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February 3, 2008Zimbabwe 2008: The election whose outcome is predetermined Zimbabwe finds itself at the crossroads and the bank created at independence in 1980 of justice, freedom and equality seems to be bankrupt and it is evident that the promissory note that was given to citizens at independence will not be honored on March 29.A central bank should ordinarily represent a repository of trust

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Zimbabwe finds itself at the crossroads and the bank created at independence in 1980 of justice, freedom and equality seems to be bankrupt and it is evident that the promissory note that was given to citizens at independence will not be honored on March 29. A central bank should ordinarily represent a repository of trust and integrity but the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has been reduced to a theatre

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A case has been made that Zimbabwe is under siege and, therefore, the end should justify the means. In about 56 days, Zimbabweans will be faced with a choice about who should shape their future and they will have to think seriously about the role of state institutions in undermining or promoting their collective interests.The RBZ has boldly asserted that it has been forced to go beyond its

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It is now a reality that the harmonised polls will be held on 29 March 2008.Only last year this time, the conventional wisdom in many opposition circles was that President Mugabe would not secure the mandate of his party as a candidate when his term expired let alone him being democratically endorsed as candidate of the party for the 2008 elections.Many experts advanced the notion that Mugabe

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It is now a reality that the harmonised polls will be held on 29 March 2008.Only last year this time, the conventional wisdom in many opposition circles was that President Mugabe would not secure the mandate of his party as a candidate when his term expired let alone him being democratically endorsed as candidate of the party for the 2008 elections.Many experts advanced the notion that Mugabe

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Both Senators Obama and Hillary Clinton are democratic Presidential nominees and their emergence as the front runners of their party represents a historic and defining moment in American history.Since the founding of the republic, the White House has been the exclusive preserve of white males and the thought of an African American and a White Female, albeit a former first lady, being prospective

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There are many big questions that should inform African conversations but regrettably we are all guilty of small talk in respect of some key and fundamental issues that have to be addressed if Africa is to advance its cause. The role of citizens, money and power relationships in shaping Africa’s destiny have to form part of the great debates between and amongst us.Who does Africa belong to? What

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Political power in any democratic and constitutional order is held by the holders of sovereignty. It is true that without following a principle of containing and balancing legislative, executive, and judiciary powers, there can be no freedom and no protection against the abuse of power.The separation of power principle between the three branches of the state is so fundamental to the protection

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After two primaries, Obama has won 16 delegates compared to Senator Clinton’s 9. The results of the New Hampshire primary have demonstrated the resilience of Obama and underlying the hype following the elections is the undeniable fact that Clinton and Obama ended up in New Hampshire with the same number of delegates i.e. 9 each making it a draw.Even if Obama may not make it as the candidate, the

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The relationship between the petty bourgeoisie and political elites in a post colonial state is a subject that requires critical interrogation not only because it informs the kind of democratic order and political morality that is necessary to push back the frontiers of poverty itself largely a legacy of the colonial state.The end of apartheid in South Africa ushered a new era in which political

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Zimbabwe will turn 28 this year not because the country did not have a history prior to independence but citizens chose to build a new civilization in 1979 based on a just and democratic constitutional order underpinned by a simple concept of self government.The post colonial state was a product of a protracted civil rights struggle and I would like to think that many would agree that the

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The role of the West in undermining post colonial democratic institutions is a subject that requires its own debate but is not a new subject. Many post colonial states have found in imperialism a convenient and potent defence against their own bad governance and human and property rights abuses.The spin doctors of bad leaders in many of these post colonial states now make it a habit to use

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NO SOCIETY can ever be greater than the sum of the actions of its citizens. The end of each calendar year is like a birthday of a natural person that provides an opportunity to take stock and reflect on past achievements and challenges of the future.Indeed, when we say many happy returns, we are celebrating life and its renewal because, like water, life makes a difference that cannot be reduced

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IN 1994, South Africa became the youngest African country that was born from the womb of apartheid and its foundational constitutional order was uniquely informed by not only the experiences of other post-colonial African states but other nations outside the continent.The deracialisation of South Africa was a costly project principally because the stakes were high and the settler community had

