Africa’s Public service day celebrated in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

ON 16th June 2009, Tanzania hosted the Continental African Public Service Day in a colourful celebrations that took place in the city of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. This is an occasion that is celebrated by all African countries every after two years and is hosted in one of the African countries. In 2007 such celebrations were held in Johannesburg in South Africa. Apart from the continental African Public Service day, each country also celebrates this day in a way it deems fit for recognizing the role of the public service and ways of improving service delivery. At the national level in Tanzania the week long celebrations took place at Mnazi Mmoja grounds in Dar es Salaam, where a number of local and international participants took part in the historic event.


The entrance to Mnazi mmoja ground was opened to the general public, and a security guard of a private company was stationed at the gate by the side of a large advertisement conveying the message of the event. They were working by rotating on shifting basis to control the movement of the people.








Banana Zolo, a famous vocalist and an artist based in Dar es SAlaam on the stage entertaining the audiences who turned up at Mnazi Mmoja ground.