Honorific-Prefix: | Honourable |
George Boniface Simbachawene | |
Honorific-Suffix: | MP |
Office: | Minister of Constitutional Affairs and Justice |
Term Start: | 10 January 2022 |
Term End: | 1 April 2022 |
President: | Samia Suluhu |
Predecessor: | Palamagamba Kabudi |
Successor: | Damas Ndumbaro |
Office1: | 25th Minister of Home Affairs |
Term Start1: | 23 January 2020 |
Term End1: | 8 January 2022 |
Predecessor1: | Alphaxard Lugola |
Successor1: | Hamad Masauni |
Office2: | Minister of State in the Vice President's Office |
Term Start2: | 22 July 2019 |
Term End2: | 23 January 2020 |
President2: | John Pombe Magufuli |
Successor2: | Mussa Zungu |
Office3: | Minister of State in the President’s Office |
Term Start3: | 12 December 2015 |
Term End3: | 7 September 2017 |
President3: | John Pombe Magufuli |
Alongside3: | Angellah Kairuki |
Successor3: | George Mkuchika |
Office4: | Minister of Energy and Minerals |
Term Start4: | 24 January 2015 |
Term End4: | 5 November 2015 |
Predecessor4: | Sospeter Muhongo |
Successor4: | Sospeter Muhongo |
Office5: | Member of Parliament for Kibakwe |
Term Start5: | December 2005 |
Predecessor5: | Daimon Mwaga |
Birth Date: | 5 July 1970 |
Nationality: | Tanzanian |
Party: | CCM |
George Boniface Taguluvala Simbachawene (born 5 July 1968) is a Tanzanian CCM politician and Member of Parliament for Kibakwe constituency since 2005.[1] [2]
He held the post of the Minister of State in the President’s Office responsible for Regional Administration, Local Government, Civil Service and Good Governance from November 2015 to September 2017. He resigned from his post on September 7, 2017 after his name was implicated in the Minerals report from his time in the Ministry of Energy and Minerals.[3]
On 21 July 2019, he is assigned as the Minister of State in the Vice President's Office.[4] On January 23, 2020 he was appointed as the Minister of Home Affairs.[5] On 10 January 2022 he was sworn in as the new Minister for Legal and Constitutional Affairs.[6]