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AS SOUTH Africa and indeed President Thabo Mbeki digests and reflects on Jacob Zuma’s victory as the president of Africa’s oldest political party, the African National Congress (ANC), there is no doubt that the political actors in Zimbabwe are also challenged by the implications of a Zuma presidency underpinned by strong support by President Mugabe’s strongest and most vocal critics i.e. COSATU

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THE controversial EU-Africa summit is now history but will forever be remembered for the Brown-Mugabe debacle that at the safe signified an attempt by former colonies to negotiate a new and just post-colonial engagement with former colonial masters.Post-colonial Africa’s enduring growing pains have been opportunistically explained to be a consequence of the economically and politically unjust

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THE EU-Africa summit held in Lisbon last weekend has come and gone but Africa’s challenges will remain.For the first time, Africa came to Europe as a united block specifically more on the Zimbabwean issue than on the key issues on the agenda of the summit. The Zimbabwean stand-off that has prevented the indaba from taking place for seven years has its own historical significance and provided an

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THE colonial state was founded on the notion that natives could not be trusted with the vote and, therefore, they had to be excluded from governance issues. The value system that underpinned the colonial state informed the constitutional order of the day.The role of the colonial state was to promote, protect and sustain the hegemony of the settler community. At the core of the colonial state was

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APARTHEID is a social and political system of racial segregation and discrimination that was popularised and institutionalised by white minority governments in South Africa for a 46 year period from 1948 through 1994.The term apartheid (from the Afrikaans word for “apartness”) was introduced in the human vocabulary in the 1930s and used as a political slogan of the National Party in the early

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THE political destiny of Africa is now notionally in the hands of the natives in all of its states while the key economic decisions about Africa’s future continue to be made by non-Africans notwithstanding the last five decades of uhuru.The democratisation of Africa’s economic space is the enduring challenge that confronts the continent with equal measure, irrespective of the stage of economic

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THE purpose of this article is to assess the role of the state in light of the last 50 years of post-colonial experiences.The extent of the state’s role in the transformation and development of Africa continues to be debated particularly in light of the unorthodox institutional arrangements that seem to have facilitated economic development in the East Asian economies.Post colonial African

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JAMES Mushore, one of three professionals who founded the first merchant bank controlled and managed by blacks in Zimbabwe, the National Merchant Bank of Zimbabwe (NMB), made history in 2004 when like the late Vice President Joshua Nkomo, he fled to the former colonial power, England, for fear of his life in post colonial Zimbabwe.Like Nkomo before him, Mushore is passionate about Zimbabwe and

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IS IT not paradoxical that liberal democracy is constantly derided by Africa’s political elites as western and liberal while at the same time the western and liberal notion of the rule of law finds a receptive audience among the continent’s state and non-state actors?In evaluating whether the rule of law is good for Africa, one needs a working agreement on the definition of the rule of law.The

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THROUGHOUT human history, the road out of poverty has been built not by aid from developed states but by economic growth, and yet in Africa there is a prevailing logic that the rich have a responsibility to lift the poor.Post-colonial Africa has largely emerged from the womb of a race-based capitalist construction to make capitalism a contested ideology for nation building.In evaluating whether

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WE FIND ourselves relevant as free Africans at this historic moment to help define and shape the Africa we want. History has bestowed upon this generation -- fortunate enough to share the same sunshine with Africa’s greatest liberation heroes -- a responsibility of building a better Africa that can live up to the promise of all its peoples.We all have a valid stake in Africa’s future and yet we

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AS AFRICA prepares to attend the forthcoming EU/Africa summit in Portugal, it is important to locate the summit in a historical context and examine the progress made, if any, in the last 123 years since the Berlin Conference in redefining the relationship between the beneficiaries of the scramble for Africa and their victims.The Berlin Conference of 1884-85 sought to regulate European

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LAST week, I wrote an article entitled: ‘Zimbabwe’s Turning Point’ in which I advanced the argument that September 20, 2007, being the day the House of Assembly unanimously passed the Constitution of Zimbabwe Bill 18 represented a turning point in Zimbabwean politics and heralded the end of President Mugabe’s era.In advancing this argument, I relied upon Vice President Joseph Msika’s reported

