Mustafa Jaffer Sabodo
{{Short description|Tanzanian businessman (1942–2024)}}
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Mustafa Jaffer Sabodo (14 May 1942{{Cite web |url=https://dailynews.co.tz/tanzanias-business-tycoon-mustafa-sabodo-passes-away/ |title=Tanzania’s business tycoon Mustafa Sabodo passes away |access-date=23 March 2024 |archive-date=23 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240323195702/https://dailynews.co.tz/tanzanias-business-tycoon-mustafa-sabodo-passes-away/ |url-status=live }} – 23 March 2024) was a Tanzanian economist, consultant in international debt-finance, and businessman. He had business interests in India, France, Kenya, Sudan, Nigeria, and Zimbabwe.
Life and career
Mustafa Jaffer Sabodo was born in Lindi, Tanganyika (now Tanzania) to parents of Indian descent.
In 2003, he offered to finance the growing of pulse for export to the tune of TSh 100 million.{{Cite web |url=http://www.nationaudio.com/News/EastAfrican/11082003/Regional/Regional11.html/ |title=Dar Businessman Donates $0.1m for Pulse Production |access-date=15 October 2007 |archive-date=25 August 2003 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030825074258/http://www.nationaudio.com/News/EastAfrican/11082003/Regional/Regional11.html |url-status=dead }}
The Mwalimu Nyerere Foundation National Lottery was the brainchild of Sabodo, who donated TSh 800 million towards a project that established the lottery.{{Cite web |url=http://www.ippmedia.com/ipp/guardian/2006/06/06/67836.html/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20070623220916/http://www.ippmedia.com/ipp/guardian/2006/06/06/67836.html/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=23 June 2007 |title=Mwalimu Nyerere Foundation Lottery begins in earnest |access-date=15 October 2007}}[http://www.thisday.co.tz/News/138.html/ JK: Contribute to Nyerere Foundation] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20070810040537/http://www.thisday.co.tz/News/138.html/ |date=10 August 2007 }}
Sabodo died in Masaki, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on 23 March 2024, at the age of 81.{{cite news |title=Tanzanian billionaire Mustafa Sabodo passes away at 82 |url=https://www.thecitizen.co.tz/tanzania/news/national/tanzanian-billionaire-mustafa-sabodo-passes-away-at-82-4566548 |access-date=23 March 2024 |publisher=The Citizen |date=23 March 2024 |archive-date=23 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240323170113/https://www.thecitizen.co.tz/tanzania/news/national/tanzanian-billionaire-mustafa-sabodo-passes-away-at-82-4566548 |url-status=live }}
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