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On behalf of all the Smart Partners in the Movement, including HE Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, President of Tanzania and CPTM Fellow, Global 2013 Host Patron & Adviser and His Colleagues, CPTM Chairman, Dialogue Resource Group, Joint Executive Group, Project Management Group, Joint Secretariat Teams, including CPTM Smart Partners' Hub, Global 2013 Joint Dialogue Conveners, Ambassador Sefue, Chief Cabinet Secretary of Tanzania and myself personally, we should like to express our shock, sympathy and compassion to Amos's family, NECF Patron, NECF Council Members and staff, as well as all Zimbabwean Smart Partners. The last message on my mobile from Amos says, "Mihaela, I am here in Dar es Salaam. When and where is the JEG meeting to organise the briefings for the Dialogue sessions?" This was on Thursday morning, 27th June. Then he reported to the Joint Dialogue Resource Group briefing and, as usual, made exceptional contributions. We will save that message to remind us what a Smart Partner is and what is a Smart Partners' Hub. Since I met Amos, who took the joint leadership of NECF forward, all the Smart Partners, including me, have always been able to refer to Amos as the main successful example and point of reference in the Smart Partnership Movement of how to maintain and develop a National Smart Partnership Hub. He always openly shared the NECF's activities with the Smart Partnership Movement. Amos, as Head of NECF, became an honest broker of policy options, a Smart Partnership network builder, a super-node, which made him extraordinarily effective in influencing and delivering what was going on. He had an open mind, he was always informed and able to facilitate deliberative, purposeful and impartial dialogues. He was always seeking to create limitless opportunities the Smart Partnership way in Zimbabwe as well as in the Smart Partnership Movement more generally. Amos will always be remembered for being the Smart Anchor of all the Smart Partners' Hubs, in particular throughout Southern Africa, and a leading example of Smart Values, Ideas and Delivery in the Commonwealth and beyond. The evolving Smart Partnership Movement Spiral of Dialogues and achievements since 1995 owes a great deal to Amos's emotional and intellectual driving force. We owe him the debt of continuing in the same spirit. We dedicate the most successful outcome and way forward of the 21st Smart Partnership International Dialogue in Dar Es Salaam to Amos and his colleagues in NECF, Zimbabwe, on whom we rely for taking forward the Smart Partnership Movement in 2014 in South Africa and beyond.Additionally on behalf of the Smart Partnership Movement we would like to thank the Tanzanians, especially HE Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, President of the United Republic of Tanzania and all of the medical team who treated him. We would like also to thank all Smart Partners/Members who willingly gave their urgent assistance as well as Zimbabwe's Ambassador to the Republic of Tanzania, Major-General Edzai Chimonyo. We thank the Lesotho Smart Partners' Hub for representing Southern Africa and the Smart Partnership Movement as a whole at the funeral service. If you would like to send a message of condolence to Amos's wife Barbra and family, please write either to her at bmushaninga@hotmail.com or to the Smart Partners' Hub at smart.partnership@cptm.org and we will forward any messages. |
Warm Regards,  |