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2007 will remain etched in Zimbabwe’s unfolding history as a historic day in which the people of Zimbabwe through their parliament put in legislative motion forces for which there may be no turning back.Although the significance of the day in defining the fate of Zimbabwe has not been fully digested, it is a moment pregnant with implications for the country and marks a significant

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SOUTH Africa at 13 is the youngest African child whose destiny has important ramifications for the development of the continent’s brand. The country inherited a sophisticated economic base and hosts the largest white tribe of Africa.The decolonisation project that started with Sudan in 1956 was an African project and the colonial system was largely oblivious to national boundaries in so far as

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SEPTEMBER is officially regarded as the Africa Heritage Month in South Africa. South Africa is the youngest and most developed African state whose heritage needs to be understood and appreciated by anyone who claims to have an African identity. This month provides us with an opportunity to reflect on what it means to be African, to address the question of who is an African, and what, if any, is

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ON OCTOBER 1, 2007, Nigeria -- the most populous African nation -- will turn 47. Like Sudan and Ghana before it, Nigeria’s independence from colonial rule was a consequence of a struggle to shed off the political, economic and social obstacles created during the colonial era.Now that the entire continent is liberated, it is incumbent upon every African to reflect on whether in fact the continent

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A BILL is before the Parliament of Zimbabwe that will allow the government of Zimbabwe to compulsorily acquire a controlling interest in foreign-owned firms.There has been much debate about the real agenda underpinning the legislation in as much as there was and continues to be debate about the land reform program.The question that needs to be addressed is whether in fact the proposed

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IN RAISING this question, I am acutely aware that even among Africans, we seem to have lost some compass in terms of what, if any, we stand for as part of the human race.We were once colonised in the majority and yes, we were once slaves, but we have come of age. The modern Africa began a journey that we are still traversing even today in 1956 with the independence of Sudan.As we continue to

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THE Southern African Development Community (Sadc) Chairman, Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa, summed up the position of the regional grouping’s political leadership on Zimbabwe at last week’s summit by saying: “We also feel that the problems in Zimbabwe have been exaggerated. We feel they will solve their economic problems.”The summit provided a unique forum for leaders of SADC and their social

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THE word paradox is often used interchangeably and wrongly with contradiction but whereas a contradiction asserts its own opposite, many paradoxes do allow for resolution of some kind.The recognition of ambiguities, equivocations and unstated assumptions underlying known Zimbabwean leadership paradoxes has led to significant and material confusion among the contenders for power to the extent that

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THE search for the root causes of the Zimbabwean political and economic crisis will be a subject for debate in the years to come.However, what is clear today is that President Robert Mugabe has failed to democratise the Rhodesian settler capitalist formation as admitted by George Charamba in his weekly column under the pseudo name, Nathaniel Manheru, published by the Herald last Saturday under

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LAST week saw President Robert Mugabe opening the last session of parliament before the 2008 elections. As expected, the agenda for this last session will include the 18th constitutional amendment as well as the enactment of an indigenisation and empowerment legislation.If anything, President Mugabe made it clear in his speech to parliament that no external party or power’s intervention will be

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ON FRIDAY, July 20, 2007, the Minister of Industry and International Trade, Obert Mpofu, who is also the Chairman of the Cabinet Task Force on Price Monitoring and Stabilisation, announced in Bulawayo that the government had set aside Z$30 billion for resuscitating the defunct Zimbabwe State Trading Corporation (ZSTC) and the Zimbabwe Development Corporation (ZDC) as vehicles for acquiring

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THE nature and context of the political and economic crisis in Zimbabwe has changed in a cynically predictable manner.The contestation for power since independence has been principally between the labour-dominated opposition and custodians of the national democratic revolution.The labour movement in its current formation is a direct consequence and creation of the post-colonial state. In fact,

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THE events of last week in Zimbabwe expose how notions of the rule of law, of a Constitutional government, of a free press, and of a development state that are all elements which are valued and cherished by all progressive Africans can be rendered irrelevant in the pursuit and sustenance of absolute political power.Zimbabwe’s judiciary, legal system, bureaucracy and police are all great

