CV ya Maalim Seif Sharif Hamad
 

 PERSONAL DETAILS:

Name: Seif Sharif Hamad.
Permanent Address: P. O. Box 3637, Zanzibar.
Telephone No: [+] 255 – 24 – 223445.                                        
Mobile phone No: [+] 255 [0]777 411414; [+] 255 [0]741 411414.
Date of Birth: 22 October, 1943.
Place of Birth: Pemba.
Nationality: Tanzanian.
Marital Status: Married with 5 children..
Languages: Kiswahili, English..

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS:

1950 – 1957: PRIMARY: Uondwe and Wete Boys School,
Pemba.

1958 – 1961: SECONDARY: King George VI Memorial Secondary School, Zanzibar Town, Zanzibar.

1962 – 1963: HIGH SCHOOL: King George VI Memorial Secondary School, Zanzibar Town, Zanzibar.

1972 – 1975: UNIVERISTY: B.A. (Honors) in Political Science, Public Administration and International Relations; University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

N.B. After completing high school in December 1963, for the next nine years (1964 – 1972), I was prevented from pursuing University Education because I was required to fill in one of the vacancies in the civil service caused by the mass departure of British officials in 1964 after being asked to do so by the new Zanzibar Revolutionary Government. I was posted to teach in Secondary Schools.

TRAINING:
1993: Human Rights and Democracy Studies, Danish Centre for Human Rights, Copenhagen, Denmark.

WORKING EXPERIENCE:

1964 – 1972: Secondary School Teacher at various schools in Zanzibar: Lumumba College (Zanzibar) and Fidel Castro Secondary School (Pemba).

1975 – 1977: Personal Assistant to the President of Zanzibar and Chairman of the Revolutionary Council, Zanzibar.

LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE:

1977 – 1980: - Minister of Education, Zanzibar.
- Member of the Revolutionary Council, Zanzibar.
- Member of the House of Representatives, Zanzibar.
- Member of the Union Parliament, Tanzania.

1977 – 1987:
- Member of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the ruling party, CHAMA CHA MAPINDUZI (CCM).
- Member of the Central Committee of the CCM.

1982 – 1987: - Head of the Economic and Planning
Department of the ruling party, CCM.

1984 – 1988: - Chief Minister of Zanzibar.
- Member of the Revolutionary Council, Zanzibar.
- Member of the House of Representatives, Zanzibar.

1992: Founder, THE CIVIC UNITED FRONT (CUF) party, Tanzania.

1992 – 1999: National Vice Chairman, The Civic United Front (CUF), Tanzania.

1999 - Secretary General, The Civic United Front (CUF), Tanzania.

POLITICAL VICTIMISATION:

January 1988: Unceremoniously dropped from the Revolutionary Council and dropped as the Chief Minister of Zanzibar.

May 1988: Expelled from the ruling CCM with six colleagues and automatically lost my parliamentary seat in the Zanzibar House of Representatives.

May 1989: Arrested and taken to court to face (politically motivated) trumped up charges of allegedly being found with government secret documents.

1989 – 1991: Reprimanded in the Zanzibar Central Prison.

April 2000: Arrested and charged with trumped up charges of allegedly attacking members of the police and robbing them a gun. (The charges were finally dropped by the Zanzibar Magistrate’s Court in November 2003).

OTHER ACTIVITIES:

October 1995: Zanzibar Presidential Candidate running on the ticket of the CUF party.

1997 – 1999: Chairman of the General Assembly of Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation (UNPO), based in The Hague, The Netherlands.

October 2000: Zanzibar Presidential Candidate running on the ticket of the CUF party.