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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... a technocratic dimension, was immediate. In 1995 Mugabe attended the May Day celebrations for the first time since 1991. The ZCTU, in return, did not become involved in either the parliamentary election 11 A Short History.
... a technocratic dimension, was immediate. In 1995 Mugabe attended the May Day celebrations for the first time since 1991. The ZCTU, in return, did not become involved in either the parliamentary election 11 A Short History.
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... election of 1995 or the Presidential election of 1996. The document is certainly, even now, a signal to the outside world of a certain pragmatism in eco- nomic affairs – though couched in a social democratic idealism – that illustrates ...
... election of 1995 or the Presidential election of 1996. The document is certainly, even now, a signal to the outside world of a certain pragmatism in eco- nomic affairs – though couched in a social democratic idealism – that illustrates ...
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... elected its president, and another senior ZCTU figure, Gibson Sibanda, its vice- president, it came into being with an urban trade union imprint which, despite the exposure to the NCA, it never entirely lost. Tsvangirai, in his January ...
... elected its president, and another senior ZCTU figure, Gibson Sibanda, its vice- president, it came into being with an urban trade union imprint which, despite the exposure to the NCA, it never entirely lost. Tsvangirai, in his January ...
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... Elections & treason Parliamentary elections were called for 24-25 June 2000. This was five months after the first MDC Party Congress, four months after the farm invasions began. By now the land issue had become a huge international ...
... Elections & treason Parliamentary elections were called for 24-25 June 2000. This was five months after the first MDC Party Congress, four months after the farm invasions began. By now the land issue had become a huge international ...
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... election by the President. By-election defeats for the MDC much later in the parlia- mentary term would see a shift back to ZANU(PF) but, at the 2000 elections, ZANU(PF) lost all nineteen seats in Harare and all eight seats in Bulawayo ...
... election by the President. By-election defeats for the MDC much later in the parlia- mentary term would see a shift back to ZANU(PF) but, at the 2000 elections, ZANU(PF) lost all nineteen seats in Harare and all eight seats in Bulawayo ...
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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