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AS THE African Union (AU) deliberates the future of the continent’s political and economic architecture, there is no doubt that Zimbabweans are more confused by the fate of one man than what the country has to do to move forward.Anyone talking about the resolution of the Zimbabwean crisis cannot avoid discussing the fate of President Robert Mugabe. While the opposition has laid out a road map for

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AS AFRICA prepares for its annual ritual, the AU summit, it is important to reflect on the missing link in the continent’s post-colonial experience.As Africans, we are eloquent in describing what we do not want but we seem not to be capable to define what we want.The continent’s citizens shared something bigger and stronger in their struggle against colonialism and apartheid. Africa had a cause

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LAST week, Cape Town hosted the annual World Economic Forum (WEF) on Africa 2007 whose theme was “Raising the Bar”.The former UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan, had to wait for the conference to announce his appointment as the First Chairman of the Alliance for a Green Revolution (AGRA) an initiative of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation.With 53 countries, Africa

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THE G8 summit was held last week and as expected, Africa was on the agenda of developed countries. This was the eighth such meeting involving the participation of selected African heads of state.From Tokyo in 2000 to Heiligendamm last week, the African story has occupied the minds of the rich nations exposing the challenges that still confront the continent in addressing the poverty trap that

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ON JUNE 1, 2007, CNBC launched in Johannesburg, South Africa what it is describes as Sub-Saharan Africa’s first international business news channel, CNBC Africa.President Mbeki was the inaugural guest together with about 70 business leaders. Africa. For those who watched the program, they would not have been surprised to recognise that Africa’s business architecture continues to exhibit the

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ZIMBABWE has never missed an election since independence and one can confidently say that the 2008 elections will be held on schedule notwithstanding the sentiments expressed by the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).Only last week, Africa celebrated the 44th anniversary of the founding of the Organisation of African Unity, which was in July 2002, succeeded by the present Africa

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IF THE Labour Party was an African party and Tony Blair was its leader, would the party’s interests, and indeed, national interest have overridden the leader’s personal interest to remain in power?The succession debate is not unique to Africa but what makes Africa unique is that personal interests of incumbents appear to be more important that even national interests. This is not restricted to

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WHILE Tony Blair is now history, Robert Mugabe continues to make history.The Zimbabwean story will continue to be clouded by the country’s colonial baggage to such an extent that it becomes difficult if not impossible to discuss its current economic and political crisis in isolation of the Blair legacy.While political actors focus attention on constitutional, transitional power sharing

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WHAT a difference a week makes!My week started on Sunday, April 29 when I read an article published by the Sunday Mail with the title: “Gono pushes for amnesty” and during the week, another article was published by the Herald on 4 May 2007 entitled: “Forex remittance defaulters warned.”How can the RBZ be pushing for amnesty while at the same time threatening others of punishment for the same

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THE planning for succession of the Chief Executive Officer or the President of a country has become a very important issue in the governance of many societies.Ensuring that in the event of a problem with a sitting President, a country will continue to function efficiently and effectively creates tremendous value for citizens.To the extent that succession is a widely debated issue in Africa, it is

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AS ZIMBABWE turns 27 this week, I could not think of a better topic for a conversation than to unpack the meaning of independence and whether the country has lived up to the expectations of its citizens.The term independence is often used in contrast to subjugation which refers to the subjection of a territory to the political and military control of an external government.Independence, therefore

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AS ZIMBABWE approaches its 27th birthday next week, debates about what is in store for the country continues with blurred clarity on the fate of two individuals whose personal circumstances fortunately or unfortunately have clouded the issues.Zimbabwe finds itself in a confining or undesirable circumstance from which escape or relief is difficult if not impossible.Before Zimbabwe was born and

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IN THE countdown to the 27th birthday of Zimbabwe, we have no choice but to continue to reflect on the meaning of independence and the destiny of Zimbabwe.Ultimately life is a nuisance of time but in a nation’s life every minute counts because nations do not expire like natural persons. The history of any nation is informed by the actions of each generation. Like a relay, one generation expects

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AS ZIMBABWE approaches its 27th birthday, I have no doubt that many Zimbabweans like President Mugabe are looking into themselves, looking at themselves, delving into the assumptions they had at the beginning of the liberation struggle and at independence, and in so doing reflect on the economic and political quagmire that the country finds itself today.Judging by the disproportionate interest

