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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... intellectuals plan splinter party',3 was par- ticularly revealing, as if ZANU(PF) discerned an Achilles' Heel within the MDC – the uneasy alliance between trade unionists and their days of action, and their more cerebral colleagues who ...
... intellectuals plan splinter party',3 was par- ticularly revealing, as if ZANU(PF) discerned an Achilles' Heel within the MDC – the uneasy alliance between trade unionists and their days of action, and their more cerebral colleagues who ...
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... intellectuals had any sustained sense of rural policy. ZANU(PF), on the other hand, had built a formidable party control of the country- side, which in more recent days it had augmented with paramilitary bullying and control of food ...
... intellectuals had any sustained sense of rural policy. ZANU(PF), on the other hand, had built a formidable party control of the country- side, which in more recent days it had augmented with paramilitary bullying and control of food ...
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... intellectual source to protest the seeming railroad- ing of Zimbabwe's suspension from the Commonwealth at the Abuja summit on 7 December 2003. Mbeki can still be pragmatic and , above all , patient but his intellectual roots are not ...
... intellectual source to protest the seeming railroad- ing of Zimbabwe's suspension from the Commonwealth at the Abuja summit on 7 December 2003. Mbeki can still be pragmatic and , above all , patient but his intellectual roots are not ...
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... intellectual agenda has been set. This is not only to do with ownership of power and ownership of land, but ownership of what ZANU(PF) has called 'patriotic history'. Terence Ranger has discussed this.10 Ian Phimister and Brian ...
... intellectual agenda has been set. This is not only to do with ownership of power and ownership of land, but ownership of what ZANU(PF) has called 'patriotic history'. Terence Ranger has discussed this.10 Ian Phimister and Brian ...
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... intellectuals. Long before the MDC, with its own 'intellectual faction', was formed, he wrote that 'Zimbabwe has the misfortune of producing so-called progressive intellectuals who have the habit of lecturing workers and peasants ...
... intellectuals. Long before the MDC, with its own 'intellectual faction', was formed, he wrote that 'Zimbabwe has the misfortune of producing so-called progressive intellectuals who have the habit of lecturing workers and peasants ...
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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