Citizen of Zimbabwe: Conversations with Morgan TsvangiraiMorgan Tsvangiraiís appointment as Zimbabweís Prime Minister in 2009 followed many yearsí leadership of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trades Unions and the Movement for Democratic Change. How has that experience equipped him for high national office? Does he have the personal, intellectual and political qualities required to be President? In July 2004, as he was awaiting the verdict in his treason trial, Tsvangirai spent several days in conversation with Stephen Chan. Chan was concerned to find out if Tsvangirai was more than ëmerely a charismatic leader of the oppositioní; if he had ëhis own intellectual agenda [and] political philosophyí. His questions were even-handed and astute. ëDiscussion by discussion, Morgan Tsvangirai had become more open, more human ñ less cautious and, paradoxically, more obviously and naturally presidential.í Five years later, having reviewed the events since their discussions took place, Chan writes: ëI have not made a saint of him, not even an Atlas. I hope I have not criticized him too much or too unfairly. Probably no one could have done for Zimbabwe what he has.í Citizen of Zimbabwe is a rare and intimate portrait of political leadership in Africa. |
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... Common- wealth Observer Group in Zimbabwe in 1980 , I have long doubted the efficacy not of observers , but of the observation process as currently practiced . It has not , in official circles , moved on from 1980 , and I shall write ...
... Common- wealth Observer Group in Zimbabwe in 1980 , I have long doubted the efficacy not of observers , but of the observation process as currently practiced . It has not , in official circles , moved on from 1980 , and I shall write ...
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... Commonwealth at the Abuja summit on 7 December 2003. Mbeki can still be pragmatic and , above all , patient but his intellectual roots are not hidden . If the MDC was extremely happy about the Abuja result it was not because it had ...
... Commonwealth at the Abuja summit on 7 December 2003. Mbeki can still be pragmatic and , above all , patient but his intellectual roots are not hidden . If the MDC was extremely happy about the Abuja result it was not because it had ...
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... Commonwealth role . I really don't know how relevant it can be to contemporary needs – especially the fact that it is comprised by ex - British colonies rather distances itself from what I see as our contemporary realities . I'll be in ...
... Commonwealth role . I really don't know how relevant it can be to contemporary needs – especially the fact that it is comprised by ex - British colonies rather distances itself from what I see as our contemporary realities . I'll be in ...
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... Commonwealth Residualism and the Machinations of Power in a Turbulent Zimbabwe ' , Commonwealth and Comparative Politics , 39 : 3 , 2001 , p . 71 . 10. Terence Ranger , ' Nationalist Historiography , Patriotic History and the History of ...
... Commonwealth Residualism and the Machinations of Power in a Turbulent Zimbabwe ' , Commonwealth and Comparative Politics , 39 : 3 , 2001 , p . 71 . 10. Terence Ranger , ' Nationalist Historiography , Patriotic History and the History of ...
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... Commonwealth summit in Brisbane (it had been delayed from Octo- ber 2001 because of terrorist fears after 9/11). The summit was in turn a week before the Presidential elections in Zimbabwe, 9-10 March 2002. Tsvangirai was charged with ...
... Commonwealth summit in Brisbane (it had been delayed from Octo- ber 2001 because of terrorist fears after 9/11). The summit was in turn a week before the Presidential elections in Zimbabwe, 9-10 March 2002. Tsvangirai was charged with ...
Contents
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Inclusiveness Opposition | 21 |
The Battle for Ownership of the Mind | 31 |
Internationalism Reconciliation | 44 |
Perseverance | 52 |
Disease Conditionality | 62 |
Traditional Culture Modernity Democracy | 70 |
Healing the Future | 81 |
A Rueful Reflection | 89 |
The Twisting Turning Road Forwards | 96 |
Back Cover | 109 |
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