What would Tanzania's cost-cutting president do? Twitter responds
by Ndesanjo Macha for Global Voices, part of the Guar from Technology | The Guardian on (#W8T1)
Users tweeting #WhatWouldMagufuliDo are offering wry ways to emulate John Magufuli's clampdown on wasteful spending. Global Voices reports
Tanzania's newly elected president, nicknamed "the bulldozer", has become a Twitter sensation across Africa after introducing radical government cost-cutting measures.
Immediately after his inauguration, John Magufuli scrapped independence celebrations, choosing instead to spend money on sanitation, fighting cholera and new beds and equipment for hospitals.
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