “T”. During the Tabora
Offensive in the East African Campaign of World War I, colonial armed
forces of the Belgian Congo (Force Publique) under the command of
General Charles Tombeur captured the
Today we announce jobs at
Tabora Municipal Council. Read carefully all currently available jobs
descriptions by downloading PDF File attached…..
Deadline: 25th February, 2022.
