The former Zimbabwean unity government finance minister was speaking at the Hilton Hotel during the launch of his co-authored book.
Zimbabwean opposition MP and constitutional lawyer Tendai Biti told a Durban audience on Tuesday night that his country had invented state capture and South Africans had merely refined it.
The former Zimbabwean unity government finance minister was speaking at the Hilton Hotel during the launch of the book Democracy Works: Rewiring Politics to Africa’s Advantage, hosted by the Xubera Institute for Research and Development, Brenthurst Foundation and Pan MacMillan South Africa. Also on the panel of speakers was leader of South African political party Women Forward Nana Ngobese-Nxumalo, who is the granddaughter of Nobel peace laureate Chief Albert Luthuli.
He said that 39 years after independence, only 30% of Zimbabweans had access to clean water. This was thanks to “the exclusion of consent, monopolisation of power and the denial of political space and denial of the right to choose”. He said the democracy Zimbabwe “craved”, and which the book spoke of, was more than an election day every five years.
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