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Michael Kamaliza

Tanzanian politician From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Michael Kamaliza was a Tanzanian politician who was a minister of labor and general secretary of the National Union of Tanganyika Workers.[1]

In October 1969, he was arrested, along with a group of army officers and former head of the National Women's Organisation Bibi Titi Mohammad. Kamaliza and the others were alleged to have plotted a coup and assassination against Tanzania president Julius Nyerere.[2][3] After a trial that lasted from 24 June 1970 to February 1971, they were sentenced for treason.[4][5]

Kamaliza was co-founder of the African Commercial Employee's Association in 1951 and the Tanganyika Federation of Labour (TFL) in 1955.[6]

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