Chadema opposition party supporters were out in full force under the blazing heat on the last campaign day before voters go to the polls on Sunday in what has been termed as the tightest presidential race in Tanzania's history.

Supporters of Chadema's presidential candidate, Edward Lowassa, started moving towards the Jangwani grounds on Saturday morning, running through the streets parading with the red, blue and white flag of Chadema, and wearing the opposition party insignia that shows two fingers up.
"For 54 years we have been in Tanzania, we have been free. We have nothing. We don't see changes, in fact," says Wilfred Valerian, an older Chadema supporter. "Education is very bad, health-nothing. So we want to be somewhere in fact. For the new government, I expect a lot," he adds.
There was a minor scuffle at the beginning of the rally, as people in the front row fell on top of the barrier. Security and police calmed the crowd but a number of men and women had to be taken away after fainting in the heat.
Lowassa came to the podium by weakly chanting "people" as the crowd responded "power". Rumors of health issues have plagued Lowassa since he started his campaign, although he has asserted that he is well.
While reiterating his campaign pledges of free education and healthcare, he also said that Tanzanians should take note of neighbouring Kenya's 2002 general election, where the Kenya African National Union party was routed out after 23 years in power.
His supporters have jumped on Chadema's promises for free health care and free education as vital issues. Some 35 to 40 percent of school-age children do not attend school in Tanzania, a number he promised to rectify if elected.
Young men dressed as schoolgirls with Winnie-the-pooh and Barbie backpacks walked around the grounds holding a sign that read "Ukawa-- free primary school education", referring to the umbrella opposition, Ukawa, who united under Lowassa as their presidential candidate.
Nazareth, a voter draped in a red, white and blue Chadema flag as he walked to the rally said he was ready for a change in Tanzanian politics. "I'm here because I want to see my next president, Mr. Edward Lowassa, that's why I'm here. Even if it's not Lowassa, anyone, anyone!"
Free healthcare was one of the campaign pladges both sides made in an effort to garner more votes.
"I want changes for the hospital," he added. "If you use the doctor, you have to pay for the doctor. And then we pay the doctor, even 20,000 shillings [eight euros], and then we can't get medicine. Then we get a sheet [prescription] so we have to go to buy medicine in another place. We don't... like that," he said.
As their representative of the people in the State House, Chadema supporters said they wanted a strong leader to make changes, but that also reflects the first lady, said Martha, who told RFI she was going to vote Chadema on Sunday. Part of her issue with ruling party Chama Cha Mapinduzi is that the candidate's wife, Janet Magufuli, seems nearly invisible, and does not accompany her husband on a regular basis.
"As we see, Mamma Lowassa has been going here and there talking to women, to tell them what Chadema wants to do for them," she said, adding that CCM candidate Magufuli never brings his wife anywhere.
"How is he going to rule us himself without a woman? Because any man who is developed, there is a woman at his back. So I don't know who is going be at his back then if his wife is not there with him," said Martha.