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Article: Britain's tarnished reputation can be salvaged at last
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 2, 2009
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The cardinal could stand it no longer. Conducting the funeral
service for a prominent bishop in front of pews packed with his
nation's top politicians and business leaders, Polycarp Pengo, the
head of the Catholic Church in Tanzania, raged against the cancer of
corruption eating away at his country. He urged all decent people to
join a crusade against the 'vices' of bribery and embezzlement.
He was right to be annoyed. A series of scandals have highlighted
the growth of graft in Tanzania. There have been calls for Benjamin
Mkapa, the globally-respected former president who was among those
mourners a month ago, to be prosecuted. And in a land where more
than a third of people live on ...