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What Corruption ? Whose Corruption ?

Managing change

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In such circumstances, it’s rarely possible for any m'zuŋ u to distinguish where the
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corruption lies. Which individual is actually corrupt? Nuances are not really the m'zuŋ u
style. Instead, simply let off steam and use Facebook, Twitter and the like to do more and

more slanderous stereotyping.
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m'zuŋ u from developed countries will never know what it’s like to be born into and
grow up in an underdeveloped African country. Your life is not your own.
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It's not the m'zuŋ u who we should feel sorry for. The bus crew at the border post are
the biggest victims. They will have been abused, shouted at, threatened and possibly even

physically assaulted for their failure to collect my extra USD 5. They may have been forced
to pay my USD 5 out of their own 'takings'.

Whatever the actuality, they will have left knowing that their whole way of life was

under threat. Any future missing payments by their bus will produce big, big problems for
the bus company - whose revenue activities require that their buses cross that border

several times a day. And so the bus crew know that if their bus company even hears that

there was a problem, forget about future events, they could be fired there and then.
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I deliberately built the above around an experience in Asia, far away from Africa, in the

hope that this will undermine the pejorative stereotyping of Africans in relation to
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corruption that seems to flourish in the m'zuŋ u world.
There is corruption in Africa, but it isn't African corruption. It's the corruption that
can, if given fertile ground, flourish in any underdeveloped country.

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“Self-preservation is the first principle of our nature.”

Alexander Hamilton 412
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“Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct
for self preservation.”

Albert Einstein 413
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In 1987, there was a tragic disaster whereby the Herald of Free Enterprise , a 'roll on, roll
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off' ferry leaving Zeebrugge harbour capsized and did so fairly quickly. 193 people lost
their life.