Despite his burning ambition the late Edward Lowassa was ever the bridesmaid and never the bride, but his career exemplified national politics, Edward Lowassa, who has died aged 70, was a close friend, confidant and ally of ex-President Jakaya Kikwete who spent a fortune advancing his prospects and embracing any part of the ideological spectrum that would help him, but without reaching the highest office of all. His career reveals much about Tanzania s government and politics, particularly the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party.
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To stay on the air, and they need to stay on the air to raise money money for the kind of electronic equipment any network would be proud to own. i believe god wants us in the next 30 days to have every one of these bills paid in full, and ptl can live if we pay our bills. it pays the bills if we would all just do [voice breaking] something. troy: as televangelism grows, jim bakker is the one who truly gets it. he understands that preaching on television is not just about standing up and giving a fire-and-brimstone speech. he understands that in the age of television, the johnny carson approach to televangelism, that being more intimate, showing your lifestyle, and your beautiful family is essential because it brings people in. and he s a brilliant entrepreneur, and he s a brilliant salesman of himself. ptl and now here are jim and tammy! clayton: their appeal is powerful. last year, a million people responded to the bakkers constant request for money. tammy bakker: how many do
Has been found guilty on all 24 counts of fraud and conspiracy by a jury in charlotte, north carolina. jones: bakker kept selling lifetime partnerships at heritage usa even though he knew they were oversold. for example, the heritage grand hotel could accommodate only 25,000 partnerships, but 65,000 were sold. and for the lower-priced bunkhouse partnerships, about 7,000 were sold for a building that had only eight rooms. gumbel: estelle pollard sent jim and tammy bakker s ptl club $15 a month for 15 years. she thought that by giving to them, god would ease her pain and that of her ailing husband. i have been one to help make millionaires out of those people when i don t have enough to even live on. jones: bakker could be sentenced to 120 years in prison and fined over $5 million. i would say i feel sad, but encouraged in god. hall: tammy bakker said she could best describe her feelings in song. on christ, the solid rock i stand
Four days and three nights every year for the rest of your life. troy: that mix of god and greed ends up derailing them, and ends up leading them to breaking the very rules that they are preaching about. television evangelist jim bakker has stepped down as the head of the praise the lord, or ptl, ministry. hazinski: bakker s resignation reportedly came because of a sexual encounter seven years ago. hall: jessica hahn is to be paid monthly as long as she keeps quiet about the incident. it turns out that jim bakker has been paying off this secretary, and that shakes the evangelical world. the evidence seems to indicate that effort and money have been expended to cover moral failure. if jim bakker paid jessica hahn hush money, what else has he been doing with the ptl money? do you worry about the investigations that are going on? jim and tammy: not at all. history will prove the bakkers were honest people. we interrupt this program for an nbc news special report. jim bakker, the defrock