Citizen of Zimbabwe : conversations with Morgan Tsvangirai / Stephen Chan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chan, Stephen, 1949-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tsvangirai, Morgan, 1952-2018--Interviews.

Tsvangirai, Morgan.

Movement for Democratic Change (Zimbabwe).

Presidential candidates--Zimbabwe--Interviews.

Presidential candidates.

Zimbabwe--Politics and government--1980-.

Zimbabwe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (118 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Harare, Zimbabwe : Weaver Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Morgan 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 intel

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface to the Second Edition; Introduction; A Short History; Drawing battlelines; Elections & treason; Inclusiveness & Opposition; The Battle for Ownership of the Mind; Internationalism & Reconciliation; Perseverance; AIDS & Aid: Disease & Conditionality; Traditional Culture, Modernity & Democracy; Healing & the Future; A Rueful Reflection; The Twisting & Turning Road Forwards; The 2005 Parliamentary elections; The split in the MDC; The 2008 elections; What Thabo had always wanted; The highly conditional way forward; Back Cover

Notes:

"First published in a private edition in 2005."

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786612869051

9781282869059

1282869051

9781779221391

1779221398

9781779221384

177922138X

9781779221124

1779221126

OCLC:

830166167