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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Page vii
... foreign observers, many of whom never moved far from Harare. And, indeed, despite having been involved in the pioneering Commonwealth Observer Group in Zimbabwe in 1980, I have long doubted the efficacy not of observers, but of the ...
... foreign observers, many of whom never moved far from Harare. And, indeed, despite having been involved in the pioneering Commonwealth Observer Group in Zimbabwe in 1980, I have long doubted the efficacy not of observers, but of the ...
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... foreign affairs, Tendai Biti, in a conversation with me, seemed to accord the summit little value. 'Morgan has not yet decided whether he will attend the Brisbane summit.'8 My conversations with Tsvangirai himself, a year earlier in ...
... foreign affairs, Tendai Biti, in a conversation with me, seemed to accord the summit little value. 'Morgan has not yet decided whether he will attend the Brisbane summit.'8 My conversations with Tsvangirai himself, a year earlier in ...
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... foreign policies of Africa to an extent that the Blairs of the world have never suspected (and the French have grudgingly come to accept). So the second reason for this book is to look, for the first time, at whether Morgan Tsvangirai ...
... foreign policies of Africa to an extent that the Blairs of the world have never suspected (and the French have grudgingly come to accept). So the second reason for this book is to look, for the first time, at whether Morgan Tsvangirai ...
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... foreign policy, see Stephen Chan, Kaunda and Southern Africa: Image and Reality in Foreign Policy, London: I.B. Tauris, 1992. A Short History Morgan Tsvangirai's house is a comfortably sprawling 7 Introduction.
... foreign policy, see Stephen Chan, Kaunda and Southern Africa: Image and Reality in Foreign Policy, London: I.B. Tauris, 1992. A Short History Morgan Tsvangirai's house is a comfortably sprawling 7 Introduction.
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... foreign forces to destroy their own economies.'13 And so, from the point of view of the government and its supporters, the charge was formed that Morgan Tsvangirai could be identified with urban labour, white farmers and foreign forces ...
... foreign forces to destroy their own economies.'13 And so, from the point of view of the government and its supporters, the charge was formed that Morgan Tsvangirai could be identified with urban labour, white farmers and foreign forces ...
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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