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SUDAN may have been the first African country to gain independence but Ghana has historically been credited as the first black African country in Africa to gain independence not least because of President Nkrumah but because events that followed Ghana’s independence had far reaching implications on the decolonization of the continent.To the extent that Ghana was a torch bearer for the

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BLACK Africa’s first decolonisation product, Ghana, celebrated its golden jubilee last week.The celebrations were witnesses by about 20 African heads of state and governments. After 50 years of uhuru, we can look back and reflect on the lessons, if any; black Africa’s first born has for its brothers in the continent. The role and place of Ghana’s founder and first president, Kwame Nkrumah, is

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PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe has celebrated his 83rd birthday and now Zimbabwe awaits its 27th, and many Zimbabweans find little to celebrate in 2007 than when the country was born.The reasons for the current political and economic quagmire that Zimbabwe finds itself in are as varied as they are confusing depending on whom you talk to.When Zimbabwe gained independence in 1980, the ownership of the

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AS PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe celebrated his 11th birthday (as he described it i.e. 8 plus 3), the state of the nation ought to have been in his mind and there can be no better concern for any head of state than the economic, political and social challenges that confront the country.I read the article, ”RBZ pacifies restive judges”, published by the Zimbabwe Independent on 23 February 2007 with

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ON WEDNESDAY, February 21, 2007, President Mugabe will turn 83.For better or worse, Zimbabwe’s post-colonial history is inextricably linked to this man and yet he remains as much an enigma as his is regarded a villain or warrior depending on who you talk to.In trying to understand Mugabe, my attention was drawn to a story that was published in the Herald on Saturday, 17 February 2007, “Zim, UK

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AS PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe approaches his 83rd birthday on February 21, he can look back and reflect on the journey traveled and in the quietness of his time carefully examine the proposition that the promise of independence may have been significantly eroded by a combination of bad policies, lack of leadership, clinging to a discredited ideology, and pursuit of directionless policies and

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INDIA will turn 60 this year while Ghana will turn 50.Africa has distinguished itself as a source of involuntary human capital movement and its citizens are now found in many of the world’s civilisations.Being credited as the cradle of human civilisation, Africa has a rich heritage that unfortunately has not been translated into human progress. India being only 10 years older than Ghana has made

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THE debate that has generated from the publication of Edgar Tekere’s autobiography, A Lifetime of Struggle, and the historic link between its publication and the debate on Zimbabwe’s constitutional options demonstrates the lack of depth and maturity that is systemic in many developing countries in general and Africa in particular.With respect to Robert Mugabe and politics, we are now being told

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THE role and importance of leadership in a society’s development and transformation has historically been overplayed to an extent that any blame about lack of development in any country is necessarily targeted at the person who has the misfortune of being the leader while the citizens who in any event are responsible for electing or succumbing to the whims of the leader never take the time to

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AT LAST, 2006 is history and for Africa in general and Zimbabwe in particular 2007 promises to be decision year in many fundamental respects including the fate of its Executive Presidency as well as the end of Prime Minister Blair’s tenure and the transformation of President Bush into a lame duck head of state and government.For Nigeria, South Africa and Zimbabwe, 2007 brings with it political

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THE constitution of Zimbabwe defines the country as a sovereign republic with the Constitution as the supreme law.Under the constitution, the country’s Head of State and Head of the Government as well as the Commander in Chief of the Defence Forces is the President. At independence, the President was a titular head of state and the Prime Minister was the Head of the Government.Zimbabwe has not

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IN A world defined by brands and products, Africa’s identity will continue to be shaped more by its challenges than by its promise.Africa still has to make its mark in the business of history but as we mark the end of 2006, we cannot escape reflecting on the past 15 years during which Africa was privileged to be represented at the helm United Nations (UN) Secretariat.Koffi Annan, the first

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ACCORDING to the World Bank, Africa remains the world’s biggest development challenge and yet surprisingly Africans have not woken up to the fact that the destiny of the continent can only be shaped and determined by them.While Africa’s leaders continue to occupy their minds on how best to insult the rich and developed countries, there appears to be no visible attempt by Africans across the

