{"id":4167,"date":"2020-02-24T14:25:22","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T14:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/tanzania\/?p=4167"},"modified":"2020-02-24T14:25:22","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T14:25:22","slug":"kawe-mp-halima-mdee-snubs-mashinjis-handshake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/kawe-mp-halima-mdee-snubs-mashinjis-handshake","title":{"rendered":"Kawe MP Halima Mdee snubs Mashinji\u2019s handshake"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n

Kawe Member of Parliament (MP) Halima Mdee did not hide her anger on Monday, 24 February 2020 over a decision by her party\u2019s former secretary general, Dr\u00a0Vincent Mashinji\u00a0to decamp to the ruling party CCM.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n

Ms Mdee, who doubles as the national chairperson for the opposition party, Chadema women\u2019s wing, refused Dr Mashinji\u2019s handshake request when they met at Kisutu Resident\u2019s Magistrate Court on Monday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n

Ms Mdee, Dr Mashinji, Chadema national chairman Freeman Mbowe and six others are currently defending themselves against\u00a0charges of conspiracy to commit offences, unlawful assembly, rioting after proclamation, raising discontent and ill-will for unlawful purposes, sedition and inciting commission of offences.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n

The charges are alleged to have been committed between February 1 and 16, 2018 in Dar es Salaam<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n

But while the case continues, Dr Mashinji \u2013 who was relieved of the opposition party\u2019s secretary general position when Mr Mbowe replaced him with Kibamba MP John Mnyika in December last year (2019) – decamped to the ruling party (CCM) last week.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n

Speaking in the presence of CCM ideology and publicity secretary Humphrey Polepole last week, Dr Mashinji dismissed Chadema as a \u201crudderless outfit\u201d whose ideology was incompatible with the direction the party was taking.<\/p>\n

\n

\u201cChadema is supposed to be a conservative party, but there is a clear mismatch between what we believe in and what we are doing. That is why I\u2019m requesting to join CCM, which, I think, is taking the country in the right direction,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n

And, when Dr Mashinji met his co-accused persons at the Kisutu Resident\u2019s Magistrate Court on Monday, February 24, 2020, he managed to greet several Chadema bigwigs but when he extended his arm for a handshake with Ms Mdee, the latter ignored it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n

Those that Dr Mashinji managed to greet included: Tarime Rural MP, John Heche, Bunda MP, Ester Bulaya, Iringa Urban MP, Peter Msigwa and the opposition party\u2019s women wing secretary general, Grace Tendega.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n

While seating between Ester Bulaya and Grace Tendega, Ms Mdee was seen busy chatting on her smartphone with little regard for Dr Mashinji\u2019s handshake request.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n

Why handshake matters<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n

Forget about the handshake between Raila Odinga and President Uhuru Kenyatta in Kenya that resulted into the creation of the Building Bridges Initiative, a handshake has a lot of meaning in ancient and modern day communities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n

History shows that the handshake has its origins from the days when people were fond of using swords for fighting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n

Ancient people would carry swords in a case, called a scabbard, on their left side and that they would be ready to use them with their right hands when the need arose.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n

Shaking hands – traditionally using the right hand \u2013 thus emerged as a friendly greeting because it was proof that you came in peace and weren’t holding a weapon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n

