{{Short description|Tanzanian politician}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = Honourable | name = George Boniface Simbachawene | honorific_suffix = MP | image = | 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 | president1 = John Pombe Magufuli {{Small|(2020)}} <br> Samia Suluhu {{Small|(2021)}} | predecessor1 = Alphaxard Lugola | successor1 = Hamad Masauni | office2 = Minister of State in the <br />Vice President's Office | term_start2 = 22 July 2019 | term_end2 = 23 January 2020 | president2 = John Pombe Magufuli | alongside2 = | 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<br>for Kibakwe | term_start5 = December 2005 | term_end5 = | predecessor5 = Daimon Mwaga | successor5 = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1970|07|05|df=y}} | birth_place = | party = CCM | spouse = | children = | alma_mater = Arusha Technical College <br> Open University of Tanzania {{small|(LL.B)}} }}
'''George Boniface Taguluvala Simbachawene''' (born 5 July 1968) is a Tanzanian CCM politician and Member of Parliament for Kibakwe constituency since 2005.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.parliament.go.tz/index.php/members/mpcvs/1350/2010-2015 |title=Member of Parliament CV |publisher= Parliament of Tanzania |access-date=28 February 2013 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150722014858/http://www.parliament.go.tz/index.php/members/mpcvs/1350/2010-2015 |archive-date=22 July 2015}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Parliament of Tanzania|url=https://www.parliament.go.tz/index.php/administrations/41|access-date=2020-07-12|website=www.parliament.go.tz}}</ref>
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.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://allafrica.com/stories/201709080075.html|title=Tanzania: Simbachawene Throws in the Towel|last=Kazoka|first=Ludovick|date=2017-09-08|work=Tanzania Daily News (Dar es Salaam)|access-date=2017-10-09}}</ref>
On 21 July 2019, he is assigned as the Minister of State in the Vice President's Office.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thecitizen.co.tz/news/Tanzania-President-Magufuli-fires-Environment--Union-/1840340-5204344-2xvvniz/index.html|title=Tanzania President Magufuli fires Environment, Union Affairs|website=The Citizen|language=en|access-date=2019-07-21}}</ref> On January 23, 2020 he was appointed as the Minister of Home Affairs.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Simbachawene replaces Lugola as Ilala's Zungu request granted|url=https://www.thecitizen.co.tz/news/Simbachawene-replaces-Lugola-as-Ilala-s-Zungu-request-granted/1840340-5429764-75iyay/index.html|access-date=2020-07-12|website=The Citizen|language=en}}</ref> On 10 January 2022 he was sworn in as the new Minister for Legal and Constitutional Affairs.<ref>{{Cite web|title=President Samia rings changes in cabinet|url=https://www.thecitizen.co.tz/tanzania/news/president-samia-rings-changes-in-cabinet-3676040|access-date=9 January 2022|date=8 January 2022|website=The Citizen|last1=Owere|first1=Paul|last2=Wambura|first2=Bethsheba|archive-date=9 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220109000710/https://www.thecitizen.co.tz/tanzania/news/president-samia-rings-changes-in-cabinet-3676040|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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