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5 other people ruining Zimbabwe includes Tsvangirai

by Ndou paul
17 Jul 2012 at 07:21hrs | Views
GlobalPost's South Africa correspondent, Erin Conway-Smith, has done a article on 5 people responsible for ruining Zimbabwe. The argument is that while Mugabe continues to get all the international attention, he can't be held solely responsible for Zimbabwe's ongoing turmoil.

The list includes Emmerson Mnangagwa, Saviour Kasukuwere, Morgan Tsvangirai, Obert Mpofu and Jacob Zuma.

Full article >>> HERE

Erin Conway-Smith has been based in Johannesburg since 2009. She previously lived in Beijing, where she was founding editor of Asia Weekly, an award-winning current affairs magazine. Erin has reported from Asia and Africa for the Daily Telegraph, International Herald Tribune, CBC Radio, The Globe and Mail and Maclean's magazine.

Erin was a Journalist of the Year finalist at the 2011 Diageo Africa Business Reporting Awards. Under her editorship, Asia Weekly won an excellence award at the Asian Publishing Awards in Singapore. Erin also received a Hong Kong reporting fellowship from the Canadian Association of Journalists.

She has written about youth culture in Pyongyang, North Korea, labor rights at Chinese companies in Namibia, the illegal ivory trade in Ethiopia, and worked as a photojournalist in countries from Papua New Guinea to Niger.

Erin was born and raised in Thunder Bay, Canada and studied at the University of Western Ontario. She has a master's degree in journalism from Carleton University in Ottawa. Follow her on Twitter: @ejcs.