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I WAS encouraged to learn that Dr. Gideon Gono, Governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ), had agreed to use the New Zimbabwe.com platform to address questions from the New Zimbabwe.com family.When the role of a central bank is put in its proper context, it is instructive that most governors would not take the evangelical or political posture in the execution of their mandates but in

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BOASTING of more nation states than the United States of America is a continent that has significantly contributed to global civilisation through its voluntary and involuntary exports of its human and natural resources but whose promise is yet to be fully exploited and realized.The African family carries a global stigma that militates against the repositioning of its people in an increasingly

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PERCEPTION is King; and in the case of Africa, there is so little global knowledge about individual African countries to the extent that every country ends up sharing the same reputation of civil strife, corruption and poverty.In as much as individual African countries and persons who share an African heritage may try to distance themselves from the generally perception of Africans, Africans

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IN AN increasingly globalised architecture, post-colonial Africa remains at the bottom of the development ladder with its leaders groping for an ideological and developmental paradigm that can address the poverty trap and economic decay that confronts the continent.Many have argued that Africa is cursed continent without explaining why God would be confused to endow the same geographical mass

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ON A controversial visit to Malawi to open a road named after him, President Robert Mugabe, said: “Do you really know who I am?”That prompts the question, who is Robert Mugabe?Mugabe has been a towering figure in the history of Zimbabwe. Historians, academics, state and non-state practitioners alike will not deny Mugabe a special space in the history of Zimbabwe and indeed in the global space of

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Brink Cohen Le RouxBCLR House19 West StreetHoughton 2198Attention: Messrs.Odendaal , Bothma, P. Colyn, M. Khumalo, Ms. K. YoungRe: Proposed Settlement Offer for your client’s ZAR 81,440.15 claim against SASSMM v Master of the High Court and othersMy committee and I had the privilege of attending the court hearing on Friday, 22 September 2006 at the High Court of South Africa in Johannesburg.I am

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AFRICA is not alone in seeking to challenge the current global architecture in which the powerful seem to have arrogated to themselves the right to define and dictate a value system that ensures no accountability and responsibility to the less powerful.The language coming out of many developing countries seems to confirm the widely held view that a unipolar world in which the US and its allies

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LAST week, this column focused on Robert Mugabe, the man, principally because I think it is important that we elevate the conversation about Zimbabwe’s options beyond the fate of one man.I had no illusions when I took the risky option in trying to argue that Mugabe may after all not be a corrupt man. The reaction I got was not only expected but it underscored the need for us to create a space to

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'WHOSE minerals are they anyway?'; is a question not unique to Zimbabwe.It is often said that God made minerals and hid them and it is our job is to find them. The tragedy is that mankind has not found a mechanism to manufacture minerals and, therefore, the depletion of nature’s deposit and the sharing of benefits between host countries/communities necessarily becomes a contested issue.Those who

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LAST week, I was one of about 200 business persons who attended a dinner hosted by Investec Private Bank to celebrate the economic ascendancy of India in South Africa.The High Commission of India and the Consul General of India both made presentations chronicling the achievements made by India since 1991 when New Delhi decided to liberalize its economy by throwing off the shackles of Fabian

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LAST week I was privileged to be one of the speakers at the Brightest Young Minds (BYM) conference in Johannesburg.I also attended a Gala Dinner for the 100 students at the Presidential Guest House on Saturday night.For my column this week, I could think of no better subject than to share with you my presentation to the BYM.When I was invited to speak to the BYM, I did not know anything about the

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ON JULY 12, 2006, I was one of 14 South African business leaders who were invited to a corporate forum lunch that was addressed by Deputy President Pumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka.The forum is chaired by Zoli Kunene. I thought it would be fitting and appropriate for me to share with you the Deputy President’s presentation on the challenges and opportunities that exist in the second decade of South African

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LAST week I was in Tanzania and on my way back to South Africa, I bought a copy of the July 2006 edition of the Business in Africa magazine.An article by David Christianson entitled “Reforming Africa’s Financial Sector”, caught my attention.The article is based on the latest IMF Regional Economic Outlook for Sub-Saharan Africa released in May 2006 that has a chapter dedicated to “building up the

