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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... clear Mbeki had not read all the nuances of that book. Mbeki repeated its often vulgarised message that it was time for Africans to think their way forward in an original African way.6 The interesting thing was that Mbeki was using an ...
... clear Mbeki had not read all the nuances of that book. Mbeki repeated its often vulgarised message that it was time for Africans to think their way forward in an original African way.6 The interesting thing was that Mbeki was using an ...
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... clear of him. The episode caused the Zimbabwean courts to embargo any further overseas travel for Tsvangirai. However naive his early efforts at international diplomacy had been, Tsvangirai was now not going 4 Citizen of Zimbabwe ...
... clear of him. The episode caused the Zimbabwean courts to embargo any further overseas travel for Tsvangirai. However naive his early efforts at international diplomacy had been, Tsvangirai was now not going 4 Citizen of Zimbabwe ...
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... clear whether the ZCTU had anything to do with these). It seemed in 1998 that there was everything to play for and that the government had no real sense of future strategy or of self-renewal.14 In early 1998 the National Constitutional ...
... clear whether the ZCTU had anything to do with these). It seemed in 1998 that there was everything to play for and that the government had no real sense of future strategy or of self-renewal.14 In early 1998 the National Constitutional ...
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... clear that, while the military objectives of the Congo adventure were unclear, the opportunity for plunder on the part of senior officers and politicians was very clear. The opportunism and selfishness, built on the suffering and deaths ...
... clear that, while the military objectives of the Congo adventure were unclear, the opportunity for plunder on the part of senior officers and politicians was very clear. The opportunism and selfishness, built on the suffering and deaths ...
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... clearly orchestrated centrally. The ZANU(PF) campaign, with its theme of nationalism and its accusations of British ... clear cases of local abuses – which the MDC were, often successfully, to challenge in the courts – there seemed no ...
... clearly orchestrated centrally. The ZANU(PF) campaign, with its theme of nationalism and its accusations of British ... clear cases of local abuses – which the MDC were, often successfully, to challenge in the courts – there seemed no ...
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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