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Offline bethanjane

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Re: Tanzania during British Mandate
« Reply #9 on: Friday 13 November 20 10:31 GMT (UK) »
I'm a bit late with this one, but I am a British citizen, I lived in Tanzania between 2010 and 2015.
I married in Tanzania in 2012 and to even get a copy of my own marriage certificate in 2012, where I KNEW I had paid for one and done things legally was next to impossible, my daughter was born there in 2013 and also getting her birth certificate was very difficult.
Tanzanians as a rule at that point didn't register births or marriages, instead going down more tribal options as they are free...
A birth certificate at the time cost 2500/=, monthly salary for an average home in Arusha is 20000/=
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Re: Tanzania during British Mandate
« Reply #10 on: Saturday 14 November 20 23:49 GMT (UK) »
We must not forget that it was German East Africa before the British took it from them. Goodness only knows what sort of records they kept.

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Re: Tanzania during British Mandate
« Reply #11 on: Sunday 15 November 20 02:14 GMT (UK) »
My Grandfather was a Private in the same Regiment as Selous) Was he with Selous at the time of Selous death in what is now Tanzania? We the later generation never asked.

One record that still survives. Selous Grave. Well done Tanzania.

https://www.ippmedia.com/en/news/selous%e2%80%99-grave-turning-desolation-treasure
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