Eddie Cross

By Eddie Cross Independence in 1980 changed everything and changed nothing. The white population shrank from nearly 300 000 to 50 000 in five years, black faces replaced white ones, but the culture did not change that much. In the…
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By Eddie Cross Last week I wrote 2000 words on why it was not in our national interest to continue with the use of foreign currencies for domestic settlement. I thought the case was strong but I was surprised when our President took…
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Eddie Cross: "Any informed observer of our economy must be astonished at the things that go on here. Many of which bear no relation to the situation on the ground or even rational thinking. This past week has been no exception. In all I…
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Eddie Cross: "We need to stop harassing the informal sector, stop raids on vendors and replace this with registration and recognition. We need to abandon import duties on all goods coming into the country and leave it to competition to sort…
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By Eddie Cross In the past 4 months patient Zimbabweans have again been subjected to the collapse of our own currency. Our currency history has been a roller coaster. When I left school in 1957, our local currency was called a “pound”…
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By Eddie Cross These past two weeks we have seen the local currency crash, panic over the real value of our USD accounts with the banks and retail prices changing so fast the supermarkets could not keep up and simply started to price…
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By Eddie Cross I am not a South African, so I venture into their space with trepidation as I know how sensitive these things are. But I am an African and a keen observer of events that affect all of us who live in the south of the…
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By Eddie Cross I do not get away very often but right now I am in the Eastern Cape which is my wife’s home base. We have not been here for 7 years and the changes and challengers are very visible. We tend to forget that not long ago this…
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By Eddie Cross I know this is sensitive ground and most would avoid commenting, but I think it is too important to the world and our own families and society to just brush it aside as just another feature of a failed society. Society in…
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By Eddie Cross How often do we think about the issue of ownership as we traverse this world and history? Not enough I think and yet it is so critical. My first experience of the change that this can make was when I was about 12 years…
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