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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... land redistribution was always going to be necessary in an independent Zimbabwe; however, the manner in which the process has been carried out and the distribution of land to a chosen elite have rendered the process violent and unjust ...
... land redistribution was always going to be necessary in an independent Zimbabwe; however, the manner in which the process has been carried out and the distribution of land to a chosen elite have rendered the process violent and unjust ...
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... land - seizure policies , ZANU ( PF ) and particularly Robert Mugabe went out of their way to build a pan - African support - base . It was so successful that neither Britain nor the US , and not even France with its close ties to a ...
... land - seizure policies , ZANU ( PF ) and particularly Robert Mugabe went out of their way to build a pan - African support - base . It was so successful that neither Britain nor the US , and not even France with its close ties to a ...
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... land, but ownership of what ZANU(PF) has called 'patriotic history'. Terence Ranger has discussed this.10 Ian Phimister and Brian Raftopoulos have also, stressing that the ZANU(PF) ideological project is complex, that it has repercus ...
... land, but ownership of what ZANU(PF) has called 'patriotic history'. Terence Ranger has discussed this.10 Ian Phimister and Brian Raftopoulos have also, stressing that the ZANU(PF) ideological project is complex, that it has repercus ...
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... land ownership or reform, or of any racial fault-lines in the old or pro- jected new Zimbabwe. Here again, with the referendum looming, it is important to make two points. The government was putting forward a series of consti- tutional ...
... land ownership or reform, or of any racial fault-lines in the old or pro- jected new Zimbabwe. Here again, with the referendum looming, it is important to make two points. The government was putting forward a series of consti- tutional ...
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... land issue had become a huge international cause for concern – but the British in particular seemed to concentrate on the plight of white farmers, and only secondarily protest against the increasingly brutal treatment being meted out to ...
... land issue had become a huge international cause for concern – but the British in particular seemed to concentrate on the plight of white farmers, and only secondarily protest against the increasingly brutal treatment being meted out to ...
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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