A new Zimbabwe? Eddie Cross and the MDC

Published: February 18, 2008, 6:48 pm

A new Zimbabwe? Eddie Cross and the MDCby Patrick Bond Southern Africa Report SAR, Vol 15 No 3, May 2000 Page 8 "Zimbabwe" A NEW ZIMBABWE? EDDIE CROSS AND THE MDC BY PATRICK BOND Patrick Bond is author of a 1998 book, Uneven Zimbabwe: A Study of Finance, Development and Underdevelopment, published by Africa World Press. A leading official of the Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI), Eddie Cross, was appointed economic secretary of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) in February. His first public presentation, in mid-March, represented a decisive signal that the MDC has graduated from its initial "Workers' Party" image and constituency, to ally with big business elements. While the balance of forces within the MDC remains fluid, the worker-capitalist alliance against Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) regime will no doubt win the MDC a large - potentially majority - share of votes in the May parliamentary elections. But the implications are complex,

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