Professor Mike Faber

Over the recent holiday, I learnt from the internet that Mike Faber had died in February 2015. It seemed important to me that his many friends here who, like myself may not have known of Mike’s death should be told.

Mike was attached to the Ministry of Finance and Development in the late 1990s living with Didon in a flat in the Village. Obituaries record something of his truly stunning career and to give everyone a better idea, I attach this sample from an obituary contributed to News Analysis.

‘Robert (Oakeshott) and I were young economists advising Kenneth Kaunda and his chief economic adviser, Arthur Wina. We’d completed a considerable amount of research and found that the claims made by the once monolithic British South Africa Company - which had put in a claim to the incoming Kenneth Kaunda Government for £35 million for lost mineral rights- had neither legal nor moral authority. A White Paper was released and it was written in a style which contrived to be both elegant and fierce.

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