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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... party, would prove to be difficult tasks. Even so, life as an African trade union supremo at the beginning of the ... parties took their struggle into the bush.5 By the time of the Lancaster House talks over the independence of Zimbabwe ...
... party, would prove to be difficult tasks. Even so, life as an African trade union supremo at the beginning of the ... parties took their struggle into the bush.5 By the time of the Lancaster House talks over the independence of Zimbabwe ...
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... party owed as much to government misadventure as to the maturing of a sense of both principled and technocratic opposition. The new party was launched on 11 September 1999, and its first Congress was held on 30 January 2000. With ...
... party owed as much to government misadventure as to the maturing of a sense of both principled and technocratic opposition. The new party was launched on 11 September 1999, and its first Congress was held on 30 January 2000. With ...
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... party. The almost naive misreading of the situation would not be repeated by ZANU(PF) – but this, coupled with the momentum the MDC had generated with its launch, meant that for the first time there would be a defeat at the polls for ...
... party. The almost naive misreading of the situation would not be repeated by ZANU(PF) – but this, coupled with the momentum the MDC had generated with its launch, meant that for the first time there would be a defeat at the polls for ...
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... Party Congress, four months after the farm invasions began. By now the 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 ...
... Party Congress, four months after the farm invasions began. By now the 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 ...
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... party of Ndabaningi Sithole). Later court and by-election victories would, for a short time, equalise the elected parliamentary seats between government and opposition, and ZANU(PF) would have to depend upon the 30 MPs appointed without ...
... party of Ndabaningi Sithole). Later court and by-election victories would, for a short time, equalise the elected parliamentary seats between government and opposition, and ZANU(PF) would have to depend upon the 30 MPs appointed without ...
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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