What does TAQ stand for?

The acronym TAQ stands for the Tanzanian Association of Queensland (Inc.).

What are benefits of becoming a TAQ member?

There are a number of benefits for becoming a TAQ member including but not limited to:
• an important focal point to meet, share and exchange information, ideas and opinions on a variety of issues
• point to access a wide range of services and products being championed by the Association

How safe is it to travel in Tanzania?

Tanzania is a safe country to travel to. Tanzanians are warm-hearted and generous people and are
eager to help and assist visitors. As in all countries, a little common sense goes a long way and
reasonable precautions should still be taken, such as locking valuables in the hotel safes.

What are typical foods and beverages in Tanzania?

In Tanzania’s towns and villages, the food is usually simpler. Plain grilled meat, nyama choma, is
very popular, and often served with sauce, rice, chips, or ugali (cornmeal). Indian cuisine is also
wide spread. The locally brewed beer is good, including Serengeti, Safari, Kilimanjaro, mbege
(homebrew from the Chagga people) and banana beer; imported beers (e.g. Tusker from Kenya)
and wine are also excellent.

In most restaurants meals are international in flavour with soups, salads, cold meats, pasta dishes,
meat and fish dishes, and breads.

What is the Political System in Tanzania?

Politics of Tanzania takes place in a framework of a unitary presidential democratic republic,
whereby the President of Tanzania is both head of state and head of government, and of a multiparty system. Tanzania’s president is elected by direct popular vote for a 5-year term. The President appoints a Prime Minister who serves as the government’s leader in the National Assembly. The President selects his cabinet from among National Assembly members.

The Constitution also empowers him to nominate 10 non-elected members of Parliament, who also are eligible to become cabinet members.

From independence in 1961 until the mid-1980s, Tanzania was a one-party state, with a socialist model of economic development. Beginning the mid-1980s, under the administration of President Ali Hassan Mwinyi, Tanzania undertook a number of political and economic reforms

In January/February 1992, the government decided to adopt multiparty democracy