[3] Vice president of the country's chamber of commerce and industry, chairman of DEMAT, the Development of Malawian Traders' Trust, and also founding director of the Institute for Policy Interaction (IPI).
[4] Hajat was the founding director of the Institute for Policy Interaction (IPI)[4] and was the founder of Transparency International - Malawi Chapter.
[6] Hajat and Malawi Democratic Party (MDP) president Kamlepo Kalua formed a Forum for the Defence of Democracy a pressure group on governance concerns under the Mutharika administration.
On 2 September 2011, the offices of the IPI were burned whilst Hajat was traveling to Lilongwe.
[8] Hajat died on the early morning of 13 September 2021 while being airlifted to South Africa after having a heart attack.