Post: | Minister of Home Affairs |
Flag: | Flag of Tanzania.svg |
Insignia: | Coat of arms of Tanzania.svg |
Incumbent: | Hamad Masauni |
Incumbentsince: | 10 January 2022 |
Department: | Ministry of Home Affairs |
Style: | Honourable Minister |
Member Of: | Cabinet |
Seat: | Dar es Salaam, Tanzania |
Appointer: | President |
Termlength: | At the President's discretion |
The Minister of Home Affairs is the head of the Ministry of Home Affairs of the Government of Tanzania.
The following have served the ministry:[1]
Portrait | Minister | Took office | Left office | President | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
– | George Kahama | 1961 | 1962 | (Republic of Tanganyika) | ||
– | 1962 | 1963 | ||||
1 | Lawi Sijaona | 1963 | 1965 | Julius Nyerere | ||
2 | Job Lusinde | 1966 | 1967 | |||
3 | Saidi Ali Maswanya | 1967 | 1973 | |||
4 | Omary Muhaji | 1973 | 1974 | |||
5 | 1975 | 1976 | ||||
6 | Hassan Moyo | 1977 | 1978 | |||
7 | Salmin Juma | 1979 | 1980 | |||
8 | Abdalla Natepe | 1980 | 1983 | |||
9 | Muhidin Kimario | 1983 | 1989 | |||
Ali Hassan Mwinyi | ||||||
10 | Nalaila Kiula | 1990 | ||||
11 | 1990 | 1994 | ||||
12 | Ernest Nyanda | 1995 | ||||
13 | Ali Ameir Mohamed | 1995 | 1999 | Benjamin Mkapa | ||
14 | 2000 | 2002 | ||||
15 | Omar Mapuri | 2003 | 21 December 2005 | |||
16 | 6 January 2006 | 16 October 2006 | Jakaya Kikwete | |||
17 | 16 October 2006 | 13 February 2008 | ||||
18 | 13 February 2008 | 28 November 2010 | ||||
19 | 28 November 2010 | 7 May 2012 | ||||
20 | 7 May 2012 | 20 December 2013 | ||||
21 | 20 January 2014 | 5 November 2015 | ||||
22 | 14 December 2015 | 2016 | John Magufuli | |||
23 | 2016 | 1 July 2018 | John Magufuli | |||
24 | 1 July 2018 | 23 January 2020 | John Magufuli | |||
25 | George Simbachawene | 23 January 2020[2] | 9 January 2022 | John Magufuli | ||
Samia Suluhu | ||||||
26 | 10 January 2022 | incumbent | Samia Suluhu |