Makame Rashidi
Major General Makame Mnalihinga Rashidi was a Tanzanian military officer and diplomat, the Ambassador to Malawi, head of Ruvu Special Force, Chief of Staff of Military at Headquarters, Mbeya Regional Commissioner and the head of Tanzania National Service. He joined TPDF in 1964 and served the military for more than 30 years before meeting his death at Lugalo Military Hospital in Dar es Salaam and buried at Mlyawa Village, Tandahimba in Mtwara Region.