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Guest Commentator

Tafi Mhaka, TPA The Pan Afrikanist

BC Guest Commentator Tafi Mhaka has a BA Honours degree from the University of Cape Town and works in the communications industry.

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Guest Commentary

Corruption: Africa’s Undeclared Pandemic

By Tafi Mhaka, TPA The Pan Afrikanist Guest Commentator

from Malawi to South Africa and Zimbabwe, from Angola to Mozambique and Namibia, in countries across Africa high-ranking civil servants and their relatives, in cahoots with industry and business leaders, seem to have long been shamelessly stealing from the long-suffering masses.

Corruption is devastating economies across the continent. The African Union needs to take swift action. On June 21, Malawi’s President Lazarus Chakwera fired the country’s chief…

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