Draft:Alfred Cyril Tandau

Alfred Cyril Tandau ( Alfred Cyril Tandau ; January 6, 1936, Ndegele, Mbinga district - May 2013) - trade unionist, political and statesman of Tanzania , diplomat.

Biography
He received his secondary education in Arusha and Old Moshi in Tanganyika (1951-1954) and Kasubi in Uganda (1955-1956). He studied at Makerere University and then in Nairobi. He began his career as a cooperative inspector and a bank clerk.

He joined the transport and general workers' union ( Transport and General Workers' Union ), where he worked from September 1959 to February 1962. Climbing the trade union ladder, in 1962 he became deputy general secretary of the Tanganyika Labor Federation, and from 1964 - deputy general secretary of the National Union workers of Tanganyika (NUTA), which included national trade unions.

At the end of 1965 he received a deputy mandate in parliament. In 1968-1969 - general manager of the Druzhba textile mill in Dar es Salaam, built with the help of the People's Republic of China. In February 1969 he returned to trade union activities, in 1969-1978 he was the general secretary of NUTA, replacing the arrested Michael Kamalisa, and in 1978-1982 - the Union of Tanzanian Workers. He also played an important role in the All-African Federation of Trade Unions, uniting trade union centers of 25 countries, whose headquarters were located in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. He was its treasurer in 1966-1971 and was elected acting. O. Secretary General in February 1971.

Although a surge in strike action in 1971 led to criticism of the trade union bureaucracy for being out of touch with the working class even by President Julius Nyerere, Tandau not only retained his post as secretary general of the trade union, but also simultaneously entered the government in February 1972, replacing Job Lusinde. In 1972-1974 he was Minister of Labor and Social Security, in 1974-1977 - Minister of Communications and Communications, in 1977-1978 - Minister of Public Works, and in 1978-1980 - Minister without portfolio, until in 1980 he returned the portfolio of Minister of Labor and Social Affairs provision. Since 1982, member of the Central Committee of the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi party.

In the 1990s - in the diplomatic service [1] : in 1993-1995 he was ambassador to India (to whose politics he dedicated the book Policy Implementation in India: A Case Study ), in 1995-1997 - in Burundi.

Literature

 * V. Ya. Katsman. Tandau, Alfred Cyril // Encyclopedic reference book “Africa”. - M.: Soviet Encyclopedia. Editor-in-Chief An. A. Gromyko. 1986-1987.