Eddie Cross

Eddie Cross

Eddie Cross (born 1940) is a Member of Parliament for Bulawayo South, a renowned Zimbabwean economist and founder member of the mainstream Movement for Democratic Change party led by Morgan Tsvangirai and is currently the Policy Coordinator General.

His career has been mainly in Agriculture. He attended Gwebi College and then worked for government on land resettlement in the Gokwe district before going to University in Harare where he received an honors degree in Economics. After that he worked as an economist eventually becoming Chief Economist in the Agricultural Marketing Authority in 1976. He was opposed to white minority rule during the Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith era.

After Independence in 1980, he was appointed first to head the Dairy Marketing Board and then the Cold Storage Commission. The CSC was the largest meat-marketing organisation in Africa. He was then CEO of the Beira Corridor Group, which promoted the rehabilitation of the Beira Corridor as an export outlet to the sea for land locked Zimbabwe.

References

* http://www.eddiecross.africanherd.com/
* http://www.newzimbabwe.com/pages/inflation39.13255.html
*http://www.mdczimbabwe.org/Archives/2005/march/eddiecrossupdate.htm
*http://zimbabwemetro.com/2008/03/10/for-bulawayo-southeddie-cross/
*http://www.voanews.com/english/Africa/2007-07-26-voa50.cfm?renderforprint=1&textonly=1&&TEXTMODE=1&CFID=170807983&CFTOKEN=23384998


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