Magavilla's Take - Magufuli's first two months...

 President Dr. John Pombe Joseph Magufuli's first two months have been nothing less than eventful; so eventful that we may be missing the point. So as I make a return to this platform I chose to reflect on what is at stake and what these two months could mean as a result.

First off, the next five years can be anything else but business as usual. With 58% of the Presidential votes, 2015 was the lowest victory margin secured by CCM in our 20 year old multiparty democracy!

Also worth noting is that Dr Magufuli is by many measures an 'unexpected' President. Just as much as most people didn't expect him to be President, there are many more who didn't and still don't know what to expect from him as President.

His initial blows were just as targeted as they were hard hitting: working without a cabinet for a record 1month, exposing tax evaders, unseating one suspected culprit after the other, speaking his heart's truth while making the establishment types cringe; sending a clear message of a no nonsense work ethic. This coupled with budget.

Yet it is quickly becoming evident with detractors throwing some blows of their own on such matters as the 'real' size of his government, some 'suspect' appointments in his newly formed cabinet and the dramatization of his signature unannounced visits, that he is not completely removed from scrutiny and judgment.

Yet, one cannot help but commend, with admiration, the sheer gravity of the impact of his first two months. It's always suspect when global media draws attention to anything positive out of Africa. 
But this in itself is telling as most global media outlets that gave a nod of approval to the 'Magufuli Fever' were simply in a state of shock that 'there was an African leader with common sense and willing to use it'; I wouldn't really call this positive news on Africa.

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