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He retained the same position during the first half of Mr. Idris Abdul Wakil's presidency before he was dropped in a cabinet reshuffle in January 1988.
In 1992, when Tanzania amended its Constitution to pave the way for a multi-party system, Mr. Hamad, together with colleagues, formed a new party, the Civic United Front (CUF) and was elected its first National Vice Chairman.
With the reintroduction of multiparty politics in Tanzania in 1992, CUF became the vehicle for post-multiparty Zanzibari demands. Seif Sharif Hamad, popularly known as Maalim Seif was born at Nyali, Mtambwe in Wete, Pemba (Zanzibar's sister island) on October 22, 1943.
After completing his primary education in 1957 in Pemba, he joined King George VI Memoria Secondary School where he attained his Ordinary and Advanced Level Secondary Education in 1961 and 1963 respectively.
According to ACT-Wazalendo party wordpress page: https://hakinaumma.wordpress.com, after the January 1964 Revolution, which saw many foreigners and other civil servants leaving the islands, Mr.
Hamad was asked by the new Government to join the teaching profession to fill the vacuum.
He taught for eight years atLumumba College and Fidel Castro Secondary School located in Unguja and Pemba islands respectively.
In 1972 he was part of the first group of Zanzibari students to be sponsored by the Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar to join the University of Dar es Salaam.
In his address after being sworn in as First Vice President, Hamad said that the decision to join the GNU was to build a new Zanzibar through continued reconciliation. He received 32.96% of the vote to Karume's 67.04%. Hamadi became the first ever vice president of Zanzibar when Dr. Shein was sworn in as president of Zanzibar.
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Hamad’s last political act was the 2020 elections.He was expelled from CCM in 1988, subsequently arrested and jailed for sedition. His candidature was symbolic in that it embodied a collective counter narrative of what the ruling party CCM represented. In March 2016, Hamad refused to participate in the rerun of the election which brought Dr Sheni to power again illegally .
In January 1988, he was unceremoniously dropped from the Revolutionary Council and removed as the Chief Minister of Zanzibar and in May 1988 he was expelled from the ruling CCM with six colleagues and automatically lost his parliamentary seat in the Zanzibar House of Representatives.
Hamad served briefly as a Personal Assistant to the President of Zanzibar, then Mr. Aboud Jumbe (1975-1977) before he was appointed Minister of Education, a position he served for three years (1977-1980).
From 1977-1987, he was a member of the National Executive Committee and the Central Committee of the ruling party, Chama Cha Mapinduzi .
In 2000, he faced Amani Karume, son of Zanzibar’s first president.
Most of the planned reforms were not implemented by the government, including, crucially, an agreed credible voter's register prior to the elections of October 2005.
In the 30 October 2005 election, according to official results, Hamad was again defeated by Amani Abeid Karume, winning 46.07% of the vote to Karume's 53.18%.
From May 1989 - November, 1991 he was imprisoned as a prisoner of conscience.
When Tanzania adopted a multiparty political system in 1992, Hamad along with other former CCM members founded the Civic United Front party. Maalim was born on October 22, 1943, in Nyali, Mtambwe village in Pemba island.
In April 2000, he was arrested and charged with trumped up charges of allegedly attacking members of the police and robbing them with a gun. He researches on the contradictions of memory of the Tanganyika-Zanzibar Union, Zanzibari nationalism and the reconciliation processes in Zanzibar.
On 31 October 2010, Tanzanians vote to elect President of Tanzania and Zanzibar and Hamad runs for election,alongside Dr Ali Mohamed Shein of the ruling party CCM who was declared the winner on Monday, 1 November 2010, scooping 179,809 votes against 175,338 votes of Hamad. The first multiparty elections took place in 1995 and Hamad was the CUF's candidate for the Presidency of Zanzibar.
Since Mwalimu’s death in 1999, every October 14th, Tanzania commemorates Nyerere Day – a statutory national public holiday.