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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... seemed time for an ' above ground ' edition for three reasons . Firstly , an unauthorised or ' pirate ' edition was released , not in China where I expected , but in the United States . It had an ISBN , and many American university and ...
... seemed time for an ' above ground ' edition for three reasons . Firstly , an unauthorised or ' pirate ' edition was released , not in China where I expected , but in the United States . It had an ISBN , and many American university and ...
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... seemed the MDC was arguing over what sort of sabre should be used against the ZANU(PF) tanks. And ZANU(PF), having first ensured it would maintain the disparities in strength, was crowing. The loss of Zengeza was followed by others, and ...
... seemed the MDC was arguing over what sort of sabre should be used against the ZANU(PF) tanks. And ZANU(PF), having first ensured it would maintain the disparities in strength, was crowing. The loss of Zengeza was followed by others, and ...
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... 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 October 2000 , had shown a pungent honesty about ...
... 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 October 2000 , had shown a pungent honesty about ...
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... 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 Assembly (NCA) was formed. 13 A Short History Drawing ...
... 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 Assembly (NCA) was formed. 13 A Short History Drawing ...
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... seemed to encapsulate an entire critique of what ZANU(PF) had become. The outgrowth from the NCA of the MDC as a political party owed as much to government misadventure as to the maturing of a sense of both principled and technocratic ...
... seemed to encapsulate an entire critique of what ZANU(PF) had become. The outgrowth from the NCA of the MDC as a political party owed as much to government misadventure as to the maturing of a sense of both principled and technocratic ...
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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