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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... economy near the end of 2004, although at a very low level and followed by instability at the start of 2005, giving the lie to assertions that Zimbabwe's economic woes have bottomed-out. If the MDC not only loses, but loses its blocking ...
... economy near the end of 2004, although at a very low level and followed by instability at the start of 2005, giving the lie to assertions that Zimbabwe's economic woes have bottomed-out. If the MDC not only loses, but loses its blocking ...
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... Economy , 2004 , v . 31 , 385-400 . 12. For my efforts to decipher Kaunda's philosophy , as applied to foreign policy , see Stephen Chan , Kaunda and Southern Africa : Image and Reality in Foreign Policy , London : I.B. Tauris , 1992 ...
... Economy , 2004 , v . 31 , 385-400 . 12. For my efforts to decipher Kaunda's philosophy , as applied to foreign policy , see Stephen Chan , Kaunda and Southern Africa : Image and Reality in Foreign Policy , London : I.B. Tauris , 1992 ...
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... economic climate where negotiations were hardly welcome, and hardly possible, from the point of view of the economic adjusters, walking a tightrope between Harare and the World Bank and IMF in Washington. The old Southern Rhodesia had a ...
... economic climate where negotiations were hardly welcome, and hardly possible, from the point of view of the economic adjusters, walking a tightrope between Harare and the World Bank and IMF in Washington. The old Southern Rhodesia had a ...
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... economic structural adjustment programme (ESAP) designed to accommodate the conditionalities imposed by the World Bank and IMF. Precisely because of ESAP, the unions had to make some choices of priority: wage demands or employment ...
... economic structural adjustment programme (ESAP) designed to accommodate the conditionalities imposed by the World Bank and IMF. Precisely because of ESAP, the unions had to make some choices of priority: wage demands or employment ...
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... economy, see Tsvangirai as inimical to their sense of histori- cal progress – although these same critics have never yet reconciled the antipathy in their intellectual goals, with an African philosophical and ideological autonomy on the ...
... economy, see Tsvangirai as inimical to their sense of histori- cal progress – although these same critics have never yet reconciled the antipathy in their intellectual goals, with an African philosophical and ideological autonomy on the ...
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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