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Bernard Chidzero was born on 1 July, 1927 in Zimbabwe, is a Zimbabwean economist, politician, writer (1927–2002). Discover Bernard Chidzero's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 75 years old?

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Born 1 July, 1927
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Date of death 8 August, 2002
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1913

His father, a Malawian, James Kangolwa Imfa Idzalero, was originally from Ntchisi, in Malawi who walked to Rhodesia, in 1913, stopping over on tea estates in Southern Malawi as well as performing menial labour on the Beira-Dondo railway line.

His mother Agnes Munhumumwe was from the Shona people.

Chidzero grew up primarily speaking chiShona, though by adulthood was also fluent in English.

Bernard Chidzero was raised in the Seke area of Chitungwiza.

He was schooled at primary school in Seke and then at Kutama College (a prestigious Roman Catholic high school), where he played in the school band alongside fellow pupil Robert Mugabe.

Chidzero converted to Catholicism while at Kutama.

He then attended St. Francis College in Mariannhill in South Africa.

1927

Bernard Thomas Gibson Chidzero (1 July 1927 – 8 August 2002) was a Zimbabwean economist, politician, and writer.

He served as the independent Zimbabwe's second finance minister.

Bernard Thomas Gibson Chidzero was the eldest of seven children.

1957

In 1957 Chidzero published a Shona novel Nzvengamutsvairo (the name has been translated from Shona as "Mr Lazy-Bones" or "Broom-Dodger" ) which detailed the condition of workers on Rhodesian farms and set out his vision of an integrated, racially tolerant society.

1958

Chidzero obtained a degree in psychology from Pius XII Catholic University College in Lesotho, an MA in political science from the University of Ottawa, and in 1958 a PhD in political science from McGill University in Montreal, where he married a French-Canadian woman.

He then undertook two years post-graduate study at Nuffield College, Oxford.

Early on Chidzero became interested in African politics and as a Pan Africanist he became friends, in the London African circuit, with giants like Jomo Kenyatta, Kwame Nkrumah, Hastings Kamuzu Banda, Seretse Khama and others.

1960

Armed with a grant from the Ford Foundation, Chidzero returned to Rhodesia in 1960, intending to teach at the University of Rhodesia and Nyasaland; his offer to work there was withdrawn when the segregated university discovered the interracial nature of Chidzero's marriage.

Chidzero joined the United Nations in 1960.

1963

He began in the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa as an economic affairs officer in Addis Ababa and from 1963 to 1968 as an assistant to the UN Technical Assistance Board in Kenya.

1965

After the 1965 Unilateral Declaration of Independence by Ian Smith, Chidzero played a role in the early liberation struggle negotiations for Zimbabwe.

He was part of the advisory team when Joshua Nkomo leader of Zimbabwe African People's Party visited London.

The collapse of those talks, resulting in the split of ZAPU and Zimbabwe African National Union, ZANU also marked a watershed in Chidzero's political allegiances.

Increasingly, he teamed up with his former school- and band-mate Mugabe.

1968

From 1968 to 1980 Chidzero worked for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD): from 1968 to 1977 he was the Director of Commodities and between 1977 and 1980 he served as UNCTAD's Deputy Secretary General

1970

Aware of an impending war of liberation in Zimbabwe, in 1970, Chidzero bought a farm in Malawi and moved his father and kinsfolk out of Rhodesia.

1972

And on 21 December 1972 the first armed attack on a Rhodesian white settler took place in Centenary, Zambezi River escarpment.

Meanwhile, during a visit to Malawi in 1972, Chidzero made overtures to his Pan African 'brother' and 'friend' Hastings Kamuzu Banda to settle in Malawi when his United Nations tenure would expire.

Hastings Kamuzu Banda's response was an unequivocal refusal.

Still, the farm in Malawi continued to serve, with the Malawi Government turning a blind eye, as an active Zimbabwean cell and staging point for many recruits heading for Morogoro training bases, in Tanzania.

1980

Following the Lancaster House Agreement Chidzero returned to Zimbabwe and, in 1980, he became the Minister of Economic Planning and Development.

1985

In the 1985 election he was elected as the Member of Parliament for Harare, representing ZANU-PF.

Following the election he was promoted to be the Minister of Finance, succeeding Tichaendepi Masaya.

1986

He was Chairman of the Development Committee of the World Bank from 1986 to 1990.

He was a member of the World Commission on Environment and Development.

Back home he designed and implemented the Zimbabwean version of the Structural Adjustment Programme; in the process earning himself the wrath of certain ZANU-PF stalwarts who considered his economic programs ill-timed and denying them access to 'rewards of their war effort'.

1990

In 1990, aware of the disaster that the Zimbabwean economy was headed for and vilified and accused for SAP's 'failures' by those within the ruling party, a frustrated Chidzero ran for election to the post of Secretary-General of the United Nations.

Chidzero was supported by the United Kingdom and many Commonwealth countries, but was defeated by Boutros Boutros-Ghali.

1991

Throughout 1991 and 1992, Chidzero said the only foreign country to really help Zimbabwe financially was the United Kingdom, Chidzero attributed this to the decision's of Prime Minister John Major, who Chidzero said "Refused to give up on Zimbabwe after most of the west had basically decided to do so."

1993

Chidzero went on to say "The British always answered the phone when we called. The Americans mostly did, at least before 1993. The French basically never did, and when they did they never gave a straight answer on anything."

Chidzero's health began to fail in 1993 and he stepped down as finance minister in 1995.

2002

Bernard Chidzero died in the Avenues Clinic in Harare in 2002.

He is buried in the Heroes Acre in Harare.