Eddie Cross MDC

By Eddie Cross In my business life I have handled several billion dollars of revenue and expenditure over a period of 65 years. In that time, I have been blatantly approached and asked for a bribe once - by a local politician who was the…
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By Eddie Cross What role does faith play in our futures? Does it have a role in any way? Is it something from our distant past and now almost irrelevant? Are these real questions that need answers in today's secular and agnostic world?…
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By Eddie Cross When I was a much younger man, my wife and I used to take 60 boys from the primary school system to camp for a week at a time in the Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe. We ran the camps for 10 years and on each occasion we were…
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Eddie Cross: "In the past few weeks, the debate has raged across this country as to what we should be doing to bring some stability to our financial system and to control inflation. In both respects, after some progress in 2021, the first…
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By Eddie Cross: "Migration from Zimbabwe, started in earnest after Independence, when the Mugabe government mounted the Gukurahundi campaign against the minority tribes in the South and West of the country. Over four years, more than 1.2…
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Eddie Cross: "In addition to corruption at a high level, many features of the operation of Cottco in the domestic market such as supplies of consumables, transport, and employment opportunities, were also subject to corrupt and irregular…
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Eddie Cross: "Here at home in Zimbabwe we have continued to work hard to stabilise our economy and to remove some of the impediments to growth and development. It is amazing to think that it is four years since we persuaded Robert Gabriel…
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Eddie Cross: "If you didn't know that our regional energy system was in trouble, the collapse of the power station at Kariba dam last Friday (05 November), will have been a wakeup call. All we knew was a massive blackout, country wide, and…
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By Eddie Cross Who would have thought that the leader of the Chinese Communist Party and current premier of China would become the leading exponent and supporter of free market economics and global free trade? At the same time to find…
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By Eddie Cross It is highly unlikely that I will be anything other than a simple citizen of Zimbabwe. But sometimes I wonder what it would be like to be King for a period of time. What would be my personal priorities and what would I do…
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