Farewell Speech by the President, Mwalimu Julius K. Nyerere, at the Diamond Jubilee Hill Par es Salaam: 4th November 1985

During the long period during which I have had the good fortune to lead our country, I have made very many speeches to Tanzanians. Today, in my last speech as President of the United Republic, I have only one extra thing to say

To every one of you individually, to all people organised together in villages, in cooperatives, in professions, in voluntary organisations contributing to our development, to all honest workers in Government and Parastatals - to everybody - I say thank you very much.

Since we began to govern ourselves I have been the leader, first of Tanganyika, and then of the United Republic of Tanzania. Time and again you have re-elected me and thus expressed your continued confidence in my ability to do the job you needed done. And in the last few weeks you have paid many tributes to my work as President of our country. You have forgiven, even if perhaps you have not forgotten, my many mistakes of commission and commission.

Hotuba ya Rais ya kuaga, Mwalimu Julius K. Nyerere, saa Diamond Jubilee Hill Par es Salaam: 4 Novemba 1985

Wakati wa kipindi cha muda mrefu wakati ambao mimi kuwa na bahati nzuri ya kuongoza nchi yetu, nimekufanya hotuba nyingi sana kwa Watanzania. Leo, katika hotuba yangu ya mwisho kama Rais wa Jamhuri ya Muungano, nina jambo moja tu ya ziada ya kusema

Kwa kila mmoja kwa mmoja mmoja, kwa watu wote kupangwa pamoja katika vijiji, katika vyama vya ushirika, katika taaluma, katika mashirika ya kujitolea kuchangia maendeleo yetu, na wafanyakazi wote waaminifu katika Serikali na Mashirika ya Umma - kwa kila mtu - nasema asante sana.

Tangu sisi wenyewe alianza kutawala Nimekuwa kiongozi wa kwanza wa Tanganyika, na kisha wa Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania. Wakati na tena una kuchaguliwa tena mimi na hivyo walionyesha ujasiri wako kuendelea katika uwezo wangu wa kufanya kazi unahitajika kufanyika. Na katika wiki chache zilizopita una kulipwa tributes wengi kwa kazi yangu kama Rais wa nchi yetu. Wewe umesamehewa, hata kama labda wewe si kusahaulika, makosa wangu wengi wa tume na tume.