It was also a sign of trust that you believed the other person wasn’t going to take their sword out to fight you either.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kawe Member of Parliament (MP) Halima Mdee did not hide her anger on Monday, 24 February 2020 over a decision by her party\u2019s former secretary general, Dr\u00a0Vincent Mashinji\u00a0to decamp to the ruling party CCM. Ms Mdee, who doubles as the national chairperson for the opposition party, Chadema women\u2019s wing, refused Dr Mashinji\u2019s handshake request when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":4170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,10,12],"tags":[719,1725,2121],"class_list":["post-4167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-parties","category-policy","tag-ccm","tag-halima-mdee","tag-vincent-mashinji"],"yoast_head":"\nKawe MP Halima Mdee snubs Mashinji\u2019s handshake - Tanzania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Kawe Member of Parliament (MP) Halima Mdee did not hide her anger on Monday, 24 February 2020 over a decision by her party\u2019s former secretary general\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/kawe-mp-halima-mdee-snubs-mashinjis-handshake\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kawe MP Halima Mdee snubs Mashinji\u2019s handshake\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Kawe Member of Parliament (MP) Halima Mdee did not hide her anger on Monday, 24 February 2020 over a decision by her party\u2019s former secretary general\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/kawe-mp-halima-mdee-snubs-mashinjis-handshake\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Tanzania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-02-24T14:25:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2020\/02\/HALIMA.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"563\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"376\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/kawe-mp-halima-mdee-snubs-mashinjis-handshake#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/kawe-mp-halima-mdee-snubs-mashinjis-handshake\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Kawe MP Halima Mdee snubs Mashinji\u2019s handshake\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-02-24T14:25:22+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/kawe-mp-halima-mdee-snubs-mashinjis-handshake\"},\"wordCount\":497,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/kawe-mp-halima-mdee-snubs-mashinjis-handshake#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2020\/02\/HALIMA.png\",\"keywords\":[\"CCM\",\"Halima Mdee\",\"Vincent Mashinji\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"parties\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/kawe-mp-halima-mdee-snubs-mashinjis-handshake#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/kawe-mp-halima-mdee-snubs-mashinjis-handshake\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/kawe-mp-halima-mdee-snubs-mashinjis-handshake\",\"name\":\"Kawe MP Halima Mdee snubs Mashinji\u2019s handshake - Tanzania\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/kawe-mp-halima-mdee-snubs-mashinjis-handshake#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/kawe-mp-halima-mdee-snubs-mashinjis-handshake#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2020\/02\/HALIMA.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-02-24T14:25:22+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"Kawe Member of Parliament (MP) Halima Mdee did not hide her anger on Monday, 24 February 2020 over a decision by her party\u2019s former secretary general\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/kawe-mp-halima-mdee-snubs-mashinjis-handshake#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/kawe-mp-halima-mdee-snubs-mashinjis-handshake\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/kawe-mp-halima-mdee-snubs-mashinjis-handshake#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2020\/02\/HALIMA.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2020\/02\/HALIMA.png\",\"width\":563,\"height\":376},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/kawe-mp-halima-mdee-snubs-mashinjis-handshake#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Kawe MP Halima Mdee snubs Mashinji\u2019s handshake\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/\",\"name\":\"Tanzania\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Kawe MP Halima Mdee snubs Mashinji\u2019s handshake - Tanzania","description":"Kawe Member of Parliament (MP) Halima Mdee did not hide her anger on Monday, 24 February 2020 over a decision by her party\u2019s former secretary general","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/kawe-mp-halima-mdee-snubs-mashinjis-handshake","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Kawe MP Halima Mdee snubs Mashinji\u2019s handshake","og_description":"Kawe Member of Parliament (MP) Halima Mdee did not hide her anger on Monday, 24 February 2020 over a decision by her party\u2019s former secretary general","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/kawe-mp-halima-mdee-snubs-mashinjis-handshake","og_site_name":"Tanzania","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2020-02-24T14:25:22+00:00","og_image":[{"width":563,"height":376,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2020\/02\/HALIMA.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/kawe-mp-halima-mdee-snubs-mashinjis-handshake#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/kawe-mp-halima-mdee-snubs-mashinjis-handshake"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Kawe MP Halima Mdee snubs Mashinji\u2019s handshake","datePublished":"2020-02-24T14:25:22+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/kawe-mp-halima-mdee-snubs-mashinjis-handshake"},"wordCount":497,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/kawe-mp-halima-mdee-snubs-mashinjis-handshake#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2020\/02\/HALIMA.png","keywords":["CCM","Halima Mdee","Vincent Mashinji"],"articleSection":["all news","homepage-english","parties","policy"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/kawe-mp-halima-mdee-snubs-mashinjis-handshake#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/kawe-mp-halima-mdee-snubs-mashinjis-handshake","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/kawe-mp-halima-mdee-snubs-mashinjis-handshake","name":"Kawe MP Halima Mdee snubs Mashinji\u2019s handshake - Tanzania","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/kawe-mp-halima-mdee-snubs-mashinjis-handshake#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/kawe-mp-halima-mdee-snubs-mashinjis-handshake#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2020\/02\/HALIMA.png","datePublished":"2020-02-24T14:25:22+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"Kawe Member of Parliament (MP) Halima Mdee did not hide her anger on Monday, 24 February 2020 over a decision by her party\u2019s former secretary general","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/kawe-mp-halima-mdee-snubs-mashinjis-handshake#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/kawe-mp-halima-mdee-snubs-mashinjis-handshake"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/kawe-mp-halima-mdee-snubs-mashinjis-handshake#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2020\/02\/HALIMA.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2020\/02\/HALIMA.png","width":563,"height":376},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/kawe-mp-halima-mdee-snubs-mashinjis-handshake#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Kawe MP Halima Mdee snubs Mashinji\u2019s handshake"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/","name":"Tanzania","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}