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Eddie Cross
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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. He 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 attending the University of Rhodesia in Salisbury 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.