What Happened On October 29? (SPEARHEAD DOCUMENTARY)

Mainstream media coverage of Tanzania’s 2025 election was unanimous in portraying it simplistically as a “disputed election” that was marred by violence and a brutal government crackdown.

Conveniently, nearly all mainstream coverage entirely omitted the blatant meddling by multiple foreign actors acting through funded local collaborators who demonstrated a terrifying new capability - the ability to remotely destabilise a country by weaponising it’s young people against their own interests, and deployment of the threat of sanctions arising from the manufactured crisis to blackmail a government into signing weighted deals that it ordinarily would not agree to. The implications of this form of foreign interference on basic African sovereignty are immense, which makes this a story with significance far beyond the borders of Tanzania.

The Spearhead is proud to present the full, unfiltered, properly contextualised story of what went happened in Tanzania before, during, and after the October 29, 2025 election in this documentary titled ‘What Happened On October 29?’