Eddie Cross

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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By Eddie Cross This week Aljazeera ran a program on gold smuggling and money laundering in Zimbabwe. Nothing new to those of us who live here, but it attracted a huge audience. I have no real gripes with the content except that they…
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By Eddie Cross The triggers for the subsequent collapse of the Zimbabwe State were many. The first was the decision in 1997 to pay the veterans of the liberation war reparations for their sacrifice in the form of a grant that cost Z$3,6…
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By Eddie Cross 20 years ago, a family in the Zambezi Valley of Zimbabwe held a family gathering and decided that the only child with something of an education, aged 17, should be sent to South Africa to find a job and start to send money…
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By Eddie Cross: "If we abandoned exchange control, floated our own currency and established a proper market for the currencies being traded, our own dollar would quickly re-emerge as first choice and emerge as a strong regional currency…
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Eddie Cross: "I get the sense that Christmas this year is going to be very subdued across the globe. In Europe, the war in Ukraine has not only torn that country apart and plunged millions into a cold, hard winter with massive disruption of…
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By Eddie Cross The electrical power crisis that has enveloped southern Africa has its roots in our post liberation history. Prior to that, the utilities created by the States of southern Africa exhibited considerable foresight and…
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