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"Without the work done by the RBZ, we would not be where we are now." - Robert Mugabe.On Wednesday, July 26, President Mugabe paid tribute to the RBZ for playing a constructive and positive role in progressing Zimbabwe’s nation building agenda.He singled out Gideon Gono, the Governor of the central bank, whom he appointed in December 2003, as the person deserving praise. He further observed that

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AT 26, Zimbabwe finds itself mired in an economic and political crisis of unprecedented proportions. The root causes of such a crisis are as elusive as solutions offered and yet the symptoms of a dying patient are obvious to all.The past two weeks have seen the three major actors in the Zimbabwean drama giving their perspectives and prescriptions to the economy. The President opened the salvo

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GIDEON Gono was appointed the third black governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) on December 1, 2003.Prior to his appointment, the term externalisation did not exist in the dictionary of many Zimbabweans. The Criminal Procedure and Evidence Act had no reference to externalisation as a criminal offence and, therefore, the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) was not relevant.This all changed

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WHEN I first wrote the article RBZ and the Rule of Law: Implications on Democracy, I had no idea that it would generate so much interest and controversy.Given the emergence of the RBZ and its current Governor, Gideon Gono, as the only source of salvation for Zimbabwe, it is important that we continue to test and interrogate the hypothesis that there is a causal link between the actions of the RBZ

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WHEN I decided to write the article about the nationalization of the asset management industry in Zimbabwe by the RBZ using the ordeal of the ENG directors as an example, I had no idea that it would generate so much interest and debate.I was particularly touched by one individual who liked my article but felt that I should have included a number of other case studies in my article rather than

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LAST week, I was a guest of Xolani Gwala on SA FM talking about last week's column article Zimbabwe at the Crossroads: The Unheard Debate.What emerged from the debate is that there are important lessons for Africa from the developments in Zimbabwe.Many would agree that the concerns about human and property rights, rule of law, poverty, unemployment, corruption, tyranny and general governance

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WHILE Zimbabwe now finds itself at the crossroads, it is ironic that the conversations taking place about the future of the country may not be different from the conversations that were taking place during the pre-independence era.During the anti-colonial struggle, the conversations were focusing on political issues and in particular how efficiently to remove Ian Smith as Prime Minister of

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VENEZUELAN President Hugo Chávez, who has positioned himself as the successor of Castro and the champion of anti-US and the globalization agenda, called President Bush "the devil" last Wednesday in a rare personal attack on the floor of the U.N. General Assembly.Chávez has anointed himself, with the blessing of Castro, as the representative of all the forces challenged by a unipolar world where

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IT WAS in the thick of party conflict in 1800, that Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States and the drafter of the Declaration of Independence wrote in a private letter, "I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."This is a significant statement whose meaning is as valid today as it was in 1800 and has implications

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IN MY previous articles, I have used the US and Britain as examples mindful of the reaction of many who may rightly or wrongly argue that these are bad examples to use in making judgments about the state of the health of Africa’s democracy.Zimbabwe, unlike many African countries, is lucky in that the founding fathers of a post-colonial state are still in power and they can still be subjected to

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THE role of political institution development in the building of effective, responsive, and formal democratic political institutions cannot be overstated.Capable, responsive governance and administration are critical elements in preventing conflict; the success or failure of democratic institutions depends on their ability to mediate conflict by hearing, channeling, mediating the multiple citizen

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He was educated in Zimbabwe, Swaziland, United Kingdom and United States. He holds B.Sc (Economics), M.Sc (Management), MBA (Finance & Investments) degrees as well as other professional qualifications.He began his professional career as an Acturial Student in 1984. He then joined the Industrial Development Corporation of Zimbabwe in late 1984 as a Research Economist amd rose through the ranks to

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Feb-08 02/03/2007Cash Barons – Flatwater RevisitedJan-0801/28/2007Zimbabwe 2008: The triumph of the politics of fear01/24/2007Obama v Clinton/Clinton and lessons for Africa01/21/2007Africa 2008: Citizens, Money and Power in Africa01/17/2007Africa 2008: Citizens and Power – The Zimbabwean Case Study01/13/2007Obama’s audacity of hope and lessons for Africa01/13/2007If Zuma & Shaik are guilty, who

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